Microsoft Designer, the AI-powered tool that is taking on Adobe Photoshop, Canva

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Microsoft was recently in the news for its big collaboration with OpenAI to leverage the GPT (Generative Pre-Text Transformer) technology to add an Artificial Intelligence (AI) copilot to its Bing search engine. But the company had laid the foundation for its own AI-based platforms back in October 2022, when it announced Microsoft Designer, leveraging OpenAI's DALL-E 2 application. For the unaware, DALL-E is an AI image generator that takes prompts in natural language text format. The Microsoft Designer was touted to be an AI-powered design platform that offers an advanced set of features to allow users to create Instagram posts, presentations, digital postcards, graphics and more. On April 27, Microsoft launched a public preview of the platform and showcased its advanced set of features.

“Since October, the AI models have steadily improved, and we've worked to weave these powerful capabilities throughout the Designer canvas in even more delightful ways while keeping you in control,” said Bryan Rognier, General Manager, Microsoft 365 Consumer, in a blog post.

Now, if you are someone who needs to generate/create visuals, the first stop is generally Adobe Photoshop and then there is Canva. While these tools can do a tremendous job, Designer can go way ahead and actually help you during the creative process in finishing the product as per your ideas. And that is where Designer is being seen as one of the biggest threats to Photoshop as well as Canva.

The AI-powered design platform features a wide range of features to enable users in creating designs and graphics quickly and seamlessly. Just like DALL-E, it takes input in natural language, meaning you can give it a text prompt saying “A social media post about affordable