Microsoft is Adding a Designer Button to the Windows 11 Photos App

Microsoft introduced at the moment that it’s calmly integrating the Home windows 11 Photographs app with its AI-powered Designer graphic design internet app.

“As we speak we’re introducing the flexibility to ship a picture from the Photographs app to Microsoft Designer,” Microsoft’s Mala Srivatsa writes within the announcement publish. “This replace is offered on Home windows 11 to begin, and is at the moment restricted to customers throughout the US, UK, Australia, Eire, India, and New Zealand. We’re beginning to roll this out to Insiders within the Canary and Dev channels.”

Since this integration is quite mild—a single new button within the Photographs app’s toolbar—it’s unclear why this warranted a standalone announcement publish. Maybe that is the start of some deeper integration that will probably be revealed at Construct subsequent month or at some later time. Or perhaps all the pieces AI-related is information today.

Regardless of the motive, right here’s what’s taking place.

While you’re working with a single photograph or different picture within the Photographs app in Home windows 11, you’ll quickly have the ability to click on a brand new Designer button to open that picture in Microsoft Designer in your default internet browser. From there, you’ll be able to apply templates, add visuals, and use Designer’s AI instruments to additional private the picture. And … I feel that’s it. I don’t consider you’ll be able to round-robin it again to Photographs or keep any sense of workflow. It’s principally simply an “Open with” button.

For this to work, you will have Photographs model 2024.11040.16001.0 or greater, and also you’ll should register to Designer utilizing your Microsoft account. As famous, that is rolling out first to the Home windows Insider Canary and Dev channels first, and it’ll then make its technique to different Insider channels and the secure Common Availability channel at some unspecified date.