Microsoft gives its share Paint and Notebook applications on Windows, up-to-date AI capabilities for text editing and digital illustration. The updates are currently rolling out to Windows Insiders in the Windows 11 Canary and Dev channels, and include features that seem oddly niche or advanced for such simplistic apps, such as AI text improvements in Notepad and the ability to instantly generate coloring pages in Paint.
This last feature is aptly called “Coloring Book” and allows you to create blank coloring templates in Paint version 11.2512.191.0 based on a text prompt. Users can access this feature by selecting Coloring Page from the Copilot menu in Paint and then describing what the design should be, such as “cute fluffy cat on a donut.” Paint will then generate four results that Paint users can click to add to their canvas. From there, you can probably utilize Paint itself to color the image, or print it out to utilize customary art supplies.
It’s such a strangely specific tool that I have to wonder if the consumers of coloring books (parents and stressed-out millennials) actually utilize them. utilize Paint for. The Coloring Book feature is only available on Copilot Plus computers, so it’s more likely that Microsoft is exploring up-to-date ways to boost the marketability of its AI-powered devices running Windows 11. Paint also gets a fill tolerance slider (which isn’t restricted to Copilot hardware) that gives you more control over how the Fill tool applies color.
Notepad 11.2512.10.0 update enables streaming of AI-generated results for write, rewrite and summarize features, allowing you to quickly preview text results without waiting for the full response. Notepad also has a up-to-date Welcome feature that gives you a quick overview of what’s available in the app, and now supports additional Markdown syntax features, including strikethrough formatting and nested lists.