The ULTIMATE Beginners Guide to Midjourney in 2024

Summary

This in-depth video provides a comprehensive overview of mid-Journey AI art generation capabilities in 2024. It analyzes the key changes in version 6 prompting compared to version 5, explaining how users must now provide more descriptive details to achieve desired results. The video explores various parameters like stylize, chaos, and weird that alter image aesthetics. It demonstrates powerful features like shortcuts, aspect ratio prefixes, image prompting, blending, and describe. The host previews upcoming website improvements and creation mode access for all users. Overall, the video conveys mid-Journey's vast potential through evolving versions and constant updates on a date-based release cycle, predicting capabilities like consistency tools, storytelling, video generation, and 3D creation in the near future.

Takeaways

• Version 6 prompting requires more descriptive details to precisely depict the desired image.
• Parameters like stylize, chaos, and weird enable modifying image aesthetics in different ways.
• Shortcuts and prefixes streamline work by saving preferred settings.
• Image prompting and blending combine images to spark creativity.
• Frequent updates and new versions will unlock more features over time.
• The website will soon provide creation access and social tools for all users.
• Consistency tools for style and characters will better meet audience needs.
• Exciting upcoming capabilities include storytelling, video, and 3D generation.
• A date-based release cycle means constant improvements versus feature-based.
• Mid-Journey has vast creative potential still being unlocked for users.

Q & A

How has prompting changed from version 5 to 6 of mid-Journey?

Version 6 prompting requires much more descriptive detail from the user compared to version 5 in order to generate the desired image. Users must provide precise specifications instead of broader ideas.

What parameters can alter the aesthetic style of mid-Journey images?

Parameters like stylize, chaos, and weird enable users to modify the aesthetic style and variation of generated images in different ways based on numeric input values.

How can shortcuts and prefixes improve the mid-Journey user experience?

Shortcuts allow users to save preferred parameter combinations for efficient reuse across prompts. Aspect ratio prefixes automatically append the desired frame size to images, removing repetitive typing.

What upcoming website and access improvements can users expect?

The mid-Journey website will soon provide creation mode access for all users beyond the current 10,000 image minimum. Social features will also facilitate community interaction.

What new capability could allow mid-Journey to better meet audience content needs?

The development team is working on consistency tools that will enable improved style and character consistency over multiple images to better suit user preferences.

How will the shift to a date-based release cycle impact mid-Journey evolution?

Transitioning from a feature-based to date-based release cycle means users can expect constant updates and improvements on a regular time frame rather than erratic feature-driven releases.

What future creative features are planned for mid-Journey?

Exciting upcoming capabilities mentioned include narrative storytelling tools, video generation, and 3D image creation, unveiling new creative frontiers.

How much potential remains untapped in the mid-Journey AI?

Given the rapid evolution of versions thus far, mid-Journey possesses vast creative potential still being incrementally unlocked for users over time through constant updates.

What makes version 6 different from version 5?

The key differences are more descriptive prompting requirements for desired results, additional parameters that alter image styles, and more powerful merging features like shortcuts, blending, and image prompts.

When can all users access creation modes on the mid-Journey website?

The updated mid-Journey website will soon enable creation access beyond the current 10,000 image minimum, granting all users creative tools previously restricted.

Outlines

00:00

Differences in Prompting from Version 5.2 to Version 6

Explains key differences in how to write effective prompts between mid-Journey version 5.2 and version 6. In version 6, prompts need more detail and specificity. Provides examples contrasting prompts and outputs in the two versions.

05:02

Amount of Detail to Include in Prompts

Recommends starting prompts simple and basic, then elaborating by adding descriptive details one at a time. This allows seeing if AI understands and follows the vision. Gives example building up detail about a man's outfit piece by piece.

10:03

Adding Text to Images

Shows how to add text to images by putting words inside quotation marks. Notes text generation can be hit or miss currently but is expected to improve soon. Mentions using style raw variation for better text results.

15:04

Using Variation Buttons

Covers functionality of Very Subtle and Very Strong variation buttons. Subtle keeps image mostly the same with minor tweaks, while Strong provides almost entirely new interpretations. Also shows how turning on Remix mode allows changing prompt when getting variations.

