Midjourney Masterclass: From Prompting Fundamentals to Creative Projects

1. Welcome to the Midjourney Masterclass: Every powerful image starts with an idea, but turning that idea into a compelling visual traditionally took some expensive software, some skills, and a lot of trial and error. Midjourney changes that completely. With the right prompt technique, you can create various characters, environments, different types of images, edit them, modify them, and turn that idea into a great visual in just a matter of minutes. Welcome to the complete Midjourney creative course. I'm Hose kachii a digital designer and creative instructor at Skillademia. I have worked with various designs, visual storytelling, and creative tools for many years, and I've had the privilege of teaching over 200,000 students worldwide through my online courses. In this course, I'll guide you through Midjourney, starting from the basics, moving on to the advanced prompting and some creative projects. First going to start by understanding how Midjourney works and what makes a good prompt. Once we know how prompts work, we can apply them into generating various types of images. We're going to be learning how to do consistent designs, work with various references, and try different structures. Once we have our image generated by Midjourney, we're going to learn how to refine them. That's going to be perhaps changing the style. Adding more elements on there, removing some elements, and just get closer to that final intentional design. But most importantly, this is a hands on project based course. So we're going to be learning together how to make a dream interior space, a fantasy character and poster, and some additional things. So by the end of this, you'll not only know the basics, but you've applied it to actual projects that you get to showcase on your portfolio. For this class, you're only going to need a Midjourney account, Internet connection, some curiosity, and a will to experiment. Do not need any previous AI or design experience because I'll be walking you through that step by step. If you're ready to turn your ideas into images, then grab your computer and let's get started. 2. What is Midjourney : So let's start at the very beginning by answering the question, what is Midjourney and what can it even do? Midjourney is an AIR generator, which means that it's a tool that takes your text description and turns them into images. You can think of it as your creative partner that helps you visualize your ideas instantly. Instead of sketching your ideas for hours, maybe you're thinking of merging a jellyfish into space with an astronaut. Instead of trying to figure out how to sketch it, you can use a tool like Midjourney to get that idea and turn it into a reality. All you do is you type a sentence and then in under a minute or so it gives you an artwork that you can look at and then further modify. As you can see already on the screen, the artworks are pretty good and they're all generated with AI. Already you can see what capabilities Midjourney has, but let's dive deeper into what it can actually do for you. First of all, it can create concept art for movies, games, design projects, and many more. If you're someone who has to visualize a lot of things in different fields, you can use a tool like this to make your workflow a lot easier. It can also generate product mockups, illustrations, posters, animations and other things. You can see on the top left, we have a lipstick swatch and that's great if you want to showcase a certain brand onto a model in a really quick and then it can help you explore different aesthetic styles. Let's say you have to come up with the animation style for a short film, but you're not sure if you want to do it in three D, two D, sketch art, or some other art style. You put your prompt in Midjourney and you ask it to give you those different styles, and then from there, you can decide which one works best with the aesthetic you're going for. Then lastly, it can speed up your brain storming sessions. Let's say if you're trying to design a logo, but you don't know what to put as a mascot, you can ask me journey to compact a bunch of elements and give you inspirations for your logo. Let's say you want to combine a cat and an octopus. Trying to figure out how to best combine them is going to be hard. So just let AI do the work for you. Then since it's all done by AI, you can do different variations from that one sketch that you like, and that could be ten different variations, 20. Just by changing the prompt a little bit, you can get a whole different style, it's just a great tool to explore and sometimes just have fun with it. Now, one of the most powerful aspects of Midjourney is the ability for it to mix and match your ideas. That means that rather than combining concepts that go really well together, for example, makeup and fashion, you can combine things that have no relation to one another. Like over here, we're seeing this sandwich with salmon and then construction. To be able to come up with an idea on where the people are going, what is the sandwich even look like? What should be on top? That's going to take a while. But we can see how this has been executed so great. Another example is if you wanted to take ancient Roman architecture, but have it made of neon class. That's a really bizarre concept, but you can use Midjourney to bring it to life. These unique mash ups are often where all the magic within Midjourney happens. Now that we know what Midjourney is, of course, I will dive deeper into how you get to have images and videos like this. But I want you guys to start thinking of some things that are impossible to come up with something really unusual and two unusual things and then combine them into one. Now, we know what Midjourney is and what you can do with it. In the further further chapters, I'm going to go over exactly how you can prompt and get amazing works like these. I will walk you through all the steps and we also have projects within this course, so you get to apply your knowledge into actually building different generations with Midjourney. But now I got a little mini exercise for you guys. I want you to think of impossible or unusual concepts, jot them down, and then in the further lessons when we're experimenting with generating things in Midjourney, you can try those out yourself. I'll give you a couple of examples. We can do maybe a jellyfish floating through a desert, maybe a castle made of ice cream with sprinkles raining down. These are just some really cool ideas that you can make within seconds using this tool. Now let's move on to better understanding how AI creates artworks. There's a lot to it and it's a lot more complicated than most people think because on our end, we just type in something and we get a result. But a lot goes on in the background that we are not aware of. But it's important for us to know a little bit about how it all works. I 3. Pricing and Account: To get started with Midjourney, just head over to midjourney.com slash HOME. You should see this page where you get to either sign up, login, or explore Midjourney before you make an account. So if you go over here, it's going to take you to that same home page, but you can see we're not signed in at the moment. This lets you understand what kind of artworks you get to create with Midjourney and see if this is the right fit for you before actually committing with an account. You get to explore, but we're not able to create. Going back, we can sign up with either Google or DISC now Midjourney started as a bot within Discord and now they have their own platform. The cool thing is that they still have that Discord chat feature within their website and I'll show you that in further lessons. But depending on whichever account you're comfortable with, just click on either, and you're going to get redirected to the homepage. Can also log in using the same options. Once you've logged in, you will be brought to the same Explore page except now you get to see my account, and I'm also able to create with M tourney. You go down here next to my account, there's three little dots. The first is account settings where it will tell you your Midjourney ID and personal information, which you can either look at or edit. There's also managed subscription, manager uploads, which are the things you upload from your local device. You can go to DiSCord that same bot that I mentioned, and there's also a Midjourney magazine. And then of course, we can log out. Let's go to the different subscriptions. So I'm just scrolling down. If you have an account, a subscription already, that's going to be a little bit above, so I scrolled down since that will include your personal information. There are four plans that you get to get with Midjourney, starting with the basic plan and then the makeup plan. So the difference here is the amount of generations you get to make and some of the tools are not available for the basic plan. Previously, Midjourney allowed you to edit or just create for free. I think around 200 credits were given to you and then you get to upgrade into one of these. But now they don't have that anymore and you need a basic plan minimum to be able to create within this platform. You can see the different generations. We get 200 images a month. These are all unlimited. We have video, but in SD, and then it goes to HD over here. We have general commercial terms. These are the things we talked about in Chapter one in the ethics lesson. You can read them on a separate page. You can just do a Google search. There's optional credit top ups, same thing for all the other plants, three concurrent fast image jobs. We have that and then get tied with the last two plans. Basically, it means three things using their fastest model at the same time. With video, there's only one here, but then it goes up to 12. There's use editor or just use Editor on uploaded images. If you upload a selfie of yourself and you want to add in a space machine in the background, you get to do that with the basic plan. But here we get a few additions, we get relaxed image generations. I will talk about their differences later. We have the same options as this. We have stealth mode. This is another feature that I'll talk about in the makeup plan, which is their biggest plan, you are able to create faster generations and more concurrent jobs. They have a monthly billing plan yearly billing plan, which saves you 20%. These are the prices or you can just do monthly to experiment before moving on. Now, choosing a plan, you have to think about your goals. If you're just experimenting or learning this platform, then the basic plan might be enough. But if you want to create the content to sell or distribute on a more professional scale, you're going to probably need the standard or the pro plan because those give you the extra generation credits. With everything you create within Midjourney, it's going to take up a certain number of credits, and if you want to do a lot of that, then you're going to need enough credits. For this course, I'm using the P plan because it includes the stealth mode and more generations for me to show you. You can either go with a pro plan, but the standard plan should be fine as well. There's also some frequently asked questions which describe the things that we just saw. And here's some answers regarding copyright. So you can just click on this to learn about the full details. You can also cancel your subscription plans if you change your mind. It does tell you when the next cycle is, so just make sure to mark that in your calendar. You can also delete your account completely, and then we have options where you get to upgrade or downgrade from your plan. If you want to use Midjourney on Discord, you just make your Discord account and open the bot within that platform. This is the chat that I was telling you about, so you're going to find the same structure within Discord. We also have the voice chat here. Now let's move on to our next lesson where we explore the interface a little bit. So what are all these buttons for? How do you navigate through the dashboard? And what's the best practice for doing that? 4. Exploring the Interface: Let us get comfortable with the interface of Midjourney and their dashboard. So when you first join the server, it may feel like a lot. There's all these moving images and there's all these tabs on the side, but you only really need to focus on a few key areas. And that is the bar up here where you get to put in your prompt and get those generations. The create bar where you get to look at the variations made for you, the edit bar where you get to edit things further. Organize, which keeps all of your work, and you explore for some brainstorming, which is what we are in right now. Starting from here, we're able to add images if you want a reference. For example, we have a character that we want in outer space. We can upload an image of that character and then have Midjourney blend that character into an outer space image. When you click on that, we have starting frame, image prompt, style references, and omni references. The difference here is that each one focuses on a certain aspect of the image you upload. For example, the image prompt looks at the element of the image. Is how many characters are in there? Is there any clouds? Is there any mountains? There's also the style, which looks at the style. Is it black and white, sketched, three D, two D. There's also Omni reference, which is the characters form, what they look like, what are the colors, their features, et cetera. And then starting frame is when you get to animate an image. And that's what we're on right now, all these moving things are basically images animated by Midjourney. If you made something and you want to animate it, you just upload that image up here and it will generate it for you. Here you get to click and drag your work. This is where you type in your prompt. Then we have all these parameters which define how strongly Midjourney looks at your prompt. I will get into this in another lesson because this is the second most important part of Midjourney. The first is your prompt. A search bar over here if you're doing any brainstorming and you want to look at other works. We have personalize, which lets you filter through all of these and only keep the things that appeal to you the most. For example, you are a product designer and you would only like to see products and not so much these random things. Midjourney lets you do that. We can filter through things. There is for you, which takes us to this personalization, which I'll get into later. There is random, random artworks. There is hot artworks, top day. Top week, even top month. We can also go through our liked images. When you see an image you like, you can actually heard it and it will go in your like page. And also unlike it to remove it. We can look at the prompt of an image. Let's say this is a really good thing and we want to see how they made it, simply click on it once and we can see that it's really short. It tells us who the person's name is when they made it, and then the prompt, which we can use it if we click on it once, which model they use version. Version seven is the latest version. We can search similar things with that search icon and then we're able to copy either the prompt job ID image, the URL to the image, and then download it. You can also report things on the journey if there's some sort of problem. We can look at the prompt, which when I click it, it goes straight into our box. I can have it input it as a style or input it as an image. This is how we get to use what we see into our own search bar. Delete that, you can also clear things using that trash icon. In the Explore tab, we're also able to switch between images and videos. We can randomize the selection if you're brainstorming or you just want to come up with a concept. This will be helpful for you. The next thing is to create tab. Whenever you type in a prompt, you should come here to see what the results are. It shows you the prompt on the right. Then you have the variations on the left. We have some options to give us another set of subtle variations, strong variations or even animate. Here we have the same bar. We have draft mode. We have the conversational mode where you get to talk to Midjourney regarding maybe the thing that you're looking for. We can start the voice mode so I could voice prompt Midjourney to create the stuff. There's a search bar and then there's folders. I could make a new folder, put all my cats in one. Then edit is regarding an image that you made that you want to further modify. So this is a very detailed dashboard within Midjourney. There's all these tools that you get to use, and basically you get to edit a small part of the image, half of it, you can restore some of the generations, combine, merge, resize, re texture, even, and it's a really cool interface that we're going to take a look at later. We have personalize, which lets you, as we said, but you only see the things that you want to see. Right now it's locked, but you can unlock it by creating a global profile. We'll take a look at that later too. I do suggest turning this on if you want to brainstorm a lot. That way you will only see things related to that concept you're trying to make. We also have moodboard which are related to the previous panel, Let's say you were brainstorming and you found a bunch of cool product images, you can combine them all in a moodboard to help you better organize those appealing images. Organize is where all of your works go in unless you delete them. Anything you generate, whether you like it or not, is going to end up here. It's selected separated with dates. We have today a while ago. You can select them all to download. You can them on hide, publish them to the community publish or even add to a folder to make things a little easier. You can click awing. If you go on any of them, it's going to show you the same tools we looked at the prompt, the version, and then you have some creation actions, which allows you to create more variations, upscale it into a larger version, rerun the same prompt, enhance it for full quality, and then use the editor tab that we looked at. You can also animate the image with low or high motion or loop it, which means it's going to keep repeating. On the side, we can see saved searches. If you search for something often, you can add a search here. If I do a lot of products, can put product over here and then we can do minimal products. For example, then you hit Create. We can have different profiles. We can have some filters, only see the things that we like, only the images, only the upscaled works, versions, and other details. There's view options for full or square, small, large or medium. This right here is the chat feature. You can see people are already generating stuff and we get to see it with that diffusion model that we talked about. There's threads, so people are commenting on this person's work. You can do the same thing too or just start writing stuff here. So I get to reply to this person, re run their prompt, use their prompt, and do other stuff with it. You can see a lot of things are being created at the same time. There's also the voice chat. This is all of the images, and you can also look at your images. You get to filter through things that were completed only, things that show up immediately or the ones that are in progress. Or just said to Auto. We have a task compartment, which basically is an option for you to help me journey to better their services. So you can rank their videos and earn fast hours. You can be a curator, rank their images, do a bunch of surveys, and then join their community. You can get some help over here. There's also a AI chat bot to assist you with anything, updates regarding their tools, and then you can switch between dark mode. Or light mode. And then down here, that's your account. You can return to the homepage by clicking on the logo up here, and it's going to bring you back to this page. Once you understand the Midjourney interface, the anxiety feels a little less and you'll feel more comfortable using all of these tools. Now we're going to talk about prompting basics. So the text that we put in here, what should we put in? How do we make it more detailed? And what are some of the parameters that we need to understand in order to get better results? 5. Prompting Basics: Prompting is the heart of Midjourney. You can think of it as a new creative language that allows you as a person to communicate with Midjourney. In order to communicate efficiently, we need to know the right words, the right style, the right grammar, and so on forth. That's exactly what we're going to learn about in this lesson. I'm going to walk you through the anatomy of a good prompt. In the further chapters, you're going to see that at work where we actually create things with it. With a good prompt, as we said, it's like a set of instructions where we're asking Midjourney to create us something. It always starts with a subject. Let's take a look at some of these images. Just by looking at these pictures, we know exactly what the subject is. This is a wallet, a city, a deer, we have a butterfly, the sea, a logo event can be your subject, a helmet, spray bottle, and as you can see, that's where it all begins. That's your outline that you have first and then later on you build up on that. In the last lesson, we made a a photo using one word, cat, and it did give us something like this. But just by looking at these two, you can just see the difference. We have so much more detail, so much more variation regarding the colors, the contrast. Was with this, it's still good pieces of work, but it's just not what we are trying to get to. With Midjourney, we're trying to get really realistic images and we want everything to be conveyed from our prompt. So taking a look at this prompt, a brown cat is our subject. Once we have our subject, we have to give details. That's part two. Details are the brown part, looking to the side with golden eyes and detailed fur. These are just some additional information about the subject. When you're trying to write your prompt, try to answer the questions of what is that subject? How does it look like? What are the colors involved? What are the details involved? Anything that can help Midjourney visualize your prompt. Third thing is style. You have that subject and all of its detail, but how does it actually look like? Is it in black and white? Is it really covered in vibrant colors? Is it in vintage mode? Does it have a three D style, two d style? Is it a photorealistic portrait? That's where you put in information like this. That is pretty much it. The anatomy. But I will have a document in the resource pack that has the format available to you, so you can look back to it whenever you want to. But to summarize, I'm going to use these brackets. It always starts with the subject, and then we add in details about subject. An additional thing, if it's a subject that moves or talks, it's just the action. This doesn't really apply to landscapes. But if we have a cat, you can see I said that it's looking to the side. That's where that section goes in. Next, we have style, and then lastly is the parameters. These are technical add ons like the size of the image, the resolution, the amount of variations, the chaos amount, and the stuff that's over here, which I'll walk you through later on. I will also add in parameters here. That's basically the anatomy that you should always keep in mind. Always start with the subject, give more details about that subject, mention what the subject is doing. If you're doing something that doesn't involve a human or an animal, you don't need to really put in an action. Mention the style and then the parameters. I will do a dog example. Let's type in dog it enter and it's going to start building our dog. Then this is a weak prompt in Midjourney terms. Whenever it's one or two words, that's considered weak and it usually doesn't spend that much time building your images. Now let's take the same dog and turn it into a stronger prompt. A fluffy white dog sitting in a sunlit window, soft Shadows, photo realistic and some technical terms like 85 milliliter lens and cozy atmosphere. So there's our subject, details about the subject, the action, style, and the technical terms. This right here is considered a strong prompt. Now, of course, I'm going to show you a few of the other examples where it gets really crazy. It's a full paragraph of a prompt and just think that you need at least a sentence in order to get a good result. Here's our white dog. We can even see consistency among our variations, which we did not get with one word. Because when you give it one word, Midjourney assumes that you don't exactly know what you want. It's going to give you different styles, different dogs in this case, so that you can make your decision. But here with a detailed prompt, I'm getting pretty much the same dog, maybe different breed, but with similar features, and then I can choose. If we go to explore and look at some of these, let's go to the top of the day. You can see how this person has basically a paragraph for their prompt. We have the subject, details, action, style, and technical terms. Now, when you look at other people's work, the technical terms are not in the prompt, but down here. AR 59572, raw style, seven, and then this profile. That's why we have these tags at the bottom. Let's do a little exercise. I want you guys to create a prompt, write down a prompt for a landscape scene. Whichever landscape you want, it could be a sunset, the beach, mountains, whatever you want. But see how you can apply this basic anatomy that we talked about and compare it with a very simple word regarding that landscape. 6. Ethics, Copyright and AI: We can talk about AI art and Midjourney without actually addressing the ethical sides of using tools like this. First of all, we have to understand copyright. Midjourney images are new creations and they come about when you put in your detailed prompts, but they're actually trained on data from billions of images on the Internet. That means other people's artwork, their images, something they took with an actual camera, and maybe their sketches even. What that means is that the AI is actually learning from existing artists and is not taking a pen itself and drawing things for you. You should never claim an AI generated piece of art as entirely your own manual creation. What are you supposed to do when you want to share your AI artwork on the Internet? Nowadays, everyone in every platform is aware that you can create really realistic works like this on the Internet and whether you're on TikTok, Instagram, Bhands Adobe Stock, there is an option for you to check that tells that platform that you make this video or image with AI. What you really have to do is be transparent. If you want to sell or share your images, you have to let people know that AI was either partly of the process or entirely part of the process. Next is to avoid directly copying the living artists names. For example, make this cat in the style of studio Jible because that can raise legal and ethical concerns. You are probably familiar with the scandal that open AI went through with Studio Chipl. Avoid doing that with living artist names. You can do maybe Picasso or Da Vinci or anything that isn't living right now. Again, it's going to be very clear that this was generated with AI and you made it in the style of that artist. Next, you want to understand Midjourney licensing. If you're on the free plan, you're not actually allowed to use your images commercially, which means to sell and distribute. But if you are on a paid plan, you can use the images commercially. But I do recommend that whichever plan you choose, be sure to read the terms on image distribution so that you don't run into any legal or other issues. Now, if you just want to use Midjourney for fun and you don't actually plan on posting it anywhere, you don't really need to worry about the stuff that I mentioned because no one's going to really see your work. When you make an image on this platform, it does go to the community, but anything in the Midjourney community is made by AI and everyone knows that. Apart from those legal concerns, there are also some social considerations. Some people do worry that AI will replace human artists, while others see it as a tool to speed up workflows. If you think about it, it's both. The best approach is to treat Midjourney as your collaborator and not a replacement for actual artist or a reason for you to claim another person's work as your. You can think about your own use cases. Are you going to use Midjourney for fun for business? Do you want to sell the work, which you can and we'll talk about it later, or do you just want to use it for some brainstorming? Now, when I say you can sell AI artworks, we are going to be doing it. It's a common practice, but we are going to be doing it with all of the considerations that I mentioned in this lesson. It's important for you guys to understand all the points that I made so that when we reach that chapter, you can apply them when you post these works for sale. By the end of this course, you'll know how to use Midjourney not just efficiently but ethically. Now let's move on to our first chapter where we learn about the basics of prompting, which is the text we put into the box that we saw the text like CATs. We're going to see what actually makes a good prompt, what are the parameters and how we can master that skill so that in the next lessons, we just use it smoothly and get exactly what we're looking for. 7. Organizing your prompts: Once you have made a few images in Midjourney, you'll notice quickly that your promise can get messing. You'll try variation style tweaks, and suddenly you have dozens of generations without knowing what worked best. So right here in the create, we can see on the side the prompts that we used. But it's hard to track for later which ones were the best ones and which one gave us bad results. Here are some tips on how to organize your prompts and a different version so that you can always refer back when you want to, let's say, make a dolphin in this very style. Just like anything else, you need a system to stay productive. The first thing you should do is save your prompts in a document or a spreadsheet so that every time you either discover a different keyword to get you a good result, you can just jot it down in that document or spreadsheet. Also helps to put down some notes regarding why that was a good prompt. As I mentioned in the previous lessons, we do have a document for you that has some good prompts for you to try and also the basic structure of a prompt. You can either duplicate that and then edit it or just create one from scratch. The second practice you need to have is to name your outputs. So when you download something, you want to make sure that instead of it being just this, it's maybe Dog Version one or dog with Golden Lighting Version two, something that will let you know how your prompting experiments progressed. The last thing you want to do is to go to organize and create different folders. If you're trying to get a specific design that includes, let's say, outer space and a desert, that's a folder that you need to create where you put in all your different images. If I'm really keen on getting the perfect cat, I should have a folder that's called that. You can make one over here, name it cat and then you could just put in cat. You drag the images here and that way everything is organized. Of course, you're thinking, why should you even do this thing? As you can see, this is just all my creations over the years. If I wanted to recall how I got the most realistic human feature, I have to scroll all the way down through my organized tab to find the one that I liked, and then I have to go through each one, see which one I favorited, and then use the prompts that are here. But that does take time and it's just not the best practice. That's why we want to make sure we have the folder structure and the most important one is the document. Where you get to try different styles and also try styles that you see in the Explore tab. For example, here we can see that this person used this term for a product shot. We can try that with our product and then take a look at the style. The style is the thing that you really need to take notes on. This is giving a very dark professional mood to it and using the words that this person used, we can see that they have used high key lighting, dark red gradient background. Highly detailed composition. You could just jot those down and then try it on your space photogeneration. Now, if you were experimenting with Midjourney so far, making little fun images like we did here with the cat, I want you guys to just open your Midjourney history, pick one image you liked and copy down the exact prompt. Then you can write a short note about what was good in that prompt and what could be better. Then later on as we move forward, you can work on expressing that. 8. Parameters and Settings: Midjourney has hidden knobs and dials called parameters that lets you control how your prompt is being interpreted. We saw them over here when we went to settings, all these familiar sliders, determine how strictly or how loosely Midjourney takes in your prompt. Then you can add the technical terms that we talked about, such as the frame of your image, the aesthetic, the size, even the model, and all the things that you see right over here. These at the end of your prompt can dramatically change the results of the outputs. I'm going to walk you through some examples where we don't have any of these terms in there versus when we do have them. Now, there are a bunch of sliders over here, but I'm going to walk you through all of them and then tell you which ones are the most useful. First step, we have image size, which is pretty self explanatory. Here we have one, two, one, which means the length and the height is equal a square. If you grab the slider, you are changing that ratio and on the left, you can see a preview of what that looks like. Portrait is going to be your vertical shots and then landscape is going to be your horizontal shots. If you wanted to reset, just hit this button. You can also type in a number here or like we did use a slider. Next is the model, just like any other AI tools out there, they run on different models. The latest one is Version seven, but there are older versions, as you can see. The reason why you may even consider using an older version is for very specific styles, such as if you want something to not look as realistic, you can go back to an older model so that it doesn't provide you something really detailed and crisp. If you're following a tutorial or are trying to get a specific style, pay attention to the version that they use in that tutorial so that you get the same result because each of these are good for a certain type of images and you'll discover that when you play around with each of the versions. Now, draft mode allows you to just play around with your generations before actually publishing them anywhere. Standard is your usual generation with Image journey. Now we also have mode where if you go over here, it tells you that raw mode replaces the default aesthetics of the Midjourney versions. Also if you are into photography or have worked with a camera before, raw versions are usually the bigger, more complex outputs, where you have more details to work with, more pixels to work with, in that case. And then you in this case, would use it for really hyperalistic footage. If you're doing something like an anime like this one down here, you don't really need raw. But if you're doing something like this, where you have all these crispy details, then you do want the help of raw because it's adding a lot of details for your images, it may take a little longer to produce that output for you. The next thing is the aesthetics box. This is regarding the style of your photo. First up, we have the stylization, which is by default set to 100, but this basically controls how strongly Midjourney applies its own aesthetic flair. Low stylization gives you a plain literal result. If you say black and white with golden hues, it's exactly going to give you that thing. But the higher you go, it gives you more artistic and dramatic results. It's going to play around with that black and white golden hues giving you different things each time you produce it. Now, this is the stylization bar. I'm going to show you how you can shortcut these into your prompt later on because coming in here and using the sliders is going to be a little bit tedious. The second thing is weirdness. Now, this one is regarding the unpredictable qualities that Midjourney can provide. A higher value gives you wilder, more dramatic outputs where the lower value gives you more consistent things. For example, if I do a clown and I produce it with zero weirdness, it's going to give me your standard plain clown. If I increase this all the way, I'm going to get really crazy colors, crazy features, maybe scary at times. But this is a pretty fun slider to play around with and you can see the shortcut is dash dash weird. The next thing is the variety which talks about how different each of your productions are. Whenever you put in a prompt and you hit Enter, it gives you four different images. If we increase the variety, those four images are going to look really different from one another versus when we have it at zero, they're going to have that subject consistent with every production. Then down here, we have additional options. The first one is the speed, which is how fast Midjourney is going to produce your image and how slow it's going to do that. The slower it does, the more time it journey takes to create that image for you, Wess if you rush it, it's going to just give you a quick result. If you're going for a really hyperrealistic image with let's say, a prompt that is a paragraph long, you do want to put in the time for a relax production versus a turbo which will rush over everything. It will still give you what you ask for, but it just won't be as rich as it could be. The next thing is stealth. Now when you produce in stealth mode, you're going to have your images hidden from the public. The people in the community, like how we are in Explore, are not going to see your new productions unless you get off of this or you publish that image. By default, it's turned off, but you can turn it on depending on whether or not you're just playing around or if you're just experimenting. Resolution is regarding the quality. We have SD, standard definition, which is 480 pixels versus high definition, which is 720 pixels. I'm on the P plan, so you can see that I have access to HD, but if you're on another plan, you may only be able to use SD. Just look at if this is grade out for you or not. I could just switch between the two. Last thing is video batch size. When you generate videos, this is regarding how many videos you get from one prompt. Remember that videos take longer to create and they will take more credits. If you are running short on credit, you don't want to create four videos from one prompt and therefore, you can just come over here, switch to one video, two or four if you have tons to work with. These are the parameters and settings that are within these sliders, but there are a bunch of other ones that aren't really listed here. The first one is chaos, which you can also access by typing down chaos or C, and that makes your outputs really unpredictable. The higher you put in the chaos value, it's going to be really crazy over there and the lower it is, the more controlled the outputs are