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- PCWorld reports that Microsoft is adding AI-powered coloring book generation to Windows Paint, allowing users to create custom pages from text descriptions.
- This Copilot AI feature will be available on Copilot+ PCs and includes a new fill tolerance slider for more precise coloring effects.
- Notepad is also receiving updates with lightweight formatting, Markdown support, and faster AI text generation capabilities for enhanced productivity.
Adult coloring books have long been a great gift idea for Christmas and birthdays, and now it seems like Microsoft is catching onto their popularity. According to a recent blog post, Windows Insiders are now starting to get access to a new update that adds two features to Windows Paint, one of which is AI-generated coloring books.
With the new Coloring Book feature, you can ask Copilot AI to generate a series of coloring book pages according to your descriptions. Microsoft shows an example of cute cats on donuts (see above).
The generated pages can then be saved or pasted directly onto the workspace, where you can then color them in yourself. The Coloring Book feature in Paint will only be available on Copilot+ PCs.
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The Paint update also introduces a new slider for the Fill tool. This slider allows you to adjust how densely filled you want the area that you’re filling in. “Experiment with different tolerance settings to achieve clean fills or creative effects,” Microsoft writes in the blog post.
The update is currently rolling out to Windows 11 Insiders on the Dev and Canary channels. This update also includes some improvements to Notepad, like expanded lightweight formatting, additional Markdown syntax features, and faster generation of AI text features.
This article originally appeared on our sister publication PC för Alla and was translated and localized from Swedish.
Author: Kristian Kask, Contributor, PCWorld
Kristian is passionate about gadgets and gaming and mainly writes news for our sister sites, M3 and PC for Alla. He also tests products, mainly game accessories, and translates articles from the Foundry network.