20:05

Stylize Parameter

Explains stylize parameter determines how closely prompt is followed versus AI creativity. Lower values adhere more to prompt, higher values generate more aesthetically pleasing images that may deviate more from prompt. Shows examples across the stylize scale.

25:05

Chaos Parameter

Chaos parameter adds variety between images in a grid/set. Shows how increasing chaos progressively diversifies images generated. Recommends chaos 4-8 for some added uniqueness without going too far off prompt.

30:06

Saving Preferred Parameter Combinations

Demonstrates how to save preferred parameter combinations as shortcuts that can be easily reused across prompts. Uses acronyms for shortcuts e.g. csw1 = chaos, stylize, weird.

35:08

Image Prompting and Blending

Shows how to drag/drop images into prompt box for image prompting. Also covers using blend feature to combine up to 5 images without needing to add text prompt.

40:10

More Expected Future Features

Highlights advanced features like InPainting, zooming, panning, style tuning, and consistency tools that are expected to be added in future mid-Journey updates.

Keywords

💡Prompting

Prompting refers to how users provide instructions to AI systems like Midjourney to generate images. The video explains that prompting in Midjourney v6 requires more descriptive details than previous versions, rather than just listing elements. Effective prompting now requires clearly stating visual aspects like colors, positioning, framing etc. This allows the AI to better interpret the intended image. The video provides examples of prompts in v5 vs v6 to illustrate the improvements.

💡Parameters

Parameters are special commands that can be added to Midjourney prompts to modify the output image. The video focuses on 4 key parameters - stylize, chaos, weird and prefix. Stylize controls image quality and coherence, chaos adds randomness and variety, weird makes images more bizarre. Prefix allows saving parameter combos. Using parameters strategically allows finer control over the AI's output.

💡Stylize

The stylize parameter controls how closely the AI adheres to the prompt vs generating more abstract beautiful images. Lower values stick closer to the prompt while higher values produce more stylized outputs. The default is 100. The video demonstrates stylize values from 0 to 1000 on a sample prompt to showcase the effect.

💡Chaos

The chaos parameter adds unpredictability and variety to the set of 4 generated images. Higher chaos values result in more randomness. The video shows chaos values from 0 to 100 on a sample prompt. Low chaos like 4 adds spice while retaining coherence. High chaos like 90+ ignores most prompt details.

💡Image Prompting

Image prompting allows providing reference images along with text prompts. This guides the AI to match styles and elements from the image. The video shows examples of blending a CN tower image with a spaceship, and a car image with a dragon prompt. This produces integrated outputs taking cues from both inputs.

💡Variation

Variations allow regenerating images while retaining aspects like style, composition and mood of a particular image. The video explains subtle vs strong variations. Subtle variations introduce minor tweaks while strong variations reimagine the image more freely.

💡Remix

Remix allows interactive editing of variations. When remix is enabled, clicking variation will open a text prompt box. Users can tweak the prompt and regenerate the image. This brings user input into the variation process for creative control.

💡Upscaling

Upscaling increases the resolution of a particular generated image. The video explains subtle vs creative upscaling modes. Subtle upscales preserve the image as is while creative reinterprets it. Upscaling allows outputting high-res versions of favorite images.

💡In-Painting

In-painting will allow editing specific parts of a generated image by drawing on it. The video shows an example of changing just the face of an image via in-painting. This granular editing will provide more user control over final outputs.

💡Style Transfer

Style transfer allows applying the style from one AI-generated image to the content of another image. The video demonstrates a tuning test to select styles and generate a style code. This code can transfer artistic styles between images.

Highlights

Version 6 prompting is very different - you need to add as much detail as you can think of to get the AI to follow your vision.

Rewriting prompts from V5 to V6 is necessary - the old ways of prompting don't work as well anymore.

Add details one at a time to prompts to see if the AI is following along with your vision.

The higher the stylize value, the more beautiful but less coherent the images become.

The chaos value brings variety into your image grid - each picture starts looking different.

Save preferred parameter combinations as shortcuts to easily reuse them across prompts.

You can now add text to images by putting words in quotation marks.

Image prompting allows you to use existing images as prompts or blend them together.