going to be. The next is seed or you can do seed. Now, this is going to be the random starting point for your images. Every image you see here has its own seed, which is a few numbers. If you want to continue that randomness, but with the same style, you can copy the seed and put it in your prompt. Another thing is image weight. If you have a reference image and you want to just talk about how much of a weight and effect that input image has on your output image. You do IW. We also have Q or quality, where one is your default quality and two is your highest quality. Now let's see how adding these parameters can actually change our prompt. I'm just going to type in a very simple prompt, say a fluffy Cat floating above DC, glowing with purple neon colors. Let's do. Period dramatic lighting. Shallow depth of field. Ultra defined. Here's my prompt without any of the parameters. Again, recognize the subject, what they're doing, the environment, description, and technical terms. Let's create landscape. Here are my cats. Very defined, fluffy for sure, purple light, ultra high definition. And basically everything we ask for is here. We also have that shallow depth of field, which is the fact that it's blurred in the background. So that's without any of the parameters. And right away, you can see that my cats don't exactly look the same. We have a fluffier one here. We have one with different colors. This guy is super fluffy. We got a different breed, maybe. I'm not sure. But the point is that they don't look the same. The color purple, you can see that here it's the lightest shade and then we get a really dark one here, the environment. We have a stormy situation here, sunset. This one looks like the sun is still out there, and here it looks like the cat is underwater. Let's take a look and see how we can use the parameters to get a different result. First, I'm going to click on this to get the same prompt up here, and we're just going to put in the most useful parameters such as chaos, stylize seed. Now let's start putting in our other parameters, starting with the chaos because already we had the aspect ratio set to four to three. I'm just going to do AR. Let's do 16 by nine, chaos. I will do let's say 100. Let's add some stylize in there. I will also add some weirdness. These are all some random parameter numbers. You can see here what they run between, we have zero to 3,000, zero to 1,000. This variety, which is the chaos. I did mine 100, which I think is a little too high. Let's do 80. Then aspect ratio was the image size, chaos, stylization and weirdness. Let's see what we get. You can see when I use the 16 by nine, it had to expand, so it's two rows instead of one. So already this is pretty weird. Great details, definitely a cat, but it's not really making sense, and that's precisely how the weird works, the weird parameter. G to try this again and just remove weird. Let's put it in the chaos, the 16 by nine version seven, stylized, let's take it down to 100 so it pays more attention to our prompt. Let's generate that. So this was before. We have all these parameters. Now I just cut it down to only these three. Initially we had no parameters. It was just the image size. And you can see how different these generations are. It's still a cat floating over water, but you can see it's nowhere close to what we were getting before. The only difference here is that this is not weird and it doesn't have any sort of stylization, so it's not really depending that much on our prompt. Now let's do it again. Oh, we had variety set to 100 in the last one. Yeah. Stylize is if I go over here, it was set to 100, so we're getting completely different styles. I'll just set this back to zero, and whoops meant to add the chaos as well. But let's just compare stylize 100 versus zero. And there we have it. So now we have at least a decent looking cat. Similar settings versus when this is with the stylize being set to zero. So it's being very literal about what it's giving out. But in the previous set, we had stylized set to the maximum. So we had completely different variations of a cat that's glowing over the sea. Let's use the same thing again. And I'm going to just work with weirdness right now, which is the the weird outcomes, 1,500. But as you can see, each of these sliders have a completely different effect. In all of these, I did not change my prompt one bit. I'm only working with those parameters set at the end. You can see how 1,500 weirdness gives us some weird results. You can do the same thing, remove the weirdness and simply work with the stylization. High stylization is going to give us artistic and less connected to the prompt. So these are the results with 1,000 or the maximum amount of stylization, where Midjourney uses more creativity to generate your images. We have a cat, but it looks like it's being electrocuted by these purple things. Here, it has a more magical galaxy like look. We have these jellyfish things around our cat and this just looks like a dragon I guess. It also combined different colors with our purple, even though I only had purple neon in my prompt. Now let's try to look at seeds. I'm going to grab the exact same prompt, make sure none of these are enabled. Let's do a square this time. And I'm just going to do dash, seed, a random number. So you can see seed is right over here. And the reason why we did a random number is because seeds are random by default. But the cool part comes after generating this first round. Here's my random seed. You can see it used a completely different style for my cat, even though we had the exact same prompt. I will do the same thing, but without the seed, just to show you the difference to stylize zero version seven. The only difference is the seed. Now let's do a different prompt. We're going to put in a fluffy dragon maybe. With pink, neon colors, pink and blue and all that stuff and just add in this particular seed. I will do another one without the seed. And you can just see the difference between the two when we use the seed and when we didn't. Now, for a quick exercise, I want you guys to grab a prompt and keep it consistent, but simply change the parameters as we did in this lesson and then find out the differences between each of the quantities. 9. Hallucinations and Consistency Tricks: As we all know, AI isn't perfect. Sometimes when you put in a prompt, it produces something strange, broken, or odd. These are called hallucinations and they happen a lot with AIR tools because as we said, they get trained on millions of images and they try to combine their understanding into one image for you. So Let's take a look at some examples. You probably have seen them on the Internet too on Instagram when you're scrolling. There is, for example, a human subject that has 20 fingers. There is a house with windows in just impossible places, text that looks like gibberish and so many more. There is a way to actually fix these hallucinations because they're not really permanent. All you really have to do is work on your prompt a little bit more. Times putting in a single word can help you solve that hallucination issue. Let's go over three ways that you can reduce these hallucinations. Number one is to be very specific. Instead of saying a man holding a cup, you should try something like a man holding a ceramic coffee mug with one hand. Secondly, use reference words. You have to mention something like realistic photography or architectural blueprint to anchor the AI to a certain style and for it to not get confused over those images that it gets trained on. Lastly, you have to simplify your prompt because overloading it with too many conflicting ideas can of course confuse the model. Let's try that example with the man holding a cup. Midjourney doesn't have that many hallucinations, but you could still encounter it when you're playing around with it. That's our first one. Let's see what we get. Then the second one, I'll do a man holding a ceramic, let's say, white coffee mug. With one hand. Let's take a look. There is an example of a hallucination. I'm not sure what they're holding here. They're also missing I guess one other fingers, or is this combined? I'm not sure what's happening here. The cop is above his fist, but his face looks fine. Let's take a look at this one. Again, another hallucination. They have one, two, three, four, five, six fingers, then this parts in the shadows, we're not sure what's happening there. But again, the face is okay. Let's take a look at this. It's a bit hard to see, but I think this one is a lot better than the other ones. I think there's a hole in the middle. It's a little dark, and then this one so this one's actually fine. You can see out of the four, we were able to get one that makes more sense. Now let's take a look at the new ones that we made. It completely removed the man's face because we put in the word hand. You can see what a big difference that made. Here we got the right amount of fingers. The ring is a little weird, but that's fine. There's also some weird. I guess his finger is elongated here. Number two, wide amount of fingers. Weird position to be holding the cup, but it does seem natural. Third one, wide amount of fingers. The handle of the mug is not really there, but the mug itself is indeed a ceramic coffee mug. Then lastly, we have this one shorter finger and we got a bunch of others, even have some details on his fingernail, which we didn't really ask for. But you can see the difference between adding a simple prompt like this versus a prompt that asks the journey to focus more on the hand and give us a white ceramic big. Now, let's add those reference modes. Because I'm going for something realistic, I should mention it. Let's click on use text. After our prompt, let's say realistic photography. And then maybe ultra high. Oops, ultra high definition. Now it went for a product photography mood. Immediately, there's a very obvious hallucination. But here's the thing about these hallucinations where some part of it looks fine, but the rest looks weird. We can actually use the edit tab to fix this, which I'll show you in a different chapter. Because the only problem here is this part. The cup looks fine, the sleeve looks fine, and then the thumb is placed right. We can also change this with that edited feature. This is the second one. I actually looks pretty good. We even have some depth of field. Next one, really good detail on the arm. And the right amount of fingers. This is the last one. Again, a small weird position to hold the mug handle, but we can change this with some editing. But now you can see the hallucinations were a lot less when we added these two words regarding the style of this image. We didn't have any weird rings, weird fingers, no handle, and then short finger. Then our last tip was to simplify our prompt. Mine is pretty simplified because it's one action, one man. Holding one object. But say you had an entire paragraph where you're just repeatedly talking about the mug. You're mentioning soft edges, but also rough texture, maybe the color white, but also a little bit dark gray. When you put too many descriptions for one object, that can of course, confuse Midjourney. Even if you're reading that in a book, you're just confused as to what the mug actually looks like. While we are on the topic, let's talk about some consistency tricks. One challenge that Midjourney provides you with is consistency. Keeping the same character, product, or style across multiple generations. Right here, we technically have a very simple subject, a white mug. But if you're dealing with something a little bit more complex, that's not going to be consistent within the generations. Even here, we're getting different colors and it's not that identical, different handles, and so on forth. But there are some tricks that you can do to maintain a certain style. The first one is using seeds that we talked about in the previous lessons. Using the same seed with the same prompt produces nearly identical results. This is useful if you want to create variations that still match. Going to show you three commonly used seed numbers that you can find on the Internet in the communities, but these are just three really different styles that I want you guys to try. Let's go for a very simple subject. Let's say a mushroom or red mushroom, maybe. I red mushroom castle on top of the. Very simple. We have our mushroom and because I didn't specify if I want this to be a sketch, a minecraft style image or a realistic one, it gave me all four. But I could just have it give me a photo realistic one by doing ama photorealistic. Immediately, you can see the before and after. We have some pretty decent stuff. Now, what I'm going to do is choose one of these. Let's go with this one. It looks pretty cool. I'll just go to UE. Let's use the image, and it brings it in image prompt. It's going to use the elements of our image and keep it consistent throughout. I'll also use the same prompt. Just click on it. It's over here. Then we're just going to do da SD and put in our first SIT number, which is a trippy one and it's just 420-42-0420. At Enter. At the same time, I'm going to do the other one. Image, use text. The only reason we're doing image is because I want the same castle. Otherwise, you could just remove it for different castles in those seed styles. Das dash set then let's do a futuristic 12025, 2025. At the time that they made this set style, I guess it wasn't 2025 because that's where we are right now. It's not that realistic. Then we can take Dada seed and go for a fractal like style. It's basically the Pi number, but without the decimal. So here's our result with the image reference and the 420 s. The glow is very potent, as you can see, and the colors are cien looking. You can see it kept that style of one hill in the middle and the castle on top, pretty consistent because of our image input. Next up is the 2025 with the image reference. This is supposed to look realistic. I don't really see that, but it's definitely a different style from what we had before. This is one, two, three, four. More definition for sure. If we upscale this, I'm sure we'll get a really high quality one. But you can see how it's really different from our 420. Then lastly, we have our fractal one. You can see that they went for these dome shapes for our mushroom castle. And their heads look different. I would say this gave us a lot more detail, smaller details than the previous one. I'm seeing that sharp dome consistent across each one, maybe not this one, but this one has it. I also did another set without the image input. This is the fractal one. Again, we're having that sharp look on the top, different castles, but you can see the consistency with that pointed top. This is our 2025 version without an image input. It's going for another floor on top of the roof look. Then we have the 42420 without the image input. It's looking the most interesting, I would say. I could see it added these depth of field as well. You can see how different the style of the castle became when we put in these seeds. I'm just going to do this without any seed just to show you what it would look like when we generate that same prompt. Can see stylized zero, seven, that's the same thing as we had before. So nowhere close to what we were dealing with before, and each of them look pretty different. Those were some examples of seeds. You can get tons of other seeds on the Internet and even via ChatGPT, which I'll show you in a further lesson. But you can use seeds as a way to keep things consistent. Next thing you can do is playing around with how much the image that you put in as reference weighs in on the final result. When you upload a reference image, you can assign it more influence using the IW command, which we looked at, I think last lesson. Let's say I put in this image as my reference and I'll do something different. Let's put in the same prompt, but instead of a mushroom, let's do a glass castle, same thing on a hill and I'll do one more with this prompt, replace that. Let's do W zero and compare it to. Here, it's using the default of, I believe, one, it's actually combining the mushroom with the glass. I still has that hill structure, and it's actually looking pretty good. We have a mushroom glass castle. In the next one, we set it to zero, the input image has no influence. As you can see, there is no mushrooms to be seen. Even the hill structure is pretty different. The last thing you can do is multi prompting, which is using the collins. When you have two elements that you're trying to combine, in our case, mushroom and glass, we can decide which element has more of an influence in the final result. Let's say we have this prompt, but we're going to add a mushroom glass castle realistic, but we'll do let's actually do that castle on top of a hill. We'll do mushroom, Colin Colin, two, then glass, Colin Colin, one, and I think that's it. Here I got an error because I use version seven. I just did dash dash version six, and now it's working. Here's our version six. You obviously see the difference between the versions which we were talking about previously, but we asked for more mushroom over glass, and that's certainly what we got. Not so much in the two middle ones. But I tried it again with more glass over mushroom, so two to one and then Castle photorealistic one. I'm definitely seeing more glass this time compared to before. So now we have a mushroom made out of glass. There's no castle in there. It's just a ball. Here, we do have a castle. So that's looking pretty good. I'm going to show you what these look in further lessons as well because right now we are clearly dealing with some hallucinations. As we move forward with more detailed prompts, I think that would be better part for you guys to see. But this is just an introduction as how you can control and keep things consistent throughout your image generations. Consistency, you may be wondering why is it even important. It's important for projects like storybooks, branding or even product photography because you want that same subject. Same character, same product to be consistent in all of your shots. If you were, for example, trying to advertise a perfume bottle and there's mushrooms all around it, you can reduce the amount of mushrooms by doing this multi prompting, doing perfume bottle two, mushrooms one, and that's going to take out and mellow out the mushroom aspect of the image. Now, for a quick exercise, as always, I want you guys to generate a fantasy character with one of the seeds and then repeat the prompt with the same seed but tweak the background using the multi prompting. 10. Adding Styles: One of the most exciting parts about prompting is when you get to apply different styles. Midjourney has absorbed patterns from countless and millions of artistic references. You can actually guide it to take your prompt in a different visual direction. For example, we can do watercolors, all painting. Realism, minimalism, brutalist, and so many other styles that are out there. One style that we have been using a lot is the photorealistic style, which we put in with the coma photorealistic. You can see it definitely does look realistic in terms of details, highlights, shadows, depth of field. It actually looks like someone took out a camera and took a picture of this magic mushroom castle. Going to go over some styles today, but as I mentioned, there's tons more out there, and you can experiment just by putting coma that style. If that style is very niche, maybe it's your own drawing style, you can use it as a image reference and then continue making images using that. Let's use our same prompt. I'll stick to the glass mushroom castle. I'll just remove the multi prompting since we want to use Version seven or the latest one. Let's try this with the first style, photorealism. It's Version seven, style is zero. And I want to set the stylized to default, which is 100. Let's run that again. Then see how realistic that can look like because that's what we're going for here. Here's our first set, great detail. That's some really cool reflections going on. This is with the stylized set to 100, which is the default. Again, photorealism. Look at that. It looks really sharp, really detailed, and it looks pretty cool actually. Not a lot of glass on there. You can see maybe the windows could be considered glass. But other than that, it's not made of glass, but it does combine castle and mushroom pretty well. Now let's try a different style. I will go with our same prompt, simply replace the photorealistic with a different style. The first one we're going to look at is a painted style, which you can activate by putting in painterly. This is supposed to add brush strokes, textures and soft lighting. I will do, let's say, watercolors. Then we can do another one with, let's say, oiltlls and we can just compare. Since we're using the word painterly, anything in that category should work. But I'm just going to work with watercolors and oil pastels. You can see how great it executes the watercolor. It even had that textured paper which you would use for such painting. The details are there. We have great colors, and it's once again a mushroom castle. This is the oil pastels. Those are some great textures that mimic real oil pastels. We can go for thick acrylic paint strokes and see what we get instead. I'm not sure what the style is called, but I want to see those thick lines used to make castle. Let's see if it listens. There we go. It does have that thick paint stroke effect. I don't paint with acrylics, but if you do, you can see how accurate this is. Since you know what real acrylic paint should look like, you can add more details. Let's say if this is too thick, you can put in soft edges in your prompt and it should give you a softer edge. So that's our painting style. The second style that we're going to look at is cinematic, delete these two. But in cinematic, I'm going to do one with just one word and then we can add to that. Cinematic with, let's say, dramatic lighting. With cinematic, you can think of a Hollywood film. You're going for depth of field, different moods, and of course, good lighting. Cinematic is supposed to give you a very high quality output, whether it's animated or three D, in real life. You can see how great these guys look. We certainly have good lighting, depth of field, great detail, and that is consistent between all of our images. Here I asked in the next set, I asked for dramatic lighting, so it's going for a darker tone, more mood, and great separation of shadows and highlights with, of course, high contrast. We can do the same prompt with our next style, which is surrealist. Just type that in. This is supposed to give you strange and dreamy outputs. I'll do one which just surrealist and then we'll do glowing highlights maybe. Glowing highlights. Come let's add another one dream. So this is going for things that are just not possible. You can see we have a champagne glass over here, we have a marble ball. Here we have a champagne glass holding that castle in the middle of a desert. It's inside a glass ball. Here it's made of clouds and here it's like a tree but a big mushroom. Things that are just impossible, you can activate by putting in this keyword. Then in our next set, we asked for glowing highlights and a dreamy scenario which it definitely did deliver. Maybe not the first one, but the rest are pretty cool. The last one is going to be a minimalist look, put that in. Minimalist minimalism is regarding the clean, simple look of images with a lot of negative space. There isn't that much detail for you to see and that's precisely the reason why this style is unique. Again, a lot of negative space, not a lot of detail over there, one element in the middle of the field. That's also minimalism and this one is the most simple one. We can do the same thing, but we can try, let's say, futuristic and then ray since that's usually the color that's used in this style. In a similar fashion, we can do the opposite, which is brutalism then we can do maybe rough textures, harsh lighting, something completely opposite to what we have right now. Here we definitely have gray minimalism and it's futuristic for sure. Pretty cool. Let's see what the opposite looks like. Definitely, we have rough textures, harsh lighting, and just the exact opposite of what we had initially. You can see how by adding certain words, we're able to completely change the style of our image. Now, for a mini exercise, I want you guys to write one subject you like, say it's your card, it's your teddy bear, it's your pet dog and try different styles. You can write some of the ones that we mentioned here, but you can also go for maybe animee style. Sketch style, charcoal, three D style, two D style, whichever you want. But the thing that you need to do is have that subject consistent, just like we did with the mushroom castle and just see how these styles apply themselves to that output file. In conclusion, style is the secret sauce that turns your generic prompts like a mushroom castle into something pretty unique. 11. Advanced Prompting Techniques: Something. Once you're comfortable with the basics of prompting, you can explore some advanced prompting techniques that give you even more control. So far, we have looked at the basic formula of a good and strong prompt, how we can add styles, how we can avoid hallucinations, keep consistent results with seeds, and now we're going to look at something rather different, which is the use of curly braces. Curly braces allows you to create multiple outputs and all using one prompt. Essentially if I want to try say bird wearing a wizard hat, but I want to see what that looks like if the bird was green, yellow or purple. Instead of doing three separate prompts, I could do one prompt and use curly braces to get those three sets. Just to show you what that looks like, we're going to type in a curly braces, red, blue, green, and curly braces, bird wearing a wizard hat. When I hit Enter, I get three sets. One is red, one is blue, one is green. Instead of doing this three separate times, I could have this going on all at the same time. As you can see, I'm getting a red bird, a bluebird, and a green bird, all using version seven, nothing else, and of course, our curly braces. This is going to be great if you want to experiment with different subjects, but want to keep that concept consistent. The wizard hat is consistent across all of these sets. But what I'm experimenting with is the color of the bird. In a similar fashion, I could experiment with the animal. Let's do a purple. Curly braces, bird, dog, comma fish, really different creatures. Hit Enter. We're getting three more sets. Let's see how Midjourney puts the wizard hat on a purple animal. And there we have it. We have a fish, a dog, and a bird. All of them are purple and they're all wearing a wizard hat. That is our first technique, the use of curly braces. The second technique is called prompt injection, which we have been doing so far, but now I'm going to give it more attention. These are ways of structuring prompts to force certain behaviors. Essentially, we're injecting it into that prompt. For example, using words like ultra defined or trending on art station or trending on B hands, eight K render for three D works. This basically forces Midjourney to give you that style. We have a three D sandwich floating in outer space. Let's generate that. Then I'm going to start injecting things into here. We can do maybe eight K render. Since it's a three D thing, we can do ultra definition, and I think that's and then let's compare the difference. Once we ran those prompts, we are left with three sets of images. The first one was the most basic one where I just mentioned the sandwich floating in outer space. It is indeed a sandwich, but it's very basic and I didn't really say what sort of sandwich and so it gave me a bunch of different things and then it gave me this, which is a slice of toast. But then we took that a step further where we added the word three D. When we did that, we first get this three D illustration. Again, I didn't say what image I want. But the results are a lot more detailed than our first set, just by using the word three D. Now, we even took this a step further when we added eight K render and ultra definition in our prompt, right over here, we can see the glow of light. We got some halo effects, some particles around the sandwich. This one has some depth of field, crispy lettuce over there, some shiny elements around it, and look at those bread crumbs. You can see how we started from a very basic thing and then we slowly injected words into the prompt to get closer to our end goal. Now the last thing is something called chaining, which essentially means that when you start with a prompt, you get a result you want. Rerolling it or remixing it can give you more control over your final image. For example, I really like this image, but maybe I wanted to have more breadcrumbs or maybe a rock in the middle or in front, something like that. We could just go down to more and then hit rerun. That got submitted. We can also vary this very thing with either subtlety or really strong presence. I want to do strong. I will go into these options later. We can even use this as an image input and then put in the same prompt, of course, perhaps add a rock floating or maybe with rocks floating around. Then the same eight K render and ultra definition. Now let's take a look at our results. This is our re ran prompt. You can see it's the same sandwich. However, it's not exactly what I asked for. Here it's really close up, here it's really long, and then we got two random generations or the hallucinations that we talked about. Then over here, this is the variation. It's the exact same image input. We can see the sandwich. It has those golden particles around it, but now it's adding some additional maybe angles, colors, and other details. Then this is with our image input it as reference. We can see again, it's the same sandwich. Plus we got some rocks floating around. That just gives me more control over that exact same sandwich. Of course, if you were to take the sandwich that you like, like this one, and then basically use it as image and style, you're going to maintain the colors and all the other details and maybe add some additional elements within the prompt. We could do maybe the same sandwich, same style colors, but astronaut floating around. That's something we would have to add in here just as we did with the rocks. These tools let you work smarter. You can generate multiple variations without having to write everything from scratch. We maintain the structure of that subject we generated, and we just keep on building up on it until we have that perfect result. Now it's time for your mini exercise. I want you guys to find a prompt where you get to use the curly brace prompting. Maybe you can try one subject in three different colors or three different animals in one setting. One animal in three settings, whatever you want to do, run that prompt and then just compare the differences. 12. Using ChatGPT for Prompting: We have this idea in our head, it's actually going to take a while for us to come up with a perfect prompt because great prompt writing takes a lot of practice, but in today's age, we don't have to do it all alone. There are other AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Deep Seek, and many more out there that can help you brainstorm, refine if you already have a prompt and further structure your prompt for better results. An example would be me taking this prompt, putting it into ChatGPT and asking for more details. I could simply just copy this guy put it in ChatGPT and have it expand upon a certain part that I want to fix. Maybe I want the lettuce to be bigger. That's something I could have a tool like ChatGPT, refine it for me, send it out, I copy paste it and get my better sandwich. Here's how these tools. I'm going to speak about ChatGPT in this lesson, but again, there's tons of others out there can help you in four different ways. The first one is idea. When you want to you have this very simple subject, but you want to turn it into a abstract idea, can ask ChatGPT to suggest five, unique ways to describe that subject. For example, we could ask it to give us five creative descriptions of the beach at sunset and it's going to give us exactly that. The next thing is prompt structuring. I can help us organize the prompt into subject, style, mood and technical parameters. If I just have a regular sentence that doesn't exactly fit in our base formula, we can have ChatGPT reconstruct our original sentence and turn it into a strong prompt. Third is refinement. If your image didn't come out right, say I put this prompt and I got a burger instead, I could ask ChatGPT to fix that for me. Maybe it will decide on changing a few words, emphasizing on the fact that we ask for maybe a sandwich that has toast on it. We can also have it expand upon an output like this. We can ask it to make this more cinematic. Help me give a prompt to Midjourney that will give me a more dramatic sandwich. You could do that. The last thing you can do is batch prompting, which means you put in your prompt and you ask JAGBT to generate dozens of variation at once, which we can then test in Midjourney using the curly braces. We're going to try all of these four out in this lesson and we're going to start right over here with our chat bot. Let's start with the idea generation. I'm going to choose a different subject. Let's say I'm going to go for a halonia very random and we're just simply going to ask for first, let's set the mood. I'm trying to make images with my journey help me find two creative ways to describe a jalapeno Army writing bell peppers. It gave me two different ways and you can see that it starts with the style as well. We have epic fantasy war scene or playful cartoon style. I did not even ask for that yet. Let's focus on the prompt itself. We can see that it has the subject, the action, the description, the colors even. And it's giving the technical terms like dramatic lighting, smoky atmosphere, fantasy illustration. Just to show you the starting point, we're going to first of all, let's make the same idea but with a very basic language. I'm going to paste it right here and just remove the descriptive things. Let's say fighting against bell peppers in a battlefield, then no mention of the other things. Then we can see how we can elevate this. I'm also going to paste the prom that ChatGPT gave us, paste it right here. These are both with version seven. Let's take a look. So here's our basic prompt. We have character illustration here. We got some three D pieces, close up. These aren't really jalopinios. It's people fighting amongst bell peppers. This is our second set and you can see it understood that the fighters are actually jalopio. In the first one, we did not really get that apart from this guy. Chachi Pitt was able to communicate to my journey that we wanted actual Jalapenos fighting with bell peppers. Now that I have this, I'm actually going to do it without fantasy illustration, just because I'm going for I didn't decide on the style yet. We're going to leave that for later. But now we can take this to step two. I'm going to just copy it. And then we're going to have ChatGPT fix up a few of the things that we notice in this set. First of all, these look more like pickles. This one looks fine, and the rest is okay. So I'm going to go over here, put quotation, paste my prompt quote and have it dig deeper into a certain style and more details on the character. We're combining two and three right now, which was prompt structuring and refinement. Let's go make these changes to the prompt above. One, make sure four things that I asked ChatGPT to do. First of all, I don't want to see anymore of the maybe pickle face or human soldiers. I want this to be more epic with cinematic and harsh lighting, vibrant colors because we're dealing with peppers. And I'm just mentioning for it to look like a Sparta movie. I'm really going for that epic look. Then lastly, another element I want in there is add smoke in the background from all the intense fighting. And let's see how Chachi Bit takes our points and combines it into one. Copy that and let's see what we get. Then the last thing, we're going to do the batch prompt. Let's say how opinions aren't really my thing. Give me different variations of peppers or vegetables, let's say. Let's say of tomato. Bananas, same setting, lighting, et cetera, different subjects. Give me three prompts for each. Sorry, one prompt for each. Okay. This is our tomatoes versus bell peppers. Paste that in. Number two. And of course number three. Now let's take a look at our first one. We've got a ego one here. For some reason, they're all ego characters, that's not good. Here is our tomatoes. They actually look like tomatoes. That's good. We got cucumbers, more legos for some reason, and then bananas. I like this one. This is a great example of when you're supposed to use another technique that I'll show you later, but don't worry too much if Midjourney just adds an element consistently in your images such as ligos in our case. I did not mention any ligos in my prompt, but you are able to disclude something within the results. That's something I'm going to show you later. But ignoring the first round, we can see that the tomatoes look pretty good. Here it even considered these Sparta outfits. We got more legos for some reason. Here we got some goopy looking tomatoes, cucumbers, more legos, and it's just funny how it brought the legos out of nowhere, but nonetheless it looks pretty cool. Going back to our first set, this is where we started, and we ended up here. Again, as we saw in the previous lesson, if you see something, something that you like, for example, this one, I could just rerun this to get more like this and there we have it. This pairing of Midjourney for visuals and ChatGPT for words is like having two creative assistants working together to give you these great results. Now, you can type into ChatGPT for yourself a different subject. Maybe you can try a futuristic city in three different moods. Hopeful, dystopian, whimsical, the 1980s, whichever mood you want to go for, and see what prompt ChatGPT gives you for you to try out in Midjourney. 13. Lab: Generate Image in Different Styles: Now, let's put everything we learned together in this chapter in a hands on lab. The task for this lab is to pick one subject. It could be an animal, a human, a vegetable, even, and then generated in three different styles. Here's an example. My subject is a lighthouse on a cliff. My first style would be cinematic. Second style is watercolor, third style is cyberpunk. Run all of these prompts and then compare their results. You can also use ChatGPT like we learned about in the previous lesson and see which one you like the most and which one was able to be communicated from your prompt to Midjourney. Point of this exercise is to show you how much power you have by simply changing the style of the words or even the words themselves. The subject is constant in all of your prompts, but you're simply changing the mood and that completely transforms your image. Once you're done with that, you're now ready to move on to Chapter three. 