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Everything you need to know about Microsoft Designer, a free alternative to Canva to create beautiful graphics for social networks and websites
Microsoft Designer
In this article we are going to discover all the details and secrets of Microsoft Designer, Microsoft’s free service that allows anyone to create beautiful graphics easily, quickly and for free.
Basically, as you can imagine, it is an alternative to the better known Canva, with the difference that at the moment Microsoft Designer is totally free and, above all, it uses a lot, but a lot of artificial intelligence.
So, without getting lost in small talk, let’s start with the guide!
What is Microsoft Designer
As anticipated, it is a free service that provides us with a wide range of graphic tools, including the ability to generate images, remove the background, create drawings and much more, all in an incredibly intuitive and fast way thanks to artificial intelligence.
It allows you to create posts, digital postcards, graphics, and anything else that can be shared online and beyond.
Thanks to AI, which pervades every aspect of the program, Microsoft Designer is a platform that allows you to produce projects in a short time and with fewer steps, while still maintaining a high level of quality.
All of this makes Microsoft Designer a valuable tool for both professionals and beginners in the field of graphic design.
To be precise, Microsoft Designer is based on OpenAI’s DALL-E 3, an artificial intelligence known for its ability to create anything from text input, making the approach to the user more intuitive and direct.
How Microsoft Designer works
Using Microsoft Designer is incredibly quick and easy.
All you need to do is:
- go to the official website – LINK
- Log in with your Microsoft account
- write the image or graphic you want to create in text form (currently only in English)
- As with all AI-based services, the more precise you are with the description of what you need, the better the end result will be
- The completed project will be visualized and presented in a matter of seconds, thanks to artificial intelligence
- After various trials and tests, you can proceed with saving. When you’re happy with the result, simply download the file in the most suitable format, including PNG, JPG, or PDF.
In addition to the ability to enter a prompt and proceed with the creation of images and designs, we have other tools at our disposal such as background removal via artificial intelligence and the ability to create logos, fonts, and much more.
What you can create with Microsoft Designer
There is a lot of content that can be created with Microsoft Designer.
You can create professional presentations, calendars and planners, resumes and cover letters, Instagram stories, calendars, videos, certificates, invoices, LinkedIn posts, Facebook posts, and Twitter headers.
But it doesn’t end there.
There are templates for Pinterest, for X (formerly Twitter), for invitations, for websites, and much more. If you have special needs, you can manually enter the dimensions of the visual content you want to make.
Concluding
We have seen that Microsoft Designer is a web application that allows you to easily create professional-quality graphic designs with the help of artificial intelligence. With Microsoft Designer, you can:
- Create logos, posters, flyers, business cards, invitations, and more
- Choose from thousands of pre-made templates or customize your own design from scratch
- Use advanced editing tools such as cropping, resizing, rotating, feathering, shading, and keying
- Add text, images, icons, shapes, stickers, and emojis to your project
- Use the DALL-E 3 function to generate images from text, such as “a cat in a red hat”
- Use the brand kit feature to create a visual identity for your project, with logos, colors, fonts, and brand personality
- Save, download, share, and print projects in various formats and sizes
Have you tried Microsoft Designer yet?
If so, let me know what you think using the comments at the end of the article.
If not, run and give it a try! You will discover a simple, fast and free tool to create original and captivating content that manages to attract the attention of users.
