Thanks to advancements in technology, art has evolved in incredible ways. In addition to traditional art supplies, you can use AI-powered tools like Designer to bring your creativity to life. Learn what Designer is, how to access it, and how you can use this AI art generator to effortlessly create stunning digital art.

What is Designer?

Designer is an AI art generator built into Copilot, an AI-powered tool where you can create images, find answers to complex questions, and summarize vast amounts of information all in one place.

What can Designer do?

Designer allows you to create digital art based on textual, descriptive prompts. Its AI capabilities can discern details like object characteristics, facial expressions, backgrounds, and even artistic styles. When you provide a description of the image you’d like to see, Designer will work its magic and transform your idea into visually captivating artwork.

Whether you’re an experienced artist or a novice, this AI art generator helps you quickly translate your thoughts into visual art. Create images in a variety of styles, from realism to abstract or comic book style to character animations. If there’s a person, animal, or object in your idea, describe its visual characteristics, facial expressions, and emotions. Play with different backgrounds and scenery to really make your art pop. This AI image generator can help you produce your dream artwork in seconds.

How to access Designer

It’s easy to get started with Designer. To make digital art using this AI art generator, follow these steps:

1. Go to Copilot, or open Microsoft Edge and select the Copilot icon in the sidebar.
2. Enter your prompt in the search box.
3. If you want to change the generated image, provide additional context and details.

It’s really that simple!

Example Designer prompts

If you want to see what Designer can do, you might start with one of these prompts:

Credit: Designer in Copilot

• Create a realistic portrait: “Create a lifelike portrait of a serene woman with curly red hair, wearing a blue silk gown, and standing in front of a tranquil rose garden.”
• Generate comic book sketches: “Generate a dynamic comic book scene featuring a heroic figure in a red and blue superhero costume while they’re flying through the night sky with the Chicago skyline in the background.”
• Create fantasy art: “Produce an abstract piece of art that’s reminiscent of a dream, using swirling neon colors, floating orbs, and a sense of weightlessness.”
• Illustrate a post-apocalyptic world: “Create a gritty and desolate post-apocalyptic landscape featuring a lone wanderer in tattered clothing, walking through a barren wasteland with remnants of a ruined city in the background, bathed in the eerie light of a setting sun.”

Whether you’re an aspiring artist or a pro who wants to build their digital art portfolio, Designer is a game-changing tool for creatives of all levels. Use the power of AI to experiment with your creative side and bring your imagination to life with just a few keystrokes. Try Designer to leap into the world of digital art and let your creativity soar.

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Bringing AI to your organization with Copilot

Copilot offers access to powerful AI models such as GPT-4 and up-to-date information with cited sources. When eligible users sign in with an eligible work or school account (Microsoft Entra ID), they receive commercial data protection at no additional cost, which means prompts and responses are not saved, Microsoft has no eyes on access, and data is not used to train the underlying large language model (LLM). Copilot helps users tackle everyday tasks such as drafting an email, summarizing PDFs and articles, generating images with DALL-E 3, learning new skills, and getting answers to complex questions.

Use Copilot in your organization with confidence

With Copilot now generally available, organizations and users can feel even more confident adopting it as part of their daily workflows. Copilot with commercial data protection is now backed by the Universal Commercial License Terms for Online Services to align with other Microsoft commercial online services. These terms include Microsoft’s Customer Copyright Commitment (CCC), which enables customers to take advantage of Microsoft’s Copilot services without worrying about copyright claims. 

Eligibility

Copilot offers commercial data protection at no additional cost when users with eligible Microsoft 365 licenses sign in with their work account. Current eligible licenses include Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Microsoft 365 A3, A5 (faculty only), Microsoft 365 F3, Business Standard, and Business Premium. Microsoft has announced plans to extend availability of Copilot with commercial data protection to all Entra ID users (excluding sovereign government cloud and student users), and timing will be announced at a future date.

Renaming and UX changes

As previously announced, Bing Chat and Bing Chat Enterprise recently changed to Copilot to make AI-powered web chat more accessible with a simplified user experience at copilot.microsoft.com. This experience is already available today. An updated and renamed user interface for Copilot with commercial data protection on other endpoints is rolling out to customers over time.

Bringing Copilot to your organization

For organizations with Copilot already enabled, no further action is needed. You can continue to use Copilot as you do today. For help with user adoption, or to help transition users from the old Bing Chat user interface to the new Copilot one, IT admins can use the Copilot adoption kit to educate users with training materials and resources. Ready-to-go email templates can help with your change management.

For organizations with rules that do not allow use of preview products, Copilot reaching general availability is now your opportunity to introduce Copilot to your organization. 

Get started

If your organization is ready to start using Copilot with commercial data protection, here’s what you can do next:

1. Admins should ensure that Copilot is enabled for their company and check documentation at aka.ms/Copilot/Docs for additional resources. Now that Copilot is generally available, admins who want to extend availability to more users can assign a Copilot service plan.
2. To help users who are new to AI feel more confident and knowledgeable about AI-powered chat, download the adoption kit at aka.ms/Copilot/StarterKit. 
3. Direct users to copilot.microsoft.com to try Copilot for themselves.

You can also learn more about the latest Copilot updates, which can be leveraged in Microsoft Edge for Business, in this Microsoft Ignite video. 

Keeping your organization safe while introducing AI is top of mind, and Copilot with Entra ID sign-in is here as a clear path forward. 

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