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1. 0 Midjourney 101 Basics: If you're a creative
artist, designer, or content creator and you're passionate about making
high quality imagery, I recommend you consider
learning Mid journey as an additional tool to help you create concept art
and design work. These can be for different
applications such as moodboards, for
lifestyle photography, social media,
advertising, branding, fashion design,
illustrations, and much more. My name is Melissa, and
I've been working in the design field
for over 15 years. I started in
advertising agencies creating international
campaigns for brands, and I'm very familiar with
the creative process, which is also something we'll be covering as part of this course. I think one of the things
you need to consider about AI tools like
Mid Journey is that they enable you to create high quality imagery at a
fast pace with minimal costs. This means you can share
art direction concepts with a client even before investing
too much time and money, and everybody in the end will be happier
with the results. So why M journey then? Think of Ma journey as your
creative ally when thinking of art direction concepts that you can share
with a client. Make sure your skill
set remains relevant with all the AI generative
tooling out there. Make unique content to be visually appealing and
stand out from the rest. Please don't worry
if you're not tech savvy or haven't used
Ma journey before. We'll be covering how
to set the tool up. Don't worry about the copyright
implications, either, because we're going to
create unique content from scratch without stealing
from any artist's work. And if you don't have all the latest tools like Photoshop, our content will still
have high quality. As a bonus, we're
including in this course a wonderful 72 card deck with over 600 art references to
help you build your prompts. So without any further ado, I hope you will enjoy
this course and create unique stunning content for
your next creative project. I'll see you in the course
and let's get started.
2. 1 Midjourney Subscription: Setting up Midjourney. So what is Midjourney? Midjourney is a generative AI
tool service that generates images from natural language
descriptions called prompts. You can think of Midjourney
as a type of diffusion model. You've probably heard of Dale, which belongs to open AI, and it works by gradually
adding noise to an image until it reaches a
desired level of realism. I'm not going to get
too technical here, but later on when we get familiar with a
concept called seed, just remember that it's a
unique number identifier that creates a field
of visual noise, a bit like TV static, and it serves as
a starting point to generating the
initial image grids. Now let's set up DISCRE and talk a little bit about
Midjourney subscription plans. So just so you know, Midjourney software
is operated by using Discord server
with bot commands. So first, you'd like to
set up DisCOd account, and I'm just going
to download it. In my case, it's going
to be for a MAC, and I'm waiting for that now. Then after you install it, you can open it up and search, you know, just add in here
and search for Midjourney. I will have the little
sailing boat icon. And if you wanted
to be outside of, you know, all the
channels and so forth, all you need to do is, you know, go into find or start a conversation
and type in Midjourney. And it will create a separate
channel, if you will. You know, it will be private. Now let's go into the
subscription plans. There are four
subscription plans that are offered by Midjourney. The starting basic plan
is only $7 a month. And this is always changing, but you get a sense
when you have, you know, little imagery
that you'd like to produce. $21 a month is the next one, and gives you the standard plan gives you 15 hours
of fast generation. So I think it's pretty
good if you have to do many different
images all day long, and that would definitely
be a way to go. But more so the pro plan, which is a bit more
commercial work, I will give you 30 hours
of fast generations. And finally, we have
the Whooping mega plan, which is $196 per month, and it gives you 60 hours
of fast generations. I think at this level, you're really talking about an agency, and I don't think, to be honest, you need as many hours. So just stick to the standard
or the pro plan instead. So there you go. This
is a quick overview of, you know, the subscription
plans with Midjourney. But we're also going to
be covering a little bit about the website tool
and how it works. So I'll see you in
the next tutorial.
3. 2 Midjourney Website: Let's get into the website
features and documentation. So this is the basic
website of Midjourney, which looks like an art gallery where you can see
other people's work, and the prompts created
are very stylish. You can drag and drop into
what will you imagine section. But I wouldn't recommend that, so because the
whole point is that you can create your own
imagery from scratch. So try to avoid stealing from what other
people are making. I'm going to navigate
into the Create tab, and this will show
you the history of images we've created lately. Then in the organized section, I can also see my images
where I select a couple of them and either put them in a folder or just download them. It's pretty handy if you're on the website version
and you want to organize your
images and folders. There's also a filter function where you can have the
parameters changed, such as the image
size, the stylization, the weirdness, the variety, and the latest
version, which is 6.1. There's many versions
prior to that, and that will also affect
the output of your image. Finally, we're going to go see the chat section where
you can see other people commenting on each other's
prompts and you can edit directly in their images
or add to the chat itself. The last thing I want to cover in this video is documentation. Click on documentation and you can see that Midjourney has a really good set of help guides that will explain to
you all the basic features. Going to be covering
most of the features in this course itself. But if you want
to be up to date, please go to the section for reference and latest updates. In the next video,
we'll be covering copyright and terms of
service. I'll see you then.
4. 3 Midjourney Copyright: Okay, we're getting into the copyright in
terms of service. I mean, many people are
very worried, right, that is how ethical are
the images produced, the training data, and so forth. I don't want to get into
the nitty gritty of how their training
models are operating, but I would say there's
still an ethical way of producing imagery without having to quote the artist itself. So just keep in mind that when you're creating content
in Midjourney by default, all images are created publicly, and they could be subject to re editing by other creators or editors of Midjourney tool because it's a social media
platform, essentially. But if you don't
want your images to be public or visible, then I would suggest
that you get the Pro Omega subscription plan. And, you know, in the server
where it's private channel, you can switch into a steel mode just to
keep the images private. So I'm going to show
you how to do that. So I'm in my private server
here with Midjourney. I'm just going to type
in slash DNS Steals, and none of your images will
be visible by the community. Another thing I want to
make you aware is that you are the owner of the
rights of the images created. And you can use them for
commercial purposes. But, you know, if you're using the images
from another artist, you don't really hold the owner rights.
