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Microsoft Paint Cocreator: A complete guide on the new AI tool

Cocreator is a very versatile image generator AI.

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Updated onOctober 26, 2023

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Describe what you’d like to create, asks the new DALL-E powered Cocreator, a new AI tool coming to Microsoft Paint, recently discovered by Windows spotters, and thenofficially announcedby the Redmond-based tech giant.

A person taking a walk in the park during the autumn season, we type in, as outside, in the northern hemisphere, the autumn season is in full bloom. It’s October and we’ve got access to the limited preview of the Microsoft Paint Cocreator, after joining the waitlist for it in the Dev Channel.

Finding Cocreator is very easy: we just needed to open up Microsoft Paint – we’ve made sure the app is updated to the latest version – and Cocreator was there, alongside the newly-released Layers, which is a featurethat adds layers to your Paint projects.

Once we clicked on Cocreator, the app will welcome us with a short presentation on how to use it to generate the art we want.

As you can see below, the presentation also acts like a mini-tutorial showcasing everything you need to know before getting your hands on it.

Then the AI tool appeared as a right sidebar in Microsoft Paint, urging us to describe what we’d like to create.

With this first task in hand, we’ve taken our time with Cocreator and experimented with it for a while. And we’ve come up with a guide on this powerful and incredibly useful image creator.

Cocreator: 5 important things you need to know before trying it

Before diving in, if you can’t wait until Cocreator is released to experience it, then you should know these things, first.

9 art styles to choose from

We’ve typed in our request. Cocreator took it and then came back with options, no less than 9 choices of art style:

For now, Cocreator only offers these 9 options. However, there is no doubt Microsoft will add more options in future updates, and who knows, maybe even integrate the latest DALLE versions in it. Bing Chat has them, so Cocreator might be getting them too.

Ultimately, it all comes down to your preferred choice of art style. When you choose one, once you hit the Create button, Cocreator will generate 3 examples for you to choose from.

Microsoft Paint Cocreator can be a very practical app

Along with layers, Cocreator can be very useful for creating fast content for social media posts, giving small businesses a way to reduce costs by using AI tools. Microsoft somehow predicted this earlier this year, when the Redmond-based companyreleased a studyon the positive impact of AI on small businesses.

So it’s good to know Microsoft is integrating AI tools, such as Cocreator, into native Windows apps.

The tool is also extremely easy to use, and the only hard thing to do is to actually come up with an idea for your prompt. So, users don’t have to be versatile in technology to generate images with Cocreator. You just have to type in your input and select an art style, and the tool will take care of the rest.

The only drawback is that ultimately Cocreator runs on credit, and once the credit is down to 0, you won’t be able to generate any more images, until you get credit. So it’s not a free tool yet, but Microsoft will come up with ways to purchase or earn credit points. Microsoft Rewards, maybe? It can be possible.

Either way, Cocreator will get updated in the future. Microsoft will add many changes and improvements to it, and it is possible it will add newer versions of the DALL-E AI to it, as well. This would make Cocreator a very versatile app to use, and Microsoft Paint, as a whole, would be revived, if it’s not already.

With this being said, will you use Microsoft Paint Cocreator, when it’s released? What do you think of this AI tool?

More about the topics:Microsoft Paint,Windows 11

Flavius Floare

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Flavius is a writer and a media content producer with a particular interest in technology, gaming, media, film and storytelling.

He’s always curious and ready to take on everything new in the tech world, covering Microsoft’s products on a daily basis. The passion for gaming and hardware feeds his journalistic approach, making him a great researcher and news writer that’s always ready to bring you the bleeding edge!

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