Microsoft Designer: Straight Talk (second edition, 2024) is the first book devoted to the ins and outs of how Designer really works and the important tricks and workarounds necessary to make a really good and unique design.
Make your own graphics and social media posts – fast!
Microsoft Designer is the new way to make graphics and pictures to enhance your Word documents, PowerPoint slides, emails and social media posts.
Microsoft Designer: Straight Talk is the first book devoted to the ins and outs of this new part of Microsoft’s online world. Second edition out now in 2024.
We explain how Designer really works and the important tricks and workarounds necessary to make a really good and unique design.
Windows,
Apple macOS
iPad, iPhone.
Android smartphones and tablets
Full Color
over 210 pages
Fast find, table of contents with links
PDF format compatible with Windows, Mac, Apple and Android tablets and pretty much anything else including, of course, iPads!
Over 210 pages, full color with table of contents and fast searching.
Microsoft Designer is an easier and AI assisted way to make professional-quality designs. It’s supposed to be for social media posts, invitations, digital postcards etc. but with a little trickery (in the book) you can make designs for small signs, book covers and personal messages for birthdays etc.
Discover all the basics of Designer plus what’s hiding behind (and below) the menus and toolbars.
AI-Powered Design Assistance: Designer utilizes artificial intelligence to generate unique designs and offer personalized recommendations based on user input. Microsoft Designer: Straight Talk help you use those AI features to best advantage.
Make unique images: use Dall-E technology to make images from a text prompt. This book shows how cleverly use ‘Generate Image’ in Designer, Dall-E and some image making alternatives available elsewhere.
Image Creator: an easy way to make AI images from ‘fill in the blanks’ examples. We’ll explain how they work and how to make your own to share. Includes gallery of image prompts to choose from.
UNDOCUMENTED TIPS: Microsoft Designer: Straight Talk is based on how the software really works (not how it’s supposed to work). That means the book includes some undocumented features like keyboard shortcuts, animation effects and the OneDrive ‘backdoor’.
Pictures and Graphics: stock images, videos, shapes, illustrations and icons.
Generative AI Technology: Designer has nifty tools to edit an image quickly. Erase from a photo, remove or blur the background with other AI-based image editing promised.
Fonts galore: Designer has a lot of fonts and we’ll explain how to add your own fonts.
Make your own brand: save your preferred colors and fonts to quickly apply to any design, creating your own consistent look. An AI helper to get you started.
Templates: choose a template for quick design creation.
Describe what you want: or type in what you want to make and Designer will produce suggestions for the entire design.
Web App: Designer is primarily a web app which runs in a modern browser on either Windows, Mac, iPad or Chromebook.
Mobile app: there’s also a mobile app for iPhone and Android.
OneDrive: where Designer images are saved on OneDrive for faster and more convenient access.
Make your designs unique
Microsoft Designer: Straight Talk will help you avoid a trap.
Many of the default and generated designs have the same general style. In other words, it’s easy to tell if something has been made in Designer.
With millions of people using Designer, the similar looking posts are already starting to appear.
We’ll show you the extra little tricks to change an AI generated design into something more personal and unique.
How Office really works
Office-Watch.com won’t just give you the official, overly simplistic, line. We go beyond that to explain how Microsoft products like Designer and Office really works.
It’s the combined experience of over twenty years at Office-Watch.com helping everyone from individuals and families through to schools and businesses.
Microsoft Designer: Straight Talk
Microsoft Designer: Straight Talk (second edition, 2024) is the first book devoted to the ins and outs of how Designer really works and the important tricks and workarounds necessary to make a really good and unique design.
Make your own graphics and social media posts – fast!
$7.95 – $14.95
Description
Microsoft Designer is the new way to make graphics and pictures to enhance your Word documents, PowerPoint slides, emails and social media posts.
Microsoft Designer: Straight Talk is the first book devoted to the ins and outs of this new part of Microsoft’s online world. Second edition out now in 2024.
We explain how Designer really works and the important tricks and workarounds necessary to make a really good and unique design.
Over 210 pages, full color with table of contents and fast searching.
Microsoft Designer is an easier and AI assisted way to make professional-quality designs. It’s supposed to be for social media posts, invitations, digital postcards etc. but with a little trickery (in the book) you can make designs for small signs, book covers and personal messages for birthdays etc.
Discover all the basics of Designer plus what’s hiding behind (and below) the menus and toolbars.
AI-Powered Design Assistance: Designer utilizes artificial intelligence to generate unique designs and offer personalized recommendations based on user input. Microsoft Designer: Straight Talk help you use those AI features to best advantage.
Make unique images: use Dall-E technology to make images from a text prompt. This book shows how cleverly use ‘Generate Image’ in Designer, Dall-E and some image making alternatives available elsewhere.
Image Creator: an easy way to make AI images from ‘fill in the blanks’ examples. We’ll explain how they work and how to make your own to share. Includes gallery of image prompts to choose from.
UNDOCUMENTED TIPS: Microsoft Designer: Straight Talk is based on how the software really works (not how it’s supposed to work). That means the book includes some undocumented features like keyboard shortcuts, animation effects and the OneDrive ‘backdoor’.
Pictures and Graphics: stock images, videos, shapes, illustrations and icons.
Fonts galore: Designer has a lot of fonts and we’ll explain how to add your own fonts.
Make your own brand: save your preferred colors and fonts to quickly apply to any design, creating your own consistent look. An AI helper to get you started.
Templates: choose a template for quick design creation.
Describe what you want: or type in what you want to make and Designer will produce suggestions for the entire design.
Web App: Designer is primarily a web app which runs in a modern browser on either Windows, Mac, iPad or Chromebook.
Mobile app: there’s also a mobile app for iPhone and Android.
OneDrive: where Designer images are saved on OneDrive for faster and more convenient access.
Make your designs unique
Microsoft Designer: Straight Talk will help you avoid a trap.
Many of the default and generated designs have the same general style. In other words, it’s easy to tell if something has been made in Designer.
With millions of people using Designer, the similar looking posts are already starting to appear.
We’ll show you the extra little tricks to change an AI generated design into something more personal and unique.
How Office really works
Office-Watch.com won’t just give you the official, overly simplistic, line. We go beyond that to explain how Microsoft products like Designer and Office really works.
It’s the combined experience of over twenty years at Office-Watch.com helping everyone from individuals and families through to schools and businesses.