So just be mindful. You need to create the image
from scratch yourself, and that's when you can be
used for commercial purposes. If you are making more than
$1 million in revenue, you definitely need to be
subscribed to a P Omega plan, which I'm sure you would be. And if you're using
images from other people, like we said before, just don't try to take
that ownership. I think as content creators, artists and designers, we just need to be ethical in the
way we produce our work. And that's why the card deck will be very, very
useful to you. But let's just get
straight into the tool, and I'll see you
in the next video.
5. 4 Midjourney Upscaling: Okay, welcome to the section
of variations and upscaling. So the first thing
we're going to do is use the command Imagine. So let's go into
Discord, and here we go. Type in slash Image and then the prompt box will be basically asking you
to type in a sentence, and the sentence can be
anything you can imagine. So we're going to
start with a subject, and that subject can
be either a person, an animal, an object, or even a location. So I'm going to be
using from my deck of card references a farm animal, and I'll type it in as photograph of a pink
sheep in a green field. Now we can see this visual
noise idea comes into play. I can see four images
being generated, where I can either
try to upscale one of these images or create
variations for one of them. You can see how
the image grid is constructed from
top left to right. You can count one,
two, three, four. So in this instance, I want to create variations
for number four. Now that I have my
variations from number four, I think I'm going to
upscale number one. At this point in
time, I can either upscale subtle or
upscale creative. So if I do subtle,
wait a minute, and now I can right click
on this image to Savage. Now that you know
about upscaling, let's have a look at the different model
versions in the next video.
6. 5 Midjourmey Models: Different model versions. So one of the nicest things about Midjourney is that it has different model
versions you can trial depending on the type of
imagery you want to create. So each model version
is meant to be improved on making it more efficient and also
improving on the quality. Right now, the latest version
of Midjourney is 6.1. So for the purposes
of this exercise, I'm going to type in
a prompt that will read cute cuddly bear Toy. And let's see what type of images it creates with
the latest version. Now I'm going to teach you
how to switch between models. First type in slash settings, and then there's a drop down where you can see
all the versions. We can confirm that it's currently set to the
latest version 6.1. Remember that according to the Midjourney version 6.1 will produce more coherent images and be more precise with
details and textures. It's also slightly faster
in terms of speed, which will save you
time and money. For now, let's go to
a previous version. So from the drop down, select version 5.2 and see
what the difference is. I'm going to copy and
paste the prompt again, and you can see, Okay, the image is quite
different in terms of the environment
and the surroundings. I haven't been too
descriptive with this prompt, so it's something
you could add onto, but you can see the
difference with the latest version that comes
in the level of detail, texture, styling, the lighting with
different environments. Let's go back into settings, and from the dropdown menu, I'll select the Nig
model Vsix Alpha. This model is heavily
influenced by manga style type of
illustration based. You don't always need
to use the dropdown, but you can also type
in it as a parameter by making use of nig six. And there it is. You can see the real difference
in terms of styling. By default, Nige will go
more towards illustration. And if this is the type of
work you want to be producing, just keep in mind that
this is the type of model. This is all for now,
but in the next video, we're going to cover some of the additional settings you can use. I'll see you in a minute.
7. 6 Midjourney Using Settings: Welcome back. So
now we're getting into using settings in a
little bit more detail. Let's have another
quick overview around the settings again. So we'll do slash settings here, and then there's a
couple of things besides the version model
that you can control. Before you go on
generating imagery, you can decide the level of stylization that
you want to go for. This is especially powerful
because Midjourney does tend to have a high
degree of stylization, just to make changes more
aesthetically pleasing. But if you were to go
into the raw mode, this will change drastically. So let's try it out, and
I'm going to use, again, my card deck in terms
of generating ideas. For now, I'm going to pick
the environment of a forest, and let's type it
in our own prompt a photograph of a lush forest. You can see that when
it's stylized like this, it's a little bit fake
in terms of lighting, and it wouldn't be
as realistic if you were to look at it
with your own camera. Now, let's try o mode and see what happens
with the same prompt. You can type in style
raw into the prompt, and let's see what happens
now. There you go. You have photography
of a forest, and this looks much more realistic than our
first version. It looks like real
travel photography. Sometimes it's better if you
can generate images with the raw mode because
then you can have more control with
the camera filters, which you can use from the
prompt builder card deck. Let's go back into settings
and see what else we can do. The next setting I
want to introduce you to is going to be the
personalized setting. What this does is
basically bring you to a website
with image rankings, and after 200 times of
liking certain images, it will take your preferences and give you a particular style. I think because Midjourney
is a social tool, it's definitely worth
participating with the community and
chatting with each other to see what
you're learning because it will incentivize what you're doing and you're becoming part of
something much bigger. Plus, you can learn from
each other's prompts just to understand what
people have in writing down. So now based on the images
that I've selected, I'll type in Lush Forest
P. And as you can see, there's a drastic difference
in terms of color, light. It's taking the aggregate of
what I've liked so far in my rankings as a way of
bringing a new style. And you might prefer this type if you're doing
commission work or if you're doing a
specific art style that you wanted to be
consistent throughout. This is a way you can do it. Now we have a public mode, which means people would be able to see the images we make. So if you don't
want public mode, just remember to
switch slash StealS so you can switch to a private
kind of visibility setting. Then we have a remix mode, which I think it's
definitely worth looking at. When you have it on and then you're making variations
with your image, I would basically put in an
editing mode of your prompt. So then you can add
certain things to it. So let's activate remix
for now under settings. And I'm going back
to my card deck just to get a new fresh
idea for a prompt. I'm going to pick in
the medium section, a silhouette of a
tree and type it in. Let's get our variations like we normally do. Okay, let's see. And now I'm going to
add a camera lens with pinhole lens because I don't really like
the style of this, so I want to have
more control over the type of camera that
would surface in here. I'm still not convinced
about the results, so I'm going to try a depth of feel instead of a pinhole lens. So, you see, that's
why remix is so interesting because every time
I re roll the variations, I will be able to
add what I want. So I'm choosing depth of
field camera lens now, and let's see what happens. Another thing I want
to teach you about is the way of experimenting
and exploring. You can use brackets to bring multiple types of permutations, which is basically in
the variation set. So I could say in brackets, I want the silhouette
of a bracket, tree, comma, lion,
close bracket. And then it will
create the same style, but with two different subjects. So two different variation sets. Or you can try to vary
the style itself. So first, I was going
with the pinhole lens. I could do it that in brackets. And then coma, the depth of field lens could also
be closed brackets. So I could have that inside, and it would create
the same object, which is the tree and under
the two different styles. So why don't we try
different prompt now just to see how it works. So let's go back
to our car deck, and this time, I'm going to
select a white polar bear. Now, on the re roll, I would like to vary the medium. So I'm going to say in brackets, a permutation of low poly, comma, ultraviolet, coma and
watercolor, close bracket. Then it's going to ask me if
I want to roll this job with three different treatments,
and I will say, yes. Remember this takes
some GPU time, so just be mindful
that you could run out of credits fairly quickly
if you use it too much. So if you're going
to do permutations, maybe being more in
the commercial plan. At this point in time, you can decide whether
you want to do more realistic variations on a specific style or
upscale it, right? So I would say the subject
itself could also be changed to other types of
arctic animals, for example. But now you get a sense
of the basic settings, the models, how upscaling
and variation work. So in the next module, Module two, we're going to get into the actual
prompt structure, and we're going to be covering the different types of
prompts that exist, and we're going to use our reference guide to help create on really
nice examples. We're going to cover image
prompts, multi prompting, and in case you have already generated imagery for clients
as a creative yourself, you want to use your own images. This is also something you
can take advantage of. So I'll see you in
the next module. Bye.