14. Image Types: Versions Overview : It. For this chapter, we're going to focus more on the different types of images that you can make with Midjourney and what are some of the creative features that you can utilize when trying to make those type of images? For this lesson, we're going to focus more on humans, faces, limbs, and anything that involves a lot of complicated features. Unlike a bell pepper or a Jalapino with humans, we're dealing with hair, skin, eyes, eyebrows, ethnicity, race, age, even gender. All those factors play into how Midjourney interprets your prompt. Now, this is one of the most used features of Midjourney. It's also one of the most requested uses of Midjourney because people are just trying to create realistic humans, like you see on the screen right now. But the problem is, as we all know, AI has a history of struggling with faces and especially when it comes to limbs. In the previous lesson when we were trying to do that ceramic cup in a hand, we saw that it gave us additional fingers, it gave deformed fingernails, shorter fingers than the others and there were just a bunch of weird outputs that we saw. That was with a very straightforward prompt. But ever since version six, those areas have improved a lot. However, you still need some strategy for that ceramic cup, which I'll just bring to remind you guys what it looked like. So here we use Version seven, which is the latest version, but we still got some weird results. It doesn't really matter which version you use, of course, the later the better. You still have to be very specific with your prompt and use certain keywords to trigger my journey to pay more attention to the fingers and the human structures in general. Before I dive into how we can get better faces and hands and all, I'm just going to walk you through the different versions because pretty sure you may have wondered why we use Version seven for some things and then Version six for the others. Versions are basically the new models that Midjourney gets to use and every time they work on something new, they release a new version. Each of these versions are known for one thing or multiple things. Usually you would use the latest one by default. However, going back to some of the versions give you more opportunity to experiment with certain things. Going back to version one, which was the very first public version that Midjourney gave out, that was very experimental and people just don't use that anymore. However, some like to use it because of its rough outputs. I'm going to just show you the different version with a very simple subject and you can just see for yourself. Let's do a sponge character. Tanning on the beach. Then we'll do dash dash version one. You can see one over here. This is also referred to as the Alpha version and you can see already it's taking a lot of time to develop this simple prompt. Here's our Version one prompt. Already, the size is very small, and it's not looking exactly like a sponge character tanning at all. You can see the options down here are also a lot limited compared to one of the version seven. But if you're into this sort of art style, which is very abstract, it's very messy, you can just go back to Version one by typing in Version one. Now, Version two improved the realism and composition a bit more. It also handles the colors better. Right now, we have this very vibrant yellow and it just doesn't look that good on the eye. It also gave us the opportunity for more consistent images. A lot of people refer back to this version for fantasy scenes, but not human faces because it's still struggled with that. Let's do dash version two. Better yet, let me just show you what humans look like. We will go for a man with a top hat and fire mustache. Let me just show you Version one and then we'll do the same thing with version two. I think humans are a better way to show you the improvements within the versions. Already you can see the speed between Version one and two. This one's already at 56. This guy is still going on from 13. So here's Version two. It has an outline of a man but not really a man and it's very artsy, I would say, even though we didn't ask for illustration or colored pencils. Here again, we have very random shapes that don't really resemble what we asked for. Then we go into Version three, which was a big jump in photorealism and it also was supposed to improve human figures and anatomy. Let's try the same prompt with Version three. The different communities, people use this version for fantasy, sci fi, and just general purpose realistic arts because of its more predictable outputs. Whereas here, it was just completely unpredictable. So here we can see the jump from this guy to this guy. It looks more like a person, but not exactly that human figure we were looking for and it's definitely a lot better from version one. The fourth version was a complete model redesign because it was supposed to give us a stronger realism and more creative freedom. I also works better with complex prompts. This is a very simple prompt, but I'm still going to show you what that looks like. On version four. This was known for stylized concept arts, portraits, dramatic lighting, and it was also supposed to handle intricate prompts better. Immediately, we are seeing actual humans, and it was pretty fast when giving us the subjects. It's more concept art, I would say, but at least we're getting the features. Jumping onto Version five and 5.1 because they did release both. I was meant to give us near photorealistic outputs, sharp detail, improved depth, and better handling of humans. It was also supposed to be faster and higher resolution. Let's see that for ourselves by putting in Version five. Then we'll do Version 5.1. And just compare. People also use this apart from realistic portraits, they use it for landscapes, product mockups and cinematic visuals. This is version five. We're seeing that depth of field. Contrast, we even got some smoke and here his mustache is actually on fire. Here we're getting a lot more detail with our subject. Now their top hat is on fire. However, that mustache is pretty consistent. I didn't really specify the outfits, but it goes well with their top hat. Next, we have Version six. This was supposed to be the cutting edge realism with better consistency. It was also supposed to have a improved understanding of composition and the styles that you mentioned. We worked with Version six previously, and to point out here, this is the version you have to use for multi prompting, which was the thing we did with, I believe the mushroom castles. These were Version seven. These were version six. When we multi prompted, we had to use B six. Let's go back up and see what our prompt looks like with Version six. Which I would say it's the version that a lot of people go back to. The earlier versions, not so much unless you want to do a specialized project. But in my opinion, it gets better from Version five and up. You can go to Version four if you want these concept arts, but they're not really for me. You can just see the speed of this guy, and here we're actually getting the better understanding part because I asked for the mustache to be on fire, and here we can see that it actually is. The last version is the latest version as of April 3, 2025. So that is Version seven, and this guy was known for enhanced realism, even more realism. It also gives us the great improvements regarding textures, lighting, and anatomy. It also gives us draft mode, which is the feature that allows for us to just experiment and prototype the images ten times the speed and have the cost of standard rendering. This is for you to just experiment, see which prompt and which image looks best before you use the full credit requirements and publish it on the community. Is also the personalization feature, which we talked about earlier in the chapters, where you get to rate a series of images, and it's going to enable Version seven to work according to your needs. If you're really into mockups and you keep telling Midjourney through the personalization, that that's the type of thing you want to create, Version seven will keep that in mind when you're asking for a product mockup. It has even better improved prompt interpretation. It works better with complex prompts with the realism factor. Another thing that you can do with this is that you get to use the reference code from 6.1, which is that CID reference. Let's see what this looks like. I will go with one of those seed references or dash dash seed. Let's do the 42420 and you can see that it didn't switch to another version. Here's our version seven thing. This one looks amazing. Great detail. We got the fire reflection, and this is with a seed reference, completely different, but it's looking pretty good. You can do the same thing with the other ones. 2025, the ones that we went over previously, and a tip, I think using SRF rather than C works better with the earlier version. Here's another reference that we used previously. It's giving us this illustration, which looks pretty cute and you can just see the jump from this to this. Those were just a quick overview of the different versions in case you were wondering why we're switching to six and then seven. Then of course, how did Midjourney evolve from version one, which is this guy two version seven. It definitely works a lot better, especially with humans, and that's going to be the main point of our next lesson where I tell you how to work better with humans, their faces, and their limbs. We're going to go for prompting, what words you can use, what tricks you can try to get certain effects, and then you would be a lot more comfortable and ready for our project chapters. 15. Human Faces and Limbs: Alright, welcome back. Now we're going to go over how we can generate better human faces using prompting. So let's go to Explore and see what people use to generate great works like this one. So we have an attractive woman, head turned to look out from behind and towards another man walking by, shot through glass reflection, natural lighting, natural colors. This is Midjourney understanding of an attractive woman looking out the window. Pretty simple. I will say that Midjourney doesn't really struggle with faces. I mostly struggles with limbs like the ceramic hand that we saw. Let me see some more. Let's get some human faces. For example, this person's finger, there's four. Here we're getting three. And the rest is fine. Then of course, we have an extra leg for some reason. But you can see that their faces look perfectly fine. They are all smiling. The position of the arms is also pretty natural, but it just struggled with some of the basic features. We have another example. Face looks great. Her arms look good too. It's not always, but that's the area you would have to work on later. Here we're getting this cut in her pinky. I don't know what's going on there, but her face looks pretty good. This is an area that AI still struggles with. It could be because it doesn't get trained on that many finger images, legs, images, and all that stuff, but mostly faces. And unless you're doing a super close up, it will not really generate the right amount of fingers, natural looking fingers, give you extra foot and all that stuff. Even though the versions are getting a lot better, as we saw in the last lesson, you still need strategy when using these tools. First of all, you have to mention more details about that subject. Apart from seeing a man or a woman or a child, you have to be more specific regarding their ethnicity, their age, what mood is that photo in? What's the lighting in that photo? Instead of saying a woman, you should say something like a 30-year-old woman with curly hair, brown curly hair, smiling with warm natural light. We're going to try that right now. A 30-year-old woman with brown hoops. Brown curly hair. Then we can have her smiling, warm natural light. Here's our first woman smiling, which is not that bad. But if I'm looking for a certain type of subject, I need to be straightforward with me journey. Giving more details in your prompts allows me journey to ground itself when generating your prompts. It's going to be adding certain types of details that give you a more natural human figure. You can see how much more detail we have here, the friz in her hair, the harsh warm light coming in, the shadows. Even we got dimples, freckles, brown eyes, and all of that. The other ones are not bad looking, however, they do look very generic. And don't really match that subject that I was going for. We're also getting different styles here. This has a retro look to it. This is more cool toned, so is this one and this one's warm toned. Whereas here with this prompt, I was able to get all warm tones for my subject. If you know the specifications regarding your subject, be sure to say it. We can also add in different elements here. A 30-year-old, let's say Albanian woman. With brown curly hair, smiling, we have age, race, gender, some features, and the lighting. Now it's going to be incorporating some known Albanian features. If you're going to be working with different ethnicities, you do want to specify that over here. You can do the same thing with race as well. Just put in the word like I did here. You can see now it's not that different. However, it's more focused on the face. The eyes are a bit more open, and we're getting more details regarding clothing too. And these look really good. Now, when you're dealing with faces, because there are close ups, we do want to add some camera terms as well. These would be your technical terms from our basic formula, and when I just use the same prompt and fix the natural light, there are some things I should put after. Because I just want to deal with faces and I want Midjourney to really focus on giving me the most amount of details, I need to put in words like portrait photography. Which is the type of photography that is done of the face and not the body. We can go for golden hour, which is when the sun is setting and the light reflects on the face, but in a very warm tone, similar to this one, we can put in the location even. But I'm going to skip to the camera lens. We're going to act as if this was taken with a camera. An aperture of 1.8 and let's do ultra Definition, the injection, trick we learned about earlier, and let's do four k quality. Here's our new set of images, a lot more definition that aperture lens is really coming through and the detail is just amazing. As I mentioned, with faces, it doesn't really hallucinate much. Now let's move on to hands, which is the bigger struggle that any AI tool has with this particular subject. We're going to make a very simple image. Let's say woman with hands hoops. One sentence, I'm not saying what that hand is doing, where it is, what's the lighting, and immediately it assumes that I want the woman with her hands visible. It's not bad, but I wasn't intending for human faces to be in there. We got to just take this very simple prompt and give it less room to hallucinate. I putting the human face in there, even though I didn't say portrait photography or great face details, it just puts the face in there. Because I only said woman. Let's put in more words. Woman holding, let's say, a te monk with both hands resting on a table. So we're going to give it less room for hallucinations by describing what the hand is doing. In my case, it's holding a coffee mug and both of the hands are resting on a table. Then we could add in the other terms. I'll do superior, actually. We can say golden hour, street photography, which is a different type of photography than portrait, fork quality, ultra definition. I'm just removing the lens specification. Instead, let's put in maybe 85 milliliter cannon lens. You can also do without the lens. I'll do one more. If you're not sure what lens you're supposed to use, there's no worries about that at all. Here's with our lens. We got the right amount of fingers, a slight fish eye effect, which is fine. Here we're getting a weird thumb. However, the number of fingers is fine, getting weird fingers again. And here the fingers are merging. It worked better here. We got the right amount of fingers, no human face though, which is fine. Here it looks pretty good. Just a little bit of up there, but we even got rings. We got more rings here, right amount of fingers. And here just getting this issue here. But you can see how just rerunning the prompt gives us better results. Again, I could just re run something with this as the input, and it could just work more on the fingers. If I'm doing a ring commercial, this is a type of prompt I need to give it rather than this. Now let's try this in even more definitions. Both hands resting on a table, we can say comma fingers coping in monk. Then we can even switch to a different style. So let's go for dramatic or just cinematic maybe. And then we'll do just for fun, watercolor. Here it's looking a lot better. We even have that dramatic cinematic look. Then for fun, I just did a watercolor version. If you saw that only one of them out of the four looks the best, remember that you can always re run that image to get different variations of that correct version. Let's do variation, strong. This image has strong influence over these. So to summarize, start with a strong prompt, a lot of definition regarding your subject. Once you find a correct version in one of the outputs, re run that with variations. Now, try this yourself with a different subject and maybe put it in different styles. 16. References: This is where Midjourney allows you to have more personal control over your images where you get to rely on uploaded footage as references rather than just purely on text prompts. So what you can do is either use the images that you've made that are listed here in your Create tab or just upload something from your computer. We previously looked at the references. When you have this image, you have the option to use this as a structural guide, style guide, prompt, then we also have a omni reference in the back here, which is regarding the person's likeness and the form of an object if you're not using a human subject. Essentially, what that does is that when you put it here, it's going to look at the elements of your image. I'm just going to type in a man, very simple. But it's going to use this image as reference. You can see how similar the smile is and then we also have a similar face angle. He has curly hair. This guy looks pretty similar like a brother or something. Then this guy has the exact same lighting. All of them have that lighting. It's just the addition of the beard and the mustache, and of course, different facial features. Here you used the structure of the image. But we can also have this woman put in to image prompts. And then ask Midjourney to give it one of these glowing sparkly effects. I'm going to combine this subject with this look and then put in another really simple prompt, a woman. While that's happening, let's try to get different styles like anime sketch art without any reference, so I could just add it onto my subject here. Now, here's our subject, into an environment like this one. We have those sparkly glowing elements, curly hair, same lighting, same colors. Here's our animee sketch art. I could add this in my style reference and then put her in image prompts. Once again, I'll just do a woman. We can also take this a step further by putting this in style reference, omni reference, and image prompts. Omni reference is going to make sure that it looks exactly like her and there's no altercations when generating your new image. For example, here we go a different face. The hair is a lot straighter, a lot shorter, less puffy. Here we had shorter hair again, longer hair, and it makes these variations on its own. But now we have our subject in animee format. We even have a pencil down here. Here she has really long hair, but with our next set, which is still generating, it's going to follow it in a more stricter manner. Go ahead and run the same prompt, but I think it's too much for the reference. I want it to be less intense. Let's play around with this and I'll do one where we just have omni reference. Here's our subject, does have that colored pencil look, not exactly anime, but it's certainly not a actual photo. Once again, we have that same lighting hair, sweater almost. Then here I asked it to only look at the human subject at 75, it's 0-1 thousand. This is a very low reference. You can see it combined the hair from this image. And the subject from this image. She has wavy hair now. We have some sketches in the back too, which is fun. We can do the exact opposite by just taking in one of these subjects as reference and put in a woman. I will also try bringing her to life. You can see using this as an omnreference doesn't really do much because it's meant to influence another image. When I put it in, I just got the same thing, but I guess with a body. But here I added the sketch as an image prompt and I asked for a photo realistic portrait photography look. This is her sketch, and I guess this is her brought to life. Then from here, if I like one of these things, I could use this image as our image input. Here I switch to Version six just because it's known for better realistic shots, but I also do one with Version seven so we can see which one works better. Here's our photorealistic subject. This is what she looked like before. Now she's brought to life. Here's with Version seven, a lot more close up, but Version six gave us a full face. So we started from, I believe, which sketched do we used. From this image? This guy and we ended up here, all done using references. How else can we use references? As we saw, we turned a sketch into an actual photo. That's one of the main examples that you can try. You can also do the other way around where you take this realistic shot and you turn that into a sketch. We can also take a specific type of photography, like a Fuji film photography style and paste that effect onto a image like this. If you have a black and white film, camera. You can take a photo with that, upload it here, and then use it to turn her into a vintage model. Of course, remember that you can play around with the image weight or the omni weight with IW and OW. The image weight works better with the older versions. We have 0-3. With the omni weight, we have 0-1 thousand, there's a bigger range there. As we learned before, you can combine different styles from your uploaded images. If I have this image, let's say, I took this from my front, I could turn her into an anime character or maybe a three D character, a ego character, whichever I want to do. Now, you can try this yourself since we've reached the end of the lesson, where you combine different references, use either a human subject, different environments, different styles, and see what you can make to blend different concepts. So 17. Edit Tab Pt. 1: Midjourney isn't just about creating from scratch or from your favorite prompts. It's also about being able to edit and iterate your original ideas. There are some tools here in the Edit tab, which is right below Create that lets you take an image that we have into something completely next level. This tab is what we're going to explore in the next couple of lessons because it's pretty intense and it's pretty cool at the same time. First of all, to quickly access that part, all you have to do is grab your photo, then go to Edit. This will bring you to a version of the Edit tab. You can see we're still in Create and it's showing me the prom that I use for this image. On the edges, we have the ability to scale down or scale up. With this middle button, we can move our image around. We also have these smart guides. You can extend an image by grabbing the edges here, and then you are able to undo with the tools above. You can also reset the entire thing and go back to the original or reset the prompt. Here are some templates for your aspect ratio. This is the square which we currently have. This is scale in and out. Then down here, it's the tools that you get within the tab. The first one is erase, which as the name says, it erases the image. You can use a brush size to make your brush smaller and simply use it to erase parts of the image. The reason why you would do this is because it helps you blend in an image or images into each other, which we'll take a look at later. But as you can see, I'm just easily erasing the sides of my original footage. When I let go, it stays that way. If I made an accident like this, I could use the restore brush to bring back the original work. We also have a smart select feature which separates the components of your image all by itself. Right now, I only have a close up shot of a human face, but the way it would work is that you click once on that part and it detects the edges for you. You can erase that selection or erase the background, which means getting rid of everything except your selection. Can clear the selection like this by clicking that button and that concludes the in painting tools which are right over here. Then below it, we have some quick adjustments that we could do. First one being vary. You can vary in a subtle way using this as your reference or have it done in a stronger way, which means this original image will have more influence over the variations. Below, we have upscale, which means it increases the resolution of your image and provides you with more details. Once you're done with the prompt and your changes here, you can also change things up here, so edit your prompt. I'm going to turn this into a raw image, which as we said, makes it less creative and focuses on realism. Since this was a portrait photography, I do want to add raw there. All you have to do is put in rock and then we're going to hit submit Edit. Before you do that, you're also able to change the previous sliders, which we already went over and then see the new results. Here we go. I asked for a raw footage and we extended the edges of the image. AI was used to give the subject some hair, or details, maybe a sweater over here and it's looking pretty good. Once you see an image that you like, you can upscale it for even higher quality. Upscale, go for subtle if you want the original details or create it for Midjourney to put in a few additional elements. I'm going to try both for you guys. So you see the difference. We only get one upscale. Here's our subtle version and the creative version. You can see there's clearly a difference between the two. Now, if you want to dive deeper into editing, you just have to go down here, which will open in Edit tab. Now we're actually moved to the second tab. This was Create, which is where we were all this time, and now we're in this second tab. You have the two option between edit and re texture. Edit is in regards to the components of the image, whereas retexture is about the style, the mood, the texture of the overall image. The first thing you're able to do is get a prompt suggestion. So if I click this, it's going to do some thinking and give me a prompt based on this image. This is pretty accurate. It even gave us some cool technical things that we can look at. Close up freckles 6.1, it decided that 6.1 is the best thing here. The next thing you're able to do is move or resize. This is the exact same thing as the previous page where we were using the quick editing tab. Then we have paint, which is just the in painting features, erase to remove, restore to add, paint size, smart select, and then down here is where things get interesting. If you've used Photoshop or any other platform that deals with image editing, you've probably heard of layers. This is a new feature for Midjourney and it basically allows you to add different images on the same canvas, combine them, and have them interact. Right now, we have layer one, which is this layer, but I could add another image. You can add from File or add from URL. So I'm just going to go through some of the images that we've made so far and see what I could combine with my human subject. There is my second image and now you can see I have layer one layer two. When you have the checkmark selected, that means you're dealing with that image. If I choose layer one, I'm able to move it around. Select Layer two, I'm able to do the same thing. Then I could use something like this to combine the two images, maybe put both characters in one situation. Et's zoom in. You can add things from a URL as well if you don't want to upload from your local device. Then using the painting, you remove the extra edges from the top image. This gives Midjourney more room to play around and fill it in the empty areas with AI. Grab layer two and do the same thing. All right. Here is my base footage. Now since I have two subjects, I could do another prompt. We can go for raw and then try high resolution. Standard, 100 is good here and just simply let's go for landscape, submit our edit. When you submit an edit, your original is over here and you get all the variations on the side. You can add a new tab to start editing, a new project, essentially. But I'm just going to go over here and show you how Midjourney attempted to combine these two things. Before, after, you can see it extended some parts and tried to give a realistic look. Of course, it struggled because these are two really closed in faces placed next to each other, but that's okay because we're going to look at a better example later on. Now you can upscale this to the gallery, which means that it's going to give you a high definition full quality version and put it in the gallery with the rest of your work. You can also download the image to your local device. Now going back to that Edit tab, when you want to start something, you can also create a new image by clicking on that button. You can either start from a URL or upload an image from your local device. Then this way, you have the exact same tools to work with, but you get to decide your frame, maybe you start with a background image and then add on your different elements. The next thing is the re texture tab, which I will just go back to that first example to show you. When you go over here, things are relatively the same except for the fact that you're submitting re texture, which as I mentioned, is the overall mood, overall color, and it will preserve the original structure. What I will do is put cinematic dramatic. Raw version seven. Let's see what we get. The structure is pretty much the same. There is some hallucinations, but I think this one looks the most normal. You can see how it didn't even change the divide between our two footage, but it was able to add that cinematic and dramatic effect over the original components. That's how the we texture tab works. Same settings, same panels, it's just regarding a different part of the image. Now let's move on to our next lesson where I'll walk you through a decent example where we start by creating the different components of our remixed image. Use the edit tab, use the prompt structure, change it up, and then try to make a full composition using the create and edit tab. 18. Edit Tab Pt. 2: We're going to start with the different components of our composition and then put it all together with the edit tab. First, let's come up with a nice idea. I'm in the Explore tab and just scrolling through, you can get yourself some inspiration and then either use that image as an input or try to recreate it with the create tab. I'm going to go on random and see what thing we're dealing with here. I was thinking of putting a model in a gown standing on the moon surface with the Earth in the background. But you guys can come up with your own concepts and scrolling through these amazing works can get you inspired. Let's head over to our creative and first, we have to decide the structure of the composition, meaning that it's certainly going to have to be a landscape shot so we can actually fit in all the other components. I'm going to go for 16 by nine landscape and everything else is going to be the default choices, except I'll choose raw for the mode because I'm going to go for a hyperrealistic shot. If you want to do illustration or other things, be sure to switch to standard and work back through the versions. Maybe version five or six to get better aesthetic results. Now let's use our prompt box. You can say background or maybe hyperrealistic, background photo maybe landscape photo. Then we're going to do period, ultra definition, and all the classic terms that we've been using. Here I'm using landscape photography to force it to go for a Zoomed out situation. And we're getting some pretty decent things. You can see that it even worked out the moon's surface and the Earth is pretty far back. We have some options to work with. I think this one looks the coolest. I definitely love the little hill situation, and then we can put our model right in the center. What I want to do now is redo the Earth because it looks like a moon. What I'm going to do is put this in here and remove earth. My put space with space in the back. We're going to do some strong variations as well. Just compare things and see what works. Put that in there, our original prompt. Then what we're going to do to not include the element Earth, we can do no Earth. These are pretty good. I'm trying to decide if I want the Earth to be here or if I want to do another image and merge it into our background. But I'm liking these so far. Let's see the one where we say no Earth. As you can see, Midjourney Listen. We do have the sun in the back and there's just no signs of Earth. The no command is one of the ways that you get to exclude things within your images if you were not to move to the Edit tab. I think my favorite would have to be the guy. I'm going to heard it for now so that I could come back to it and simply upscale it for the perfect starting point. See before and after. I'm going to filter through my footage. This is before, this is after you can see the texture and quality coming in. I will also do a creative version so we can compare and decide which one works best for us. I'm just going to hide this since I decided to keep the Earth in the background. I think this looks better, let's heard it and work on the other components. Back to the creative tab, we're going to input this image as a style and then put in the next element. We can do a spaceship or maybe we can do a model wearing a red gown, a long red gown. With her hair in an upto loading up slightly and her hand reaching out. To this side. Hyperrealistic, full body four k quality, and then we'll do dash for all. We will try it this way and then another way that you can try this is removing that style reference, finding the way your model looks like, and then merging it with another photo of a dress. If I can't really get her position, that's something I could recreate without this input. So this looks pretty good. Her face not so much and these guys I'm not sure why she's facing the other way. But so far, this is my favorite. Let's now create some variations and we run the same prompt. This is our strong variation. This is our subtle. Actually liking this one now. I'm not sure what those are, but we can get rid of that with the exclude brush. You think this outfit is more space looking, not so sure about that area. So now, once we have the position of our model decided on, I think I'll go with this one. We can use it as a image brant, not using the moon background anymore and putting in the same text. Okay? Let's see. After sight we can do her skirt is very long and is floating in the air as well, showing its velvet. It's smooth fabric. Then of course, dash dash a. I'll do a hyperrealistic model here. Now, while this is happening, I'm going to ask a chat bot to enhance this just so that we're using all the things we learned about, enhance this prompt to make my image more surreal, focus on the flow of the dress and hair floating in the air due to gravity. Put a quotation mark and paste that prompt. Then this is for Midjourney. Midjourney version seven. Let's paste that and compare the two. Here's our first prompt, which I think looks great. The fingers are okay, and I'm loving the outfit too. Then this one is completely magical. This is our second set. It's almost done. Once again, it looks pretty good. I'm gonna run this again, but with a white background so that it's easier to separate when we put it in the edi tab. Now, this is even better because we see the entire subject, and it's not cut off at the bottom. All right, so let's take a look at the fingers. Got some hallucinations there. This one looks fine. You can't really see her fingers here. And the last one, it's a little weird. But focus more on the composition of this image for now because eventually, my journey would have to regenerate her anyway. For now just focus on the dress and the position of the model. I think this one looks the best for now. I'm going to like it so that I could find it easier. Then going back to our backdrop, I'm going to think of other things to put in here. If she's standing here, I think we do need to remove the Earth. Yeah. I think I'll replace the Earth with our subject and then work on some other elements, maybe. Let's try perhaps a shooting star. Then put this as our style reference. Just make sure that the aspect ratio and the style is consistent, or else they will not really fit well together when we push them all in one image. There is our shooting store. I think this one looks pretty cool. I'll just upscale this and then we forgot to do the same thing with our other model. With the images that you've already upscaled and finalized, just download them. Okay, so now we have three images to combine into one and then later on we can re texture it to put in an overall mood or an overall element, maybe some sparkle dust or a fade film scenario, which we will do in the next lesson. Now that we've reached the end of this lesson, make sure you have your background image, your main subjects, and that additional element. Upscale them, edit your prompt, whatever you have to do, and just download them so that you're ready to move on to the next lesson where we move to the edit tab. 19. Edit Tab Pt. 3: In the Edit tab, we're going to start by making a new image and then upload our background image in here. Once we have that, we can add our other components by using the ad button and just doing the same thing with that additional element. Once I have all three, I can start positioning them and resizing them to fit nicely on my background image. Move resize, scale it down, move it to other places. For the model, we're going to have her be somewhere in the front for sure. Then the star, I think I will increase the size and have it go from the end. Now you have to clean up the edges and once again, give Midjourney more room to work with. Starting with layer two, which is our subject, go to paint. Actually, we can do Smart select because she's very easy to separate. Click once on her. If you missed the spot, just do another click and it should give you a nice separation, then I'm going to erase the background. Now with the top image because it's a little harder, I'm just going to switch to paint and start cleaning out those areas. Now that I can see the head, I'm going to just position her in front of the earth and then go to layer three, which is our base layer, use the paint tool to remove the areas around the other images. Because we want Midjourney to remix the two and think of ways to connect the different colors and different elements. Go to go to layer two and clean up this area. Let's try to make the brush a little bit tinier, roughly, remove this middle part. Now I have my three elements. Going to clean up the edge here as well. Okay. Then maybe this little moon or sun, whatever it is, and leave little room for hallucinations. Layer three, remove that part two, and I'm just going to go behind it to make sure I don't miss a spot in the back. Same thing here. Now we're just going to put in a prompt. Let's start with this and then edit in our other elements. You can see I input those two elements as you saw. Everything else should be the same. I'm going to do maybe a little bit of variety, a tiny bit of weirdness. I'm just curious what results we're going to get. Hence why I did that. Now we have journey's attempt at merging everything. This is our weird and variety sliders coming into play. I would say this is the best one. I worked around the selection we made, which is fine, since we're going to re texture this anyway. But overall, you can see how it generated and filled in the empty spots that we had. This is where we started. Then with this prompt Midjourney filled in these pixelated areas with what it thought works best. Now, in terms of which one I want to use, think I want the one where the model's hair is in the air. Then I'm going to extend the frame a little bit. Something like that. Let's actually go to the ratios 16 by nine and zoom out a bit. I will submit this again so it can work on expanding the background just to make things a little bit more dramatic. Right now, you don't have to worry about the colors not matching and all of that, even though we did use our background image as one of these style reference inputs. But overall, we're going to do the final coloring and blending with the re texture tab. I think this one looks better. I like the shadows. Once you have that selected, simply go over here and put in the different values. Cinematic, cool tone, color grading, bright highlights. And then we can do maybe some stars in the background. Dash dash, I think we have the settings here. Let's try one with these and then remove the weird and the chaos for another set of results. For my purposes, I wasn't able to get the re texture tab to give me at least the original structure of my image. What I will do is run that same color grading effect into my edit tab. I think that will be safer. Hopefully, by the time you guys watch this course, the capabilities of the re texture is a lot better and it listens more to the prompt. Let me just input our things here Glue tone colors, cinematic, dramatic. Then for the sky, I want to put stars in there too, blue sky, starry sky. We got some stuff in the back. And this is looking a lot better. I'm not too sure about that shooting star aspect, what I will do is go to paint and erase it completely and then ask Midjourney to replace it with a longer shooting star. Right now, Midjourney is only working with this little section. Oops. Here's our different shooting stars. I forgot to change the prompt, but nonetheless it understood the assignment. When I zoom in, even though the quality is not that good right now, we can see that it did a really good job with the subject's hair. The only thing missing really is the shadows from the subject. I'm going to attempt to do something with that. Let's erase the bottom part or any part that needs the shadows and then mention the shadow casting. Shadow casts onto the moon surface round the gown. Now it gave us a little bit of shadow, which works pretty well, especially this part. Overall, a good look. Now that I have my completely edited and generated image, I could upscale it to the gallery. That's going to push it back to the Crea tab where it's working on giving us the highest quality possible for this image. There we have it. This is our image made completely from scratch, meaning that we worked on each component separately, brought them into the edit tab, combined them, blended them in, and we got ourselves this really cool model environment where this person is advertising that dress. Can also try this yourself with a simpler concept, since this took a long time, you can generate something like a bowl of salad and then blend in your favorite vegetables. Now that we are comfortable with the edit tab and the create tab, it's now time to move to a different image type, which is patterns. 