Fun with Surface camera this holiday season

The holiday season is a time for creativity, joy, and making memories. With the advanced capabilities of the Microsoft Surface, a Copilot+ PC and its AI-powered camera, you can enliven your holiday celebrations in fun and innovative ways.

Here are some creative ideas to get you started.

Homemade holiday greeting cards

A heartfelt way to spread holiday cheer is by sending personalized greeting cards. Surface’s AI-enabled camera can help you create stunning, professional-looking cards right from home.

Use the camera’s AI features to take high-quality photos of your family, pets, or festive decorations. Enhance your camera with Windows Studio Effects, an AI feature. With Windows Studio Effects, you can use portrait light to brighten yourself against the background, showing you in your most festive light. Change the mood with creative filters to add an illustrated, animated feel to your photos.

Explore AI photo editor features, like Microsoft Clipchamp and Windows Photos App, and learn photo-editing tips and tricks to give your photos a festive look. You can then combine your photos with holiday-themed templates available in publishing applications, like Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint. Print your results on high-quality paper, and you have a beautiful, personalized greeting card ready to send.

Do-it-yourself photo booth

Capture the holiday cheer at your next gathering with a do-it-yourself photo booth. Use your Surface camera and photo booth software to create a setup that lets your holiday guests snap memorable pictures against a festive, digital background.

Enhance special moments with creative filters and express how you look and feel or add an artistic touch to every photo. Provide fun props like Santa hats, reindeer antlers, and holiday-themed symbols. Use Microsoft OneDrive to share photos in real-time to a shared folder, creating a communal photo album.

Virtual holiday gatherings

If you can’t be with loved ones in person, the Surface’s AI-enabled camera can help you stay connected. High-quality video calls via Microsoft Teams, with next-generation AI capabilities, help gather friends and loved ones for holiday cheer. The ultra-wide Quad HD front-facing camera enhances your video calls from wherever you dial in to ensure you have great lighting and crystal-clear sound. Use virtual backgrounds to reflect various festive themes, whether it's Diwali, Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, or New Year's.

Holiday cooking tutorials

Share your favorite holiday recipes with friends and family by creating cooking tutorials. Use the Surface’s camera to record high-quality videos of your cooking process. Then, use Microsoft Clipchamp, with its AI video editor, to edit and share your videos—no video expertise required. Add text overlays, music, and special effects to make your tutorials engaging and easy to follow.

You can post your videos on social media or send them directly to loved ones. You can even host a virtual cooking class and cook together in real-time.

Capture holiday memories in albums and slideshows

Documenting your holiday celebrations is a wonderful way to preserve memories. Use the Surface’s AI-enabled camera to capture candid moments throughout the season and create digital albums or slideshows using PowerPoint to share with family and friends. Relive the joy of the holidays together, year-round.

Surface’s AI-camera makes holiday memories last a lifetime

Surface’s AI-enabled camera offers endless possibilities for creativity and connection this holiday season. Whether you’re making personalized greeting cards, capturing holiday cheer with a do-it-yourself photo booth, or hosting virtual holiday gatherings, your Surface device and its AI-powered camera help you make the season special and memorable.