8. 7 Midjourney Prompt Structure: Welcome back to Module two. And now we're getting more into what prompts to create
and how to create them. So let's cover the
prompt structure first. According to generative
AI language, a prompt is basically an instruction or a
short text that is interpreted and transformed into an image by the model itself. The text would normally
be broken down into smaller pieces and these
pieces are called tokens, and these tokens are compared then with the training data, and that's what's used
to generate the image. In this course, we're going
to cover text prompts, image prompts, and
multi prompts. Let's start with the
basic prompt structure, and these are primarily
text prompts. It can be as simple
as just one word, phrase, or even an emoji. A journey works best with
simple and short phrases. So try to avoid unnecessary text or one
of those mega prompts. The text or description
of the image you want to generate is probably
going to have a subject. So you're going to
think either a person, animal, character, location,
or even an object. It also could be more descriptive in terms of whether it's a photo, an illustration, a painting, a sculpture, and also think of
the environment, if it's indoors, outdoors, in a specific location. Think about the lighting.
Is it hard lighting, soft lighting, natural lighting? Is there a specific
color palette? Is it monochromatic,
vibrant? What is the mood? It's important to try and see whether your characters
are in action mode. Are they calm,
energetic, et cetera. So additional elements I want you to consider are
things like camera view, time of day, emotions. So all of these are in
the card deck sections, and you can make it part of your brainstorming for prompts. I think you will like
it a lot because it doesn't rely on any
particular artist, but these are more
universal art references and words that when combined, it will give you limitless possibilities in an ethical way. I really, really encourage you to brainstorm with these
cards, print them out, see how they can be useful for
your own creative process, and try exploring
a wide variation of photographic styles
and art movements. In the next lesson,
we're going to be experimenting with
the basic prompt, taking into consideration
what we described above. So let's start with Midjourney,
and I'll see you then.
9. 8 Midjourney Medium: Okay, so let's look at medium. For this exercise, I'm
going to choose to create the letter A with
different types of media. We will do these as permutations,
remember, in brackets. So let's say the letter
A will be in brackets, acrylic, abstract comma,
and illuminated manuscript. I've taken these ideas from
the prompt builder card deck, so let's see what happens. Let's roll it out, and it's
going to ask me again if I'm sure of creating
as many permutations, I'm going to say
yes. There we go. We have quite a few
image style variations, and this is where remix
will come in again. And you can either
do a variation of one style and then add to it, or maybe you can even
change the letter to B, C or D, you know,
something like that. Midjourney is trying to get the accuracy of
letters in general, so it's still kind
of in beta mode. But you can get the gist of how an object can be
influenced by a medium, and there's so many you can
choose from in the card deck. So I really encourage you to
experiment and try doing, you know, different
bits and pieces. In the next video,
we're going to cover permutations with subject and say how we can create a little bit of a
lifestyle photography. So I'll see you in
the next video. Uh,
10. 9 Midjourney Subject: Okay, we're in the subject
part of the module. So form prompt, I'm looking
at our subject cards, and I think I'm going to do a little thing more
creative, if you will. So we're going to do
a permutation and brackets of open dancer, actress beside open brackets, bus stop, a concert hall, and see what we get from
making these permutations. Just keep in mind
that permutations are really more time consuming, and it's only worth it if
you're in the commercial plan, but otherwise,
avoid it because it will take all your credits
out with GPU time, and, you know, you're just
going to have to pay more. But anyway, there
you go. So we have our beautiful actress
in a concert hall, which is kind of
common for somebody doing that kind of red
carpet thing in the Oscars. And we have our dancer posing beside a bus stop
that it's kind of creative. Then we have a dancer
in the concert hall, which is, you know,
obviously a natural fit. Finally, we're going to have
an actress in the bus stop. This is quite artistic. It could enhance the
lifestyle photography here, but it has some more
monochromatic cinematic effect, and you can use the remix
mode to make more details. But anyway, we're going
to leave it for now. This is just to give
you a sense of what a subject in different
locations could look like and how that can influence the creativity and how you
think ideas for your prompts. In the next video, we're
going to cover camera lens.