20. Patterns and Tiles: System Midjourney isn't just for photos. It's also great for patterns, textures, and other design experimentation. So if you ever wanted a pattern to put onto your mockup or put into the background of your poster, you can also come to Midjourney to make one. So there are a couple of ways to perfect the pattern prompts, and I'm just going to show you a before and after. First of all, let's decide on what is the pattern. I will go with a very simple flower pattern and then we can do a geometric one so we can see how Midjourney handles the repetition that either has to be symmetric or has to be abstract. Let's start with a 16 by nine. I will reset this to normal, go back to standard, since it is mostly an illustration. Go over here and do a background of many flowers. Two D Illustration, vibrant colors, and then that's it, something very simple and see how a journey interprets many flowers. So as you can see, it did give me a background. However, this is not a pattern. We define a pattern as a seamless repetition of a certain element, whether it's a stripe pattern, it's a poka dot pattern, it's something that needs to repeat consistently. Here we're getting different elements at different sizes and it's just simply a background. To convert this into a pattern, simply grab the same prompt, and I will change these words with seamless floral wallpaper with various flowers and then put in the word pattern. Let's run this again. Then we'll do another one where we put in the keyword tile, the parameter dash tile. You can see this went into one of the tags. So here you can see the jump from this simple background to the high dimension flower wallpaper. We're getting, I guess, that's a butterfly, different angles from the flowers. We got I guess acrylic paint going on, and some pretty cool colors. Now, here's our seamless pattern. You can see how everything is flat in a sense, meaning that if we were to have a glass surface in front of us, all of these flowers would be meeting that glass at the same time. Whereas here we had some that are a little far away, different angles, some shadows, et cetera. We can also try this with a different type of pattern. The whole point here is to use the word pattern, seamless and add the parameter tile. Let's try geometric pattern with the colors black and gold, modern luxury. I think that's good tile. I will do another one with the word seamless. Now we're getting some pretty cool backgrounds. If I put the same prompt without the tile, we're going to get something a little different. This is with seamless added in. It's doing a better job at the repetitions. Of course, it's not that perfect. And this is without the tile. Already, we can see it struggling with the connections, which in a way, it is still pretty good, but it's not exactly a tile design where every part of it somehow connects. We have the dark colors with the shiny gold, but that disappears here. The first one, we're not getting there's no pattern to begin with. Here the lines are merging and here we have a bunch of random shapes. But when we use the word tile, we can see the consistency at every edge of the photo. Squares everywhere, these shapes everywhere. That's just Midjourney way of understanding consistency for a pattern. We can also put in a whole different design. Let's try seamless B wallpaper, pastel tones, dash dash tile. And there's our B background. This one is pretty good. What we can also do is use your pattern, just like we did with the other images and experiment with different colors and aesthetics. Let's try one that is maybe retro 90s web graphics, tile. However, we uploaded our favorite pattern as a image prompt, so it should keep the structure of this photo. I will try another thing, once again, put that in as a image prompt and try a different design. Let's try this. Then just for fun, we'll do one more that is completely different. Here's our 90s retro web graphics. We can see the green coming through. The colors are definitely retro and we even have some glow over here. This is our baghouse, I guess, that's how you pronounce it. It's a lot more modern, a lot more flat. But again, we have our first piece. This is our serials dreamscape. A lot more detail on our Bs and we even have some flowers thrown in. Now, because this is a tile file, when we edit it using the same tab that we looked at in the previous lesson, let's open it here. You can extend this to whatever size works for you. I could extend this to get the rest of my B. To trigger it, I could just erase a tad bit from the edges here so that it could work on connecting this new section with the older one. With the B, the flour, and this other B. I think this is another B too, then we got a half flour. Let's do the same prompting open another tab here and see what I wrote. Seamless B wallpaper, paste that here, da tile. But now it's only going to work on this side. There we go. Got some variations, same style, same bees, but it's extended. That's how you can create easy patterns with Midjourney. If something is not to your liking, for example, this area, remember, you can always use the erase tool to have Midjourney try that section once again. All I have to do erase it, put the exact same prompt and see a different version of that B. Now you try this yourself with different aesthetics. You can pick your favorite subject, turn it into a pattern like we did with the B and then put it into the aesthetics that we looked at. We went over Surreal dreamscape, BahusRtro 90s web graphics, pastel tones, and you can even try a luxury version and just see for yourself how this pattern technique works. 21. Motion: You can now create short looping animation using your images that you made in your journey. When we went to the Explore tab, there's a video tap, where you get to see these amazing works animated. All of these started with a image. And then people animated it. However, Midjourney does have the option for you to start animation from scratch. What we're going to do is go to our crea tab and start by bringing some of these guys to life. Right over here, we have Auto and then Loop. Auto is going to create a video starting from this image and then Loop is just going to create a looping animation of some movements within your image, but then start back on this original scene. So let's go with high motion on both with this very simple flower look. While that's happening, I'm going to zoom into a human subject. Try that in. Now we are still 50%. I'm doing four animations at the same time, so I don't blame it at all. But the eye version that we're doing, I'm going to try the frame animation so not the loop and show you how this is going to work. So we have this really high quality, highly detailed people with green and purple. I'm just going to upscale it and try some different variations. That's basically going to be our start frame which we looked at, I here. Animate an image, but with a starting frame. Here's my first looping animation of this really nice flower background. You can see how it starts from our first image and then continues on. That's a loop. There's a starting point, it does around and then comes back to that starting point. The symbol for a looping animation is this, but we're able to rerun the same prompt or use it as a starting frame and extend the video. This is really cute. The others are still running. Let's go up here and look at these really defined images. I think I will go with this one. Now I'm going to drag this into my image reference, put this guy in and do a super Zoom parto realistic image showing only the people's details. And then run that prompt. Hopefully, our animations are done. This is our video. It does not loop. You can see that doesn't go back to the starting frame. You have different types of videos. This is a pan motion. We have each of the elements moving left and right. Then this one where it separates the butterfly and pops in one of the flowers. Midjourney is clearly very diverse with these videos. We even have a three D animation where this flower is moving in three D space. There's a flower blooming and here is the flowers just acting differently. And it looks pretty cool. This is our other subject. She's attempting to walk. She even turns around. You can see the way it moves through three D space, zooms in. I didn't really ask for any movement yet. It's pretty interesting how it understands that this is a human subject and that's a dress that she gets to move around with her fingers. This is the loop, so it just goes in, comes back out. When you have a video, I'm not going to do the loop ones because there's not much to do with them, but when you have a video that you like, you can extend it. I'm going to take this footage because it zooms in on her face and then it stops. You can go to extend manually. Starting frame will be this video, and then we can say what the model does. Model stars into the camera with an enchanted look on her face. Or maybe with a smile on her face. Her hair is floating in the air. You can decide the motion here and generate. I'm going to let my video extend as it is marked here. I'm doing high 16 by nine. Now it's nine second. Previously was 5.2, so that's definitely an extension. Then we will come back and see what we have. This is 9 seconds long and you can see the model's phase is a lot more defined since the camera does eventually zoom in. These are different variations and you can see how much detail goes into each of these seconds. Down here you can see where the extension happened. It started from 5 seconds and then extended to nine. You can also make this full screen. If you wanted to check for any imperfections, you have the option to then re run this, use this as a start frame, so you can extend it further, use the prompt, and then go for even more extension over here. Let's take that out and that's how you get to turn a static image into motion and then extend it. Now let's go back to our eyeball. You can prompt this subject as we did and then animate it for social media purposes, album covers, or even storyboards. It's still in Beta, but as you can see, did a pretty good job with the details and the consistency within our starting frame. One thing that I want to try while this is happening is zoom out from our first image. Starting frame, but I'm going to move it to I'm not sure which eball we ended up using. Let me try. I think we use this. Track this into image prompt and then to a woman's face with both her eyes being green and purple. Hyperrealistic, portrait photography. My goal is to zoom out of this eye and then show her full face. Here are the eyeballs. Great shadows over there. We even have pupil movements. This is the second one. There's some dilation. Because this is zooming into her eye by default, I'm just going to extend this starting frame and then I'm going to do my zoom out situation. Because the other images, it didn't really zoom out that much. So but let's go to that same video. We'll do let's see. Portrait of a woman with purple and green eyeballs, gorgeous eyes, great detail in her pupils. Then let's see, soft features, red lipstick, hyperrealistic. Same terms that we've been using all this time. Portrait photography. And just submit that. Let's see if it can understand the fact that we want to zoom out and show the full face. That can be hard to do. Usually, the other way around works better. But my main goal was to get this galaxy looking pupil moving and of course, have the lashes move in a natural way too. So with motion, there are some options down here. The first one is a resolution that we already went over. SD is your standard definition, HD is high definition. So you may want to switch if you're doing a specific aesthetic. Then we have video batch size, which is 1-4. If you want something more concentrated, you would want to do one per generation. But if you're just trying to deal and finalize the concept, you can go with four. Then of course, the rest is your usual things. When you have a video like the one here, you can go to more and just re run it, copy it. Make other things with it. When you go inside, extend this with one of the auto features, low motion means that there's not a lot of movement. High motion means that there is a lot of movements. Now, I chose high motion for all of my works and that's why there's a lot of movement in her dress. She's moving around a lot. But if I were to extend this with low motion, her movements should be a lot less dramatic. I'm going to let these two run. Video does take longer to generate naturally. That's why we're not going to see the results until about a minute max, so I will be right back. So here's our extended one to 12 seconds now. Here's when it turns to low motion. Here was high, high low. You can see how around here she stops swinging around so much and the camera just zooms in on her face. We got a bunch more, I'm going to skip. Once again, we zoomed in on the subject space. That's just Midjourney determining the next move for us. Now here's the next one to go in here, it's supposed to be zooming out. However, it did not really understand the prompt and it instead just zoomed in even more very slightly. Got some eye movement, got a blinking as well. And it didn't really zoom out. But I will say as a general tip, if you see one of your base videos, zoom in by default, just keep on extending upon that because Midjourney already understood that that's the main subject and I need to zoom in or zoom out in another case. Instead of me ever typing zoom in on the subject, it did it for me. Extending that is no problem, and as we continue on extending, it's going to work more on the subject face. Because as you recall, the image that we made initially because it was in the editor, didn't really have a good face. It's deformed it's not fully there, and then the second one was just completely out of the picture. You can see how the motion fixed all of that and gave us a pretty cool result in the end. That's the motion feature. They're still working on it, but as you can see, it's really easy to use and all you have to do is press a bunch of buttons. Now, try this with your own creations from the last couple of lessons with the editor tab and see what motions you can create with Minturing. 22. Post Production: Midjourney outputs are amazing, as you've seen so far in this chapter, but you can also take this another step further using the post production tools that are available to you. So these tools that I'm going to mention are not part of Midjourney. However, if you are proficient in the tools that I'm going to mention, you can really generate some great content for, as we said, your social media, your portfolio, and other platforms. The first tool is going to be an obvious one that is Photoshop. Whole thing about Photoshop is that the editor that we use in the previous lessons, that's something that you could have done in Photoshop as well. However, Midjourney brought it into the editor tab, so you don't have to export your work, import it into Photoshop, do the editing, then bring it back into Midjourney. You can completely finalize your work within Midjourney, use the same AI model to do those little fixes and then bring it into Photoshop. With Photoshop, you get to retouch the images. A great example would be the composition that we made. It looked great, but when you zoomed in, our subject doesn't really have a face. That's something you could fix with Photoshop. It's a really tiny space. And if we were to regenerate this, we would get rid of the rest of our work. Another thing that you could do with Photoshop is putting stuff in the background while maintaining this entire section. If you try to do that with Midjourney, it may alter the texture on the moon. I may change the height of these hills and replace it with something else. To avoid that, you can bring it onto another platform like Photoshop. You also have the layer option, which means you get to separate each of your edits in a separate layer, and then that way you can work your way back and forward in a more efficient way. It's not one permanent image so that if you mess it up a little, you have to start over. But you can go to that one layer that has that problem, fix it, and then go about the rest of the editing. It's the same concept as the layers in the edit tab. Just to show you right over here. You have this exact same capability within Photoshop, but with a lot more options. If you're not familiar with Photoshop and that seems too intimidating, don't worry because now we have Canva. Canva is a free online photo editor tool where you get to make quick layouts, social media posts, marketing visuals, and so many more. They even have animations and presentation slides. If you make your perfect image or your perfect mockup, you can just export it from Midjourney and bring it onto your Canva. That way, you're relying on perfectly customized work for your, let's say, sales pitch, for your social media, just remember that you do have to label it as AI if you did generate the photo with Midjourney. The last thing is something called Topaz Labs. This is a tool that also uses AI, but it's used to upscale images for print and digital use without losing quality. So here in Midjourney, we do have an upscale feature, but that only upscales to Midjourney maximum, which is not anywhere close to what we need for an actual print, like a giant print screen, a billboard, and that sort of thing. So when you upscale it, you can see that this is our aspect ratio now. It used to be 16 by nine, so you can see how much it expanded. But with a print or a large digital screen, you want even more than that. Go ahead and export things from your journey, import it into Topaz, and then try to experiment with posters, merge, large prints, et cetera. The only free tool from the ones that I mentioned was Canva. However, if you do want to use Photoshop and you don't want to pay for it or want to see if it's even something you'd like to use, there is something called Photopea. This is pretty much like Photoshop except it's free. So you can try things here. You can see all the exports you get to do, and there's a lot that you can create. Now, before I end the chapter, I'm going to show you guys the personalized tab because it's really straightforward, but you just have to spend time and rate the images in order to unlock a profile. So you can see, when you go on this one, there's this weird number with P, this code. Same thing for these guys, where basically, when you do this, it's going to use what you like within your profile, so your aesthetic and apply it to your new image generations. These three pictures that you see, which you can refresh like this are from someone's profile. Notice how similar these styles are even though the concept, the subject is different. When you use the term dash dash P, it's going to put in your profile and you will get these really nice consistent styles across your generations. Right now, by default, your personalization is locked. All you have to do is create a new profile and then start collecting. So in B seven profiles, you can also do the same thing with the other versions. You just go in there and you have to rate 200 images for majoring to understand your aesthetic and preferences. I really like realistic things, and I'm going to keep that consistent with my ratings. You can also skip an image if none of them is to your style. And it will give you another set. So once you do this, you're able to unlock the profiles. So take some time to do this yourself, and at the same time, you're able to see what sort of works you get to create using Midjourney and all of the tools that we've been over so far. Now I want you guys to take an image that you've made with Midjourney, export it to either Canva, Photoshop or Photopea, and see what sort of post production works you can make. You can try a poster, social media post, a presentation, just a photo, and just see what you can come up with. I 23. Project 1: Your Dream Room - Moodboard and Inspiration: Welcome to our first project where we're going to design your dream room. Think of this as building your personal oasis, the kind of space that perfectly reflects you. But before we touch on building the images in Midjourney, we need to gather some inspiration for that personal space that we all want to have. Can draw inspiration from your current room, a room you've seen on the Internet. But this lesson is just for us to create our first moodboard within Midjourney and get some inspiration from Google Images or Pinterest. I'm going to use Pints for this lesson, but you can use any other platform, and we're going to start searching for rooms, different design styles, or even color palettes that we find interesting. The reason for that is because Midjourney is going to work best when you have clarity about your own vision. We're not going to be using the Explore page anymore, but external platform. When you come on Pinters, if you haven't used it before, it's a platform where people put in their work. You can draw a lot of inspiration, make moodboards on PinterS and basically organize your different ideas based on the colors, the styles, the project. People like to comment and like, you can save stuff. It's really cool platform if you haven't used it before. Before we start searching, you have to ask yourself, what does that dream space look for you? Is it a modern minimalist area, cozy cottage core, high tech cyberpunk? Is it earthly filled with plants? Is it full of fun shapes, fun colors? What does that room look like to you? Spend about five to 10 minutes thinking about the room you want. If you're just not sure what to even start searching for, you can just put in dream space. Or better yet dream room. Plenty of options. You can see they're all rather different. We have one where there's a lot of black and white pictures, we got plants, we got green on green. We have floral stuff, lights, and a lot of really beautiful rooms. Now, the point of this project is not to create something that's realistic because you can actually make this if you had the budget and you were able to put in a bunch of plants and lights in your current room. But we're going to be doing some rooms that are just impossible to make. If you're really into robots, your room is going to be filled with different electrical components. Maybe there's a mini robot flying around. That's the thing that we're going for. Let's start making a decision regarding our room. Let's look for different aesthetics and see which one looks best. I'm going to delete that and put in modern minimalist, the ones that I mentioned. This is one aesthetic that you can explore. Another one is something cosy. Lots of plants, lots of colors. Next one is a completely different vibe. Got high tech, neon colors, not neon, but RGB colors. We got nice interesting shapes. This is one of those examples that I was talking to you about. Notice how it is labeled as AI. This goes back to our ethics lesson, and this is not something that you can just go on Amazon and get. Try to think of really unrealistic rooms that you could make with Midjourney. That was high tech. There's also cyberpunk. It's a lot more crowded than high tech. Got some examples here out the windows, the city. We can do earthly. Again, a lot of plants can also put in AI in your search term, you only get those AI generated images. Here you can see the tree trunks inside the room. Got a whole Jacuzzi, I guess. Amazing colors. This one is in a cave and they all look pretty good. Now, what we're going to do is make a board on Pinterest, or you could just download the pictures directly onto your local computer so that you can upload them in Midjourney. I want to do a high tech room. I will go to I'm going to try to combine cyberpunk and the high tech stuff. This time with the term AI and try to think of what my room is going to look like. I definitely like the window facing the city. Just download the images. Then in terms of bed, I'm liking this one. It's very simple framing. There's a light bottom, the sky screen looks pretty cool. Save that. I'm just filling in the different parts of a room. We have the window, the ceiling, the bed. Let's try to find some working desk that we can put into our dream space. Maybe we can put in bedroom, see what other stuff comes up. I think this is cool. We have the desk, we have some shelves, some plants even, that's a good mix. I believe I have four images right now. I'm going to stop here and then if we needed more components to our room, we can come back here and get more images. Now let's go to Midjourney and we're going to go to moodboards. Let's create our first moodboard and upload images. These are the four that I found on Pinterest. I'm also going to add from Gallery. When you go to the main menu in the moodboards, you can see the name, use it in a prompt, rename it, view the creations you made with this moodboard, or delete it. You can also filter through your moodboards if you have more than one. As a search bar, you can create a new one and begin creating things. Before I started the chapter, I also did my personalization task, which was to rate the 200 images. You can see now I have one profile, which is my global version seven. I basically had to choose the images that I liked out of 200 like we saw. If you are not seeing this, then you haven't completed the 200, go back to this one, Version seven profile, and when you click on it, you get to do this whole thing again. If you want to use another version, just be sure to switch swap to one of these. That way you will be consistent with the version that you are using. Now we're going to go back to our moodboard and essentially pick up keywords that we're going to incorporate into our prompt in the next lesson. When I look at these, obviously, I'm seeing a lot of purple, I'm seeing a lot of pink. There is glow. We have city lights. I see abstract shapes, smooth surfaces, and those are basically things that I see. If you're struggling with coming up with keywords from your image, we can also use the help of ChatGPT. I'm going to use this image because it has the city, the lights, and maybe this one too. I think I'll do these too actually. Pick two images that combine all the elements that you're looking for. Open ChatGPT, upload the two pictures. Like that and then type in extract. Let's say ten keywords for me to use in my Midjourney prompts from these images. Here is my list. We can also ask Chachi B to give us more or less. It really depends on how things go within Midjourney. These are my keywords. I want you guys to now look at your moodboard and pick out the same keywords or in the same manner that we picked our keywords. Be sure to notice the color schemes, whether it's warm, beige, emerald green, pastel pink, the materials that are involved in your pictures, such as oak wood, marble, linen, And of course, the ambience. Is it calm, luxurious, playful? Because these words, while they may seem a little random right now, they're actually going to become the DNA of your prompts. It's really important that they reflect your moodboard. If we go over my list, we have the ambience. We have color. This one, two, we have some materials, technourban, immersive atmosphere, that sort of thing. And I could come back here and make a collective prompt from these things just so that I could add it to my moodboard. That's not going to be used as one of our base images. Let's ask HachiPT combine these keywords into one. Let's copy this. Once again, I'm only doing this to populate my moodboard. Paste it here version seven. And I have my personalization turned on. You can also turn it off like that, but I'm using my global version seven. If you have other profiles, it's going to show up here. You also have your moodboard. The more populated your moodboard, the more accurate your results are going to be, and that's why we have to use something like this. This is using my profile. I'm going to do the same thing, but without my profile, just to see what difference we're going to get. This is all of those keywords combined into one. It's not really matching the colors I was going for, but that's okay because we can work on the colors later. This is with my profile. You can see it has a lot of that story element and then of course, the city on the outside. This one is a lot different. It's not consistent because it's without the profile. Whereas these ones look pretty similar. Now, let's go ahead and go back to our moodboard and simply add these generations from our gallery. Let's go to the top and just select all. Et's go back and there we go. We have a lot more to work with now. For this lesson, be sure to write down your ten descriptive words, whether you come up with them yourself or you use ChatGPT. Populate your moodboard with at least five images. You can either use Pinter, Google Images, or a journey like we did so that in the next lesson, we can start creating our base images. 24. Generating Base Images: Now we are ready to translate these inspiration into Midjourney prompts using our basic formula and all the tricks that we have learned so far. Come to the create tab and we're going to start by building something called base image. Essentially, what that means is that you're going to be generating these starting point images and then combine and remix to make your final result. Right now, we're not really looking to generate the perfect room with one prompt, but to put in the base concepts. The formula you should follow is room type, then the style, then materials, lighting, ambience camera perspective. This is your formula and based on what we have here with the keywords that ChatGPT found for us, that should be pretty easy to put in. Let's start with the room type. Just type it in. Mine is going to be a bedroom. Then we're going to put in the style. The style of my bedroom will be futuristic, cyber punk, high tech. This is the style of my bedroom. Then we're going to talk about materials and colors with let's say neon, purple and pink lighting across the room. Then we can do coma. The bed is made of soft fabric and the ground is made of, let's say concrete. Now let's talk about the lighting. We will do a little light with the source. Let's actually switch this around. Light source from window looking out to a techno urban city scape. Light source from window, let's say with a view of a techno urban cityscape, light and dramatic shadows. That's our lighting. Now let's talk about ambience. We will say, I'm looking at the keywords here, Immersive atmosphere, highly detailed. Cinematic lighting. Then finally, the camera perspective. We can do low angle, high angle, white shot or anything else. I will do a wide shot with low camera angle. So this right here is my prompt. Once again, I will point out to the base formula. The room type bedroom with a style, which is futuristic, cyberpunk, eye type bedroom. What's the materials and lighting? This is material and lighting. Sorry, colors, not lighting. This is lighting. And I will put this guy in that section, somewhere around here, cinematic lighting, immersive atmosphere. This is our ambience and then our camera perspective. Try to fit your prompt and your keywords into a similar formula. You can see from the prompt that ChatGPT made for us, I'm matching the keywords. Futuristic Cyberpunk, I did high tech instead of Sci Fi, I believe neon colors. I have the word neon in there, holographic interface panels. I did forget that one. Let's try to do ground is made of concrete. We will do holographic interface panels on the ceiling. Okay. Now I have all of my keywords. We will generate this with raw because I really want a high quality shot and I'm going to turn on personalize, just click on P. Going to settings, I want it to be a landscape shot. Stylization. Let's keep that at default, weirdness variety. Let's bring this up at ten. I'm just experimenting here. Let's generate our first batch. You can see profile. There is my profile involved, and these are the rest of the other stuff I have. Okay. I definitely did the city concrete, the panels or there instead of here. That's fine. Soft fabric for our bed and it's just during the day. What I will do is remove that day component. I really like this one. Let's put in the same prompt. I will put in at night. Let's try that one more time with the same thing. Chaos, AR, raw version seven, and our profile. I will also do one without my profile just so I can get different variations. This one looks more promising, not this one. I really like this. We have the panel up there. We got some extra windows, and I didn't even ask, but there's plans here which I actually really like. I will do a subtle and strong variation from this image. Then we also have this one. I will try the same thing, not upscale. Very. Then let's go to our new sets of images. Believe should be this one. It's not completed yet, but we're getting there. These are the variations from that first image. Looks pretty good. Then let's see. Lost track here. These are the ones we looked at earlier. This is another variation list. I really like the ceiling here. This is our older variation. This is another variation, I believe this should be the subtle one. Lots to take into account here. We even have a sunset one, which looks pretty cool. I think we did one without the profile. I'm trying to find which one that is. One has profile profile. I think I didn't make one. I didn't make one without a profile. That's fine. There's a lot to choose from now, but what you can also do is make separate components and then we're going to merge it in when we remix. The bed right now, I don't like that it's not made, to be honest, although I really like the fabric, a silky situation, and there's fluffy pillows. What I will do is mention a silk material bed with say holographic non glowing ring around its frame. Soft pillows. And we'll do maybe an elegant one. It's nicely made and everything. We can do the same thing. AR 16 by nine, all version seven. Turn that off and experiment a little bit. We will also mention, actually, let's try this and then build up upon what we see. Other than the bed, I like the atmosphere, but I do want more tech stuff around it. Maybe a desk here, shelf there, that sort of thing. Maybe especially with this one where we have two windows, we can do some stuff over here, like a TV, something like that. Here's our beds. Looking pretty nice. I don't like circular beds. Let's do a rectangular. That's the only thing I would change. Did I mention the color? I didn't mention the color with elegant. It's too white silk and put in the same stuff run that because these are just not fitting. Maybe this guy, but it's a circle and I don't like that. This one is actually pretty cool. Look at that. The rest don't really have a frame, but I really like this, so I'm going to do some variations of this in both ways, just to see how Midjourney applies its own creativity. These are way out of that environment. These are looking good. A second thought if I want to do a holographic blanket, it would be nicer if it's not made so you can look at all the folds and the reflection of light. I'm going to keep that and then we have some more down here. Let's see which one I want to keep. The shadows here are a lot stronger, I think I'll go with one of these guys, perhaps this. I'm going to heart this so that I can find it easier and then go back to the environment, the actual room. That's going to be a bit more tricky, but I definitely like the multi window situation. Let's choose from one of these. Here we have some plants. Don't know what that is. I think that's a couch. Let's take that out, heard this, and then look for another room that has the elements I'm looking for. Actually, this one looks better. Let's unhart the other one. There we go. Just because of that plant in the corner, this guy. Then with the other ones, it's more purply, but I certainly like the panels underside. So this is from behind the bed frame. We have another bed over there, but this will be interesting to remix too. I want this part of it. Then from the bed, we have our bed. We have the windows, we have the floor. Then finally, maybe we can come up with a plant. Let's