Microsoft is giving its Paint and Notepad apps on Home windows new AI capabilities for modifying textual content and making digital illustrations. The updates are presently rolling out to Home windows Insiders within the Home windows 11 Canary and Dev channels, and embody options that really feel oddly area of interest or superior for such simplified apps, equivalent to AI textual content enhancements in Notepad and the power to immediately generate coloring e book pages in Paint.
The latter characteristic is aptly referred to as “Coloring e book,” and allows you to make clean coloring templates in model 11.2512.191.0 of Paint primarily based on a textual content immediate. Customers can entry this characteristic by choosing the Coloring e book possibility from the Copilot menu in Paint, after which describing what the design must be, equivalent to “a cute fluffy cat on a donut.” Paint will then generate 4 outcomes that Paint customers can click on so as to add to their canvas. From there, you’ll be able to presumably use Paint itself to paint the picture, or print it out to make use of conventional artwork supplies.
It’s such an oddly particular software that I’ve to marvel if that is one thing that coloring e book customers (mother and father and stressed-out millennials) truly use Paint for. The Coloring e book characteristic is notably solely out there on Copilot Plus PCs, so it’s extra possible that Microsoft is exploring novel methods to make its AI-infused Home windows 11 units extra marketable. Paint can also be getting a fill tolerance slider (which isn’t simply restricted to Copilot {hardware}) that gives extra management over how the Fill software applies colour.
The Notepad 11.2512.10.0 replace contains the power to stream AI-generated outcomes for Write, Rewrite, and Summarize options, permitting a preview of the textual content outcomes to shortly seem with out ready for the complete response. Notepad additionally has a brand new welcome expertise that gives a fast overview of what’s out there within the app, and now helps extra Markdown syntax options, together with strikethrough formatting and nested lists.