11. 10 Midjourney Camera Lens: So camera lens, right? For this exercise, we're
still going to be using our actress on a bus stop image. But what I would like
to do here is play a little bit with permutations
with camera lens. So I'm going to my
car deck again, and now I've selected
in open brackets. I'm going to type in
first person view, the high contrast and bouquet
close bracket effects. So let's re roll the
image and insert them into a remix
prompt editing box. Again, you have to say
yes to the permutations, but we're going
to get a sense of how this image can
be improved on. These new images
are interesting, although I have to say that the first person point of view, we don't see as much as the
effect of an actress anymore, but the framing has varied and then we're looking at
the bouquet effect. Also, it doesn't look
like an actress anymore, but you definitely get
a feeling of magic, and finally, the high contrast one could also be
a random person. I think what you need
to take out of this is the starking difference
between effects. You can go a little bit more
cinematic if you want to put some effort or
weight into the prompt, you can do so by
doing a multi prompt. We're going to cover
multi prompt a little bit more in future videos,
but in this instance, I want the actress
to have more weight because it's starting to be
diluted with a normal person. So this is what we're going to do in our high contrast re role. I'm going to click on it again. And then I'm going to type in
after actress Colin Collin, the number two, and this should be giving more weight
to the actress element. Let's submit and see what
happens, and there we go. It probably needs some
more natural feeling, but it's just to give
you a sense of how we can use these filters
and framing photography. So make sure you experiment
widely with the card deck, and in the next lesson, we're going to be covering
lighting. I'll see you then.
12. 11 Midjourney Lighting: Lighting. So now we're getting
into the lighting effect, which is very important to
understand what it does. So the quality of
our images can be controlled a little
bit better as we saw with the dancer
and the bus tub that was primarily given
for an evening time. But I want to use
the same example to bring forward other types
of lighting sources. So we're going to
experiment with daylight, hazy lighting, and key lighting. As usual, I'm taking this from the idea deck that
you have attached, and let's see what happens with our prompt when we remix it. Additionally, I'm going
with the style raw, so just see how my lighting will dramatically affect without
the styling of my journey. And there you go. We have very different types of imagery thanks to the key lighting, which is lovely and it has
a very stylistic effect. Then we also have our
daylight, which works well. It's very interesting. It's something that would be unusual maybe for
an art performance. And finally, we have
the hazy lighting, which also gives
a very artistic, dramatic effect to our pictures. And that's all for
understanding lighting. But in the next video we're
going to be covering is the environment and see how that also affects our
prompting decisions. I'll see you in the next video.
13. 12 Midjourney Environment: Okay, environment. Now let's see how
the environment can affect the shot
with hazy lighting, the denser we might want to have her in a different environment
from the bus stop. So right now, we're going to reedit and have a permutation
for open bracket, industrial factory coasth I can't say this post apocalyptic, coma and lake close bracket. And we'll see what happens
now when we submit this. These are the results, which I think turned out to
be very interesting, and it really gives
a sense of space, and there's even storytelling. So you could ask why
this dancer decided to be in an industrial
setting, why is she alone? Why is she at the lake? This starts to bring out more to the imagination on what Midjourney is really
excellent at. Trying to tell a story with images is something that
you should always keep in mind when thinking about adding variations and iterations
to your prompts. But that being said, I'm very happy to go into more
advanced prompting. So let's go into the
emotions, which is next.
14. 13 Midjourney Emotions: Okay, emotions. So emotions can add a lot of storytelling
to your characters, and it creates an emotional
bond to the image itself. This is especially relevant for lifestyle photography where you don't want flat characters. So I'm going to use one of our previous images
from our actress. First, I want you to
go to the Emoji face that's on top of the
right hand side corner and then click on it, and you're going to
find an envelope. Okay, so let's just
click on that envelope. After copying the job ID, I'm going to do a
slash show paste in the job ID number so
I can re edit it again. Now I'm going to vary it slightly by clicking
on very subtle. I'm going to add
the permutations that I've chosen from
my emotions card deck. So open brackets, anxiety, comma, pride, comma,
and surprise. Let's submit and
see what happens. And there you go. We can
see how the expression changes radically between a
similar style of actress. First, we have a surprise view, then we have an anxious
emotion reaction. And finally, we have a
proud mood or emotion. And these are interesting
ways of bringing more depth into what
your character is going through because storytelling is a huge way of captivating
people's attention. So I hope this was useful,
and in the next chapter, we're going to be looking at composition. I'll see you then.
15. 14 Midjourney Composition: All right, composition. So when thinking of composition, we normally think about a type of arrangement to represent
an artistic form. In the card deck for reference, we have composition
section altogether, and I'm going to
choose a planted pot framed within the
rule of thirds grid. Okay, let's put that in. Yeah, there we go. We can see the actual framing
of the picture follows the rule of thirds. So now we're going to re
roll our planted pot, but this time we'll be using the golden ratio composition. Aspect ratio I'm
going to pick is 169, and let's see how
this gets generated. We're going to cover
aspect ratios in the next few lessons,
but for now, let's just see how
composition can be applied with AR 16 column nine ratio. And there we go. We have a really nice harmonic
composition arrangement of the potted plant, and this is something to consider when
you're trying to do lifestyle photography to make sure the composition
remains harmonic. In the next lesson, we'll be
doing some image prompts. So this is something I'm really excited to teach you,
and I'll see you soon.