just copy this hoops, not this one. We can work with this. Futuristic cyberpunk plants, maybe. Instead of bedroom house plants. Neon purple and pink lighting across the room can remove this part. Not sure what plants, but let's see how Mitrini interprets high tech plants. That would be interesting. I guess what I'm going for is the high tech element to be in the pot rather than the plant itself. Okay. This one looks okay, but let me be more specific regarding the pot. Let's say, copy this house plant with neon purple and pink glowing rim in a futuristic cyberpunk high tech pot. The leaves catch the pink glow from a light source. Then our favorite things. Tags. This is a lot more accurate as to what I was looking for, especially this one, not this, but it looks like a smart plant has that rim. The pot looks good too, the flower, the plant. I don't know what plant that is. But this is looking good too. I'm going to grab both of these for easy reference. Okay. When I go to organize filter through my light, this is the things that we have. We have our first potted plant, second one, the bed, the window scenario, and the high tech ceiling, and then the side panels that we've got. So in the next lesson, we're going to use the editor and even so the remixing image reference capabilities to combine these images together and go for that perfect room. For this lesson, your exercise is to create these base images. Make sure you have the exact element that you're looking for, because when you remix them together, you don't want to leave that much room for hallucinations. So if I didn't really include the plant, I would have been stuck with that situation. Half of it is dried, the other half is alive, and that's not really what I'm going for. Make sure you're happy with your base images because they're going to determine the final result for you. 25. Combining All the Base Images: We have multiple generations and our base images are ready to be combined into our dream room. Midjourney is not always about finding that one perfect shot immediately after prompting, but it's more about layering the iterations that you get. So let's go to our organized tab. And just to remind you all, these are the images that I finished. The goal here is to have the window facing that urban city, the tech ceiling, this particular bed, this plant, and then this side panel wall. When you are choosing from the different variations, make sure you choose the one that captures the most detail. You may have to create variations like we did here by choosing the images that have the highest amount of details and are more close to what you're looking for, you avoid the hallucinations that may affect your final results. We're going to first start by combining the images here and then take it to the Edit tab where we can fine tune it and erase things if need be. First, we're going to add the hearted images to our image prompt. Just click and track them. You can do multiple and do the same thing with the bed. The reason why we're putting it there is because we want the structure of all of those elements and only keep the main bedroom image as the style reference. This guy, I really like the way the bed is positioned and of course, the side panel. I will put it once in the style reference and the other one in the image prompt. Then our last picture was this one for the windows that are available. I have five images for my input image prompt and then one style reference, we're not dealing with a character, but I'm going to just drag the bed in omni reference because I want that holographic design to be maintained. I have it currently at 100, the default, we can move it up and down if need be. Now, as for the prompt, we're going to start with the original prompt and add the elements that we're inputting as images. Mine would be a futuristic cyber punk me hi tech. Bedroom with neon lighting, and I'm just describing the overall effect. So here's my prompt. I had to expand it with the details from each of these images. For the bed, the plant, the other bedroom picture. Once again, we started from this particular prompt, which we got from JGBT. You can see it starts the same way. The only difference is that I've added the different elements that I've added here. So the glowing holographic interfaces, take panels covering the left wall, just like this image. Holographic bed shimmers softly. That's our bed. The room has raw concrete and walls and floor. That's this image. Massive window reveals a dazzling techno urban cityscape view at night. Then this is about the city. Ceiling is an immersive starry sky projection. So that one is one of the images down here, that guy. The entire scene radiates a moody, immersive cyber punk aesthetic. I'm just describing what I see here with a balance of sleek Sci Fi design and lived in details. That's the bed not being made, since we want the details and the glow to be even more dramatic. My colors are purple and blue based on this image, but I think I will do magenta and blue for this pinky effect. All right. Let's do dash dash raw. AR 16 by nine version seven. Then I'm thinking ten chaos Generate. We're going to rerun this again for some variety. You can see all the inputs here for images. So far we haven't done more than three, but you can see that this is possible. Here's my first set. We have the bed, for sure, the ring, the city, the plant. There's some resemblance of it. These are some other things. There's our high tech panel, there's our plant, and this is the other rerun. All of them look pretty good. Now the plant isn't that visible. We can't really see it, the glowing effect, at least. What you could do is import this into edit and replace it with one other plants. I'm going to choose this one and then another one to combine even further. This looks good. This looks really good, and this one too. Once again, put it all in image prompts. So this is our bed combined. This looks really good. I'm going to heard this for sure. I like this one. It has an anime look to it too. All right, so we went 6-2. Let's do one final remix. Same prompt, send it in. Here's my final result. You can see it combined everything very well. Here we have the messy bed, but it also gave us some made up beds. So you just have to decide which works better for you. This one gives me more of a hotel vibe for some reason. But I really like this one because the high tech panel is on the wall rather than a screen. So I think what I will do is vary this and I'll do the same with this one. It's not that bad. I just don't like the screen aspect. With this one, we're getting the actual hotel thing, which is a random chair and a TV. But I want it to be more less hotel. Here's our first variation. Let's go with that one. Second variation. We even have the AC over there. These ones are okay. This one looks really clean, even though we have the TV, there's still this high tech panel on the left, so it's not all bad. We have our base workork. Now I'm just going to upscale them. Let's do a creative one and then the same thing for the other image. There we go. Here's the first look, definitely a lot cleaner and it has a lot more detail. This is our second one. We just have to decide between the two. I think it's hard to choose. I actually went back and upscale this version just because this looks a lot less realistic and that's the goal we're going for here. And it's giving me that square window. It looks like we're in a spaceship, which is pretty cool. We have that silky holographic bed all messed up, the left panel, the glowing around the bed, and of course, the ceiling that's right above. What I'm going to do because my journey wasn't able to put in the other ceiling that I like, I'm going to add in that part from another image and combine it using the edit tab. Let's take this base image which I upscaled with the subtlety subtle version. We're going to edit it, delete all of that. We don't need that. Clear this whole thing, this guy. Then we're going to add our other layer. Let me just download the other image. Go to create the image that has the glowing ceiling. I think I want to do stars rather than a technical ceiling. Take a look maybe this guy. Let's download it and bring it in onto the first layer. And now using the arrays brush, we're going to remove everything else except the ceiling. Because we had that structure from the first image, you can see it fits really well with the image below. Just make sure to go on the first layer and create some space between the two pictures. There's some room for your journey to combine and remix. You should see this checker thing between the two photos. Now we're going to add in our prompt. I will do the same prompt just so it can continue the colors and the atmosphere onto this combination. With this image, we are getting that smart glowing pot. You can see the light coming from inside, and that is looking pretty cool. I will go back and remove this further. Let's actually move layer one, which is the top layer. Somewhere here, try to match the first image. I'll go to restore and bring back the original trying to see where the frame from the bottom image starts. Let's put this away for now. Use the restore brush to bring back the square frame and then fit this guy in like that. Maybe here and then do some cleanup. Trying to match the corner with the corner of the room, and then be sure to restore as much as you can from the bottom image so you don't get weird symbols in between. Get rid of that a little bit. Okay. Let's run this again and see if we get a cleaner result. That looks a lot better. The first one got this random light, but the rest okay. All right. So here is my final bedroom image. I will upscale it to gallery. And then we're ready to do our next step, which is to either create a motion from it. You can even add a human subject or a cat in there if you want to do that, export it to the ideal size based on where you want to share this and do any other final adjustments. There is my final room. Now let's do our final adjustments. I think I will add a spaceship here and maybe another plant on the corner. Just to further refine it. The reason why I upscaled it first was to see if Midjourney can clean up some of the edges for me before I add on anything else. So we're not remixing it with any sort of imperfections. I will see you guys in the next lesson where we finalize our dream bedroom. 26. Refinements with Photopea and Exporting: This is where we left off in the previous lesson. I just want to add a spaceship, a smaller element over here and perhaps a plant on the side. Let's generate the two by going into create and putting in our last image as style reference. Since we have the style reference, you can see the spaceship looks pretty good and it looks like it's from that setting. The next thing I'm going to do is again, put this in as a style reference and write about the plant. I think the best one is this. Since I'm trying to put it in the distance and not bring that much attention to it. This one could look good as well. It's just the moon may be hard to blend in. Let's heard that and then our house plant. This one's pretty good. Let's heard it and go back to our edit tab where we had all of the previous things we made in the last lesson. Add the two images as a layer, I'm going to have to download them first. And then just upload them. Now using the same resize and painting capabilities, we're going to fit the two new images onto our current landscape. I think I'm going to put it over there. They spaceship could be somewhere there, and rotate it a little bit and maybe have it go a little behind the edge of the window. Now begin erasing the excess. If you click and hold, you're not going to accidentally go onto the background layer. I'm just using my cursor here so that's pretty easy to do. Now onto the background, just delete those extra bits. Then submit the edit and let's see what we get. If you saw that it's not blending that good, the spaceship is looking better, but the plant, we're going to have to erase more from the edges. This is what we're left with. I ended up making the spaceship a little smaller and put it inside of the frame only. Plant had to be moved and rotated as well. I'm going to upscale this one more time. Once this is upscaled, I'm going to bring it into another program where I'm going to work around with the lighting a little bit. So here's my futuristic room. The problem that we're facing right now is that the spaceship looks like it's inside of the room rather than outside. So we're going to work with the colors, as I mentioned, the lighting, and the plant here needs to have some shadows. These type of smaller edits you can't really do within Midjourney. Hence why I mentioned Photoshop, Canva, and Photopea. I'm going to be using Photopea since it's similar to Photoshop, but you don't have to pay for anything. So photop.com. Let's import our image. We're going to first grab the background layer. It's okay if this looks a little bit intimidating. You can just follow what I'm doing right now and then you'll get the proper results. Right click on your background layer, duplicate. We have two of the same thing, and this is just for safety measures. We may not even do anything on the background layer. Go to the adjustments down here and choose the levels, lock it onto layer one. Clip it, and then simply play around with the sliders so that the Spaceship is a lot more matted. There's less shadows, less attention towards a spaceship, and that way it matches with all of the buildings. Now go to layer one. Click on this mask icon. It should be white here. If it's black, you can just hit Command or Control I to flip it the other way. Now it should be black and not white. Grab the brush, this tool right here with the color white. If it's black or something else, just flip it. Using the white brush, we're going to right click. And reduce the hardness to around 35, increase the size a little bit, go over here for the flow and reduce this to about 40%. Then on this black shape and not on the image itself, we're going to start painting our spaceship. Then to right click and make it a little smaller, click away and start painting. It's going to look a little weird, but we're going to zoom in with this tool. Then grab this layer, take the opacity and lower it. Then going in with the same brush, right click, lower the hardness all the way to zero, and then switch the colors so you have the color black. Then we're going to lower the flow even more. We're going to start cleaning the edges so that it looks a little bit more natural. This was before, this is after. Now let's go in with a Zoom tool, right click, fit the area to zoom all the way back, and we're going to repeat a similar process for the plant. Grab layer one. I'm going to call this spaceship table click on layer one. Grab spaceship, hold down Command or Control. Levels one as well. Command or Control G to group them together. That will click spaceship. Now we're going to duplicate background one more time. Right click duplicate layer. I will call this plant. Make another levels adjustment. Use the Zoom tool to go in and then the space bar to click and drag so you can see the plant. Now with Level two, we're going to make the plant darker. Then simply clip this onto plant only using this icon. Grab plant, make a mask. Command or Control E to turn this from white to black with the same brush. I have 27 right now. Let's do 0% hardness, choose the right size, flip the colors so it's white, start painting the edge. Then go in with the color black if you want to clean things up a bit. Lower the opacity. This was before, after just a slight shadow. Fit to area, close this off, and then I'm going to group these two like we did with the spaceship. Now let's do some overall color grading. You can add more adjustments to these singular components within the image, but I think I will leave this as it is. I do want to however, blur out the window completely so that it has more of a futuristic look. Let's actually duplicate the background one more time. I will call this glow. Bulter blur, Gaussian blur. Add a lot of glow and then wait, actually, let's combine all of our edits and then do that. Hold down Command Option Shift E or Control Alt Shift E on Windows to make a merged image of all of your other groups. This is the thing, this layer, the same thing as the ones below it. Let's call this final. Grab your final layer. We're going to duplicate it. Go to filter blur, Gaussian blur and add quite a lot of blur, maybe 16. Then change the blend mode, which is normal right now to lighten. You can duplicate glow for more intensified effect. Then grab both and we're going to merge the layers. Change the blend mode one more time, and then click on this mask icon. But before you click, hold down Alt or option and that should create a black shape for you, which is an inverted mask. Grab the brush with the color white, increase your size, make sure hardness is zero, and then start painting in those lowe areas. My flow is still 27. This way, I get to build up as I draw more. This is before the glow, this is after. Then lastly, we're going to do that overall design. Go to the half circle, then choose one of the color lookups. This is the fastest way to give your image a nice coloring. Maybe not that one. It's hard to tell which one's going to work since there's no preview here. This one's not that bad. I'm just going to lower the fill to make it less intense, gives a subtle blue hue and then we're going to add another adjustment just to make the image a little brighter. Take the contrast lighter and increase that too. And there we have it. Now, all you have to do is go to File and then just export this as your favorite format. I will do a PNG for the utmost quality, but you could also try a JPEG. Give this a name. Format. You can also change it here. This is by default the width and the height. Keep quality at 100% and clicks. And there is my room. Now it's your turn to export your final image. You can skip the whole photo P editing if you'd like, but I think it's just a great way to finalize your work and do some tiny adjustments that you can't normally do with Midjourney. Export it to the format and the size that you want, have it ready for whatever reason you created this for. You can also use other platforms like Canva and maybe video platforms if you choose to go the motion route, then export it as we already learned. This was our first project. Now we are going to apply what we learned in this project to another project that's going to be a little bit more elevated. In this chapter, we learned how to build a moodboard and extract descriptive prompts from one image or multiple images. Then we learned how to generate and refine the room designs or the base images. Next, we blended and remixed all of those images into one, and then finally, we exported and edit it using Photopea. This process took you from the initial idea to the final presentation, and that's exactly how you will tackle every creative project with Midjourney. 27. Project 2: Your Fantasy Character - Brainstorming and References : Something. For this project, we're going to be focusing more on a character rather than a room. So we're going to be following the same routine, which was first to brainstorm the idea, then create the base images, edit them in Midjourney and some external platform, then finally export it and put it on something you want to do. The goal of this lesson is for you guys to imagine your fantasy character. This could be a superhero, a villain, a warrior, whatever you want to do. We are then going to build that character and put it onto a poster, and then that's going to be a different media that you've made using Midjourney. First, let's think about our character archetype. Is it a hero, a villain, mage warrior, magician wizard? You have to think about what does that character even do, and then you can start thinking about the way they look? You can just go over to Pinterest or the Explore tab in Midjourney and start searching for them. I want to do something like a warrior. I to search here, warrior, and I'm getting some pretty cool designs. We're going to make a moodboard with the same process that we did last time. Whatever image speaks to you, just add that to your moodboard. Let's actually go over here and create another one. Call this my fantasy character. Just as we did with the dream room, try to think outside of the box, things that are really hard to do in real life, because that's going to give you more creative outlook and you can work harder on combining those different elements together. Don't just go for a medieval night, try to go for a medieval night in outer space using a sword made of stars, something like that. Once I named my moodboard, I can go back to the Explore tab and continue my search. So these are just your regular warriors. Let's try to put in another keyword, such as moon warrior and see what comes up. I definitely want mine to have a glowing aspect and this blue mood to the entire image. Now let's go to Pinterest and start looking for those different components. First, let's look for the same thing, see what comes up. I'm going to choose AI here. These are all made with AI, and they will work better to input for our own generation. This one looks really good. Again, it's made with AI. Make sure that you're seeing this tag before you use it for your own Midjourney generations. Now let's look for our color palette. Blue moon, color palette. Say blue moon AI landscape, maybe. And we're gonna use these for our style reference. And just like before, we're going to go to moodboard and start uploading those images. Now to populate this even more, I'm going to make some base photos using the Crea Tab. Let's close these off. I just made this by accident, but you can see just one word gives you some pretty decent results in different styles as well. I will do a female moon warrior with glowing eyes and a shiny armor with glowing edges. Com, she has white hair. Something simple like this. I'm using ten chaos in the 16 by nine aspect ratio, version seven. Okay, this one looks really good. I love how realistic it is. So one looks fine, too. So what I'm going to do is use this as a reference, put it in the same put it as an omni reference. So that's our character, and then type in. Et's try the raw style. And don't worry too much about the subject's face for now because we could just make a separate image just for the face. But here we're trying to think about the armor mostly and then the position she's standing. She has right now. So I wanted this half turned position and hence why I had my prompt like this. There are two others with her full body visible, but I think I prefer this half body. Going to fix the background and everything. I kept in smoke because she would be easier to extract from the background when we try to combine everything together. But you can see this was we used this as our omnireference, and it's still her. She's just in a different armor and in a different position. Let's get some variations with this. Then I'm going to use the same image, same prompt, but I want her hair to be open and maybe more glow in her armor. Here's our first variation. Again, her hair is tied, so I'm gonna wait for the other generations to come too. Here we're seeing some sort of open hair. There is the glowing armor, which I asked for. She has an elf ear for some reason, but we can get rid of that. I'm liking these armors a lot more. If you could combine maybe a hair like this with this hair. She even has a glowing hair clip, looks pretty good. I think this one's the best one. Let's get some more variations and then I'll do another image input prompt. Same prompt. But describe her hair as more smooth. I think the best one was the first one that we made right up here. Go to favor this, and then we're going to think of the other elements. What's the background like? What is she holding? What's her weapon? If your character does need a weapon? Then what edits we want to do to her right now? I do want her eyes to glow because I'm not going for a human character. But before I do any changes to her, we're going to start with the sword itself. Let's say a sword made of the moon. We can do fantasy elements, and then dash raw. This one looks pretty good. These two not so much, but it's definitely unique and I like that it added though the plant wines that we asked for. Let's create more variations and see if we could get a more realistic look to this. Let's see our selection. But I think this one has more of that glow, but I did like the moon hanging from the end as if it's giving power to the sword. So we will combine this image with the sky because I like to tip here. So let's put in both as referenced. You can see the harded ones, makes it easier to choose, and then put in the same prompt, dash dash ra and then a hyper realistic sword. Here we kept the moon inside the sword and then the rest don't really have this one, the moon is in the middle again. But I think this one looks pretty cool. I'm going to add this as our input and do the prompt one more time with the dash dash raw and Kos set to ten. I think this one looks the best actually. The moon is put inside, but thinking of it if this were to be used in battle, if it's hanging there may be hard to grab. I think this one makes more sense. Once again, we're going to favorite this so we can put it into our moodboard. Now the last thing is the background. Right now we have smoke, but that's a little bit too simple. Let's think about where this character is fighting or where she's standing. Can do a mythical forest with concrete spaceships flying around. There are wines coming from the sky. The surface of this landscape is made of the moon, maybe. I'm going with that moon thing. There are glowing cracks in the concrete spaceships, as if they were strung by her sword. But spaceships, high details, hyperrealistic fantasy. Dash, dash a. Again, if you're having a hard time imagining that landscape, you can ask HachiBT to give you some keywords. But you can just start with a really simple prompt like this and then build upon it as you move forward with your pace images. This one looks really good. I'm going to keep that. I think we're good with our inspirations right now. Let's go over here, ad from Gallery, filter with the favorites or the, grab them all and put them into our wood board. So this is what our character looks like. We have our sort, different versions of it, environment, the coloring from these images, and we could even combine this pace with this body. The possibilities are endless, but these were our inspirational shots. Feel free to add more using either the Explore tab, your own generations or Pinterest AI content. Just make sure you're grabbing the AI modified ones and not actual artwork. This concludes my moodboard. You guys should populate it right now before we move on to the next lesson so that we have an easier time generating the finalized based images so that we could put them all together into one final shot. 28. Base Images and Blending: The first thing I want to do is take this background shot and apply this particular style to it. So I'm going to go into the same photo from the creative, put in the same prompt, structure, and then put that image that we got from Pinterest as style reference. I want to do one with the golden one as well. This is the first set with this particular image put in as the style reference, and we're putting this as our image prompt. It's following that structure, but with this blue color. This is with this image as the style reference. We got that golden color in there, and this is looking pretty cool. I really like this one because I want to do some sort of depth of field edits later on so she could be standing somewhere here and then this stuff is just following her in the back. This one looks pretty good as well. Not a fan of the blue one because it looks too normal. That was my base, and now I have every color I want within this particular shot. I will put that in as a style reference and then use our subject as the image prompt. This one. Put in the same prompt, but just change the smoke background. Let's delete the background part, go up here and see how we refer to this. There we go. Then I want to put in the same image as Omni reference because I don't want Midjourney to give me hairstyle, another character, but just keep her consistent. So I put in the same prompt, but this one as the Omni reference and this one as the style reference. Maybe we can try this as image prompt and then this is Omni. I'm just playing around and seeing which variation works best for me. This is our first set. Not the best. Let's take a look at the other ones. And this is looking a lot more promising. She's standing on the side and there's all our spaceship. The moon is a little tiny, but we can fix that in the edit type later. I'm just going to take this image and make some subtle and strong variations, and then let's upscale it as well. The next thing we have to focus on is putting the sword in her hand because right now she's not holding anything. While that's happening, I'm also going to do a full moon, a hyperrealistic one. Full moon with great detail in the night sky and then use this guy as our style reference, and I will do raw mode one more time so that we could merge that moon and put it somewhere in the sky. This is our first variation. This is our second variation. She's more zoomed out. This is our upscale, which is completely off. Changed my character entirely. We're going to disregard that and this is our mood. Honestly, it looks great, but I want to make sure it's isolated. Let's use this image as the style and then put in the word isolated. We're also going to use the no commands, no clouds, no stars. That way I can separate it easier. Then going back to our subject, trying to see which one looks more like our original subject. I think this one looks pretty good. I like the depth of field, which came about without me having to write anything, to be honest. She has a little cape situation, nothing in her hand, but we're going to fix that. The glowing armor, and I'm just going to upscale this and then heard it so later I could just bring it into my Edi tab. All right let's take a look at the moon. I still not isolated. So I will try the same thing, but without any style reference. Maybe we can reduce the reference. Let me try that S ref, which is style reference. Let's put it onto ten, and then I will do one without the reference entirely. This is our upscale shot. When you put creative, it messes up the subjects face. I'm going to go back to subtle and then hard this. Now we're getting an actual isolated mood. This one, we use the style reference command. For some reason it's red, but this one looks better. I will go with this yellow one to fit into that glowing design we have with our character, and then all that's left is to put in the sort. Let's go to the Edit tab and we're going to start by taking that first base image. Go to your liked images. This was the normal version and this is upscale so you can see the detail coming through. I'm just going to edit this likes and start importing the different elements. We can also do this with the URL. When you go to your liked ones, choose the sort that you wanted. I'll take this, and then we can copy the image URL and paste it here instead of downloading it. I'm going to repeat that with our moon, which we didn't actually save. Let's go to the Create tab. I don't know where my mood went. There we go. Let's take this one, copy it like we did. Put it in so. First, let's start with the moon because it's the easiest element, and I'm just going to lower minimize the sword for now, bring this guy and put it somewhere far back. Then we're going to use SmartSelect because it's a very obvious circle, grab it and then erase the background. Then on the base image, we're just going to erase a little bit from the exterior. I will use the mouse wheel to make a perfect circle right in the middle. That's my moon. Let's take the sword and position it where it needs to be. I'm going to rotate it, put it in that. I don't know how big we want it to be, so let's go for a size like this and then clean it up like we've been doing so far. Now onto the prompt, we have to mention the sword and the moon. Regarding the sword, I will probably have to apply the coloring from our base image onto the sword with the style reference. But let's try it like this and then we'll see if we need to do that. So let's remove the full height with her back turned slightly. In the picture and we'll start here with her smooth shiny hair is long and is flowing in the wind. She has a fierce look on her face and is holding a magical sword, I guess I'll call it, period. The background is a mystical force with concrete spaceships with glowing ones. The ground has glowing components or elements all around faded or blurred in the distance. Her armor has growing lines all across and it's made up of a smooth element. There is a full moon in the sky. Now, before I submit this, we're going to ask ChatGPT to further refine this. Further refine this, prompt for Midjourney. Let's copy this and replace it with our prompt. I will just make this to show you and then put in a new prompt. This is our first set. As I imagine, the sort is not being blended in at all, we may have to go back to well, we have to go back to the Crea tab and do another remix, this method. Paste the ChatGPT prompt, put in your parameters, and then we're going to put in the sword base Image prompt. Put this in as well, actually, let's get the sword first. There we go. Put that in as well. I think this guy is calling for the moon, so I'm just going to add the moon here too. Style reference. Going to try one without any style reference and then do one with the base image. Put in as well. So here it's completely changing the image. We got a completely new character, so that's not going to work. The sword is not even like the one we made. Here we're getting again the same outfit, the same location, same moon event, but the sword is just not what we asked for. Let's see what the third one is. I think it's having a hard time understanding the sword that's over here. This one, we have the moon, location, subject. But again, the sort is just not what we asked for. We're going to just try the same thing, put in the input images like we did. But I will add this to Omni reference as well. At least I could get this part remixed and then if the face is all messed up, we'll think about something. This one isn't that bad. We have this interesting weapon. It's not really a sword, but it's not that bad either. The moon is nicely blended in the background. We have the same glowing elements and trees, the concrete spaceships. This is not a terrible generation. Now here we're getting the sword, but our subject is completely different. I think if we were able to add more than one new reference, that would have worked great, but that is not happening. I am going to attempt blending this sword into the background because now it has the same colors lighting, and even backdrop. That may be easier to blend in. Let's take I think I'll make a new one. Then get the other image that has the sword and try to mix the two together. This one. Copy the image URL imported here. Now we're going to just resize, we don't have to resize the sword, really. I will have to rotate it so that it fits the subject's hand. Basically try to rotate the sort so that it's right above the original. Run the same prompt. You can see that it brought in all the elements. All I have to do is submit and hope that it can figure out the location and the position of the sort in the subject's hand. All right. It didn't really do that. Here we have a good lending, this one. I will grab this image and then erase the surrounding so that I could redo the parts that I don't like. Use your eras tab, the eras brush, and go around as closely as you can. So that it could rebuild the background. Here is not that bad actually. I think the area it struggles with is from this point, and then of course, this part. That's a lot better. We have different variations. Let's see. I added an extra spaceship over there, which is fine. I do think that the way she's grabbing the sword is not that good, so I will try to redo that part as well. This one looks the best. I'm going to grab this and just go over her hand. You can see it's the other way around for some reason. Let's erase that bit and then hope that it can give us a more accurate grip. Okay, give us a watch for some reason. That's not a good one. This one looks pretty good. We even have the glowing bracelet and then this one is just your regular arm. I think I will go with the glowing bracelet. And now we got our sword put in along with all the other elements that we started with. Let's upscale this to gallery and just for fun, I'm going to do the other one as well so we can have two options when we're doing the final exporting. So this is our first one. It's looking pretty good. This is the one with the glowing bracelet. The other one is the one with a normal hand. But you can see the subject looks the same, same sort. It's just that one arm. I think I'll go with this guy. We are now done with our final image within Midjourney. In the next lesson, we're going to edit things and maybe put it onto a poster. We could put some text in there, some color grading and just make this really mystical fantasy and sci fi. So try blending in your base images like we did in this lesson, and then you're ready to edit it further using either Canva or Photopea. 