Midjourney the complete course

1. Intro Midjourney complete course: Hi, my name is Andrea, the humanitarian creative director and one of the two founding partners of the comma advertising agency based in Milan. I create this class to explain in detail how to use artificial intelligent across the mid journey and discord platform. In this course, you will learn how to use Mid Journey to write prompts to generate beautiful render artificial intelligence. We will start with the difference between the two software, Mid Journey and Discord, and how they work together. Then we will analyze the documentation, the community guideline, the account page, and we will start about how to write a prompt, advanced and standard prompt. We will speak about different style. We will look into the setting, the different setting on the software, and you will have a lot of fun. There is also a project for you to fill and to upload at the end of your course. I wish you a very pleasant listening and hope you like this course. Thank you. 2. 1 how to start interface comunity guideline: This is the complete course about mid journey. But first of all, what is mid journey? Mid journey. It's an model that allow us to generate image, what we can call generative art. The service of Mid Journey allow us to use the artificial intelligence to create image for what we like to have this thanks to another software which is called Discord, Mid Journey. At the moment, use Discord to create and operate this. It's an app. It's an app that allow you to chart. This is born in the 2016 just with Mid Journey become so popular, exist an online and also a text version once we accept in Mid Journey. This is the interface, you can scroll down, you can see the information about the software. You can also sign in about this cord, this chord. It's looking like this. It's a hot model. In this case, I have two prompts, and I'm using with you journey. Let's go on and let's try to understand a little bit better how to start using mid journey and discord. First of all, we move to mid journey. We move it down, get started, then we land in this page. Scrolling down, we have several link get started using this Cord guide where we have all the information we required to start using mid journey. When I click on guide, I land here where I have the information and the guide about how to use the mid journey. Let's start with a get started. It's a quick introduction. And then I promise I will jump directly to the prompt. But it's fundamental for me to give you the basic information to use it. First of all, let's start to speak about the documentation about this cord. Then we're going to start speaking about the prompt when we enter into the documentation. The first part I want to speak with you is the subscription. At the moment, this cord and journey is not free. But there are several subscription plan. You can pay it monthly or annual. Of course, annual you save money for annual subscription. The cost is $8 per month. Monthly subscription, that costs $10 Form. As you can see from here, you have a basic Plan, standard plan, pro plan, and mega plan. There is no free plan at the moment. The Basic Plan offers you the possibility to use three hour and three of fast GPU time. What does it mean? When we are rendering, Of course we don't want to use and wait a lot of time, that's why we have the possibility to render in fast time. That's why it's called Fast GPU. Time in the basic plan is just three hour and three in the standard plan is 15 hour, 30 hours for the pro plan and 60 hours for the megapl. Then we have the relax GPU time, which is not a viable in the basic plan. In the Basic Plan, once we finish the three hour and three, we can purchase more time. It's unlimited for standard. Unlimited for Pro Plan and Mega Plan. Then the maximum job current, we can have 3.3 job waiting in Q. This means that we can render simultaneously three jobs and we can send ten other jobs in Q for the weighting, which is a difference between basic plan and mega plan up to you. But of course if you could do the pro plan, you could work even more faster. Let's go on now, try to understand a little bit more the community guideline. Community guideline, explain us all the rules we have to take care using this code. This journey journey is an open, by default, community like in every community, you have to respect. And now we go in depth. Try to understand what they mean with respect. In journey. First of all, be kind and respect each other stuff because what you create is public. It's a social network. You share everything, no adult content or gore content. Please avoid making visually shocking or disturbing content because if not, you risk to be blocked with some text input automatically done. Public repost the creation of other without their permission. As you know, it's very important to respect the copyright. You can watch, take inspiration from the other but not reposting. Be careful about sharing. It's okay to share your creation outside journal community, but please consider how other view your content that any violation of this rule may let you ban from the service. Let's now try to understand a little bit better what is considered gore. Gore includes image of detached body part of human or animals, nibbles, blood, violence, all the stuff are considered not correct. When you are working with the mid journey, I don't have to explain what is adult content and offense content. These are all the information you need to read carefully before start using mid journey. When you are watching inspiration from the community, you can also watch their prompt. So what they write to obtain that you can copy it and use it. And an inspiration, that's a very interesting way to learn. Let's now move into the account page. Here we are in the community page. If you move to mid journey, this is my account page where you number your name, you have the possibility to watch what you create. These are all the render I create. If I go over, I also can read the prompt I wrote to obtain them. I can click on one of each example. From here I can just copy the prompt. I can use my prompt or the prompt from somewhere else to have some inspiration for my render. That's my page. But I can also click on Explore. Watch the other works. So I can click and learn from the other. Just prompt and just scoping the prompt or reading the prompt from here. If I scroll down, I have similar project, project with a similar aesthetic and I can have a very perfect overview of what the other doing, searching for what I'm looking for. 3. 