At the moment, Microsoft Designer, Microsoft’s AI-powered design instrument, launched in public preview with an expanded set of options.

Introduced in October, Designer is a Canva-like net app that may generate designs for shows, posters, digital postcards, invites, graphics and extra to share on social media and different channels. It leverages user-created content material and DALL-E 2, OpenAI’s text-to-image AI, to ideate designs, with drop-downs and textual content packing containers for additional customization and personalization.

“Since October, the AI fashions have steadily improved, and we’ve labored to weave these highly effective capabilities all through the Designer canvas in much more pleasant methods whereas conserving you in management,” Bryan Rognier, GM at Microsoft’s 365 Client division, wrote in a weblog submit revealed right now.

Now Designer can generate written captions and hashtags related for social media posts, providing a number of strategies customers can select from. It may well additionally create animated visuals, full with backgrounds and textual content transitions, powered by AI.

New options coming to Microsoft’s AI-powered Designer instrument.

Sooner or later, Designer will acquire further enhancing options, Microsoft says, together with the flexibility to put an object in a particular spot in a graphic and robotically fill in the remainder of an image. Forthcoming “erase” and “exchange background” choices, in the meantime, will let customers brush over objects, individuals or backdrops they didn’t intend to be in a graphic.

Designer will stay free throughout the preview interval, Microsoft says — it’s obtainable by way of the Designer web site and in Microsoft’s Edge browser via the sidebar. As soon as the Designer app is mostly obtainable, it’ll be included in Microsoft 365 Private and Household subscriptions and have “some” performance free to make use of for non-subscribers, although Microsoft didn’t elaborate.

Addressing among the authorized questions that’ve sprung up not too long ago round AI-powered picture technology programs, Microsoft says that customers may have “full” utilization rights to commercialize the pictures they create with Designer and Picture Creator. It’s unclear whether or not that may change sooner or later, thought, given the continued court docket battles involving OpenAI and different startups commercializing generative AI instruments.