New features like inpainting, zooming, panning, and style tuning are coming soon from V5.

Midjourney is moving to a date-based release cycle with constant updates every couple months.

Consistency tools for style and characters are in the works.

Storytelling tools will allow new ways to create narratives.

Video generation capabilities are expected in the next couple months.

3D image generation will come sometime after video.

Social features like Discord and workspace organization are slated for the website.

Transcripts

mid Journey has changed a lot in the

past year especially with this newest

update known as version six in this

video I'll give you a breakdown of what

has changed I'll explain all of the

different features of mid journey and

I'll tell you what else you can expect

in the next 12 months there will be time

stamps below the video so feel free to

click around all right first let's talk

about prompting prompting in version 6

is very different in order to start a

prompt you're going to hit forward SL

imagine let me show you an example of a

version five prompt it would look

something like this a blue sports car in

Monaco comma pink Road comma overcast

weather now the first thing you'll

notice is that it didn't really listen

to what I asked for sure we get a blue

car in some of them but no pink Road and

then in images one and two we actually

get a pink car even though we

specifically asked for a blue sports car

this was mid Journey capabilities all

the way up until version 5.2 just a

couple of weeks ago now you could write

this exact same prompt in version six

and it will look something like this we

definitely have a blue sports car now on

a pink road but this isn't exactly the

best way to speak to the AI instead in

version 6 we would write something more

like this wideangle product photo of a

sports car in Monaco the sports car is

bright blue the road is painted pink the

weather is overcast it's not very poetic

but look at the results the details all

get picked up by the bot that's how

powerful mid Journey version 6 is

another result of the same prompt just

look at number one here look how pink

that road is now it might take some time

to get used to prompting like this where

you have to sort of add as much detail

as you can think of any details that you

do not mention are going to be filled in

by mid Journey let me show you one more

example of the difference between

version 5 and version 6 here's a prompt

from version 5.2 a horse running through

the field oil painting Double Exposure

glitch core aggressive inertia and it's

going to create something beautiful like

this version 5 was amazing in its own

right but if you use this prompt in

version six you would get something like

these first of all it doesn't really

look like how it did in version 5 and

these aren't very great I mean I don't

like the look of them so how would you

rewrite this prompt in version six well

in my opinion I would write it similar

to this an oil painting of an aggressive

horse the horse is running through the

field with intense inertia there is a

double exposure effect with a glitchy

nature and I think we get results that

look a lot more like what we wanted in

version 5.2 I'm just trying to show you

that rewriting a prompt is necessary

when transferring your ideas from the

old bot to the new bot and if you're new

here my name is Nolan and it's my goal

to teach AI in a digestible way I want

to make this easy on you and if you

think I'm helping so far please consider

leaving a like on this video so we can

share it with with more people now how

much detail should you add to your

prompts well if you've seen my previous

introductory video on version 6 this

process might seem familiar but we're

going to go through it again here what

I'm suggesting you do is start small

start with a very simple prompt and then

elaborate add as much detail as you can

think of but consider adding these

details one at a time so you can see

whether the AI is following along with

your vision I want to thank a YouTube

comment I got from Alec here I don't

want to mispronounce your name but they

said if you wanted to test the coherence

of a prompt start at the top and work

your way down so here we have the idea

of a full body shot of a man wearing a

Celestial Crown beautiful work so far

mid Journey but what else can we add

well honestly anything you can think of

and I'm going to stick with colors for

now just so you can clearly see the

differences so we have a full body shot

of a man wearing a Celestial crown and

blue sunglasses perfect mid Journey

Nails it now you have to notice that

they're not the same crowns as before

and that's because anytime you add to

your prompt the whole generation changes

this example is just to show you that

mid Journey will listen to each detail

you add and I'm also showing you here

that I like to rate these prompts pretty

matter of factly no poetry is really

necessary I ended the first part with a

period and then I say the man has red

earrings sure enough we have everything

we've asked for so far but we can keep

going the man is wearing a green sweater

mid Journey Nails it different look of a

person though that's for sure I went on

to combine the next two details in one

sentence the man is wearing blue shorts

with a red belt again I'm just using

colors to emphasize all of the details

you can add but this really is Limitless

you could think of anything to put in

your prompts I added that the man is