29. Upscaling and Refining with Topaz AI and Photopea: We now have this combined image. However, it's lacking a lot of details. Even though we upscaled it and tried different variations, you can see that some of the elements such as her armor, which is supposed to have a lot of detail be shining is looking bland. Same thing for the sword, the hair is probably the worst part because it just looks like a bunch of lines. And this is where we get to use a tool such as Topaz AI, which I mentioned a couple chapters ago to upscale that image using AI as well. We're taking the output from an AI tool like Midjourney, putting it into another AI tool to upscale. Head over to your browser and look for Topas labs. This is where you should end up and you're able to try it for free. Of course, not every capability is available for you for free. And there are some limitations. However, the one that we're trying to use is the upscale one. Upload your image. This is the original. What you got to do is go to the left side where it tells you the different models. We have three models available. I'm going to go with standard two because we're trying to enhance detail and that's in the description here. We have upscale factor times one times two, all that stuff. Preserve the pace, make sure you turn this on. We don't want a different phase. I just had to sign in and you can see that I have ten left on my free plan. Let's render and see what result we get. We're doing this before any color grading because the more detail we have, the better the outcome is going to be. When we apply a brightness or contrast setting, it's going to be applied to every detail that's visible within the image. Whereas if we just exported from the journey and started editing, we were going to put that effect on a blurred surface. Here's the original side and this is the result size. I'm going to upscale this to full screen. You can just see the before and after. There are tons more details on our subject. Going to go back. Exit full screen. Let's try to do another version where we increase the sharpness even more. Let's try 88 and reduce the denoise by a little bit. We should get another version. This is where all your versions are going to end up. Then you decide which one looks the best. This is Version two. This is before, this is after. A lot more sharpened effects. I'm going to try zooming in for you guys so you can see Choose my cursor. You can see how the smaller details are brought in and it's not too sharp, which is good. Except the full screen, and now I'm going to just download this. When I open it, you can see I don't get any watermark and I'm just left with a better image. There are also other tools you can explore. Let me go to the homepage. We have Bloom, which is basically the AI tool themselves, the AI tool for this company, we have blur. We have faces, lighting, Sharpen and upscale. We were in the upscale tab. Now I'm going to go to the Sharpen and basically further refine this. Let's go to 50 and I'll do selection for everything and see if we're going to get guess more detail on the little lights. This is before, after. This is a lot better. I think I will download this version. Let's download it with this icon in the corner and now I got Image five. That's how you get to upscale with another tool. Let's open it up in Photo P. I really want that glow to be visible as I keep saying it just because I'm going for that moonlit mystical fantasy environment. You guys can also change the entire coloring here. I might do that with a more cyan color rather than this deep blue and we'll just see what happens. First of all, always duplicate your background layer in case you make a mistake and you have to go back to the original. On layer one, I'm going to grab the hue and saturation from the adjustments. This will be applied to the entire image. If you grab the slider here, you can see how you're able to change the hue of the entire thing. I wanted to go towards the side. We got that red color and the cyan. Then this is regarding how deep those colors are. If it's too intense, just lower the saturation. Then this is regarding how bright or how dark the color looks. I will make mine a little darker, negative three, just to intensify the contrast between the glow and the rest of the image before, after. If this is way too intense, you can always grab the fill and lower it until it looks better. That's regarding the color. Let's make another one for curves and play around with the highlights and the shadows will increase my brightness too. By making points on this line, this side is the highlights, shadows, middle is the mid tones. It's going to be a mix of both. If you want to increase the shadows, you just grab this guy and the same thing for highlights. Highlights is the brightest part of the image. You can see the moon started changing and the shadows is the majority of the image because everything is dark. I'm going to increase the midtone brightness by dragging this above towards the highlights just so we're able to see some of the smaller details. This was before or after. Let's make another one just for the moon. Go to levels and increase the far right slider to intensify the moon effect. If you want, you could also limit it to the moon only but I think I like it this way. But if you wanted to make a mask, remember you can do it with this button and then use your black and white brush to introduce or remove the effect from the image. Now that I have my coloring and my lighting done, I'm going to merge everything together into one layer so that I could add that glow effect. Hold down on Mac Command Option Shift E on Windows that's Control Alt Shift E. All at the same time until you see a new layer, I will call this the combined layer. So on the combined layer, we're going to make a duplicate with Command or Control J, and then we're going to grab this, go to Filter, Blur, Gaussian blur. Increase this quite a bit, okay. Better yet, we should right click and convert this to a smart object so we can adjust the Gaussian blur amount. Now go to Filter Gaussian blur and you can see we're getting this sub menu, and when we dab a click on it, we can come back here and adjust the radius. 24 changed the blend mode to ten and now we got pretty cool glow effect. If this is too much, you can grab the gaussian blur, double click and we have our slider back. I could lower this now that it's on this blend mode so that we don't introduce the blur onto her face or any other detail that is supposed to be sharp. I'm going to make a mask, hold down alter option and click once on this icon, grab your white brush. Make sure it's soft around zero hardness adjust the size of your brush, click away, Zoom into the areas that need the glow and start painting. I will reduce the flow to 50 or 40 and start painting away. The more you go over that area, the more you're applying from that gaussian bleur effect. That's why we lower the flow. I'm also going to zoom in on her armor and try to only get the lines and not so much her armor. Zoom in and adjust the size. It's too small, something like that. And then start painting away. Use your space bar to move the canvas. This is completely optional. You don't really have to do this. It does take a little time, but the more you spend on your image, the better the outcome. We're going to do that for our image. Okay. Now we got this really cool glowing effect. If you want to intensify it, you can hold down Command or Control J to make another copy. Now, what I want to do is further play around with the colors. I do want the glow lines from her outfit, her armor to be a different color, she doesn't blend in that much with the trees and the mystical creatures that are glowing. Let's make a gradient fill, and I'll change this to color, which is all the way at the bottom, and then change the gradient, the white part into the color that you want. Let's try maybe red. We can always come back and change this. Forgot to change my save my adjustment, it okay, and we can switch it the other way, so it's more on her. Click away and then flip this mask so it's black and not white. Command or Control I, get your brush with B, color white, low flow. Zoom in with your scroll wheel or just the ZoomT and go over the glowing lines.Th I will lower the fill here, and then the flow as well. Just so I could get a natural color change and not a really strict one. Now we're getting specs of pink. I do want to experiment changing the color of her armor. Maybe that's better a better decision. Yeah, I think that one's better. Go to quick selection subject, and now we have the subject selected. If it's missing a few parts, just hit Q on your keyboard and basically make sure that your subject is visible and not red. If it is red, you just have to use your brush, black to remove, white to add, and just clean up the area. For example, for me, did a good job in my case, but there's this little part where I believe her pants is not in the picture. If you hit X on your keyboard, you're going to switch between black and white in a more efficient way. Hit Q again and we're going to while the marching ends around the subject, make sure you're seeing this line. If you are not, that means you cancel your selection, you would have to choose the subject again. Now, turn this on your gradients map, go on it, make a mask, and now you have that pinkish color on your subject only. Problem is that we got the hair as well. Using the black brush, we're going to just go over it like so. To zoom in and make sure we're not adding it in any other place. I use the backslash, the left bracket key and right bracket key to increase the size of my brush. If you know Photoshop and have used the Adobe version, then this should be pretty simple to navigate. If you haven't, you just have to follow the shortcuts that I'm telling you, and then you can also use it a lot quicker and more efficiently. There is my subject. We change the color of the armor. If you change your mind regarding the color, you can always dub a click on the gradient shape, go to here and just switch into something different. To lower the intensity, just go to the fill and lower that until it looks good to you. There we have it. The last thing I want to do is at the glowing eye effect, which Midjourney, we actually forgot to do it in Midjourney, but the good thing about Photopea is that it's basically Photoshop, so we can just do it all here. Her eyes are weird to begin with, so this will be a good cleanup. Go to the adjustments, color fill, and choose a bright color. Let's go with cyan and then go to Color. Go to the mask, Command or Control I, hit B on your keyboard with the color white and just introduce the color inside the eye. While I'm doing this, I might as well clean things up a bit, move gradient below color, grab everything, including layer one, Command or Control G. Table click, call this color and and body. Anything outside of it is for the eye. Now we're going to make a exposure adjustment and increase that a lot. Commander control eye on the mask, brush, lower the fill, and bring that into the eyeball. To hide this weird eye shape, I'm going to hit X on my keyboard and reduce some of the lighting from the corner. Same thing with the blue. Her eye socket looks normal. Do the same thing like that. Okay. Now she has blue eyes. We do want it to glow. Let's make another adjustment. I will do levels this time and grab the edges, reduce the contrast by grabbing this middle slide, closing this Commander Control I, and B X to get white, increase the size and make sure your hardness is set to zero. Lower the flow around 24 and just start brushing around. If the image is too intense, just lower the film. One last thing is that I'm going to go down to adjustments, human saturation, but we're going to clip it to levels two, which is that brightness area we just made, and then grab this so that it's blue. Just look at the exterior, we're going to fix the eye later. I think this is nicely done, increase the saturation and keep the lightness to zero. Now, use your black brush and just exclude the Well, we can just invert the mask. Command or Control I on this guy and then change the blend mode to color. With the white brush, we're going to just introduce that color to the edges. It's not just a white glow. And there we go. Now she has glowing robot eyes. If you want, you can do the same technique we did before. Command on Mac Command Alt Shift E, all at the same time. Let's Control Alt Shift E on Windows and do the same gaussian blur trick. 7.2 pixel lighten. But we're just going to make a mask with alter eruption held down, so the mask is black and just introduce that glowing part to the eyeball. To make it a little bit more dramatic, lower the film. This is what we started with and this is what we have right now. Now you get to put this onto your poster. You can put it into a mockup and that's something we're going to leave for the next lesson just to keep this one a little shorter. Make sure you are happy with your final edits with Photopea and then we're going to just export it and put it into Canva for some poster design or maybe just put in a few texts. 30. Making a Poster with Canva: First, let's export the image. Go to File, Export as JPEG or PNG. Quality 100, I will give this a name. All right. Then exported, I went over to Canva and looked for posters. Search and find something that you like. Let's remove this middle section because that's where we're going to put our subject. Double click, get rid of the text, upload your image, and then just bring it onto the Canvas. Then you're going to click once and use these sidebars to crop the image into the grid. I'm using a template here that was made by this person, but you guys can use the blank Canvas over here and make your own designs. Let's go back in and make a duplicate of this picture. Click once, Command and Control D, and then just put that right above the one below. With the top layer selected, click on background remover. Now you should get the subject separated from the background. If you don't have Canva Pro, which is this guy, you can do the same thing in Photopea just by merging everything. Let's right click, merge the layers, go to Quick Selection, select subject. You have to watch a five second ad, but then you're able to use it for free. Processing my image and there's a subject. Then you can just click on mask and hide the background so that you're able to export this as a PNG, which means it's going to preserve that transparent background. Hit safe and then export that into Canva. But if you have Canva Pro, you can do it this way. Both options are available. Now, we're going to grab our text tool, get a heading and write something like a big bold text, say a new down, maybe. Command or Control A and just increase the size, can grab the edges here. I'm going to choose a font that is more futuristic. Let's go here, go to headings and experiment with these guys. That one looks fine, but I'm going to go for something like this. Maybe something like this. It looks futuristic. Then go to this option and reduce the space between the lines. Put it in like that right in the middle, then go to effect. And let's do a hollow, just the outline and then I'll do commander control. Let's actually reduce the thickness to maybe ten, Commander control D on the text to make a duplicate like we did with the image. Make sure this is positioned right above the old one. Then remove the effect from this top one. One has the hollowness, and the other one doesn't. Now push the top one all the way behind your separated subject, hold down command left bracket key. Until you see something like this. Now we have our text. I'm going to grab the background layer and the second one that holds the subject, right click and just lock them in place. I'm able to edit the text alone. We forgot to do that to the background. Go to position and then I'm going to grab this and lock the background as well. Now I should be able to move both of the text, this guy and this guy. Something like that. This is a cool effect you can do. The style, I'm going to switch out the colored paper background for something completely white and then change the font for these guys into something more sand serif. It looks a little normal. We could even do Canva Pro. Honestly, anything that isn't that vintage style, it's going to be fine. We can keep the logo. I guess that's the logo. Maybe we can try something. I did see this font. That looks pretty cool. Let's lower the size so they both fit in our screen and switch out the text and colors. Nothing that has the sera font, which is the handles that you see. We want these bold funky text. Play around with the fonts until you find something like Okay. Then this guy is out of nowhere, so I'm going to remove it. What we could try is having a accent color so we can grab the shapes or maybe the outline from the bolded text, this guy. And then go on to maybe even the fill color. I'll go with this yellow color rather than the previous white one and then change any shape that's on the poster into the same yellow color. I think you have to do them one by one. Then paste that onto the other guy. The fonts will now have to be black. You can copy the style and then paste it like that. Everything is related. Same thing to this guy down here and I'll leave the stars as they are, but I do want to copy one with Command or Control C and paste it down here on top. So click drag alter uption shift to scale it from the center and make sure it's actually in the center. Now we got ourselves a fun little poster. I'm going to just move her a little higher so that it's not cutting off as it did before. You miss this guy. Let's switch that to the same font as the ones down here. And it's looking pretty good. You can play around with the fonts and all Canva has a lot of presets that you can use, so you don't have to start anything from scratch unless you really wanted to. And there is my fantasy poster. We made this image from scratch in Midjourney and then brought it onto Canva. Well, first to Photopea and Topaz to do some refinements and then onto Canva for our finished poster. That concludes our second project. I hope you guys were able to make your fantasy characters using the same methods that I've been showing you. In the next chapter, we're going to be doing some applied projects, things that you may be doing more often if you were to use Midjourney, and I'm talking about real life scenarios such as product shots, children book illustrations, and then some more posters. So that's going to be even more of a hands on experience to make sure that you're ready for that. After that chapter, we will look at how to actually monetize our creations using Midjourney. 31. Mockups: Brainstorming Your Brand : In this first project, we will be creating product style mockups that you could sell on Etsy or use it in your own shop. Mockups are basically placeholders for logos, designs, and different artworks to be pasted on. Right here, we have some examples on Midjourney. You can see they're basically blank shapes that are meant to hold those additional arts. It could be a t shirt, a card, a book, a board, and there's so much options out there when it comes to building mockups. We even have a coffee mug. Now on EDC, when you search mockups, there's a lot of competition. So it's important for you guys to figure out your niche and what area you are best at. If you look around your room, try to find one object that is very common. For example, if you're really into candles, you can start by making candle mockups. If you're really into books, you can do book cover mockups, shirts and just see what is something you know a lot about. Another thing to point out here is that everyone is selling things in bundles because that's the best way to sell mockups. Either 100 frames, 150, even smaller numbers would work like 600, maybe 50 only. It really depends on how much work you put in when it comes to making that mockup. If you're doing it with Midjourney, then you can easily export 100, 500 with just the same prompt. So we're going to basically tie in AI as a form of replacement for photography studios. So let's say that there is an artist out there that has this product. They have this great logo, this great wallpaper, but they don't have the studio to actually take those good pictures. So naturally, they would come on platforms to look for mockups. That way, they just have to go on Photoshop or some other tool to paste their artwork directly onto that mockup. The important thing about mockups is the client being able to blend their logo into the different lighting, textures and lines. Here, it looks perfectly natural. We have different skewed angles. We have something blurred out since it's in the distant, see, we have different colors, working well with the background mockup colors. If the logo is orange, it has to look well on this green background. You as the seller will only be selling the objects themselves and the client will be putting on their logo, which is these text and these shapes. So let's go on Pinters and figure out what sort of niche we want to go with, first of all, this lesson is only for brainstorming, so you can take some notes, make different boards, different moodboard, and figure out what works best for you. Let's go to Pinterest. If you search for mockups, you get a lot of options. There's digital mockups like screens, laptops, there's foods and beverages, clothing, tote bags, cards, business related objects, so it's a very diverse field and you have to figure out which one speaks to you. You can look into handmade niches, home decor, fashion accessories, business tools, and much more. But I think the best way to trim down into that one niche is to see what's most common around you. That way you won't spend too much time going over every mockup out there, trying to see which one looks good to you. Next, you need to have the demand driven thinking. You really do need to do your research on Etsy and see what is selling well. For general purposes, at S and other platforms, a lot of clients go for ready to use mockups, meaning that all the client has to do is open your file, paste the logos, and it's already blended in as a correct lighting, their colors work well on your object and they don't have to do much. Try to think of, we're going to go through this together, of course, but it's important that you advertise that, hey, if you download my mockup, you can just use any of these platforms and paste your designs easily. So you can see a lot of them have your design here or a sample to show what the pasting would look like. This is an example. They're showing them how they can paste their own artwork on different programs too. You can make a Google Doc or just take out a notebook and write down the stuff that are around you. For this lesson, I'm going to focus on sweaters. I will have to look on Pintras at C and see what examples are out there for me. Let's search sweater mockups. And we have some examples where someone is wearing the sweater, some were the sweater is just hanging there, one without a background, one that's folded, one that's on a colored background, and a lot of other examples. I think I will go with the half face worn sweater so that they can see the sweater style and then make their decision there. Because if they were to put it on their website, this would look a lot more appealing compared to this because you can't tell how this will look like on a person. The way that object is being portrayed, that's going to be your aesthetic in terms of the layout. You still have to think about the lighting the colors and keep that consistent throughout all of your works. Because if you're going to be a store yourself, you should only be focusing on, let's say, sweaters on humans with golden hues, light coloring, or maybe you want to do studio lighting with cold colors and full body. Maybe something like this where we have a concrete background, it's very streetwear. That way, you're going to attract artists who are designing this thing. Use the same lighting and background style. We already learned how to use reference frames. So we're going to in this section of the chapter, work on that perfect reference shot so that we could reuse it every time we want to put out a new mockup. Next, we're going to learn how to export for print on demand. There's going to be a lot of different aspect ratios depending on the platform and the object that you choose. For example, if you're doing mobile wallpapers, you have different iPhones. They each have a different size. You may be doing a four to five ratio or a four to three, and that's something you can easily change within Midjourney. You can upload that image that you made and just switch out the image size. References are key here and you should really be comfortable using them both for image prompt style reference and Omni reference. Okay, let's start with our sweater. I'm going to be building a moodboard using only Midjourney generations because these are not made with AI, so I do not have the right to use them. But it's good to just get a picture of what prompt you'd like to put in. I will do, as I said, half body minimalistic looks, such as this one, really basic background, some neutral colors for the sweaters, and my models are always cropped at their nose. Which if Midjourney couldn't figure out, you could just crop it yourself on Canva or Photopea, which is eventually where we're going to head anyway. So don't worry too much if there's extra stuff in the frame and you can't crop it within Midjourney. Let's go to Explore and we're going to look for mockups here. But now that we know we want to do sweaters, we will put sweater mockups. So I'm getting a lot of just empty sweaters without anything around them. But when I scroll down, I can see the exact thing that I want to use. Now, since this person designed it and kept it in the public domain or the Explore tab, you can reuse their prompt. You can see Midjourney just lets you do that and I can see who made it right here. Let's put in this prompt. The most important part for me is it being realistic because we're trying to convey that this is a real person. Let's look at the prompt, got a mockup. I will do a brown sweater. Or maybe Ell. I'm going to switch things up a bit. The key term to use here is stock photography style because that's going to give you the cleanest layout for any product. Let's go over here. I will do a portrait shot, raw for sure, stylization. We can set it at the default. I'll just reset this actually, let's turn this off, start generating. While that's happening, let's go to moodboard and make a new one. Here are my mockups. We got some good poses in different locations. Now, this one looks pretty good, not a fan of the tattoo, so I'm going to put the same prompt and then use this as my image prompt and then put period, no tattoo. I think I will remove the text. We can just add that on a different tool. E Shell sweater, sweatshirt, remove this. And then just make another set. I'm also going to think of colors. Let's try to think of maybe explore here or something. I will do something autumn. And then see which color speaks to me the most. This might be different for search whatever color you want to use. I think this is a nice color set. I can heard it so I can use it later, and this one's pretty good too. You can use multiple style references, so just heard whatever works. I course, make sure that they're somewhat related in terms of shade and aesthetics. There is my new selections. I kept tattoos on them for some reason, but again, we're going to use photo P so you can just disregard the little errors. I will do one without the image prompt, and then once I find something with this, I will add in the colors and we can just fill up our moodboard. Right now we are not creating base images. Forgot to remove this part. Let's go to Explore, scroll the way up and go to likes and then paste these in our style reference. Then we can put in a very simple prompt, maybe autumn aesthetics, and then see what my journey gives us. Now we don't have the text. There's no tattoos and we got some different styles of sweater. That, I will add this to my moodboard, as well as some of these since I'm just trying to think about where my model is, do I want her on the plain background in a different location in her bedroom? Where should I put her? Then what is this sweater for? Is it something they wear at home? Is it for going outside? Should they be wearing formal pants, jeans, this is the colors. It combined all of the elements and the colors into one shot. This will be easier for me to put in as one style reference. We went 4-1. Okay. Let's go to Moodboards and start adding from Gallery. I will add the ones that I like. I'm just making sure to exclude the full face because that's something we decided early on. I've got the different locations, some with the text, some without the text, and then we just go back to see our populated moodboard. At the same time, any object that can add on to this moodboard, you can make. Let's go back to taking one of these since it has all the colors, I'm thinking we should do, candles and coffee. Make sure it's realistic. And just pop away with whatever that comes to your mind. If you're doing something techie, you can add different devices. If you're doing something in the beauty category, you can put makeup, perfumes, and all sorts of stuff. For me, I want to just stick to the sweaters and not so much the pants and then candles and coffee. There is my results. So now I have a very nice moodboard. It even added some dessert options for us. We got that nice some flowers. The wall is great, love the color combo. And that's the exact mood that I'm going for with my mockups. So now that we have our moodboard, we're going to move on to creating the base images and then from those images, we will combine them into one, something that we did in the previous two projects, but we're going to be having the model do different poses so we can have at least five different mockups to offer. Let's move on to Building deeps Images. 32. Mockups: Generating Poses: Now, let us create our base images and then try putting our model in different angles. That way, we'll have four different poses to provide our clients. Then we're going to take it onto Photop to create that PSD file where they would just paste in their designs. First of all, let's use one of our colors. I will go with one of my coffee candles. Let's do this one, put it in your style reference. In terms of Omni reference, look to the models you have and upload them there. I have the default 100. We could obviously play around with it once we've made our first prompt. Let's type in a good prompt. We want an ultra realistic mockup of an oversized. Let's describe the sweater that our models are wearing, oversized Crock sweater, let's describe the atmosphere soft neutral tones, modeled on a torso and hip only. Just the fact that I do not want her face in any of these shots, we can do parentheses. No face cropped just below the chin, more directions for mid journey, and then the sweater has the folds. That's really important with visible folds, ribbed cuffs. Then of course, I think I'll do a relaxed casual sweater, so relaxed fit. Then we will do the models pose. The models hands are casually tucked into front pockets. Let's talk about the lighting next. Soft natural lighting with subtle Shadows, minimal clean background. And basically, we're just describing the shots that we see below. Now, our first pose is the model tucking their hands into the pockets. I will generate this with raw, make sure that's available, and then choose your aspect ratio. Let's try the first one and then see what remixes we need to do next. If you're going to be doing any model mockups where there's a human involved, always start with a pose that's to the camera and then go for different poses. If you want to do a back pose, a sitting position, don't go for that first because we want to first imagine what the model looks like. Standing normally and then have her or him move in different angles and positions. Here is my model. Looking pretty good. It does have a lot of similarity to our omni reference. What I will do is use the same prompt, increase the variety for sure, and then we're going to go to new reference, add that on there. Instead of 100, I will do 25 because I want to try different hairstyles, different models basically. Then for style reference, if this is too much, we can do SRF. Let's do ten. It inter. Now we got all of these things. I'm going to try one more thing. Let's do style reference 50, just bumping it up and then more chaos. I'm just experimenting with the parameters to figure out that ideal first pose for my model. Now you can see that we're getting different pants, different hairstyles, and it's still the same sweater. That's the most important thing. I asked for a relax fit Kroneck sweater and that's exactly what I'm getting. T is what they all look like. One thing that I want to do is increase more detail. Let's say that the sweater is made of cotton, I will have to mention the word and ask my journey to really focus on the cotton details. This one looks a lot better. I love this one. Yeah, this one looks silky. But this one we're getting the fabric texture, which is perfect. Here's our first neutral pose and we even have the folds that we asked for. This is definitely a winner. I'm going to put this in and use this image as our image prompt because this is our pose. With a pose, you want to put your reference as an image prompt and at the same time as a omni reference. Omni reference to 25 and I'm going to add in these colors. Let's try reducing the style reference since last time the colors were a little bit too potent and I'm going for more neutral color. Maybe 30 should be good. From here, I could tell that it's already working on that texture, so there may not be a need for me to mention cotton or fabric texture at all. But if for yours is still silky if you're doing some sort of clothing, that is, just add in the word cotton and fabric texture so that you get the exact same lines. Okay, so that is my first pose. I'm going to just see which one looks better, and then don't worry too much about coloring. I'm getting a little bit of blue, which is not from my style reference, but I could fix that within Photo P. So once you have your first look, look for any sort of hallucinations, and then we will remix that out with the edit tab. Once you have that photo that looks good, go on it, zoom in and make sure to spot any hallucinations so that we can clean that up. For example, here, something is up with the neckline and the necklace looks fine. But here we're getting something else with the neckline. This one looks okay and then here we get a weird fold. First, let's choose the one that we want to use. I like this pose. Let me just check her fingers real quick. Okay, her fingers look fine. I will go with this picture. Let's heard it, and then bring it up to edit. Keep the same prompt and reference. All you're doing right now is redoing the portion that needs fixing. For me, that's going to be her neck area. I'm just going to zoom in so I could see it better and a little bit here, I would say. Scroll down. If you missed anything, just add that in. If not, just submit that edit. It's going to regenerate that small section and try to blend it in considering the style and image prompt references. There's my edit, just go to view all. It's hard to see, but you can see the neck line has been fixed. This was, we can't see it before, but it's a lot more smooth, especially this one, so I'm just going to upscale it to gallery. All right. That's my first pose and we're going to use this guy as our omni reference now for the other poses. In total, I want four mockups with the sweater and we're just going to switch up the prompt a little bit. The core elements are still there, but we're going to just maybe describe the way she's holding her hand, the way she's tilting her head. Whatever pose you want to do. Now grab your upscaled image. Going to just like it for later, grab it as an omni reference and image prompt. There's no need for style reference anymore and I'm going to copy the same prompt, but change a few things. Adjust this part, this line, basically. Instead of her putting her hands in her pockets, we're going to choose a different style. Let's do the model is standing. In profile with one arm hanging naturally by the side. Minimal background, change the lighting as well. I do suf directional natural lighting. And then add on the same stuff for some variations. We're just going to put raw version seven, no Sf since there is no style reference. Let's see what pose we're going to get. I have two more, but I'll see what I get here. I may reduce it to three, but it's basically the same process. You're just changing that one sentence. If you want to do maybe she's doing the piece sign or she's looking down, maybe she's facing the camera at a three quarter angle. A pose like that will work. So here we got some nice sweaters. This one looks really cool. I'm going to look for any sort of imperfections. I don't see any, so I'm just going to upscale this for when we export to Photop. Next pose, we're going to put the same prompt omnireference, image prompt and simply do let's do, where's that Crop just below the chin. Let's remove this part since I want to do a back post. The chin is not even in the picture and let's redo this part until here. Since now I'm doing the complete opposite direction. So detailed view of the back yoke, which is the neck part, ma relaxed, drape, thin line texture. Same lighting and everything. I'm going to add in some decorative slides just to tell the client what mood my mockups have. Choose one of these decorative pictures. I will choose this one, let's download it. There is my backslide. My back pose. Looks pretty good. Let's try some more variations. I'm not a fan of the neckline. It's a different color, but I could fix that in photo B, so it's fine. I do want to try another pose. Let me first look at these. This one looks okay. Let's upscale this. Then while that's happening, let's do a crossed arm pose. Let's switch out for this one. The model is crossing her arm. There is my upscale shot. Download that. And let's see if we could get one of these. This may be hard to do and we have to look out for hallucinations, but still worth experimenting with. Okay, we got some pretty soft poses, which is perfect. She even has a ring here and it's the exact same sweater. I think I will go with this ring one. Let's upscale this and now I have all of my poses. The next thing we're going to do before taking it to Photop is once again upscaling our photos with Topaz AI because we mentioned about the importance of quality and we want to just upscale this further and enhance those fabric details. That way, the client's logo or design is going to fit in perfectly and naturally onto these sweaters. Zoom in and make sure her fingers look fine. I can see some weird thing on one of her fingers. Let's edit this and use our brush. Zoom in here to redo this part of her finger, and maybe this too. Submit the edits. That looks a lot better, let's upscale this one to Gallery. And then download them. Now I have four pictures. I'm just going to show you them one more time just so that we're all on the same page. Let's go to organize. There are my poses. We have this one, this one, this, and we did three. I thought we did four. Let me go back here. We forgot to add this one to the list. These are the poses. Pretty good. I'm going to remove this yellow one and then I think this is the one that we didn't fix yet. All right. In the next lesson, we're going to go to Topaz AI, upscale these guys, and then put them onto Photop, where we're going to create a template for that client. We're going to fit in a sample logo just so that people can see how their logo is going to fit onto our sweaters and then provide them with the finalized files. At this point, you should have your four different images. You can do three and depending on what niche and subject you went with, it may look a little different. If you're doing humans, focus on different poses. If you're doing technology, focus on different devices. If it's soda, try different bottles and give some variations to your packages. 