2 the command prompt style explore: Let's now start working with the prompt. To work with the prompt, I have to jump into this cord. When you jump to this cord, you have to accept the server journey because they interface perfectly together. As I told you this, it's social network. Here, you have all the creation from the other user. That's why I said before, what we write, it's public, it's not private. We share with the other what we actually write and the result of our render inside the left side of the interface. You have the announcement, we have the status, we have the community update, we have the different newcomer rooms. We just choose the room, then we are ready to start. When we write a prompt, we usually start typing a slash Here we have just to decide what we want to do. In general, we create image with mid journey, I type image, then I'm ready to start writing the prompt. What I'm looking for, usually the prompt is splitted in three part. Let's go back here to the mid journey community. Let's start using the prompt using this next step prompt. As you can see from here, you have the possibility to write image and then the text prompt which is the description of what to imaging. In advanced prompt, we can say that the prompt is made by three main part. You can use an existing image or more images as a starting point. We don't create something from zero, but we put the L of an existing image so that the mid journey start analyzing the image. Then the description of what to do with this image. The last part, it's usually the parameter, but we will have time about speaking parameter and text. Remember, if you want to use image, the URL of the image should finish always with the extension of the image. J, pa or PNG. Some other prompt? No, no. We can directly move here. For example, when we write our prompt, we have to write in English what we want the software to render. For example, this is very generic. I can be more specific, for example Black Cat, or I can even be more specific writing Black Cat. Let's say that writing the prompt more precise. You are better will be for your render. If I just click on Okay Black Cat. I'm waiting for the start. I'm waiting the software to start. Now as you can see from here here we have a percentage. It's a rendering our request. So it's 15% 46% But we already start seeing our cat 62% We clearly see the cat 93% and that's what we obtain when you get a render, you get four option of the prompt, you write 1234. The format is always a square but you can change it with what we write. Expect radio, We will speak later about it if you prefer. For example, the version three. Here you have a tool bar of command u1234 state. For the four variation, I can choose the U one, which is this 12, which is this one. U three which is this one. Or u4v is a variation. For example, I like the number three, but I would like to have a variation of the number three. I click on V three if I just want to visualize the number 33. That's the upscaling image three. As you can see, if I click on V three, I get a variation of it. It's creating a variation of the image number three of my prong. The prong was happy black cat. Let's wait okay for variation of the image number 340, 6% 62% We're almost ready to start seeing it. That's what I obtain, four variations based on the one I choose before. But writing the prompt, we said imaging and then the prompt, we have to specify the subject as we said before. Black, Pepi, black. We can also specify the style of our image. For example, water color, graffiti style, or what style we prefer. For example, the time in the style. For example, we want an illustration that look like 1,800 century cat illustration. I write instead of happy black cat. I also add 1,800 illustration, I press okay and he start rendering. I'm waiting to start. As you can see, he immediately start render my prompt. Now it's 50% 46% and we already start seeing the style. My prompt, we can't recognize the static of the 1080 century. My illustration that what I obtain, it's amazing. They are really beautiful. But especially it's super nice. But let's now write images with a prompt 2000 illustration. This was 1,800 century, let's see, In 2000, the style stated it was totally different with influence from different artists. Graffiti color. Let's see what and how Cher interpreted it. 46% We almost ready 62% That's it. As you can see from here, it's just beautiful. We can open in the browser to see it better. Look how beautiful they are. This is really amazing. If I go back to this, I type, I want you to upscale just the second image, which is my favorite. Actually generate just typing 2000 century cat illustration. As you can see the style, the motion are very important. Writing your prompt, but how to learn fast, create very interesting prompt. As I told you before, we have the possibility to take a look on the community if I move to mid journey. If I move it here, I can explore here, I can search for inspiration. For example, I can write T, these are all render made by the community. I can be more precise illustration and look for some inspiration. When I find something, I just explore it pressing on it. I can also copy the prompt from here. The community is a place where we can really learn. If I write, for example, fiction editorial, I have a lot of pictures which are honestly amazing. You can just click and select. I can, I can download them and I can also discover their prompt. 4. 