wearing golden shoes didn't show up in

number one but we have gold shoes in two

three and four the more details you add

the less of a chance you're going to get

a four out of four perfect grid and

that's okay honestly I think even 25% 1

out of four is going to be good enough

for everybody all you need is one

perfect picture I even added afterwards

the man has pink socks on now we have

everything we've asked for Golden Shoes

plus pink socks that is so funny and to

be completely honest I think you could

add details as into what type of

clothing they are maybe pattern socks

maybe you could specify the material on

the sweater I'm telling you there are

kind of Endless Possibilities now and

it's only going to get more powerful as

time goes on so try your best to start

thinking in this new way of prompting I

then added in an extra accessory the man

is standing on an all-white skateboard

in number three and four the proportions

of the body aren't quite right but I

think number one and number two look

okay and we have a white skateboard next

I set my sights on the background and I

wrote it very simply the back background

is a decrepit space station and the

first thing I noticed at least is that

some of the generations turned into a

cartoon and I have found that that

happens with the more details you add so

now what you might want to do is add

some specific terms that reflect a photo

realistic environment I changed the

background part of the prompt to a

decrepit old spooky cinematic space

station and we get these which are all

present in reality but now I want to

show you that there are different ways

to write The Prompt there is no exact

formula I showed you how to do it one

detail by one detail but you can mix up

the way you express those details like

take a look at this first sentence I

turned it into a full body cinematic

still of a man standing on an all-white

skateboard wearing a Celestial crown

blue sunglasses and red earrings the

exact same idea just worded a little

differently you could even try mixing up

the order of the details in this case

the background full body cinematic still

of a man standing in a decrepit old

spooky space station he is wearing the

crown the glasses and the earrings he is

wearing the green sweater the blue

shorts the red belt he has pink socks

underneath golden shoes and he is

standing on a white skateboard and look

at number two here like that that's what

we described that's how powerful mid

journey is and these were just examples

of showing you a lot of detail plus

showing you that you can write it in a

few different ways again there's no

right answer be as descriptive as you

can or mid journey is going to fill in

the blanks for you I have a few more

examples of different prompting

techniques but first let me show you how

to add text to your images in mid

Journey version 6 you can add text to

your images by putting words in

quotation marks so here we have an old

timey computer screen that says hello

world don't worry about C4 for now we're

going to get to that in the parameter

section what I want you to take away

from this is the fact that you can

express certain words inside of your

Generations now number one worked really

well number three kind of didn't work at

all text is a bit Hit or Miss at the

moment first it's way easier to

accomplish with short words however I do

want to point out there is an expected

update to the text generation coming

very soon probably by the time you're

watching this which means that any

limitations you see now might not be a

problem in the future just keep that in

mind the main point is that you can now

add text to your pictures by placing

words inside of quotation marks in your

prompt one little extra trick that you

might want to try with regards to text

and honestly any prompt is by using Dash

Dash style raw this is a variation of

the mid Journey bot that will have a

more literal interpretation of your

prompt style raw is recommended in two

situations first is when you've written

a longer prompt you know what you want

and you want mid journey to listen to

you style raw has a good chance of

getting you there the second time you

might might want to use style raw is

when the base mid Journey bot isn't

working it's just not listening to you

there is no harm in trying style raw and

in this case when generating text style

raw might give you better results it's

sort of the first thing I experiment

with when I'm trying to figure out a

promp here's a cool example of text a

neon sign on a dark black wall

background it didn't include everything

I wanted I wanted that little heart

symbol at the end and it just couldn't

fit it in although mid Journey worked

out pretty well here and it's not quite

front-facing but maybe I just didn't

describe that in the correct way and I

wanted to show you just how cool this

generation is that the J extends below

turning into the V for the version 6

like that's that's art right there that

is so cool if you want more tips on

generating text I suggest you check out

one of my videos I think it should be

maybe right here but make sure you come

back to this video after we have a lot

more to go over and with regards to text

the more complicated your prompt is the

less likely it's going to to work for

now again these limitations might be

erased in the future a beautiful woman

with mid Journey tattooed across her

forehead kind of V6 is tattooed on her