33. Mockups: Upscale and Adjustments : We have four poses for our model. I just downloaded them and now we're going to upload them in Topas labs where right now I have seven left on my free plan. You guys should have something there too. If you finished your plan, you could just easily upgrade with the button right here. But since I have the space, I'm going to start uploading my poses and then upscale. Let's start with pose one. We're going to go with 50, make sure everything is selected, and then render. I'm doing sharpen and not upscale because I already set the aspect ratio and I upscaled it in Midjourney. What I really want is more detail, not so much the size of the image. Let's do a before and after. This is before, after. We got a lot more detail, and I'm just going to download. Let's repeat that with the other ones. I got all four of my images and notice how they were exported as PNG, which is a high resolution file, nothing is compressed here and that's perfect for Photopea. What I'm going to do is import my image, the upscaled one. You can also click and drag just like I did here. The first thing we're going to do is play around with the colors and I want that to be universal with all my other poses. Just like we did with this first image, drag the other three onto this canvas and they're just going to pile up on your layers panel. If you're not seeing the layers panel, just go to Window and make sure this is turned on. Now I'm going to name my poses. That's really important because the client doesn't really know what Image seven or image eight is. This will be neutral front pose. This is going to be arms crossed pose, three quarter tucked hands pose, then we got a pack pose. Let's go ahead and first of all, get a nice cooler for all of these guys. I'm going to convert all of them to a Smart Object so that I'm able to edit as I go. Right click on each of the layers and convert to Smart Object. Not much is going to change, but you can see in my history, which if you're not seeing it, again, go here, it tells me that it's creating the smart objects. That's going to take a little while. But now I get to add in my different edits. Let's start with our neutral front post. Go to image. I think adjustments is better. What I want to do is play around with the first of all, lighting and then maybe the colors. To add a curves layer, you can see it goes below because this is now a smart filter. And we're just going to increase the folds a little bit. Bump up the highlights and lower the shadows to create more contrast, then hit okay. Is before or after. If it's too much, you can go on this little icon on the side and just reduce the opacity. Now you got a little boost. On the same note, I'm going to go back to adjustments and let's see, perhaps add a vibrant adjustment. Lower that a little bit. The yellow is too intense for me, so that's why I'm just going to reduce it to some degree. Before or after. I want more of a neutral minimal look, not so much summer wipes or something, so not too yellow. Now when you go to the adjustment, it's going to apply the same previous thing that you made. Now I can just put in 177 and then 189. The same numbers from the last adjustment. Like, repeat with the others. Then of course, we have to change the opacity. So 177189, same number. You can also make a custom filter, but I'm doing it this way in case I want to switch out certain things for each of the images. If you see the same numbers don't look good on one of the images, you have the option to switch it out. Then we're just going to reduce it to, I believe we said 55 55%. That will click, type in 55, hit Enter, and repeat with all the other ones. Oops. Next is vibrance. We added negative 28, negative negative five, which should be saved from over here, but if it's not, just type in negative 27. You can use tab to quickly move to the next part, the next lighter. Usually on the real Photoshop, you're able to just apply your latest adjustment with the same numbers onto your image. It's a lot quicker than photo P, but this is still fine. We're just typing in numbers. Now all of my images have that styling set for them. I'm now going to start putting in that sample logo. Let's hide everything for now. Just click on the eyeball and I'm going to grab the text tool. Basically for each of the post, I will do a separate graphic so that if my client has a full pattern, one line of text, maybe a quote, a logo, they can just imagine how that will look based on my four different designs. The first design, let's make a new layer. We're going to click once and let's, of course, increase the size here, put in your your logo, Command or Control A, change the color, so it's easier to see. Then we can choose the font. Because I went for a more fall aesthetic, I'm going to choose a Sans a sera font, which means it has the little handles on the edge. This is the style of the font. I will do a bold 150, let's put it in the center, hit the checkmark. Grab the move tool and just put it right in the middle. This is going to be put your logo here. We're giving directions to our client once you've made your logo, your fake logo, you can right click and convert that to a Smart Object. The reason why we're doing that is because if the client wants to just replace this with their logo, they can double click opens a new file. They can delete this layer and let's say they drag their own logo, they can simply replace it. I'm going to show you how that works. Let's delete that. But always put directions for your clients. This logo, let's put it on this guide because it's the easiest thing. Let's put I'm going to close these. And just focus on the first one. Ideally, you would want to have a separate PSD for each of these poses, but I'm just going to do them in one so that you guys can see how I do how the process is for each of these poses. But once we're done, I'm going to have one PSD file for just a neutral front pose with the template, another one for this one, and basically four PSDs need to come out of this project. Let's put that over here and we're going to go to the neutral front post. First, let's put it where it needs to be. Woops. Let's lock the base layer, put the lock on it so we don't move it by accident. Grab the logo and position it on a nice spot. I'm going to put it right in front of the folds. That way we can see how the blending is going to work out. We also want to clip this onto this so that the client doesn't accidentally put it here and then they lose customers. Command or Control Z, just put back the logo. We're going to grab this base layer. Let's hide the logo for now. While I'm at it, I'm just going to make the three other projects. So you can right click and duplicate that into a new project. Same name. Just do it like that, and there's my image, and I could just delete it from here, so things are a lot more simple for you guys. New project, same name. Delete it from here, one more time. Okay. Now you should have two layers, your background image and your template. Go to your background image and using the selection tool, just grab the subject. Just click on this guy. I okay? It's going to give you an ad, but at least it's free. Close that up. Normally, you would use the negative brush to remove from that selection, but for some reason on Photopea it just jumps out completely. I'm going to hit Q and use the old fashioned way which is with a brush. If you guys have Photoshop, I would recommend doing it there. Oops it to get black and remove her face and any other detail. Going to increase the hardness. I'm only going to be doing this sweater template once because the process is going to be the exact same. What we're doing for this pose you would be doing with the others. You're basically just selecting the sweater, removing any other detail and putting a template above it. So I'm going to clean this up and then I'll be back so we can continue. Here's my final selection. Everything that's not the sweater needs to be red. So make sure you take your time with the white and black brush. A hardened brush would be better here because there's a lot of big folds in the sweater. When you're done, hit Q on your keyboard and we're going to make a new layer. Command or Control J on your keyboard, we'll make layer one, which is just a sweater. Let's call this sweater. Now that we have our sweater perfectly taken out our upscale sweater, I should say, it's now time to make that template for the client to just drop in their designs. Even though we have four different poses, I'm going to show you the four designs on this project only this pose so that it's a lot more convenient for you guys to follow along. But ideally you would want to set one design for each of the poses. We may just copy paste it in the end. Let's see how that goes. Let's move on to the next lesson where we're going to put in the designs and first of all, build the base for a clean and natural design on the sweater. 34. Mockups: Templates and Export : Okay, right now, you should have your surface separated in Photo P, turn that into a separate layer. So you have your base photo and right above it is that canvas that the client's design is going to go on top. Once you have that selection, just right click, convert it to a Smart Object. And then we're just going to blur the surface and turn it into a displacement map. Grab this layer, go to filter, blur, Gaussian blur. And you can see it's only affecting the sweater. We're going to blur it out a tiny bit, maybe five pixels, hit okay and then we're going to save this as PSD to go to file, save as PSD and I will call this displacement map. Now just go on the same thing, hold down Command or Control. Click once on the thumbnail to get the exact same selection and just turn this into a path. When you click that, you have this work path. I'm just going to name it sweater. This is just in case we need to come back and use the same selection. Now we get to delete this layer because we don't need it anymore, and I have my design. Logo. Now, I'm going to download some of the patterns we made in my journey for our second style of graphics. Go back here and let's remove the light. Choose something that would go on top of a sweater. Maybe a cute little flower design. I'm just going to download it as it is. Obviously, you can upscale it use any other platform. This is my second graphic. My third graphic, I'll do a long quote like that. Let's grab T, click once and type in your favorite quote maybe. Let's put quotation marks and then a author. Command or Control A and shape this like it's a quote. We're actntly making it within the work path. Let's click click away from the path and make our quotation now. Quote your favorite quote goes here. Then author. Let's make this italic and position it where we want it to go. I'm going to make it a little bigger because I wanted to stretch nicely. 75 is good. This is my quote. That's our second design. The third design is going to be the image that we just downloaded. Just click and drag that on top. It's really tiny for some reason. Let's make it full size so that it goes on top of our sweater. Then do your pattern goes here. Then make sure that all of your items are smart objects. Like this one, let's hide this. The last thing, I think I will just quickly make a icon. In Midjourney, let's do cute pumpkin Baker icon with handmade vibes and tout style. I definitely like this guy. Let's download it. Very cute and put that onto our sweater. If our subject is really into character design, this could be an option for them. Then do your icon goes here. For this one, I'm going to separate the subject from the background. Got another ad. There it is and just make a new layer. Oops. Command or Control J. Now we don't have the background, you can delete that one and name this your icon goes here. Turn this into a smart object as well. Let's start with our first logo. We're going to make sure that these are all smart objects. That's really important. Now let's go onto our paths and actually bring back this selection. Command or Control on the thumbnail and we're going to make another copy. And you can see how easily I can retrieve that selection. Now, clip this onto sweater, right click and let's do a clipping mask. This is only visible within the sweater selection. Going to lock sweater in place. You can see the logo goes out whenever I leave the sweater. Unlike Photoshop, this doesn't let you bring in a displacement map. I actually opened it up like this by accident. What you can do is just duplicate sweater, bring it out of here. Call this displacement map. And then make this into a smart object, add in the same blur amount. That's the only difference. I'll just hide this. I go to your logo and then try that again. Displacement map and turn this into 50 50. I think it's too much. Let's reduce let's wrap around. Then play around with the sliders, 50 is obviously too much for my little logo. Just try to match the folds. This is good for me, so I'm just going to hit okay. Next, we're going to change the blend mode to multiply. Then we're going to go on the same layer, go to effect lending options, go to background, alter option on this triangle and slowly move it to the side. So now we took a regular text and we molded it according to these sweaters folds. Now, say you were the client and you want to put in your logo. I'm just going to make a quick logo here. Just take this guy, very simple logo, download it. Now if I were the client, just tap a click on the thumbnail here until you go into this new window and you should only see that logo. Notice here, it's not distorted at all, and that's exactly why we made that smart object. Drag your logo here, resize it. Try to get there try to resize it and I'm going to rotate it just so that it fits or better yet, we could just put in a different text. If I were the client, let's say I made logo, and let's use let's use a text tool actually. I will do a whole different thing, my shop. And I will choose a really decorative font so it stands out from what we had. Let's say this is my client's logo. They wanted to put it in. All they have to do is hide the base logo and maybe put in a background color. Let me just choose something Nice here. I'll go with a slight blue. Use the Bucket tool. Long click on this guy, you should see the Bucket tool and just click once on layer one and then you're going to hit Command S or Control S to save this project. Smart Object updated. If you go back here, there is the client logo, so it's fitting perfectly in that mold we made and they can put in whatever they want. Now the same thing applies to these guys, it's the exact same process. I won't really show you guys these two, but I do want to show you how to do a full pattern on the sweater. With this one, things do get a little tricky because it has to meet every edge of that sweater. First thing you want to do is bring your design, smart object on top of that sweater selection, right click and then clip it to the sweater. Now we're going to displace it the exact same way. Oops. Displacement map, wrap around and then with this one, you can be a little bit extreme because you're dealing with a lot more room compared to a small logo. Let's try 44. The little stripes you see is the fabric texture, so that's completely fine. Hit okay and then change the blend mode just as we did. There is my sweater and then to make it blend in even further, you can go to blending options. Just grab the sliders slightly. So if it's too dark, you can just add a little color to the same smart object. To go to it, image adjustments, maybe brightness and contrast and just give it a little bit of a lift. There is my full design. You can play around with the fill if you want it to be a faded look or just go full opacity. I'll do 84%. They just have to dabble click and change the design. Let me make a crazy look for this guy. So now that you know how to do displacement maps, just copy the same process for each of these arms, each of these poses, actually. Going to delete that one, close lose basically repeat the same template for each of these poses. I'm going to keep this full design, let's delete the logo and the other designs and to hide things for your client, since they don't really have to see everything, you can grab all three with Shift Command or Control G. Oops. You can grab these two, group them, call them background items. All they have to do is go here and we can even right click and change the color into red. That's the only thing they need to be touching. Now to save this as the format, you need to be giving your clients, go to File Export As, do a JPEC which is a compressed image format or a preview, full quality, let's call it preview one. And then a save as PSD. We got Pose one as PSD and JPEG. Those are the things you would be uploading to Etsy then of course, you have to give it a title, a description, and all the other things. That's how you can make mockups using Midjourney and then use tools like Topaz and Photopea to make it ready for your clients. In the next project, we're going to take a completely different route, which is how we can make Children's Book or any other book for that matter, using Midjourney again, GBT and Canva. 35. Trendy Poster: Concept and Inspiration: For the second project, we'll make a series of AI generated posters inspired by real design trends. The tie into this is that posters are perfect for print on demand services that are available on websites like Red Bubble or Society six. The first thing we're going to do is figure out a trend that we want to replicate and we can do that on some of the platforms that I have opened. Pintris is, again, a great place for you to get some inspiration, see what's trending, that sort of stuff. If you have your own aesthetic, you can go ahead and just um, continue that for the rest of the chapter. But you can go for things like retro 90s poster, witted K, maybe Boho minimalism, whatever suits you. But if you don't know what to do, you can just come over to one of these platforms and do trending posters. If you want to use any of these as a reference image, make sure you search for the ones made with AI only. If they don't have the tag, then it's not made with AI, so make sure you do not use those images. But you can still look at these to get some inspiration, maybe see what these are called and then try to replicate it. So this could be a glass film placed above the subject's face with the text engraved into it. So you would describe that in Midjourney to get a similar result. Or with this one subject is placed behind a glass jar filled with flowers. Her eyes covered by the blossoms or something. Now, you can go ahead and make another moodboard. I will be jumping straight into creation because I already have a style that I want to do. But if you don't have a style, feel free to do what we did last project, which was to go over Midjourney, create some inspiration shots with those in a moodboard and then proceed. Redbubble is another platform that I will be explaining in further detail in the next chapter. But if you look for AI retronine, which is the sort of direction I want to take, these are some examples. The most important thing, we already talked about providing bundles when it comes to these outputs, and we're going to be creating a bunch of posters, but the style and the subjects need to be cohesive. What I want you guys to do is first figure out the style that you want to proceed with and then the subject. Is the subject going to be robots? Is it going to be a human? Will it be an animal? Even an object would work like a PC? Think about which subject you want to focus on for the rest of this project. So for me, I just took a picture of my rubber duck and I'm going to be using that as the subject in all of my posters. My brand will be based on this guy. Then I'm going to look for a poster that I like, which is this one. This one, I'm not sure if it's made with AI doesn't say it, but nonetheless, I'm going to look at the features that it has. It's definitely a retro design. It has good text. There is a cyberpunk aspect to it, like a cityscape as well. I'm just noting down the different elements I see in this image so that I could describe it to my journey. This in general, would be a retro Sci Fi poster style. If I just look that up in Pintras I'm going to get a lot more. And this just confirms that I've found the correct term for the poster. If you see anything you like, just go in it and try to find out the term. Got a digital poster. This is vapor wave Avis. So just note those down. So now what we're going to do is first put in our duck and try to make him a little bit, I guess, cooler since he will be going in this sort of poster. Upload your image. Let's put them in the Omni reference actually. Then we can look for the style that we're going for. That would be a retro sci Fi poster maybe. Whichever color or style you prefer just drag it into your style reference. Let me remove poster. I like this style so just click and drag and you can put more than one, make sure that all your styles are somewhat similar. I do like this work too. I think I'll stop at three. You can go for more, but try not to go more than four because it might confuse the model. Now I'm going to describe my duck in the environment. I think what I'll do first is try to replace a subject in one of these places with the duck. Let's see. We could the duck go? Something like that. Then describe the duck here. A giant pink rubber duck. Reimagined as a cyberpunk icon loading above a Neon Cityscape VitrociFiPoster, and then choose your colors. I think I'll do bold red and yellow, maybe. And then submit that. While that's happening, I'm going to go over here and look for something cyberpunk too. These work, it's a little bit too crowded for me, but there are some that are minimal, like this guy or this. Yeah. I'm going to do the same process, but with this tile and then if that's something I like, I can combine them together. Going to see where my There we go. A new reference. Then I think I'll leave this out, but then go here for the same prompt. This is what we have from our first set. You can see it is my rubber duck, but here they are part robots. We have the full duck with, I guess, headphones. It maintained shape of the duck, the curve and all, but just made them into a robot. If we were to put this in the image prompt, we're going to get the same position, and that could be something worth trying. Let's put in the same prompt. I'll add this as image prompt, omni reference, and then add a mixture of these guys as my style reference. Let's grab, this and then maybe this. Here's my second set, which is meant to be a lot more cyber punks or a lot more digital stuff over it. It maintained the duck really well here. Of course, if we upscale it, it would be even better, but you can see the resemblance from the real duck to the fake duck. If you create different variations, let's do a subtle and a strong. We could get some pretty interesting results. This guy is with my image prompt being that original image. This guy. You can see how in all four, I have the same position and the same size even amongst my ducks. The only difference is that the background is techie and Japanese because I think we added one image Okay. I think it's just taking it from this image. This is the variations that we made from the guy. So it's all looking pretty good. Now we're going to upscale this even further and note down the things that we don't want. Remember, you can use the no command. For example, if you saw that there's attempts at making text, you can just put no text so that Midjourney doesn't even try putting together the little text that it's trying to do. Now I'm going to upgrade my prompt. Again, this guy has omni reference, and I'll increase this to 100, which is the default. Style wise, I will add in This method, I like the flatness of this a bit more and then we'll put in our prompting again. So I essentially describe my duck first what it looks like, and that's from your Omni reference. Whatever you put in here, just describe it for this first half of the prompt and then reimagined as your style. If you're doing cyberpunk, you can put it here. If you're doing it as an anime character, you would mention anime and just build that up. Then what is that duck doing? It's floating above a futuristic neon cityscape, retro Sci Fi poster style based on this guy, bold graphic design. This is bold and then the colors. I think I'll do magenta instead of red. Surreal technical dystopia. That's exactly what we're seeing here, symmetrical composition, meaning that the duct should be in the center. Detailed geometric lines, high contrast. Now let's put in some parameters. I will do SL reference 100, chaos ten. We will do Persian six just to try it out. I'm going to try one without a text and one with a text. Bold graphic design of the text Duck nation maybe. Let's see how it does with text in general. Version six, and then I will disable raw because we're going for a flat graphic style rather than a real photography style. Then let's send this. I will do the exact same thing, but then without the text so we can see which one works better for us. Here's the first set. You can see that it tried to replicate the position of the duck. And it does put in dcnation pretty well. I wasn't expecting that. Has it on the walls on the towers in different fonts. It's pretty cool. Then here it doesn't have the text, so that's the only difference. Because we're dealing with a lot of random styles here, I think I will make a moodboard and what you can do is actually select it from here. Midjourney only creates things based off of that moodboard. It's more than just for your inspiration purposes, but it actually helps us make certain styles. So let's make another moodboard and I'll call this my Sci fi Duc we'll add from gallery the stuff that we've liked so far. I like this one. The robot is cool, maybe this guy. That's pretty funny. Add those in, and then I want to do some stuff from the Explorer. We're essentially remixing our work and works from the Explore page. Hold down command and click once, and that's going to open it on a new window. Then just go over here and copy the image URL so that it's easy to add to your moodboard. Just go over here, add from Link, paste it and blue. This is too detailed for us actually. This one's a better match. You do want to be consistent with your moodboard so that you don't further confuse Midjourney. This one's good in terms of the text, not so much the subject. I do like the contrast between the colors. I Okay. Now I have a bunch of stuff in my moodboard and what you can do to increase it even more is go on the one that you like and then create different variations. I really like this one. My only problem with it is that the duck is fully a robot. Let's do a subtle, strong, and then I will add this perhaps as a image prompt, but make my omni reference my original duck. Maybe add this as a style reference. Let's put in our last prompt and then mention all the parameters. Okay, so we're getting some cool stuff. I really like this one, and that was just a strong variation, meaning that it goes away from the original picture. Was subtle just keeps the picture that you created a variation from and just makes it slightly different. But out of these guys, let's see which one looks the best. This one looks cool. I will add this to my moodboard later. Here's a combination where we have more of that duck, but it's the position of the robot duck. Let's create variation up of this guy. I'll create strong and subtle. The text needs more work in my opinion, but it's definitely a duck in the correct position with the colors, the cityscape that we asked for, the technical side, and the rest is all there. Okay. So now we have a cartoonish version of our duck, which could be another style that you could add on for your bundle. We have this style. Then add those onto your gallery. Okay. Now, when you're done adding stuff to your moodboard, just look at it from afar and see what's not really fitting in. For me, that's these guys because I think we use the raw parameter and it made it really photorealistic. Let's just delete these two, and that leaves us with a flat cyberpunk style. Now that we have an idea of the concept and, of course, our moodboard, we're ready to create the different poster designs and see where and how our duck looks like in each of these spaces. 36. Trendy Poster: Variety and Upscale: With your moodboard, you're now going to create different positions, styles or accessories for your subject. I will be doing different accessories. The first thing I worked on is my duck without anything on. Then we can try a cowboy hat, sunglasses, maybe a little mustache, and that's going to be my bundle that I will put out as the poster pack. When you put in the same prompt, this one, just make sure that you go on this P, turn it on and your moodboard is the sci fi duck and not the other ones. Click away, add your Omni reference. I have mine set at 100. And let's just generate without any sort of other inputs and see how well the moodboard is involving itself into this output. You can see that now I have global version seven profile, which is the profile that I made when I rated those 200 images, and then we have the moodboard listed here. Here is my rubber duck without any sort of accessory. I think that looks really good. I'm just going to remove the text because I could just add that on Canva later anyway. Let's repeat that with Omni reference the same settings such as click on them. And then just put after last last word in a prompt. No text. And then generate. The good thing about using the external tools is that if you, for example, had your own font, you can import it onto Canva or Photopea or some other Adobe program and put in your own touch. Even if you don't have your own text, you can just put in something a lot better than what we're seeing now. You can put on your logo, little signature icons, whatever it is that can give you the um basically make these your brand. Even though I asked for no text, I think in the moodboard, we have a lot of text shots, so it's not really registering that. But I think that should be fine because we can use Canvas eras tool or photopiece eras tool too. Because these are just random symbols and not really text. So I think what we could also try is using the Edi tab. I'm just going to see which one of these I like the most. I really like this one. I like that it's a real rubber duck floating on water, and it's just like this techno cityscape in the back. I do want it to be a little bit more flat. Let's use the same image as the prompt omni reference, and then the flat version that looked cool. I think One of these should work. Let's put that as style reference and put in the parameters. Similar to our mockup project, we're going to first focus on the subject without anything a plain subject, and then add on the accessories, different poses, different styles. Whatever you're trying to do that will make your pack slightly different but maintain that main branding for you. Here's my duct. It's a little bit flat but not as flat as I want it. Maybe we should use a different image and then mention the word flat. Put this in as image prompt or actually we chose this one, the cell reference, omni reference, but mention the word flat. Retro flat, maybe two D Sci fi poster, so no three D elements, and I think I'll remove this and put in one of those flat stuff. This one is a little better. I'll go in my moodboard to see if I have any three D element. Maybe it's the guy. Let's remove that and everything else is flat. I will also remove the. I feel like these could be disturbing the generation. Let's run this one more time now that we have an updated moodboard. This is looking a lot better. We do have some attempts at Japanese text, but of course, they don't really make sense, and that's just the funny thing with AI. Maybe we could try this guy. I'm going to wait for the other set and see if I find something that I prefer. Let's like this for now, and I will definitely try to remove this text and put in my own font, and then we can try the curly braces to maybe add a cowboy hat, a bow tie, and then we can do a shawl maybe. Here are some more designs. This one looks funny. We have the retro sun element here, which I also like. Now let's add this guy as our image prompt and the rest as style reference because this is the exact style we want. Omni reference for sure. Same prompt, these parameters. I have this turned on, but I don't think we need it anymore. Then we'll do the curly braces to put in the different accessories for our duck. A giant pink rubber duck with curly braces, cowboy hats, bow tie, and then mustache. Curly braces, it enter and now you get three sets. You can do more than three. I'm going to just keep it lower and then you basically, if you wanted to do more, do curly braces for all the other components. If you wanted to maintain your pink duck, but in different styles, then you would put a curly braces in the section that mentions the Neons scape, retro flat two D, that sort of thing. So that's how you can just incorporate the curly braces. This guy is our cowboy hat, and we can see for three of them, at least, we have that. This is our bow tie, and I think mustache is a little hard to do considering the big lip. Let's see what can I do instead? What can we put on this duck? Maybe sunglasses. Let's put in all of these guys again and then do sunglasses. But now for the cowboy, it looks pretty funny. This guy looks like a detective. We have a smaller head. I don't like that one. This one's my favorite, and I will upscale it to settle. If you want, you could create different variations, but for me, that will do. Then this one is our second one. I just want to make sure the duck looks remotely the same. I think these two look more similar. Let's upscale this to subtle and then hopefully we get the sunglasses. All right. Again, I'm going to compare the lip to the other ones and make sure that at least insinuating that it's the same duct. Got the lip, so we have to go for the plum one, maybe this guy. And then upscale this. For our third poster. Now I have three upscaled shots. I'm going to attempt removing this with the edit tab. Let's try it. It may not work, but it's worth trying. Better yet, let's try one without any of these inputs. Hopefully that will ease the distraction element. This is perfect. I'm going to upscale this two gallery, but now I have a space to add real text so something that actually reads. That was a cowboy one. Let's take this guy, edit it, remove all the s, hit the X, we have some more text here in the little just below the headline watch out for those. You could remove the text up here. I'm going to leave those B because the attention is on the duck anyway. We don't need to worry too much about those guys. Upscale and then repeat with the third one, which is the sunglasses. Got some up here as well. An upscale to gallery. Don't know if you pressed it. Okay. So basically with this moodboard, you have a system of generating more versions of this concept, the rubber duck in a cyberpunk environment. If you, for example, get a order for a pet chicken, you can just use the same moodboard, same prompt except change out the word duck for chicken and you're all set to go. Once we're done, we're going to download it as we did with the previous lesson, and I will be showing you guys a different platform because by now for sure you're done with the Topaz labs free trial items not this one. We were downloading the wrong ones. Okay. Since Topas labs only had ten free images for you to upscale, I will also recommend this platform. It's free to use and it's pretty straightforward, just upload your images as a badge or actually not as a badge, get to do it singularly and then just download them. Let's go with our Cawboy hat. Let's increase the ratio to either 200 or 400. I will go with 200, upload and start. It may take a while to process because it's a free tool. I'm going to upload the other two the same way, and then once it's done, you can just download it, and then we have an upscaled image. I'm going to repeat that and then we're ready to bring it into Canva to finalize the posters. We will do that in the next lesson, take your time, upscale, edit anything further within the Midjourney editab and then come back for the next lesson. 37. Trendy Poster: Editing and Exporting: Now we're here on Canva to finalize our posters, put some text on it, and then export them. With Canva, we can go ahead and make a portrait shot, which is three to four poster. I believe that's the same ratio we created things with three to four. That's why it's really important for you to check the ratio before you make your work. For some reason you chose something by accident, maybe you did landscape instead of portrait, you can just re run that same prompt with this new image size. Let's say I found out that I need to have a square image, just switch it like so, put in the same prompt and use this guy as your image prompt. Another trick that you can do because every time you hit submit the prompt, the little error here, it's going to give you different variations or different understandings of that prompt. There's also a command that lets you create multiple outputs and that's dash repeat. Case you want to use that, I'll show you how to do it. Put in the prompt, the same stuff that we went over. AR was supposed to be one to one, my bad. 121, Version seven and then do dash dash repeat. However many times you wanted to repeat. Let's say five times. Hit Enter and now we got five things happening at the same time. That's a helpful parameter to know, just so that you're not hitting the Send button five times. Okay. Then you can see that everything here is indeed a square, so keep that in mind. Let's go ahead and make a poster. There's a template right over here and I'm going to upload all my shots for each of the pages. I have three designs. I will do three pages and let's upload our work here. Here are my three ducks. I'll just grab them on there. You can click and drag to move to the other page or just Command or Control Z, delete it from here and paste it in the other page. Here's a quick preview of what your poster will look like printed. Obviously, we want to do a little bit more than just this and you guys can change this up and do your own designs. But I want to increase it and give it a nice border around. Resize it like that and repeat with the other ones. I'm just going to check the width and height here, 16.7 22.1 and make sure it's in the center, so the border looks pretty good. Now I can put a different border on the back. Now, because the image has a border, we'll come back to crop that out. But for now, just go to elements, get a shape, and make sure that shape fills up the entire screen. Choose a neutral color and then do Command or Control left bracket key to send it back. Now we have a cute little border. Grab that element, the shape, Command or Control C, and then Command or Control V. Send it back one more time and repeat with the other one. Now let's go on to each one and delete the border that there originally because not every one of these images have the same border. Just by simply grabbing this side, the longer rectangle, you are able to crop your image. Just slide it down until you're not seeing the Midjourney borders. Now I have the borders and my poster is looking pretty good. I will change the background color and send it more towards the warmer tone. We could even sample something within the poster by grabbing that key. Maybe something like that could work, but we will make it a little lighter. Maybe that color. Then we're going to copy the style and paste it on the rest of the shapes. Next comes the text because we empty this space for something that's actually readable. Go to text, add a heading and choose your favorite font. For me, it would have to be a techie font just to fit in with the background. We have these fonts, you should be able to see the same one. I'm going to just see if I prefer this or this. Maybe try putting in something. Let's do the Duck Sheriff. There's different styles too. Let's do the black one and then we'll do a neon yellow color just to add to that retro effect, and then we can outline it with the effect panel. Go to outline and we can grab one of the colors in the image. Let's see. Maybe this pinkish color could be cool. Click away and you can decide the thickness right over here. They usually do about 40 or something on the even side. You can also change the text by going over here. I'm going to just squeeze these two together and perhaps we can add a glow effect as well, something neon. I think it's actually better without the red. Click away and then we're going to put in a little text, since this is a poster, let's do a subheading, put it over here, and let's do something weird. Whatever text you want to put in, and then I'll utilize this font to maintain that techie aspect of it. We can even do a glitch one, actually. Let's try that out. We could do yellow or grab one of those pink ones from the background, I'll compare them both. That's hard to see. Let's try this neon color. Going back to effects, let's offset the glitch a little bit more and choose a different color set. When we zoom in, it has some glitch effect. Think if we change the color, the glitch will be more noticeable that way. Maybe white. Let's put it here and make it a lot smaller. Next, I'll fade it out, so it's mysterious. Now, let's copy the same text and just change the wording for our two other ducks. We can put this guy, hold down shift to move it down a straight line and then repeat with this guy. Let's give these to a name. Let's do the Let's try to be smart here. The duckom the gentleman thing. And then we'll do the cool uncle, like a duck uncle. Something like that, and then this would be my package. Of course, you can put in some more elements because Canva has a lot of free stuff that you can add on. Maybe you can try some graphics. There's a lot to choose from. You can search for stuff, but I'm going to keep mine the way it is. If you have a logo, just make sure you find a spot for it. I do want to have that tiny paragraph situation that some of the posters do. I'm just going to go to lowering Ipsum IO where I could get a dummy paragraph and pretend that's the poster specifications. Let's go for a serifont that has the handles. We'll try like Alice maybe. Make sure it's white and then make it really tiny, maybe 30. Then close the borders here so it all fits in the middle. Then we can drag it down, put it right underneath. I think even tinier, maybe 20. That's exactly what I'm looking for. Put that over there, increase this so the little decrease can be more visible. I'll actually try 15, really tiny. Then just copy and paste on the other ones. I'm going to have to move the text here to this guy and the one behind it. Make sure you hold down shift, so it all moves in a straight line. All right. Now, let's talk about exporting. When it comes to posters, which format should you put should you use? First of all, before we do that, if you plan on using Canva for your poster production, make sure you give it a name and you name each of the pages so that whenever you get an order, you know exactly which page to go. Right now with three pages, it may seem obvious. But when this takes off and you have 50, you want to make sure you are very organized. Hit Share and we're going to hit Download. There's a lot of file types here, but in case you're not familiar with them, I'll go through each one. Well, the ones that matter. JPEG already gives you a description. That's not something I would recommend for the poster itself, but for the preview, just like we did with the mockups, you can put that in as JPEG and then the real poster needs to be PDF for print and PDF standard. This way, you're giving the client the print option and a digital print option, you will be more in demand for it. You need to have three outputs with posters, print standard, PDF standard, PDF print, and then JPEG. You don't really need to do PNG or any of the other ones. I will do a PDF print for now, including all three, or you could sell them separately, whatever you choose to do and make sure this guy is a CMYK. Then you just hit Download and upload the files that you extract for EDC, Red Bubble, Society six, and a bunch of other ones that I will go over in Chapter seven. Let's also download JPEG, all three, and then standard PDF. As you saw, standard PDF didn't ask for our color profile because that's a whole different format when it comes to print, there are certain colors that need to be translated. What we see on the screen is a mix of RGB or red, green, and blue colors, while C and Y K are what's used for print. That's Cyan, yellow, magenta, and K is black. You just have to follow those standards. Now I will have these three files as well as the files from last chapter, the last project, actually, in the resource pack for you guys in case you wanted to look at it, get some reference or use that as your starting point. Feel free to do that. There's a lot of other resources as well, and now that we have our posters, we can move on to our next project. Which will be a storybook. We're going to work with characters again except now we have faces. We will put our characters in different positions, maybe come up with a funny story, a few pages, of course, so that the lesson is not too long and you can take that idea and turn it into either a storybook or comic, manga, whatever you're into. Let's move on to the next project. 