16. 15 Midjourney Image Prompts: Image prompting. So
image prompts is one of the most exciting types of features that
Midjourney supports, and I'm really big fan
because you can bring your own imagery and your
own photographs, too. So you could also bring things
from the past as a way of influencing your
style and having more control over the look
and feel of your image. For this specific exercise, we're going to use a
couple of images that we already have from the Type
dreams Image library. In order to influence the
output of a text prompt, I'm going to use a character of a white rabbit that was done with multiple experiments
in Midjourney. But I'm going to bring
in the finish piece, which will serve to
influence my image prompt. So I'm going to teach
you how to do that now. The first thing you
need to do is upload an image to Midjourney
to its server, to the Discord server. So just click on the plus
sign and then upload file. Selected, and now I'm
going to click on Enter, so it's there, right? Next thing I want
you to do is right click on the image
and say Copy Link, and then you're going to paste the link inside the prompt box. You're going to write a
different animal like a white cat sitting on a chair in the style of
Alice in Wonderland. Let's see what happens. And now we can see the image prompt will influence
our final text prompt. And I'm going to do a version
also without the image, just so you can see the
difference between both. So I'm going to re roll this and take out the image
link and submit it, and let's see what we get now. So you can see those are drastic differences in between
both types of variation, and the first one definitely holds true to the
original image. And it was influenced in
terms of character himself, the type of chair, the
type of background, the composition, the styling. It's very hyperrealistic when
you put it all together, so another example
I want to show you is if you had two types of images and how to blend
them with each other, there's a command
blend in Midjourney. In my case, I'm going
to upload the rabbit again with the cat
and see what happens. My new prompt will
be a white mouse, and let's see how
these two images affect the final output. We're going to copy the link for the rabbit here, paste it now. We're going to copy the
link for the cat, paste it. And now we're going to rewrite our prompt white
mouse sitting on a chair in the style of
Alice and Wonderland. And let's see what happens. And now we have another image. The one thing I
would say is that the two styles are
blending in now, and we're not getting
as much originality. So think whether it's really worth blending
different images to get the results you want or have more control with one
image as influence. Another command I want to
show you is slash Describe. And this is important
because you might already have an image
in mind that you really like, but you don't know how to
translate that into a prompt. So what we're going to do
is type in slash Describe, and we'll give you an option to either paste link
or upload a file. In my case, I'm going to upload the file of the
White Rabbit again. Because I want to
understand what type of prompt I should be typing
in for future characters, or maybe it's just the scenery, you know, you want to change, understand how
Midjourney translates this into a prompt
itself from an image. So let's see what it says. By default, it gives
me four descriptions. The first one, it says that
it's a white rabbit and an elegant dress sits on the sofa surrounded by
ornate wallpaper and drapes, creating a whimsical scene
of luxury and fantasy. Now that you see all
the descriptions, just click on an image, just click on Imagine. A now that you see
all the descriptions, just click on Imagine All
and see what happens. I think the lesson here is
that all of them actually look quite similar because
they're using certain words. I would like to take one of these long descriptions
and show you the last command here,
which is shorten. And what it will do
is it will extract all the unnecessary words and give me a
shorter description, but it's more relevant
to what is being seen. So I'm going to copy all
of their description, then slash shorten paste and see what we get.
And there we go. It's created a much shorter description of the white rabbit, and I think that's exactly
what we wanted to kind of really understand
what are the parts that are influencing
most in our art. And if I change the word rabbit, maybe to a different animal, it still respects
the same continuity without having to overdo it. Well done. This is all for now
in terms of image prompts, but let's go into
the next video, and we'll be covering multi
prompts. I'll see you then.
17. 16 Midjourney Multi prompt: Multi prompt. So if
you're looking to give emphasis or more importance to a certain part of your prompt, you can control this
with multi prompting. What we do here is we use a double column to indicate
the journey that we want to consider this part of the concept separate
from the next word. So the best way of showing
you is with an example. If we had a fruit
cake in our prompt, but I decide I
want to treat this as a compound word separately, then I will have a colon
in between fruit and cake. So let's see the
difference of both first. Let's just type in fruit
cake and see what happens. You can see it's pretty much
blended as a compound word, and it's a fruit cake. But now let's add the colon
two colons in between, both words and roll it again. You can tell straightaway
what the difference is. It's treating the word fruit
separate from the word cake. So it's not as blended
as the previous version, but it's more like
a decorative add on topping on the cake, and you can see those clearly
separation between both. I could even add
more emphasis on the word fruit by adding a number two beside
the word fruit, and it will affect
even more the weight. So let's see what happens
when we re roll this. And there you go. It's almost non existent with
the cake itself. You can primarily
see only fruit, and it would be
very hard for me to even think of this
as a fruit cake. Let's try another example, and what we're going to
cover is the word spaceship. And this is the image we get. Now, let's try to
re roll this by adding two columns
between space and ship. Submit, and let's
see what we get. Okay, so this is not as obvious that it's a
space and a ship. So I'm going to
add some weight to the word ship as opposed
to the word space, because I think space
is pretty much there. I really want to
see a ship here, so I'm going to add Colin Colin beside ship and the number two, and let's see what
happens. And there you go. Straightaway, it's taking
exactly what I wanted to see, which is the word ship,
which takes priority, but it's still influenced
by the idea of space. So it's just the concept
changes drastically, and this is something
that you can play with. By all means, try a
couple of compound words from our guide section and
have fun with multi prompting. I'll see you in Module three.
18. 17 Midjourney Basic Parameters: Welcome to Module three. We're going to be covering in this particular video
the basic parameters, but I'm so happy that
you made it this far, and I'm hoping that you're already starting to
feel comfortable, maybe having some
fun with Midjourney. Anyway, we're going
to be covering additional parameters
in this module, and will give you even more control over the
aesthetic of your images. We're going to be
covering aspect ratios, chaos, character
reference, no parameter, quality, repeat, sets, style, style reference,
stylized, and tile. So without any further ado, let's start with
our aspect ratio, which we covered slightly
in the previous video, but let's get started with
it. I'll see you soon.
19. 18 Midjourney Aspect Ratio: Aspect ratio. So
the aspect ratio is parameter where you have the width to height of an image. Normally, we will have AR, then the first number will
represent the width column, and then the second number
will represent the height. I'm sure you've
noticed by now that the default aspect ratios of
Midjourney are one to one, so that means it's
a square image. Besides the default, the most common aspect
ratios are dash dash, AR five column four. Common for frame
and print radio, then AR three column two, common in print photography, and then AR seven, column four, close to HD TV screens and
smartphone screens. We're going to try now to change the aspect ratio for one
of our ballet dancers. In the re roll inside
the prompt box, change the aspect
ratio to nine column 16 with a Zoom of one
as opposed to two. And there you go. You got
a really nice composition of our dancer with portrait
based type of imagery. So you can do this with any of the images
that you've upscaled. You can always change it
and rechange it again to be landscape so you know what
type of output you want. Give it to whether it's
for print or for digital. In the next video, we're
going to be covering the chaos perimeter.
I'll see you shortly.
