Copilot gets a big redesign and a new way to edit your AI-generated images

Homepage now has a prompt carousel to give you ideas

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It’s been one year sinceBing Chatreceived its generative AI power-up and we’ve seen it change a lot since including a rebranding into Copilot. To celebrate the first anniversary,Microsoftdecided to redesign Copilot’s homepage as well as introduce a new editing feature.

The company states when you visit theAI’s engine desktop website, “you will see… a cleaner, sleeker look”. In the middle of the page is a revolving carousel of sample prompts with an accompanying image. Its purpose,according to Microsoft, is to give you an idea of what Copilot is capable of; to get those creative juices flowing. It is certainly more engaging than the previous version. The old page had three sample text prompts next to each other with no indication that it could create images.

Copilot on mobile is receiving an identical update. The app has the same carousel of sample prompts with a picture above to give you some ideas. You also have the option to toggleGPT-4for better results. Activating it turns the software’s blue accents to purple.

Tweaking prompts

As for the feature mentioned earlier, it’s called Designer. It allows you to make tweaks to generated content like highlighting certain aspects, blurring the background, or adding a unique filter. As an example, let’s take Copilot’s suggestion of creating an image of an animal wearing a football helmet. Moving your cursor over the picture makes a bold white line appear around an object. Clicking it highlights the portion.

A couple of options appear at the bottom of the window. We chose to tell Copilot to make the colors pop. After a few seconds, the finished product appears. You can then either undo the effect or keep it. For filters, you have eight to choose from. Pixel art, block print, and claymation are some of the selections. Like the edits before, applying a filter takes a few seconds.

Designer is free for everyone to try out. However, subscribers toCopilot Prowill be given extra tools. They can resize generated content and regenerate images into either a square or landscape orientation.Microsoftsays it eventually roll out a “Designer GPT” to Copilot. The company calls it a canvas of sorts where people can “visualize [their] ideas.” If we had to take a guess, it could be a publicly available GPT model that you can use to create editing tools.OpenAIoffers a similar service with itsonline store. We reached out to Microsoft for more details. This story will be updated at a later time.

Check out TechRadar’s list of thebest free drawing software for 2024if you’d like to find a way to make the edits yourself.

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Cesar Cadenas has been writing about the tech industry for several years now specializing in consumer electronics, entertainment devices, Windows, and the gaming industry. But he’s also passionate about smartphones, GPUs, and cybersecurity.

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