38. Storybook: Pictures and Story from ChatGPT: For this last project, we're going to be making a storybook where we're going to have to make consistent characters, consistent styles, and pair it with the story line. You can take this any direction that you want. I will be making a character and have maybe two to three pages worth of a story. To be utilizing Canva again, make sure that you're comfortable with it this time and this way we will have a easier time laying out all the components in our final storybook. First of all, we have to think about our character in the story. You can decide whether this is going to be a human, an animal, an object, something unconventional, whatever you want to do, and work around shaping that character for that style. If you're going to do a two D thing, which I do recommend, what character is going to fit well and how should they look in this two D setting? So cartoon characters are rather popular here on Midjourney. We have anime styles like that, something really flat and simple like this. You can even do highly detailed ones like this. I wouldn't recommend starting here though, because keeping all of these details consistent is going to be a little hard. First, let's go ahead and create different pieces for the moodboard and then we'll use that board as one of our inputs for the prompts. Back here, let's call this storybook. Go to create and just type in something really simple book character. Right now, I don't know exactly what my character is going to look like, what's their species and all that. I'm just putting in book character, and I'm going to do another one, increase the variety a lot more and maybe weirdness to get some fun ideas that I could further explore. So we got a little boy here, we got a priest. We have an adventurer with a briefcase and a girl with ponytails. Over here with more chaos and weirdness, we're getting some other stuff. We get this guy with a cane, this special style. I'm not sure. It's like a two d style and she has all these ribbons coming out, which looks fun. We have a three D, realistic small figure and this art style, which I really like this. And we're getting more three D elements. Right over here, I can decide if I want to do something two D or three D. Once you made your decision, just put in the same thing and before book, put in two D or three D, and I will add these settings. For weird, we can do 100, something lower and slowly formulate what our character looks like so that we can make that base position, then have them move in different directions and do various actions. We got all two D except this guy. I think if we reduce the weird, we should be getting something more like this. I'm going to create different variations here, strong. Since that's my favorite style, it's a watercolor look. Here's our two D book character with weird 600, so it's all three D. Going to ignore these and this one is looking pretty good. So I think I will go with this style and just add one of these as input for our style reference. And while we're here, let's do Omni reference as well. Now we're going to do book character. Well, we can first explain what this character looks like. Female book character with pony tails and long sleeve. It's like a yellow top. Yellow top holding a basket of muffins, let's say. But in the chaos, Version seven, you can try Version six as well and then submit. I'm going to try a different hairstyle while I'm here, put in the exact same things. We're getting weird again. Let me reset this and we run this prompt. The weird always ends up making your characters three D. I'm just running the same thing, but without the weird. Let's try our different hairstyles, Kos ten version seven. We can do long curly hair. Then I'll do maybe a blue top. This is with the weird. Again, it's very three D. Now it's a mixture of three D and two D. Not a fan. This is the same prompt, but we have her hold a basket of muffins. This one's more ideal. For some reason, it didn't listen to the yellow top, but that's fine. I think if we remove the omni reference, that's probably what's influencing it right now. Maybe we can lower it to 25 and then do one without the omni reference. This one's pretty good. We do have a problem with her fingers, but we can fix that in post. I'm just going to heart this for now so I can add it easily to my moodboard later on. Now you can see just by taking off the omni reference, I'm getting a whole different character style. We have a mixture of the green and the yellow. I think this is cute. I'll create some variations from this. It's hard that as well. She has that hair, she's holding something and that's her outfit. We could switch it up and we'll describe her outfit. Put in these parameters. But long sleeve yellow top and pants maybe. Blue pants. I'm going to add this as omni reference as well. Just make sure to lower the influence. Ow ten maybe. So these ones are again going towards the three D look slightly. I'm thinking of combining this style with the characteristics in our later prompt. Let me first see what we got here. All right. These are not that bad. It's a whole different style, though. We have a longer limb situation. Here, we got ginger. We didn't really say what color her hair is, that's fine. I want this style to be preserved because of the smaller details. So let's put the same prompt. And this time for Omni reference, we're going to add this guy. Add her here, and then for style, we're going to go with one of these. Since this is full body, make sure to add one of the full bodies for style reference. Okay, so I ran a few more, and here I described some of these styles, so cute Illustration style, storybook, children's book, and this is what I got. And then I went ahead and describe the environment. Where is she exactly? I said tall stone towers with people passing by and she's standing in the middle of it. I think this one looks pretty good. Let's create some variations. It's as you can see, the pants is there or yellow top. This green element is coming from the omni reference, the long curly black hair. I'll leave it as black. You can change the color. If there's any imperfections, don't worry about it right now because we're going to fix it later on. We have some people in the back. I think I'll leave them B. But this is what our character is looking like so far. I'll like this too. Now we're getting her in different head angles. Here she's looking up, looking to the sides, turning back, that sort of thing. I like the environment of this one a lot more. Of course, we have a little hallucination, but that's something we can fix. Now we're going to go to upscale the two images that we want to combine. I said I like the background here, so we have to upscale it subtle. Then this is the character, so we upscale this too. What I want to describe further is, I guess for now we could leave it B, just combine these two. I don't think we need a third element. Maybe we can leave that for the pieces other pages. Let's take the one that has the basework which is this guy, going to compare the two. It's pretty much the same. That's very consistent already. On second thoughts, I won't combine this with this. But either way, let's edit this because we do have some hallucination in the hair. I'm going to delete the style reference, get my erased brush and just redo this section. If there's anything else that looks weird, I think these two people looked a little bit combined with the lamppost. I'll redo that and this will be the first look at our character. But we do have a third handle. I missed that. This is the hair and that those people removed completely. This one looks better. On top of this, we're going to make another selection to remove this part. Like that. While I'm here, let me check on other things. Her ear looks weird for sure. Just make one dot there. Her shoes are fine. People in the back. I'm not sure what that is. Let's remove that. These are just regular people. Submit the edits. For my storybook, I'm going to do a square image size. You can change that up with any of the other ones. Since we're doing it on Canva, anyway, you have a lot of freedom as to what your book looks like. Now we got different looks. You can also increase the size here as we learned, feel free to do that. This one's my first shot and I just zoom in. It looks look fine. So let's go to the moodboard and add all of these things that we made this last set. Grab these guys that's still developing, let's put these. Basically, we started from these guys and ended up with this character. Let's go back and I will add this last one too. Okay. Now that I have my base character, I can start putting her in either different locations or having her do different poses. Now for the actual story, we could use the help of ChatGPT. I'm just doing this for demonstration purposes. Obviously, a story written completely by AI may not be the funnest thing to read. Unless you explicitly say that this is an AI storybook, then that has its own audience. But we're just going to go over here and ask for a very simple three page children's story. Write me a three page children storybook about a young girl with muff a basket full of muffins, walking through the cobblestone town. Let's see what her mission would be. She's looking for the best picnic spot, maybe. Make this let's do make this funny and fun. Use rhymes and provide maybe four lines per page. Now we get these short little poems. This could be our first scene. But if you don't know how to describe basically the position that your character needs to be for page two and three, you can also ask ChatGPT for help. Write knee a Midjourney, prompt for page one, two, and three to generate the visuals for the pages with an aesthetic storybook, illustration style. You can do like colored pencils, not colored pencils, actually, Let's do with vibrant colors and two de textures. Here it gave us a different dress, so wearing a bright dress. We could switch that out for something else, basket full of muffins. And now we just got a copy paste. I'm going to mention she's wearing change the prompts so that she's wearing a yellow top and blue pants with long curly black hair. So we got all these three. We have our moodboard, and all we got to do now is put in the references, put in those prompts, and start building the different pages for our story. 39. Storybook: Layout and Export: All right. Welcome back. We made these prompts and this whole story in ChachiBT last lesson and made our moodboard with the following. Now we're going to start generating the prompts that ChachiBT gave us based on the characteristics that we already decided for the character. So first page is this prompt, copy it. Command or Control, go to create, paste, make sure this guy is turned on and you're choosing storybook. Kaos ten version seven. Let's add this as our omni reference. And we can add the same thing for style. Let's hit Enter. Here's our first set. I go to zoom in to show you the differences. We do have a lot of hallucinations. This one is fine. Got an extra flower. If you wanted to use these guys, just remember you got to edit it in here and have Midjourney regenerate the weird parts. But this one looks pretty good. I'm still going to zoom in and see if there's any sort of odd detail. Which we don't have. This is my first scene. Let's upscale it, subtle, and then begin with our next prompt. Put in the exact same thing, then put in the second prompt. I believe all the other details are there. We forgot chaos ten. Chaos ten, OW 25, and then the P is red, which means the moodboard is being used here, profile and all. There's our upscale shot. Let's heard it and download it for further upscaling. I did notice that we do have this area. I just came to the edit tab to fix up a few of the hallucinations. Mainly, let's delete this. This area with the hair. It's merging in her shirt. Submit the edit. I'm going to check this door. The rest is fine. I think it was just that area and we could see it trying to fix it in real time. I'm going to repeat the same process with the third scene and then I'll be back so we can see what edits we need to make. I made all of my shots and I was editing them in the edit tab. Once you're done, as always upscale gallery. And I have three scenes. For this one, she is wearing a different top. Well, not this one. This one. We're going to attempt to redo the top hopefully it's going to listen to the yellow aspect. Going to just make a bigger brush and go over the top area. But the other two scenes, they were upscaled and edited and it's all ready to go. In the meantime, let's look up the dimensions for a children's book and that's 11 by 8.5 because we want it to be landscape, so it's the opposite. On Canva, you could just create your custom size. In inches 11 by 8.5. There we go. The first thing you want to do is split this down the middle. Get a line, rotate it, click once, then hold down shift to get it to the perfect 90. Then you can see this pink line directing us as to where the middle is. Once it's in the middle, click one on this circle, hold down shift, and then stretch it all the way down. To change the thickness, just go on this guy and I guess change it to two. That should be maybe one. There we go. To make it stand out a little less, let's go for a gray color. And then lock this in place. Now grab your frames. I did a square image, so I need a square frame, put it here in the middle and then grab your text and put it on the other end. Or we could do here, one here, depends on how you want to lay this out. So I will do something like this. Make sure it's in the center, grab both, alter option, then shift, drag it to the other side. Now I have two images and two text. We're getting some interesting tops here, but whatever you see that is better, just build off from there. Go to this one and begin erasing one more time because it already figured out the bottom. I think what I will do is I think this is too much. I'll do text here, one image on the other end. Yeah. Let's see. This one sort of looks better. Again, I'm going to make my brush really tiny and keep doing this until we get that perfect yellow. There we go. Let's upscale to gallery and we're done with our three scenes. This was our upscale. I'm going to download it and then wait for this guy. Now she's wearing the exact same color, same hair, same basket for the muffins, and she's just going around trying to find that perfect picnic spot. All right. Now back to Canva, we are going to start uploading the images and putting them into the frames. Just duplicate this two more times or let's first actually put page numbers. I'll do page one. Make this smaller, maybe 15. Watch out for margins, Alt, shift, drag on the other side, that's going to be page two. Now just duplicate this two more times. One, two, and then change the numbers, three, four, five, and then six. Since this is a book cover, we're going to do the front and back cover as well. I think I will duplicate this one more time and just delete these components. Drag in your scenes and just drop them into the frames. Going to copy this, delete it from here, and just fill up the pages. Oh wait. That's for that. This page two, that's page three, and that's page one. You can grab the frames and maybe round them up a little bit. Let's stew 15, grab the copy style and paste it to each of these. Now let's go back to this poet, this short rhyme, copy it and put it where the headings are. Since it's a cuz vibe, we want to go for a serifont course, not as bold and choose an appropriate size. Then of course justified. Now we have the story, the image, make sure that the quotes are fully visible so that it's easier to read. But as for the rest, it's all good to go. The last thing we need to do is design a fun cover that's going to fold into the front page and the back page. This one, you can do a landscape. Image size. Let's go here, landscape. I think a four by three, maybe a three by two. Choose a three by two, put in the image that we use for the omni reference, and then the same for style. Now let's ask for a prompt for the front and back cover. Well, just a front cover because that's also going to be the back cover. For this one, I'm going to play around with the towers. This could be the front side of the cover and the towers and buildings could be the backside. Let's grab something like this guy, scale it up first as always and then edit it where we erase half and bring in the same image or maybe this guy. This one looks cooler. Let's upscale this two. We're going to merge these two together in the edit tab and then put it here where it looks like it's the front and the back. Let's take the front side, edit, and then add our other image. Open this in a new tab and copy the image URL. That way, I could go to add and do it a lot faster, so just paste it and there's your layer too. Using the MVTol situate this in a way where half of the scene is her and then on this end we're just getting buildings. And just try to match the bottom. With both images, Midjourney will fill up the spot for you. Then grab your paint erase and erase the edges for both of the images. Layer one, layer two, and then we'll have Midjourney stick it together. I'll do another one where we don't have an omni reference since we have our character already. That's our first building. Let's take a look at the rest. This one looks pretty cool. So I will upscale this to gallery and then bring it onto Canva. Scale it up. Hopefully it if it doesn't can go back and resize it. But for me, I don't mind cutting a little bit. Just make sure you push it back so the fold line is visible and it's always lock that guy in place. Now we're going to give this a nice title, so grab a heading and just write something like Molly Mae as the main title. Choose a vibrant color and set it right in the middle. Like that. Let's give it a background as well. So Molly Mae, and then we can hold down Alter option, click and drag to put in another part of the title. I'll break it up into three parts. Let's put this here and then Alter option, click drag for the third word. Okay. Now you can fill up the details regarding the author, which is just chat tri But, I'm going to label that here. There's always some stuff in the back. There's always a logo and a bunch of little texts talking about the contributors and all that stuff. Let's put in write a short description for this book's backcver. Put that in right here and this is the text that people usually read before they purchase. That's why we're putting it there. I will go with another font. Maybe a sand seraph will do better. Make sure that it fits in nicely maybe 15 is a good number. Scale it down and then if you want, you could give it a nicer background. I'm going to center it and I'll try. We can do something that makes it a little easier to read perhaps a shape. Okay. And then finally, the most important detail the author. I will remove that and just choose a different font. Yeah, that one's good. 30. We'll just put Cha chibT there. Right. Okay. So there is my storybook. All you got to do now is share it sorry download it as a PDF for print. You will have the printer print this for you. They will handle the folding. If you want to print this on your own, just make sure that you're fitting the design onto the standard. Some printers prefer a full page design, some printers like half. It really depends on where you plan on printing this. If you want to do something digital, then it's not that important. I would just be your preference. I just downloaded this as a PDF standard since I'm going for an eBook, but feel free to do a PDF for print. I will have this in the resource pack as well in case you want to reference it. That's how we can make our storybook using HHIPT Midjourney and Canva. 40. Mistakes to Avoid: We've covered a lot of ground in this course. We started from the fundamentals. Then we moved on to prompt essentials, experimenting with different image types to creating complete projects where we designed our dream room and then our fantasy character. This last chapter is about tying everything together, helping you avoid common pitfalls and showing you where to go next so you can keep growing as a mid journey creator. This lesson, we're going to talk more about the common mistakes to avoid, starting with what not to do with Midjourney. A lot of beginners especially stumble in this area and knowing these ahead can really save you a lot of time and even weeks of frustration. You put in that prompt that you thought was perfect. Maybe you used ChatGPT. But then you keep getting some weird results. Maybe your subject has 20 fingers, it's not even a human and you don't know what to do. Let's go over four mistakes in this lesson and these will really help you better understand where things could go wrong. Mistake number one is overloading your prompt. Sometimes we try to fit ten different ideas into one prompt, which may sound really awesome, but it actually confuses Midjourney and gives you different hallucinations. Just like a human, the AI gets confused too, so the results, which is the understanding of the AI from your prompt is really messy. Always think about this example. If you have a complex idea and you were to write it in a book and make someone read it, is that person going to be able to visualize what you're talking about? If a person cannot understand your ideas, then AI will definitely not understand it. The best thing to do is to build prompts in layers and iterate as you go. With our course, especially with the fantasy character, we started a while back from here where we had the smoke background. I didn't immediately go in and put in my entire all my ideas with the sword, with the moon, the glowing spaceships, the force like background into one place. Instead, I built the base workork which was my subject, and then built different iterations. With that one, we actually started here and then we ended up here. Take things slow, build the main idea in one prompt. Once you have a good result from that prompt, add that in as an image reference and then build up upon it. Mistake number two is ignoring aspic ratios. That's the AR that we're putting down here. In this bar, it's image size. If you're designing for social media, wallpapers, posters, aspec ratio really matters because if you're putting everything as a square and it's time to use that square image as a wallpaper, you're going to lose a lot of quality because you have to scale into that photo or perhaps even crop the top and the bottom. So don't settle for the default square unless it fits your project. When I reset this, it's a one to one ratio, which means a square. I need to make sure that I'm matching the ratio for whatever output I'm trying to make. And if you, for example, want to post on TikTok, you would go to portrait and on their website, they tell you the ideal aspect ratio. You want to make sure that you set that before you even start generating and using your credits. Mistake number three is skipping references. In our examples, we used a lot of references because we're trying to get a nice mix between different ideas. This is apart from the prompt. For example, we wanted to add the subject, the background, the sort, and the moon. If I do the same prompt, but without this inside, I will get a completely different image. I'm just going to show you what that looks like. But basically, when you describe something and you add a reference photo that's related to that description, what you're doing is that you're grounding your results, meaning that they're going to look more consistent the more you build up upon it, especially if you have a unique character in mind, you want to make sure that that character is actually within your results. Right here, even though I do have my female warrior, the moon, the glowing stuff, I don't really have my character. These are some random people. This one looks like a game. This one, her back is turned to us, and this is a whole different character. But then when we added the references, we got that ideal angle, the right colors, the right moon size, the right sort, and so on forth. Make sure to add at least one reference when you're trying to build complex generations like this one. Finally, mistake number four is forgetting post production. The raw Midjourney output is rarely the final step, especially if you want to do this in a more professional way. Throughout the course, we use Photopea, Canva, and Topaz AI to make our work look more professional. Starting from the colors, we added some filter to the overall image. We used Photopea to make certain selections, maybe change the color of the armor only. We use topaz to upscale beyond what Midjourney is capable of and then Canva to put it in a nice little poster to share it or maybe print it for our bedroom. Make sure you're also exploring those ideas. The tools that I mentioned through this course were all free. Only thing you're paying for is Midjourney Photopea is free to use, Topaz AI is free up to ten images, and Canva, of course, is free unless you use the paid elements. If you avoid these traps that I mentioned, you progress much faster than most new users. Again, make sure that if you're using references, you are allowed to use that image, meaning that it's not an original work of art where an artist drew it, but a AI generated image. When we went on Pinterest, we used for AI modified tagged images only and that way you are avoiding any copyright issues. I though we know what to avoid. Let's talk about how to stay sharp as Midjourney keeps evolving every month and every year. 41. How to Stay Current with Midjourney: We've already gone from version one to version seven in just a few years, and it's only going to get better. Each update changes how the prompts work, what the model is best at, and also what features are available to you as a user. In order to know about these changes, you have to be within the right communities, and that's the thing that we're going to be discussing today. I will be going over three tips for you to stay current with the new Midjourney features, and that way you will not miss any of these big announcements. The first one is to join the Discord. That's where all the updates are announced first. Right over here, I have it open. You just search Midjourney Discord and if you have a discord account, you're just entering one of the channels. We have different newcomer rooms. We have a discussion, prompt craft, you can showcase your work and this is where the announcements are going to be made. New features like remix mode, blend or motion are often dropped here before they actually come to the Midjourney web interface. When you go over here this stuff down for image style prompt, this is the remix feature where you get to use other outputs like this one to make your own work up here, the blend feature, which is in the Edit tab, we've used it before, and then the motion, which is the way you turn images to videos. Within Midjourney, there's also a chat feature which is similar to discord, the layout looks the same. This is also where you get to share your work, get feedback, discuss things with other people, find other beginners and maybe some friends. You go to your images and get some inspiration as well. You can re run their prompt, use their prompt, and do the same things that we've been doing and explore. If I really like this person's artwork, I could reply and give them some compliments or even some feedback. The second tip is to always check the documentations from time to time, actually, not always, which is basically if you search Midjourney documentations on their website, they have the most relevant information, most, I would say the biggest things about Midjourney. How it all works, a parameters list that walks you through all the commands, what they're for. These are the things that may be hard to combine when you're only relying on Discord or the chat feature. The Midjourney dogs like this one, and also slash Help commands are really lifesavers when something new is added. You can do dash help on Discord or just go to the Help tab here, where there's actually an AI assistant ready to help you with anything regarding the tool. Third place is following other communities that are not Discord or Midjourney itself. These include reedit Twitter, YouTube creators and they post experiments within hours of a new feature release. Let's say you learn about the Version eight and you just don't know how to navigate it. Maybe there's a whole new tab over here. The best way to get familiar with it is to go on YouTube, where you're going to get a demonstrated explanation of how that version works. There's also a Reddit community, which is R slash MIDJRN here, you can also learn about the updates, see the other people's work, comment, engage, and do all of that. But I would say if you're still a beginner and you're trying to learn the tool, especially the new ones that come out, YouTube is the best place to go. Learn from their testing instead of starting from scratch yourself and then wasting your credits. Once you learn from these communities how the structure works, how these new releases work, you can actually start experimenting yourself and find your own workflow. You will avoid all the beginner mistakes and just go right in applying what you've learned from YouTube credit in this course to actually building things with the new versions and the new tools. Now you're equipped to keep learning. Let's actually recap what you've gained from this course so that later you will know exactly where to take this next. 42. Where to Next: Think back to where you started. You might have only known how to type a simple product. Maybe you've used another AI tool before and we're wondering how to use Midjourney, or perhaps you didn't even know anything about AIR tools to begin with. But now you've built two full projects, which was the dream room and a fantasy character. Later on, we had applied projects where we built three different things that belong to certain categories. In addition to those projects, you learned how to refine, combine and present your ideas in the most creative way. Let's first take a look at our skill path recap and see where you started from and where you are right now. The first thing we did was learn about prompt structure and the keywords. Then we moved on to image types, which included people environments, abstract art and even motion. We then looked at some creative tools which was in the Edit tab, which included the inpainting, blending, references, and remix. Finally, we applied those two polished projects for us to showcase. Now that you know all the basics and how to apply them properly, you can think about the fields that you're interested in and begin brainstorming how you can apply Midjourney and all the tools that we learned about into making your workflows easier and giving you that creative boost that you need. Finally, let's talk about your next steps, where you should go after this course and what are the things that you should look out for? This course was meant to be your foundation, but keep in mind that AIRt is moving really fast and soon you will want to keep leveling up from where you are right now. Here are some tools that you should take a look at next, look them up if you really enjoyed using Midjourney as a tool. The first one are runway AI, which is great for videos. It has stable diffusion, which is one of the models for more control, and there's also Photoshop AI for hybrid workflows. Both of these tools are paid, but they're excellent at what they're made for. With runway, you can even generate images and then turn them into videos with scripts with different camera angles. You can even make a fake camera within that platform and move it around to make some intense fighting scenes and many other things. Then if you're familiar with Photoshop and you've used it, which is similar to Photopea which we used in the course, you may want to look at their beta, which includes the AI portion and that really combines this whole AI generated images. Into your regular Photoshop tools. That's a really cool and evolving feature that Photoshop has been working on in the past few years. Next, you'd want to, as we mentioned, stay active in the different channels such as discord channels, credit groups, and even design collectives. Collaboration really pushes your creativity. If you have a friend who's really into AI artworks, try to combine your ideas and see what amazing works you can make. Lastly, make sure to subscribe to AI art newsletters or follow the creators on YouTube, reedit and the platforms we mentioned, who are going to be sharing prompt ideas and best practices for different tools. With the Midjourney course completed, you can think of it as the start of your creative toolkit, not the end. Try to put other AI tools within your toolkit, and that way you will be able to express your creativity in many ways. To wrap up, avoid the common mistakes that we mentioned, stay current with the new features and keep on practicing. Your projects from this course are just proof that you can go from an idea in your head to a full professional level visual which you can choose to monetize. The next step is to keep building, whether it's your portfolio, a small business, social media channel, or just your own personal creative journey. You don't have to share your work anywhere if you don't want to. That's just extra step that you can take. I hope you enjoy this course and I can't wait to see what things you guys create with Midjourney. 43. Class Project: Now it's your turn to create. For the class project, you're going to be creating an entire visual piece using the techniques and foundations that we have learned so far. You can choose one of the following project options. Create a dream space or environment, design your very own fantasy character or portrait, design some brand mockups or posters, or do a fully illustrated storybook or even a series. Start by planning out your idea. Think about the mood and the story you want to tell with this piece. Then write your prompt carefully using styles, references, parameters, and consistency techniques you have learned from the lessons. Generate your images in maturny, refine them, and if you'd like to enhance them, export them into Canva or photo when you're ready, upload your project into the class project gallery alongside at least one of your prompts and a little explanation as to what the pieces is about. Remember that there's no correct answer to this project because you're just experimenting with Midjourney and seeing where your creativity takes you. I will be reviewing your projects and leaving some feedbacks. You can also look at what the other students of the class have created and make this a learning experience with everyone else. Sharing is a part of growing and I can't wait to see what you guys create. 44. Congratulations! What’s next?: Congratulations. You've reached the end of the course. You've not only learned the basics of Midjourney, but you've learned how to apply styles, references, consistency, and even implemented them in real world projects. As you move forward, keep on experimenting with different designs, iterate on your ideas and explore new combinations because that's going to be the key part of learning how to use Midjourney properly as all of these new releases are going to be coming out. If you enjoy this class, feel free to look at our other courses here on Skillshare. Thank you for learning with Skillademia and thank you for creating. I hope to see you guys in our next classes.