3 settings style public and stealth : Very good. We can proceed now with another important part of me journey which is the settings. So let's go back to this court. If I type slash settings, I open this plate of option. Let's now start. Understand a little bit better how the setting works. The first area, this one is to choose the mid journey model. They are making it always better and faster. You can use the latest model version for rendering, which at the moment is 5.2 or you can use the previous model. For example, the version five. Of course, the last version, it's less stable than the previous version which has been already used by any person. Then you have Ni. Ni is a model dedicated to the area of anime and Manga Asiatic style. If you know already that you wanted to obtain an illustration with an aesthetic from Manga, you can move directly to nig model. There is Nig model version five, Ng model version four. The other models start from the V1v 2v34. At the moment we are in the version 5.2 you will choose from here the model version. Then you have the possibility to choose three style. Stylize means the interpretation from journey. If I choose stylize low, he will render looking carefully what is written on my prompt without interpreting it. But if I choose stylize high, he will be more creative and put more effort in interpreting my prompt. At the moment, I just have the public mode because I don't have a mega plan or a professional plan subscription. Everything I do, it's public. I can click on High Variant Mode or Low variant Mood about the render. I can choose between Relaxed Mood, Fast Mood. If I choose Relaxed mood, I can go a little bit lower. But I can save time from the amount of hour I have at my disposal for a month in fast render, or I can directly choose fast mode. Now I'm recording the video with you, so it's better for me to directly use fast mode. This is the setting. Remember to choose the right set according to what you are looking for. Settings. Another important parameter from when we are rendering, as I told you from the setting, is the style parameter. The style, it can be chosen 0-100 and this is the level of interpretation from the mid journey. If I write imaging, in my prompt I write sculpture with which is how you write the parameter style and then the number of interpretation, for example, 20. This is what I obtain. But it was wrong. Let's put it that, okay, there's a space between the sculptures waiting to start. Let's now make the same with the parameter of interpretation higher, for example, 70. We can compare the difference between the two. This is my cat sculpture with the parameter 20, style 20. It's 62, 93% Okay. You can see from here, Okay. This is the 70. As you can see from here, we have a sculpture of a cat. He used a lot of interpretation because my word was very genetic. The parameter style 0-1 thousand, it represents the lever of interpretation. From the prompt, I can write sculptures 715. We have a very high level of interpretation that journal can do with this prompt sculpture. Let's wait to start starting. 0% 15, 46% almost. And this is what came out from my prompt. As you can see from here, that's what I obtain. There are a lot of detail, a very big interpretation of my prompt. Here, I made just 70. The detail adds a little bit less than the other 20 was even less. Now I think you understand how important is the parameter style to arrange the level of interpretation from journey in your render public versus start. As I told you when we wrote the settings, I can heal mode because in my subscription, which is the basic one, I have just the possibility to choose public mode. Let's go back to the guideline from here. Subscription plans here, the monthly conscription, annual, fast debut, relax, purchase, work, solo start mode. As you can see, I don't have the step mode as a basic plan. I cannot have the start mode on standard plan. But just when you have a plan and mega plan, you have the possibility to keep your render private just for you if you are doing your render for your company. And this is something you don't want to share with the other. Better to choose a pro plan and megaplan. 5. 4 tile pattern niji: Okay, let's now speak about another important prompt which is called the parameter tile allow us to create seamless texture for seamless texture image. Let's go back to the documentation parameter generating image that can be used in repeating tile or create similar pattern. Similar pattern. It means that this is the model. But if you repeat horizontally and vertically this model, it becomes a texture. In this case, you have several examples on seamless texture. For example, the prompt in this case is water color tile, The model you obtain. It's a pattern and this can be used by you or sell online a specific website. Let's see how to do it. We type imaging then in our prompt, for example, what we are looking for, for example, cute teddy bear pattern with 170 illustration style. And we specify that we want it to become a tile pattern. Once we give the common tile, he will create a model for us. We are waiting to start. Let's see what he will generate for us. Then we will test our pattern, waiting to start. We are in a queue. Here we are starting to rendering our teddy bear pattern with a static of the 1,700 century illustration style. The tile is this one. We are 72% 93, and that's what we obtain. This is really beautiful. We can just say that we prefer, for example, the fourth one, it's really nice. Also the third one. Let's go for the third 13. Okay? I open it in the browser and save it my folder. Then I have this website, which is called Seamless Texture checker. This is the website address. We can just upload the image we just create, which is this one we try. If it's working, that's our pattern. You see it's just beautiful. This is how to work with tile. Let's move to the possibility to use Eg. As I told you, Eg settings, it's set, you can use when you are sure that what you're looking for. It's connected with Asian style manga. If I use nige model versus five, I type example black cat using nig five, you will see that the result will be totally coherent with the Asian aesthetic. Let's see what it came out. It's 0% it's rendering. Let's see how the prompt will interpret my request. As you can see, it's already visible. The result is totally in line with the Asian Manga aesthetic. 78% This is what I obtained. The black is here, together with the subject. This is what happens if you use the model render Ni. What Journey are doing is to create a model render for different occasions of use. Depend on what you're looking for. You will be able to choose the right model render for you. In this case I'm using E settings. Not anymore Eg. I would like to use my the latest model. Okay. With not a very high variation but stylized low. Okay. 6. 