From the course: Streamlining Your Work with Microsoft Copilot

Use Copilot to create and analyze images - Microsoft Copilot Tutorial

From the course: Streamlining Your Work with Microsoft Copilot

Use Copilot to create and analyze images

- [Instructor] Copilot has the ability to both analyze images and create new images for you. Now, these features will only work if you are signed into an account. So in the top right corner you can see that I am signed in. Now, let's try some examples. You can upload an image and ask things like, where is this? You can have it analyze contents of an image. You can even have it look at a picture of a dog and ask Copilot what breed it is. So let's see this in action. In the chat field, I'll click the image button and I can upload a picture directly from this device or computer. There's also a button to upload from mobile if you want to upload something from your phone. But I'm going to choose a picture that I have here on this computer and it'll take a moment to upload it. But I still have to ask it something, so I'm not done yet. In this case, I'm going to ask where is this? And it identified this as Tower Bridge in London. Sometimes it will offer details on other things in the picture, and it may even offer a critical comment on it. You could ask follow-up questions, or you could use one of the suggested prompts that pop up here. So that's how you can use Copilot to analyze images. But Copilot can also create images for you. Copilot is able to use the DALL·E 3 AI image model, and you can even refine images instead of having to create them again from scratch if you don't like what was originally generated for you. Now, there are some guidelines. You cannot create images of public figures. You also cannot create images containing hateful content, or nudity, or violence, basically, it won't create anything that violates the Copilot terms of service and community guidelines. So why would you even need to create your own images? Well, let's take a look at a slide I'm working on in PowerPoint. This slide has information about printer models that we are retiring in my office. Sometimes it's hard to create an image or find an appropriate image for a slide. Now, PowerPoint has an excellent stock photo library, but sometimes you need something really specific. So I'll go back to Copilot and in the chat prompt, I'll ask it to create an image of a laser printer with an hourglass above it. That's really specific and I could have asked it to create an illustration, or create a drawing, or create a photorealistic computer generated image. All of those things would change the output of what I get. Also, you should note that these generated images will have an invisible watermark on them. This uses a feature called content credentials. The images have a digital invisible watermark labeling them as being created by AI with the time and date of creation. And this is based on specifications by the Coalition for Content. And here are the options that it offers me, a few pictures of a printer with an hourglass above it. Now could continue the conversation and ask for changes, but once you have a picture you like, you can click on it to see it larger. You can use the style buttons below the picture to try different styles. I'll try the Steampunk style. If you don't like the new version, you can click undo, but I'll click Looks good. Then above the picture, you can click the button with three dots to open this menu. And there's an option here to edit the picture in Microsoft Designer. That's Microsoft's online graphic design tool. So you could make more changes to the picture or add it to a larger design project. Or you can use this option to simply download the picture to your computer, or you can click this copy button. Then you can paste the picture somewhere else. So now that I've copied the picture, I can go back over to that PowerPoint slide. I'll click this space for an image and I'll click the paste button up in the ribbon and it pastes that right on my slide. And we can see the designer tools in PowerPoint open up on the right and offer some redesigns for this slide. So I could choose one of these, and here's our slide, and I think it looks pretty good. So that's how you can use the DALL·E 3 AI Image Generator in Copilot.

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