Microsoft continues in the fight. Modernizing your entire environment involves adding functionalities and modifying each of your programs, and this time, it is the turn of the classic Paint. I’m sure we’ve all made our first steps and made small fixes with the basic design application installed throughout Windows, so let’s see what Microsoft is able to surprise us with this time around.
The American company has introduced a new key aspect in this application: the generative deletion function, powered by artificial intelligence. This measure amplifies the Microsoft ecosystem in a clear commitment to the use of AI. Perhaps it could be the precursor option for other facets in the future, and add artificial intelligence to other new and classic functionalities.
What is generative deletion based on?
This new functionality, which as we have said, comes from AI, is capable of eliminating specific elements in any image and filling the void it leaves with content based on everything that was around said figure or character. Artificial intelligence is capable of assuming such advanced interpretation functions that it is capable of carrying out tasks as innovative as these.
Another way of looking at it would be as if Paint had the power to imagine what should be behind the object, shape or body that we have dispensed with and recreate what was behind it automatically.
To use this new functionality, you just have to open the image you want in the application and click on the selection tool. This way, you can select the area or element you want to delete. Finally, you will see how two new small symbols that correspond to the generative erase function are displayed under the selected area. You just have to click on one of the two and the AI tool will do its magic.
Although it is an extraordinarily useful tool, which can save us a lot of work time on our designs, it is not available in all versions of Windows, since to enjoy this new functionality it is necessary to have Windows 11, the latest updated version of Paint and internet connection, since AI processing requires a permanent connection to cloud servers.
Microsoft’s intention with this update is to start competing with other more renowned editing programs, since functions that could be considered premium in other applications, we now have in the palm of our hand in the most classic artistic editor of all . What’s more, it is not just the Paint application that has incorporated AI functions, since, as any Windows 11 user can observe, the operating system itself offers us the artificial intelligence Copilot option from its taskbar, a system that competes with ChatGPT or Gemini to provide a list of artificial intelligence services to all users who require it.
The first question that arises is: Does Microsoft intend to elevate Paint’s functionalities to a new level or is it just a guinea pig to test artificial intelligence?
