This article takes you to understand the Microsoft Designer AI design tool launched by Microsoft

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2. Working principle of Microsoft Designer

5. Microsoft Designer Applicable Scenarios

Are you still looking for materials for making PPTs, posters, article covers, invitations, etc. Today I will introduce to you Microsoft Designer, an AI design tool officially launched by Microsoft that can be used directly for free. Using it can easily complete design-related work, making it normal to leave work on time. Today, I will introduce this AI design tool in detail.

1. What is Microsoft Designer?

Microsoft Designer is a design tool supported by generative AI functions officially released by Microsoft in October 2022. It is mainly aimed at design-related personnel to complete design work quickly and efficiently. You can log in to the management experience directly, and you need to register a Microsoft account.

The steps to sign up for a Microsoft account are as follows:

Visit Microsoft's official website and click the "Register" button: Please log in to Microsoft's official website (https://account.microsoft.com/), and then click the "Register" button in the upper right corner of the page.
Fill in the registration information: Fill in your personal information on the registration page, including name, email address, password, confirm password and select your country/region and other information. Please note that if you already have a Microsoft account, you can use other people's information to register, but you need to get the authorization and consent of the other party.
Select registration type: On the registration page, you need to select the type you want to register, including individual, company, educational institution, organization, etc.
Create a password: On the registration page, you will need to create a password to protect your account. Make sure your password is strong enough and not to be the same as another account's password.
Complete registration: After you have filled in all the information and created a password, click the "Create Account" button to complete the registration.
Verify account: After completing the registration, you need to verify the account to ensure that your account is real and valid. Please follow the system prompts to verify, and you can use your Microsoft account after completion.

Official website: https://designer.microsoft.com/

2. Working principle of Microsoft Designer

One of the core functions of Designer is equipped with the AI drawing tool DALL-E 2 technology developed by OpenAI, which can create creative image content according to any content instructions input by users.

3. Microsoft Designer working steps

It mainly includes the following three steps:

First, combine the text content originally input by the user with a set of characters, which are descriptions of the perspective, style, atmosphere, purpose, and other information of the design image required by the user.
According to the scoring of the art design, the learned automatic template is used to find the best combination to match different characters.
Finally, the combination of the input text and the automatic template prompt is returned to the user, and then sorted according to the scoring results, and the best image is retrieved from it.

4. Features of Microsoft Designer

It can be used directly and completely free of charge in China (need to log in to a Microsoft account)
Microsoft Designer officially provides a very rich template and component library, which greatly improves the efficiency of design.
Support custom styles and layouts to make your design more personalized
Supports import and export of multiple file formats
Support real-time preview and interactive effects, so that the results of your design can be presented directly in the browser, and can be adjusted at any time
Support multi-person collaboration, allowing your design team to edit and comment in real time on the same page
It also supports cloud storage, allowing us to access my design files anytime and anywhere.

5. Microsoft Designer Applicable Scenarios

The main function of Microsoft Designer is to enable everyone to complete design tasks efficiently and quickly. Using Microsoft Designer is more suitable for design scenarios such as self-media covers, making postcards, invitations, advertising banners, and posters.

6. Microsoft Designer online experience

First open the Microsoft Edge browser, enter https://designer.microsoft.com/ to open the homepage

First use text to generate pictures, for example, enter the IT technology sharing community, then click the generate button, wait for tens of seconds, and the generated picture effect will appear.

We can modify the size to see the experience effect as follows:

Then we can click the generated picture, and then click the custom button for secondary editing

Enter the secondary design page as follows:

Introduction to the left toolbar

In the option bar on the left, Microsoft Designer provides five dimensions for us to adjust the screen:

Templates: Provides a variety of templates of different styles and sizes, click to apply directly to the design
My media: You can upload new pictures here, but it is no longer supported to use DALL-E 2 artificial intelligence to generate
Visuals: Add some new elements to the design that Microsoft Designer thinks may be suitable for you, including but not limited to illustrations, pictures, gradient backgrounds, etc.;
Text: add text.
Styles: style and color matching. You can choose the template provided by Microsoft Designer yourself, or you can customize new styles and colors according to your needs (such as the theme color and font of the enterprise or app, etc.).

Click to download the supported formats (mp4, png, jpg, pdf) as follows:

Design by uploading pictures

Here we upload three photos of Qi Wei saved locally, click generate, and the stitching effect is still very good.

You can experience other interesting functions in person, and I believe it will definitely bring you some pleasant surprises.

7. Summary

The biggest advantage of Microsoft Designer is that it can be used directly in China for free, and it is enough for daily design. Of course, its overall experience effect is still far behind that of mainstream AI tools such as Midjourney, but with the continuous update and iteration of technology, I believe that Microsoft Designer can also be a great AI design tool.