20. 19 Midjourney Chaos: Chaos. So the chaos parameter will influence how creative
you image can get. The higher the value, the
more unexpected the results, and the lower the
values, you're going to have a more predictable result. But this could be
interesting when you want to experiment with something
completely different. So I'm bringing one of the
ideas from the card deck, which is a pottery vase. I'm going to combine it with
another part of the deck, which is the texture section. I want it to be a cracked
surface with vibrant colors, and the values for
chaos will range 0-100. I'm going to do a permutation
of open bracket, zero, coma and 50, close bracket
and see what we get. Let's type it in.
I'll accept yes because it's also going to take some GPU time and credits. And there you go. We have a cracked
style for our vase. I think of chaos as an experimental parameter that will allow you to
do crazy things. Now, for the next parameter
we're going to be covering is character reference, so I'll see you in
the next chapter.
21. 20 Midjourney Character Reference: Character reference. If you're thinking about
storytelling for sure, you want to have
the same style of character or maybe you
have a graphic novel, and you want the same type
of person throughout, you know, the visuals
as much as possible. So this is CRef will also bring the URL of the
image as a parameter. For this prompt, I'm going
to create a new character. We're going to type in an owl as a guardian made in Blender three D. This has taken
some inspiration from the medium section part of the card deck that
you already have. And let's see what type
of character we get. It's definitely
something different, so we can always go back and try to add more
types of lighting, different types of composition
and things like that. I'm going to choose one of
these characters just to show you how we can embed
it in different scenarios. So let's go ahead and do
number two for upscale. Then I'm going to right click on the upscaled image copy link, and now we're going
to rewrite the prompt to Guardian OL flying
over a castle. Then we insert CRF, and you paste the Link in here, and now click Enter
and let's see what happens. And there we go. As you can see, it's taking the reference from
our character image. It's a bit more of an
illustration style, so you can always go back to bring in Blender a
little bit more. But overall, it gives a sense of the same character
in different shots. So you could try
different things. Maybe the owl is in a forest or it's flying across the ocean,
anything you can think of. Think about other
scenarios where your character has the
sea ref embedded in. And what we're going to do
next is going to look at the parameter called
no parameter. So I'll see you in
the next chapter.
22. 21 Midjourney No Parameter: No parameter. So
the no parameter is essentially used
when you don't want certain things to
be in your image. It's basically excluding
a particular section or objects that you don't want to be showing in the scene. So in this instance,
let's just go with an idea that I got
from the card deck, and this is found in
the environment cards. I'm going to type in Utopian paradise and see what we get. I'm going to upscale
one of these, and just so we use
the no parameter, I'm going to have dash dash, no buildings and see
what happens then. So here you go. We have beautiful images
without buildings, and it still conveys
the main concept, which is an utopian paradise. Now that you know how to
use the no parameter, let's dive in into
the quality one. I'll see you in
the next chapter.
23. 22 Midjourney Quality: Quality. So the quality
parameter is basically more detailed imagery that
would consume more GPU time. The default setting is already
pretty good in Midjourney, but if you want to increase
the detail or quality, then you can have
dash dash o quarter, and if you want less quality, which means you would have something like dash dash q 0.5. So let's have a look
at it with a prompt. I'm taking inspiration
from the card deck here. I'm going to type
in pop art Couch. Let's see what we get. I'm going to upscale
one of the images, and now we can see when
I click on very subtle. This is where I'm
going to type in Q, and two, and let's see what
we get. There you have it. It's a whole new set. I would say the quality has increased the texture of
the cloud is beautiful, so it's overall a
pretty good picture. Now that we have
covered quality, let's go into our next
parameter, which is repeat. I'll see you in the next video.
24. 23 Midjourney Repeat: Repeat. The repeat parameter
does exactly what it says, which is repeating a job
multiple times like a re roll. All you need to do is type in your prompt, and
then, let's say, repeat with dash five, and it will re roll five times. This is just a quick way
of exploring artwork. Maybe you don't want
to do one at a time, but you want to do
it all at once. So from our card deck, I'm looking at the
section of medium. I want to clash of a kitchen and see what repeat three
times would do for us. And there you have
it three sets of completely different
explorations that will save you some time, and then you can decide, Okay, I'm going to go with
this particular style. Now we're going into a
different section altogether, where we're going
to be exploring seeds and how to use
them for your prompts. So I'll see you in
the next video.
25. 24 Midjourney Seeds: Seeds. So Midjourney uses a SED number to create
the field of noise. Remember what we discussed
before earlier in the course. It's a bit like
television static that starts to generate the
image grid itself, and you can assign a
seed number to an image, and it will accept quite
a high range of values. So I'm going to take
some inspiration again from our card deck. I want a macro lens of a spider. And then for the SED number, I'm going to put in dash
dash seed one, two, three, four, five, and
let's submit to see what we get. And there we go. We have a beautiful
macro lens of a spider, and the next thing
I'm going to do is re roll this image with remix. Now, we're going to change it to a beetle and still have
the same seed number. So the framing and the
effect should be identical, but instead of a spider, we should be seeing a
beetle. And there we go. It looks amazing, so you can try different types of insects. And it's not just the subject, but you could also try other
things like the medium, the camera lens,
the environment, the composition, and so forth. You can also find the seed value by hovering over the image. So I click the envelope and
you can see the SED number that has been randomly allocated related to
the field of noise. In a nutshell, you can
either assign a value yourself to keep consistency
throughout your images, or you can allow Midjourney
to allocate a SD number and then reuse it by copying
it inside your prompt. In the next chapter, we're
going to be looking at the style parameter and how to make the most out of it.
I'll see you in a bit.
