Generate images with the text-to-image AI Dall-E 2 in Microsoft Bing!

In nuce: The Image Creator is now available in selected countries via the Microsoft Bing internet search engine – and will soon also be made available for the Microsoft Edge web browser. This is according to a post from 20 October this year on the Microsoft Bing blogs. Image Creator is a tool that uses the artificial intelligence of Dall-E 2 to create images based on text input (also known as prompts in technical jargon). Image Creator is comparable to the text-to-image AI Stable Diffusion, which Digital Production reported on 6 September this year.

Image Creator in Microsoft Bing

In toto: According to the blog post, Image Creator allows you to create images based on textual input. The post continues: “Simply enter a description, for example contextual information such as location, art style or type of activity, and Image Creator creates matching images.” The post also states that it has always been possible to search for images on the Internet using Microsoft’s search engine – but Image Creator now also makes it possible to generate customised images.

Image Creator in Microsoft Edge

How does it work? Image Creator can be selected via the Microsoft Bing sidebar. The 40-second video above demonstrates how Image Creator can work. In the application example, a user called Adam Curtis gives his friends a status update via a social network – which reads: “I’ve found my dream home!” In the text input field, the user right-clicks to open a drop-down menu where he selects the “Binge Image Creator” option. The sidebar then opens, where the user types into an input field what the dream house should look like (in the example it is the prompt: “Watercolour of a house on a hill overlooking a beautiful ocean with the setting sun”) – after which several images are created according to the user-defined specification. The user now selects the image they like best and posts it on their profile.

Click further: Image Creator can be accessed via bing.com . There are also tips and tricks on how to use it. The aforementioned blog post alsooffers tips on which commands are suitable for achieving a particularly good result in the image display.