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Microsoft Paint, bundled with Windows since Windows 1.0, has been a simple, rudimentary tool for four decades. However, recent AI advancements have transformed Paint from a basic drawing program into a surprisingly powerful and versatile image editing application.
1Create Polished Artwork From Rough Sketches
Gone are the days when Paint was limited to hand-drawn stick figures or rudimentary shapes—at least, that’s what most of us probably managed to create.
The Cocreator feature in Paint leverages AI to transform simple sketches into detailed, polished artwork. This feature analyzes your initial drawing and then fills in the details to create a refined and professional-looking image.
This allows you to enter a simple text prompt and draw a basic outline of a landscape or a character. Then AI will intelligently fill in the details, like adding textures, shading, and other elements. It’s a godsend for people like me with poor drawing and sketching skills.
To try out Cocreator’s helpful functions, follow the steps:
It’s a handy concept visualization tool for creating design prototypes if you’re brainstorming ideas or creating illustrations from basic outlines. Plus, artists can quickly refine their concept sketches without switching to more complex software.
The Cocreator feature requires Copilot+ PCs, the new class of Windows 11 AI PCs that are powered by a turbocharged NPU.
2Generate AI Art With Text Prompts
The Image Creator feature in Paint offers similar text-to-image generation like what we’ve seen across other AI-powered services and chatbots. It’s pretty straightforward, allowing users to create entirely new images simply by describing them in text.
With Image Creator in Paint, you canuse the DALL-E text-to-image model to generate realistic imagesthrough natural language processing and AI art generation.
Follow these steps to try out Image Creator yourself:
Image Creator can help you create unique images for your articles and marketing campaigns as well as illustrations for presentations and visual aids for trainings. I even use it to ocassionally create images for my social media posts to make them more engaging.
To generate images using Image Creator, you would need to sign in with your Microsoft account. Each time you generate a set of images, you spend one credit—verify youuse Copilot’s features wisely to make the most of your AI credits.
3Add Objects to Your Images
Generative Fill in Microsoft Paint allows you to enhance your artwork or any images by adding AI-generated objects seamlessly into selected areas. Whether it’s adding a missing cloud in the sky or an object to balance the composition, this tool lets you enhance your photos using AI. There are more than a fewgreat AI photo enhancersyou can try, but Paint works so well because of its simplicity.
Here’s how to start adding objects to your photos in Paint:
The Generative erase feature works in the same way. Click theGenerative eraseoption in the menu that pops up on selection, and the selected object or element will be removed, and AI will intelligently fill the area to match the surrounding background.
These generative features are perfect for photo enhancements, artistic modifications, or even fixing mistakes in digital drawings.
It’s a good way to experiment with adding unexpected objects to images for creative effect and whimsical objects to create surreal or artistic compositions. It also allows you to remove unwanted objects or distractions from pictures (or that ex you may not be friends with now).
Like Cocreator, Generative fill is only available for Copilot+ PCs only.
4Remove the Background From Your Photos
Isolating subjects in photos from their backgrounds is a common task in image editing. The Remove Background feature in Paint simplifies this process, allowing you toaccurately remove the background from a photo.
Whether you want to create transparent images, replace backgrounds, or isolate objects, the Remove background feature makes it incredibly easy. You do not need advanced image editing skills or to rely on dodgy online services to achieve it.
The Remove background feature is a handy tool that can be used in a myriad cases. You can isolate and cut out subjects for use in graphic design projects, multimedia presentations, and photo collages. You can also create professional-looking headshots and portraits with clean backgrounds and remove backgrounds from product photos for neat e-commerce listings.
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The integration of AI features has breathed new life into Paint, making it a compelling option for both casual users and those seeking quick, efficient image manipulation. These Copilot features have not only simplified complex tasks but have also opened up new creative possibilities, making Paint my go-to Windows photo editing app—years after I had abandoned it.
