Microsoft plans to include AI in every nook and cranny of Windows 11, as evident from the Copilot feature and its integration in many Microsoft products. It is also testing a Cocreator feature for the Microsoft Paint app in the Windows Insider channel. This feature will enable users to harness the power of AI to create images using text inputs. Let’s dive into how it works.
What Is Paint Cocreator?
Paint Cocreator is a feature embedded in the Microsoft Paint app. It can create multiple versions of images using DALL-E, an image-AI system based on the text inputs that you provide. Apart from that, it offers multiple styling options for the images, which you can use to generate images belonging to a particular theme.
The Paint app has already received significant upgrades like the Fit to Window option, support for image layers, and a background removal feature.
How to Use the Paint Cocreator Feature
The Paint Cocreator feature is in the experimental phase and available to Windows Insiders. If you have enrolled your PC in the Canary, Dev, or Beta channel of theWindows Insider program, you’re able to try out the Cocreator feature. Release Preview Insider users will have to wait longer.
Firstly, update your Windows Insider PC to the latest available build. After that, check the Microsoft Store for updates to the Paint app. The Cocreator feature is available in version 11.2025-06-04 or higher, so you need to update it to access it.
you’re able to also consider usingUUP Dump to download Windows Insider builds without enrolling in the program. Make sure that you are signed in with a Microsoft account on your Windows 11 PC, otherwise, you won’t be able to join the waitlist and use the feature.
After that, launch the Paint app, and you will see a Cocreator feature icon in the app. Click on it to open the feature in the side pane. Now, click on theJoin waitlistbutton. You will receive an email from the company in your official Microsoft account about getting access to the feature.
Follow the below steps to use the Paint Cocreator feature:
Similarly, you may try more combinations and styles to generate different images based on the same prompt. Remember that creating an image consumes one credit at a time.
Is Paint Cocreator Any Good?
Paint Cocreater produces a set of three images with each prompt. We liked the idea of integrating the pre-defined styles option into the prompt to make the image accurate. However, the feature takes a bit longer to fetch the images from the server.
The save feature allows you to save any of the generated images in high resolution, but the resolution is capped at 1024 x 1024 pixels.
In the experimental phase, you only get 50 credits to try out this feature. After that runs out, you may still use the Copilot togenerate images using the Bing Image Creator.
Generate AI Images in Paint
Integrating the AI image generation feature inside the Paint app will be a boon for users. The app already has support for layers and a few other features which will surely reduce dependence on third-party apps for basic image annotation and editing. Non-Inisders will have to wait a little longer to try out Paint Cocreator.