left cheek kind of and a heart symbol is

tattooed on her right cheek now with

version 6 you can specify where things

appear in the picture however maybe I'm

getting confused I was under the

impression that when we say left we're

getting it from our perspective so her

left cheek would technically be her

right cheek you know if she was facing

us you know what I mean but in this I

asked for V6 on her left cheek and it

interpreted that as her real left cheek

I don't know if that's a glitch I'm

pretty sure it's all from our

perspective so maybe this complicated

nature of the prompt just made mid

Journey bug out a little just wanted to

point that out and now the last thing I

want to mention to you with regards to

prompting is what to do when the bot

just isn't quite getting what you're

asking for here's a prom from version

5.2 we're going to take that sports car

in Monaco same idea as before but at the

end we want some double exposure we want

some glitchiness and we're going to get

results like this some pretty cool

looking images the details like the

color of the car they're not really

important here I'm more worried about

the overall aesthetic and if we Tred to

generate that same effect in version six

by using words like there is a glitchy

Double Exposure effect on the photo it

doesn't quite turn out at least how I

had in my mind so what do we do we're

going to use multi- prompting multi-

prompting is quite powerful in mid

Journey version 6 maybe a little too

powerful right now it involves a process

of splitting up your prompt by using two

colons and then adding in different

weighted values so the first part would

look something like this there is a

double exposure effect with glitchy

elements on the photo colon colon and

then we're going to use this sort of

call back effect where we're going to

repeat what we wanted similar to the

cowbell method or maybe the slider

method as it used to be known in version

5 similar we're basically going to

repeat what we want and add a small

weight to it in this case it's the words

glitch core Double Exposure 0.5 as a

weight when you don't specify a weight

like for the first part of our prompt

the default value is one if we would

have made this value 1.5 or anything

above one glitch core Double Exposure

would be more important to the bot and

we don't want that we just want a little

bit of an accent a little bit of salt a

little bit of spicee

and we're starting to get some results

like these which maybe is a little

closer like here in number two we're

starting to get some sort of effect so

you could bump up that value a little

glitch core Double Exposure 0.8 and like

look at number three look at number four

that is so cool and that's the power of

multi- prompting when you're not getting

what you want you can add a little bit

more of it to the end with just a little

bit extra weight it's really powerful

but it works in these specific

situations now what happens when you

find an image you really like what

options do you have well let me show you

we'll take a look at this prompt Chrono

Trigger character concept pixel art

scene of a galactic Knight in sparkling

armor I was a big fan of image number

two I'm going to hit the U2 underneath

the generation this stands for upscale

which means it's going to send us a

singled out version of this picture boom

right here and now what options do we

have well for version six at the moment

we're given four options underneath the

picture first I'll explain the variation

buttons we have very subtle and very

strong now if you were to click one of

these variation buttons mid journey is

going to send you four more images based

on this picture very subtle we'll turn

into these which is like 89% the same

image a night gold armor red cloth

nighttime background two columns on the

right side some sort of a ruined castle

and that's a very highle inter

interpretation of the image but the

image itself is different you're getting

four different subtle variations on the

image you chose and you're going to want

to choose this when you're mostly happy

with a picture but you want to see what

small tweaks could be made to it this is

also good for creating like cool

slideshows on social media where it's

just one small change after the other

but back in our image if you click very

strong this is what you'll get now these

are quite different okay maybe like 85%

the same Maybe 80% we have the same idea

of a nighttime background some castle

ruins golden armor red cloth but the

poses are a little different like in

number three he's looking a completely

different weight so this is known as a

strong variation because most of the

time it's not going to resemble the

original picture it's going to be quite

different as different you can get while

keeping the general ingredients the same

does that make sense this option is

really powerful for fixing small

imperfections in a picture you're

basically giving the bot a redo and it

can often create something you like a

lot more than the original but we are

not done with the variation buttons If

you go into your settings by typing in

forward SL settings into the prompt box

on Discord you hit enter first of all I

want to point out that you can select

the subtle or strong variation to be

your default from here in this case I

have high variation mode selected which

means strong variation and now if we go

back to the original grid instead of up

scaling number two if I hit V2 variation