5 prompt with img blend img conclusion: We can proceed with another interesting argument, which is the possibility to use a prompt with an existing image. For example, if I choose an image from a website, there are several example I like to use Pass.com where I'm searching for port picture for example, I would like to use this picture right click could be the address of the image because I want to use this image as an inspirational image. For my prompt, I go back to mid journey. I write imaging. And then in the prompt, just past the website address. Remember, when you paste the website address, this must finish with extension of the image, J PNG. Then what you want to do with this image? For example, I would like to, let's see. I would like her to become Blackmon, Blackmon girl full of the tal studio light. Okay, let's see what Mid Journey will do with this image. As you can see here we have the picture. If I click I land into the image, it's rendering, waiting to start. This is my render. Yeah, we just start. We have 0% percentage, but as you can see, start interpreting the image. 46% 72% 93. I think here we are. Let's see the result. As you can see my picture, this is the original picture. He transform it into a black demon with a lot of detail. That's just beautiful thanks to the fact that I'm using an image. You can use one or multiple images, for example. Let's go back to the prompt. I do imaging prompt, I just past the first picture like this specific I'm going now looking for a background. Let's position her into cust got got Castle could be a nice background for her. I right click, could be the address of the image. I go back here and I paste the other image. Remember to delete everything and just leave as a final part of the extension of the M J pack. Two pictures together. Here we write b here, got a here. Let's start. We are using two images. Here is my front is waiting to start, Let's see. Okay. Start rendering. We are 50% 46% Let's see. We can even start seeing that there is a Custer on the background. Exactly the Custer we choose from our picture. That's, let's see what came out. That's just beautiful Look. We have a C. We have our protagonist there. That's exactly what I'm looking for. I go back from this four image I like very much the version four. I click on it, just render and do the upscale of this image. This is how to use the prompt, in this case image to get from Internet. But we can also use your image Jae prompt. I'll show you how. For example, if you like this image, let's go model part. Okay, so let's take this picture. Could be okay. I download it. It on my discord without slash. Just open from my download. That's my picture. I download and I d here. I press Enter my pictures now part of the mid journey. And did I click on the prompt image? Prompt and just drug it like that. That's the address of my picture, J. I can write, for example, that I would like to have a render of this picture with the aesthetic of the 71,070 century, 1070 century woman. As you can see from here, he's using my picture plus the prompt I wrote before he's starting to illustrate it. I remember that this is my original picture, this is what he's doing, A beautiful illustration inspired to the 1,700 century illustration. I'm telling you, because I want you to understand that it's not just writing in Journey Prompt, but it's also, you know how that can make the difference. In this case, if you are expert in history or you can use, you know how writing the right to journey to achieve a better result. This is how to use two or more pictures together. There is also another command which is called blend. Let's go back here on my prompt, blend image one and image two. I have to select another image. For example, I go here cells. Let me search for nature landscape. Let's choose this image. I download it, then go back to download the. Okay, let's see. For example, we can, we can take her down load. Okay, I start dragging the first picture here. Let's move it here. That's my first picture. The second picture here. And then the blend, the combination of two photo together that we'll be interpreted by the software Mid journey picture number one and picture number two waiting to start. Let's see how the blend interpret the two picture I give them is still waiting to start. Of course, the time depend also on how many persons are requesting Mid Journey to render. Yes, we start. Let's see what happened. We are 50% 46% I remember you, that we are working with this picture and this picture and we are using the blend command. This is exactly what we obtain. It's not amazing. Look A part two here is just perfect. It's hair with the same similar dress and this beautiful green on the background. This is what jury can do with a blend command. Let's go back to the command. This is exactly what you can do using the prompt with image. We learn how to use the prompt with image with single image specifying style. I think that now you have an idea about what to do image. The last thing I want to discuss with you is the upscaling you generate from journey. It's an image, but the quality of the image, usually it's always square. If you want to decide a different format for your render, you have to know about the aspect ratio. Let's go back to here where we have the documentation and the aspect ratio represent the dimension of your picture when it's made by journey. The standard one is 4.5 it's a square one. But we can also ask the journal to create an image which is landscape 74. The aspect radium represent the dimension of your picture. Where the aspect radio 1.1 is the default aspect. Radium 5.4 is the common frame and print radium, common in print photography. 3.2 close to HDTV screen, it's 74. Let's go back to my journey. Let's write our common imaging and black cat, but we want to specify the format. Minus minus aspect radio, 74 as we have here, 74. This is what we will obtain a landscape image of my command. Let's see what is it? Okay, here is my image. As you can see, it's different from the standard one. We have it landscape. He adapt the composition to the format. 31, 46% 78% almost finished 93. This is the final. When you like something, you can do the upscaling. For example, I like very much this one. You can say, okay, show me the version four. This one. Then you can just open in the browser, right click and save image with a name. You can save it and use it. I think with this we have now an idea about how to use this and how to use journey. I hope you like this course for more lesson about my class. You can discover them into my profile. Follow my profile. I really hope you like this course. Thank you for your attention. All the best for you. Bye bye.