26. 25 Midjourney Style: Style. So the style parameter
is basically replacing the aesthetic that Mid journey has on each one of its versions, and the way we call it out
is by having dash style row. This will override any of the default settings attached
to styling in Mid journey, which is good because
it will give you more control on the
aesthetics of your image. You can also access
the settings area, and in here, all you have to do is keep row as the default. I'm not going to do it for now, but I'll just type it in
as a parameter instead. So right now, I'm going
to type in a new prompt taking inspiration from the card deck and the
medium section. And we're going to type in
the word surrealist movement and see what we get with mid
journey default setting. Now let's type in
the parameter dash, dash style raw and see
what the difference is. At this point in time,
you can see that there's a slight variation in the
surrealist art movement. At first, it's a little bit more stylized with a mid
journey filter, and the second one
feels more authentic. And this is especially true when you're trying
to bring photography that is raw and then
influence it with a camera lens that you
want to take priority. Why don't we do that
with another example? I'm going to type in a
medium from the card deck, which is children's
style drawing, and let's see what we get
without the raw style. In the samples, we got a very stylized effect
from a journey. It's not really giving
us the picture of a child kind of doodle that
we were hoping to get. So now I'm going to try
again, but in this instance, we're going to do a style raw and see what we get instead. So this is a lot more accurate to what we
were trying to convey. So by bringing in the style
feature of Mid journey, I'm actually getting a
much more accurate result. So this is a little bit
of trial and error. Again, if you want true
illustration or true photography, I would advise you to
check with and without. You might be very much attracted
to the style Mid journey has by default and not
want to override it, but it's up to you and depends on the project that
you're working on. In the next video, we're going to talk about style reference, which is really exciting, so I'll see you in
the next chapter.
27. 26 Midjourney Style Ref: Style reference. Another
way you can influence the art direction and
have more control over your imagery is
with style reference, I style reference parameter, you're just going to have a ref and then paste in the
URL link of the image. Think of it as the underlying
aesthetic of your artwork. You can also have multiple URLs to influence
the style reference. And if you want to
have more consistency, your style, I highly
recommend this feature. Sometimes SD works,
sometimes SRF works, sometimes image
prompt works best. So there are just
multiple ways of controlling the style and
having more authority. Let's do an example
ourselves just to see how it works in
combination with style weight. So first, we're going to
brainstorm an idea from our reference card
deck and choose Neon lighting coffee shop. This is how we're going to
upscale one of the images, and yep, we will bring it in as a reference link to the
other types of location. So let's upscale it first. Then just copy link with the right click of your
mouse on the picture, and now we're going to type
in slash Imagine a church interior and have dash as
ref paste in the link, and let's see what happens. And there you go.
Now you can see how the reference style
influenced the location, which instead of a coffee
shop, it's a church. And you can bear your
prompt to say, Hey, I want this to be a pizza place or a school or anything you can think of will be influenced heavily by this reference image. So now that you
know how it works, why don't we try another example with
something different? We're going to bring
another type of influence. This could be with textures and going to choose
from the card deck, eroded texture, and let's see what type
of images it brings up. We are going to take in this texture and
try to apply it as a reference image
to a Venetian mask and see what kind of
artwork it brings. Now, you can see how the texture heavily influences the look
and feel of the image. It's almost intertwined
in terms of color, in terms of texture, and it just brings
a lot of cohesion between the object and
the original source. This is getting a lot more into the professional realm of what you would be doing
with these parameters. And the more you
practice and experiment, the more you understand the influence it will
have on your artwork. So try different things. It's really all exploration
with mid journey, but it will give you some
capabilities for the future. Finally, I want to
do the last exercise of ref with an
artwork of my own. I basically created a series
of colored stamps on paper, and I've taken a picture
of this artwork. I'm going to bring it
into mid journey just to kind of give you a sense
of what we're going to do. Then I'm going to type
in Colorful Town, haves ref, the copy to
the link of my picture. And this is something very creative that you
can start doing with your own artwork and then incorporate it with
your own style. You can see the town now
appears to be made kind of like a color stamp effect,
and that's quite unique. So I want to explore
with as many techniques as you want with
different R materials, and when you bring them
in, break them as dash, dash as reef and
see what happens. Have some fun. In
the next chapter, we're going to be looking at the stylized parameter.
I'll see you then.
28. 27 Midjourney Stylized: Stylized. Now, if
you really like the default styling that
mid journey brings you, you can control it as well
with the stylized parameter. Remember that mid journey
is about creating aesthetically pleasing
imagery with the color, the composition, the forms. It's not going to be chaotic like in the previous parameter. In this one, you're going to
have more predictability. So let's try an example
from the card deck, which is a tilt shift
lens of a town. And we're going to apply the permutation open brackets, zero, 501,000 closed brackets just to see how it varies
more significantly. You can see the
different levels of detail have changed quite a bit. The style is zero, brings
a more realistic effect of real houses on how the
real lens would work. The closer you get to 1,000, it becomes almost more cinematic as a high level
production of a picture. It's really up to you how you want to use the stylized effect. But by all means, if your goal is more direction, it might be a good
way to insert in lifestyle photography or just
an artistic type of medium. I'll see you in the
next video and we'll be covering the tile parameter.
29. 28 Midjourney Tile: Tile. So the tile parameter will help you create images
that are repeatable. They'll essentially act as a pattern for a wallpaper
or for a texture, and it's very easy to use. I think it's a good
addition for the types of materials you could
potentially print or design. So we're going to do
is bring a pattern of flowers in siano type style. This is also taking some
inspiration from the car deck, and we're going to
type it at the end, tile and see what we get. We have a beautiful style
pattern that now is repeatable, and you can create a whole
seamless wallpaper with it. So it's great if you're doing print materials or book
covers and things like that that you always need to have kind of continuity
between shapes. And I hope you understand now the power overall of parameters. This is going to help you give control to different
parts of your imagery. And in the next module, we're going to be
covering a couple of additional functions or commands with the basic interface. And it's really just so
you know how they work and add more variety to your
projects. I'll see you then.
