Using Generative AI in Microsoft Paint to Create Images

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If you click on the Cocreator icon at the top, right side of the Paint window, if you aren't logged into a Microsoft account you will see a message that a Microsoft account is required.

Paint Cocreator Microsoft
account is required

Scroll down to the bottom of that message where you will find a Sign-in button, then click on it to sign into a Microsoft account.

Paint Cocreator Microsoft
account sign-in

You will then have an opportunity to describe the image you would like to create using Cocreator.

Paint Cocreator Describe Idea

You can also choose a style for the image from any of the following:

  1. No Selection
  2. Charcoal
  3. Ink Sketch
  4. Watercolor
  5. Oil Painting
  6. Digital Art
  7. Photorealistic
  8. Anime
  9. Pixel Art

Paint Cocreator Select Style

Click on Create to generate the image.

Paint Cocreator Create Image

The program will generate several variants from which you may choose. If none of them match the type of image you were looking for, you can modify your description to achieve a result that more closely matches what you hoped to see and then click on the Create button again.

Paint Cocreator Explore Variants

If you like any of the images you see, you can right-click on them and choose Save image.

Paint Cocreator Save Image

You will see a count decreasing from an initial value of 50 at the bottom of the Cocreator window each time you create an image, so it appears you can only use the feature to create a limited number of images with Cocreator Preview. You can't specify the size of an image; all images will be created as 1024 x 1024 images. Below are some images that were created by the program when I used full moon over treetops for the description with "photorealistic" for the style.

MoonOverTreetops #1
MoonOverTreetops #1
MoonOverTreetops #1

Below are some images that the program created when I used unicorn by a willow tree with moon with "photorealistic" for the style. The tree branches look odd in the first image with one appearing prematurely truncated. And one "unicorn" has two horns and the eyes look odd to me in all of the images.

Unicorn #1
Unicorn #1
Unicorn #1