Windows 11 users get the Paint app boosted with a very smart addition on the AI front.
This is the introduction of Dall-E 3 support for Paint, or as it’s known in the app, Cocreator.
If you’ve seen the feature in Bing AI, it’s a top-notch image creation feature. Basically, you can tell Cocreator what you want and it will create an image based on your description (and specified drawing style).
As we’ve already seen with Bing AI, it’s easy to use and delivers powerful results, so much so that when it was first rolled out with Bing Chat (now rebranded as Copilot), there was a huge rush to image generation capability – and there’s a lot of buzz about how good it is. (With a few fluctuations along the way, mind you, but that’s the norm for AI in many ways).
Windows Latest reports that Cocreator in Paint is now rolling out to all Windows 11 users, so it has left the testing phase (where it was first spotted in September, before hitting the Release Preview build in late October).
There is a short tutorial to introduce the feature so that even beginners can understand what it is all about.
Analysis: Don’t have Cocreator yet? You’ll have it soon
Not everyone will see the Cocreator feature now, as the rollout will take some time. You should also make sure you’re using the latest version of Paint (so update the app), and if Microsoft asks you to join the waitlist for the feature (in the app), make sure you do this.
Paint has been fleshed out significantly this year, not only with the addition of this AI-based feature, but also with a transparency effect and layers on top of that, a much-requested piece of functionality that was recently added. Not to mention background removal, which does what it says on the tin, quickly and without fuss (the Photos app recently got this too, as well as a background blur option to boot).
The improvements for Microsoft’s core Windows 11 apps keep coming, as well as throwing away some of the chaff in this department, which is equally welcome.