30. 29 Midjourney Vary Region: Welcome to Module four. We're in the vary
Region section. I'm really proud of you
that you made it so far. I hope you've learned
something up to this point. And what we're going
to be exploring here is the varying the region, which is essentially selecting
a portion or section of an image and replacing it with other types of
objects, if you will. It's also informally called
an output painting method, but it's called Vari Region
Image journey specifically. So now let's go
back into the tool, and I'm going to type
in a new prompt, which is a photograph
of a young woman wearing a yellow cloak
and a yellow hat, dash dash style role. I'm going to upscale
one of them, so I can just change
or vary the region. Then we will click
on vary Region. We're selecting the portion
we want to edit or replace, and I'm going to
change the color of this hat to red within
the prompt itself. Now click Enter and
yeah, there you go. The replacement has a red hat and our image looks amazing. But what's happened is
that the image replaced the face and we
want the same girl. So let's say you didn't
want to replace the face, like in this instance, you also want to go to the
free selection tool, and that will help
you be more organic, whether it's curves
in certain parts of the picture that you wouldn't
want to replace completely. So let's try it again.
We have the same image, and we're going to do the free selection tool and
see what happens. Now you have exactly
the same person, and the portion you've
selected has changed. The next section
we're going to be covering is the Pan function, which is really handy when you want to expand on an image. So I'll see you in a minute.
31. 30 Midjourney Pan: Pan. Welcome back.
And right now, we're going to be
covering the Pan command. It's essentially allows you
to expand on your image, which can be helpful
when you need multiple formats such as
landscape and portrait. First, you need to
upscale the image, and then you can click
on one of the arrows, and it will allow you to
expand in that direction. So I'm going to try it for now. Our prompt will be the
photo of the Great Canyon. It's also been taken from
our inspiration card deck, and let's see once we
upscale what happens. Okay, and there you go. It has expanded on
the right hand side, another big chunk of rocks. It looks very much
blended with the image, and sometimes it
gives us people, but you can always re roll it and give it the no
parameter, right? So no people insh. Anyway, this gives
you a sense of how you could potentially
use photographs within different dimensions and make it part of your
toolkit arsenal. In the next lesson,
we're going to get into the style tune command.
I'll see you there.
32. 31 Midjourney Style tuner: Style Tuner. We also have a command called
star Style Tuner, and essentially what it does, it helps us explore
different types of styles from a prompt. So instead of typing
in slash Imagine, what you would do is
type in slash tune, then type in your prompt and
it will ask you how many variations or
pairings do you want to bring as part of
your exploration. So I'm going to do it
now. My prompt will be slash tune interior
design of a living room. And now that the dialog
box has asked me how many directions
it has 32 by default. I'm not going to have 32 because that will
take away credits, but just keep in mind that you could run out of
credits fairly quickly. So I'm just selecting
16 as opposed to 32, and I'm going to submit. So it's now generated for
me a unique code or URL. So just click on it and see all the different stylings that you're getting
from this living room. You can see that the
grid is divided in three parts left,
center, and right. And if you scroll
down, you get to see completely different
styles of living room. Sometimes it's very
photographic, heavy, other times it's quite
whimsical and colorful, or muted colors depends
on what you're going for. So as soon as you select
one of the images, it will give you a unique code. You can copy and paste and Mjourney back into
the Discord server. So I'm going to copy my code. I'm going back to M
journey slash Imagine paste the URL or the Prompt itself, and
let's see what we get. So the cool part about
this style reference code could be applied not just
for the living room, but you could have a
bedroom, a kitchen, and it would fall
under the same style. So why don't we give it a go? I'm going to do the
permutation of a kitchen, bathroom, bedroom,
close the bracket, and see what we get with
our unique code style. I think what we
have looks amazing. It's very uniform in style, and it's just another
way of having control over the
direction of your work. Keep in mind that
style tuner sheet is something you can bookmark
and then reference later. In this instance,
I had only chosen one part of the grid,
just one quadrant. But you can use
multiple quadrants if you want and combine styles. It's always going to generate
a unique link for you. So now we're heading towards
the end of this module, and in the next video,
we're going to look at prefer option Sess.
33. 32 Midjourney Prefer Option Set: Prefer option set. So the preferred option
set allows you to save commands or parameters
that you use regularly, and that way you don't
have to type in each time. So you could say, Hey, I prefer a 16 column nine
aspect ratio for my pictures, and I don't want to be
typing it every time. So you could do a slash Prefer Suffix and then type
in after the new value, the aspect ratio of 169. I'm just saving this
preference now, and I'm going to type
in a new prompt. It's just going to be a watch. And when I hit Enter, you can see straightaway that
it's creating imagery with the aspect ratio that I already have in my
preferred suffix. If I want to take this out, all I need to do is
type in settings, slash settings and click
on reset settings, and that will be gone for me. You can also try the
preferred option set, which will allow you to save
multiple values and you can always reference them back for different commissions
or projects. It will save you some
time and allow you to be more productive as you
keep going with Mid Journey. The last thing I
want to cover is an interesting tool called
Topas Light Studio. This tool will allow
you to upscale a much higher resolution the images you create
with MD journey. So whether it's for a print
format like a billboard or magazine or anything that requires high
definition resolution, I highly recommend using TPAs. All you need to do is
drag your images in and then specify the amount of
upscaling that you want, and it will do a really,
really good job. I think it's worth
the investment. It's only one time payment, and it's just something that
you're going to be using regularly if you produce
images for clients. In the next video, we'll
wrap up the course and recap on what we've
done. See you then.
34. 33 Midjourney Lets Recap: Let's recap. Congratulations.
You've officially finished Mid journey one
on one basics course. I hope you learned
something new and get some inspiration for your
next creative project. In this course,
you've learned what MDjourney is and
how to set it up. We've covered the
different areas of documentation in
terms of service. We went deep into the user
phase with variations and upscaling and learned about different ways on how to
structure your prompts. Finally, we went into discussing the different
types of parameters and commands so you can have more control over the art
direction of your image. That being said, I
want to thank you so much for coming
into this course, and I hope you feel
well equipped to get started with very
interesting examples. Definitely make use
of the card deck to speed up your process or
even just to help you unblock the white canvas that we all as creative people
get from time to time. So if you want to write
to me, please do. And if you have any questions
related to the course, I'm more than happy to assist. So take care and have an
amazing time creating your next creative project with Mid Journey. I'll see you soon.
Melissa Garlington, Digital Designer
