Struggling to create visuals that stand out? Microsoft Designer helps you design captivating, professional-quality graphics effortlessly, even with little to no design experience. With AI assistance, Designer simplifies the process, so you can produce eye-catching social media posts, personalized invitations, digital postcards, and more—all with just a few clicks.
Get started with Microsoft Desginer
To begin using Microsoft Designer, you’ll need a Microsoft 365 Personal or Family account. Currently, it is not available to enterprise users. Stay tuned for updates.
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Go to designer.microsoft.com in your web browser and sign in with your personal Microsoft 365 account.
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Use the search bar at the top of the page to quickly find templates or inspiration by entering keywords like “invitation” or “social media post.”
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Choose from a variety of templates tailored for different themes or start designing from scratch for full creative freedom.
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Enhance your creation with AI-powered suggestions and layout recommendations to give your graphics a professional touch with minimal effort.
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Save your creation within the app once you’re happy with the result.
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Easily share and integrate your design across platforms, such as presentations, documents, emails, and more.
The core components of Microsoft Designer
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AI-Powered Design Generation: Microsoft Designer uses advanced AI, powered by DALL-E, to generate high-quality images based on your input and ideas to most closely match your creative vision.
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Design Flexibility: Whether you’re creating business presentations or personal projects, Microsoft Designer offers a flexible environment for users of all skill levels to experiment with design.
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Collaborative Creativity: While Microsoft Designer is a standalone web app, it seamlessly integrates with Microsoft 365 apps to incorporate your designs into documents, emails, and presentations, ensuring a consistent brand identity across all communications.
Create custom images
Explore the convenience of AI-driven creativity to craft custom images tailored to your needs from concept to visual reality.
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Under the Create with AI tab, select a pre-suggested image.
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Fill in the open text fields to describe what you want or edit the entire prompt to personalize it.
Tip: You can even share your prompt as a template for others to create similar images!
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Select Generate to see a variety of design options provided by Designer.
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Pick the image that best fits your needs. You have the option to download, copy, or further refine the image.
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Choose Create design to make any final adjustments.
Edit images
Refine your images with ease and precision using AI-powered tools that enhance every detail according to your vision.
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Under the Edit with AI tab, upload your own photo or choose from a gallery of images to begin editing.
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Use AI tools to restyle your image, remove or blur backgrounds, or fix individual elements with crop, rotate, and adjust features.
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Enhance your image even further with filters, design templates, and text options.
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When finished, you can download, copy, or share your edited image.
Design from scratch
Design freely from a blank canvas with intuitive AI tools that infuse your personal style to bring your unique content ideas to life.
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Select the Design from scratch tab to start from a blank canvas.
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Choose a layout option that matches the size and scope of what you want to design.
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Add images, text, shapes, and icons using AI-powered tools.
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Personalize your design with filters, fonts, and color palettes or upload your own media to match your style or brand.
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Once you’re satisfied with your design, you can download, copy, or share it directly from the app.
How do I use Designer components in other apps?
Microsoft Designer components are currently supported in Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Word for the Web, OneNote, and PowerPoint.
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Microsoft Teams: Incorporate custom graphics and designs directly into your chat or channels.
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Outlook: Add innovative designs to your email signatures or as part of your email content.
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Word for the Web: Beautify your documents by embedding graphics created in Microsoft Designer, adding a professional touch to your reports, proposals, and more.
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OneNote: Organize your notes with custom visuals to make your notebooks more visually appealing and easier to navigate.
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PowerPoint: Transform your presentations by integrating sophisticated designs from Microsoft Designer, ensuring your slides capture attention and make a lasting impact.
Start designing today
To begin exploring Microsoft Designer, simply sign in with your personal Microsoft 365 account. Once logged in, you can start designing right away by selecting a template or initiate a fresh design from scratch.
See also
Frequently Asked Questions about Microsoft Designer
Create a community announcement banner with Designer in Microsoft Teams (free)
