Graphic design tips for laptop users

In the world of graphic design, the tools you use can make all the difference. Imagine a laptop that allows you to go anywhere and imagine anything, offering great power and great possibility. With Surface Pro 11th Edition and Surface Laptop 7th Edition, you can be powerfully productive with versatile and adaptable features of Windows 11.

You’ll find Surface to be faster, smarter, and more powerful, making it a great tool for graphic design. Whether it's power, battery life, or AI capabilities, Surface features help enable you to work smarter and unlock new angles. It’s where creativity meets productivity, giving you the edge you need for successful website design.

Tips for graphic designers: Access the power of AI

As a graphic designer, you need a laptop that can go where you go and offers features you can use to plan, design, and organize your inspired ideas. Surface laptops, with AI-accelerated power, lightning-fast speed, and all-day battery life¹ keep up with you whenever the creative muse strikes. Portable and versatile, use Surface as a tablet for quick tasks or as a laptop for more intensive work. With a turbocharged NPU, you experience lightning speed and smooth performance.

Ready to take your design work to the next level with the help of Surface? Here are a few tips for graphic designers.

Craft unique, handwritten designs

The high-resolution touchscreen of Surface and integration with Surface Slim Pen² with its generative AI technology, make it effortless to design unique, handwritten designs, like illustrations for that book idea and wireframes for a web site. Experience a pen-on-paper feeling with accuracy, incredible shading, pressure sensitivity, and magnetic storage.

Surface Slim Pen helps you quickly sketch ideas and create wireframes for websites and apps. With the sharper pen tip, you can put a finer point on everything you do with accuracy and greater control and enjoy precision and ease of use.

Graphic design with the help of Cocreator

Everyone can be an artist, especially with Cocreator, the generative AI tool in Paint^3 4. Describe or draw your vision and watch Cocreator generate it. You sketch it. Cocreator creates it. Pretty easy, right? You can use Cocreator to create visually appealing materials for your digital channels without the need for extensive design skills.

A great idea can come to mind almost anytime and anywhere, and when it does, you can capture it by sketching and handwriting directly on the Surface screen. Cocreator helps you finish it. Simply start your thoughts with a prompt, and add a few swipes of a brush, and the generative AI technology in Paint helps co-create the design along with you.

Ask for advice to enhance your graphic design

When you need design advice, turn to Copilot, your AI-powered companion that helps you work smarter and be more productive.

For example, perhaps you want to know more about color theory, typography, or composition. Just ask Copilot. Copilot can provide tips and more about design principles to help you create visually appealing brochures, web sites, a. To keep your work fresh and innovative, try a quick query to Copilot and learn about the latest design trends and connect with sources of inspiration. Imagine anything and Copilot helps you create it.

Include photos to add value and visual interest

Surface and its AI-powered camera can help you create stunning, professional-looking photos to help add dimension to your graphic design ideas. The lightweight portability of Surface, the AI-powered camera, and the built-in Camera app make it easy to capture high-quality photos and videos.

Give your photos a professional touch by using the Photos app^3 4. With features like Restyle Image, you can style your photos in a snap and break through a creative block to give your photos a fresh look. If you want your art to be more artistic, bring different styles to your images:

• Adapt your art in any style by describing your vision in your own words, or by choosing from preset styles that completely change your world.
• To bring more control to your creativity, you can dial up or down how far you want your image to evolve.

Try the Image Creator feature to get your creative juices flowing by describing what image or art you want to create in Photos. Image Creator is your AI-powered partner, ready to inspire your next creation. Give it a prompt, pick a style, and see where it takes you. Explore your ideas further with many interpretations of what inspires you:

• You can prompt to “Generate similar” and scroll endless boards of AI-made versions to stimulate your mind.
• You can scroll through twenty images at a time.
• Save any ideas you like to your personal photo collection for more editing and sharing.

Include video to enliven your graphic designs and enrich your audience’s experience

Breathe life into your ideas by including video. Create high-quality videos without needing advanced editing skills or costly software. Use Surface and its camara to record your videos. Then, Clipchamp is your partner in post-production. Clipchamp is an AI-powered video editor with everything you’ll need.

As a free in-browser video editing platform⁵, Clipchamp is designed to make video creation accessible for everyone. Edit different elements of your videos without opening multiple apps. Multitrack editing lets you edit audio, video, and text to create a cohesive final product all in one place.

Integrate designs with Microsoft 365

Turn your ideas into reality, stay safer online and off, and focus on what matters most with Microsoft 365 apps. Surface integrates seamlessly with Microsoft 365, which helps make it easy to create beautiful invitations to your next party, flyers for that spring garage sale, and posters for your kid's student council campaign. Combine graphics, photos, and videos with templates by using publishing Microsoft 365 apps, like Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint.

Additionally, with apps like Microsoft OneDrive, you can keep your files, photos, and videos automatically backed up and available on all your devices. No detail is lost, and you can access the information anytime.

Your graphic design superpower

Surface can be transformative tool for graphic designers, combining cutting-edge technology with practical features to support and enhance your design journey. Whether you’re designing a brochure layout, capturing stunning photos for a web site, or sharing design work with on your digital channels, Surface and its AI-enhanced features can help you every step of the way.