for image 2 I'm going to get a strong

variation of that picture if you go back

into your settings and you put low

variation mode on and then you hit V2 a

subtle variation will be generated every

time if you're curious I suggest

sticking with strong variation but as

always you can upscale the image first

and then choose which type you want from

there just had to let you know now I

don't want to confuse you but there is

an extra thing we can do with with the

variation buttons back in your settings

if you click this button right here

remix this means remix mode will be

turned on and this means every time you

hit a variation button a new prompt box

will appear and you have a chance to

regenerate that image with a change

prompt let me show you how it works so

variation buttons will be blue when

remix is turned off but when remix is

turned on and we hit very subtle The

Prompt box will appear and we can change

this prompt however we like you can

erase the whole thing but I don't

necessarily recommend that in my opinion

you should just add to the prompt so

we'll say a galactic Knight in sparkling

armor standing in a field of flowers

you'll hit submit and we'll get

something like these a subtle remix of

that image it's not the same as

variations remix definitely changes the

picture we are not getting the exact

same night in these images but we're

able to change things and you can do

this for time of day you could do this

for eye color honestly any detail you

want to add and the bigger details you

do change can often result in some of

the coolest images you'll ever see

there's just really no Rhyme or Reason

you're going to have to experiment on

your own but I want to point out that

the results will differ if you use very

strong we'll do the same thing Galactic

Knight standing in a field of flowers

you hit submit and we get these maybe

similar looking kns but quite different

results from the original like I said

you can take remix in a bunch of

different different directions this was

just to show you that you can access the

remix feature first through your

settings and then through the variation

button each variation button has two

jobs one without remix and one with blue

is without green is with I hope I'm

making that clear now the other option

you have beneath one of your upscaled

images is two more upscales again this

may change in the future you might see a

2X upscale or a 4X upscale but for now

at the launch of version 6 we have

upscale subtle and up scale creative let

me show you both clicking upscale subtle

will turn this image into this image

just a higher resolution version of our

picture you'll want to choose upscale

subtle when you're really happy with

what you already have however if there's

any wonky parts of your photo you might

consider hitting upscale creative and

that will turn into this it's going to

change your image I mean obviously it's

the same but you can clearly tell that

they're different it made changes to it

and again there's really no rhyme a

reason for what it's going to do it's

basically just going to reinterpret your

prompt again and it's going to make some

corrections now because you can't

control these Corrections I'm not sure

that a creative upscaler will always be

your first choice but just keep in mind

it's there if you want to experiment

this will raise the resolution of that

image by twofold or maybe even more now

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okay now we get to move on to the fun

stuff parameters what are they well

there are things you can add to your

prompt that will change the outcome

things that will move you away from the

default look of mid journey and the

first parameter we're going to focus on

is the stylize value I use this a ton

the stylize value basically deter

determines how beautiful your image is

going to be and I know that might sound

simple but it's a little more

complicated than that the styliz value

is a tossup between how much the bot

listens to your prompt and how much

creative freedom it has the values go on

a scale from 0 to 1,000 with the default

being 100 if you don't mention a

stylized value it's going to be 100 if

you place a value lower than 100 mid

Journey will follow your prompt more

closely and if you raise the value above

100 you're going to get more beautiful

images that might come at the cost of

some coherence or prompt accuracy let's

go through a bunch of examples I'm going

to show you this prompt in all the

different values a cartoon bear dressed

like a firefighter the bear is wearing a

red firefighter uniform there is a small

yellow duck in the right corner the duck

is wearing a blue police uniform no

mention of the stylized value so the

default is 100 and this is what we get

some cool looking pictures I love these

now you can trigger the stylized value

by adding dh- s and then the number in

your prompt like right here I have it

highlighted and we moved it all the way

down to D- s0 and what's the first thing

you notice that these aren't very

goodlooking the default is 100 for a

reason it's the perfect blend of

listening to you and creating beautiful

pictures a lower value style Z is going

to get you some ugly images it's going

to follow your prompt more closely but

you're going to lose some of the

aesthetic beauty that mid Journey can

bring to your prompt you're really only

going to want to lower the stylized

value when you find that mid Journey

just isn't listening to you at higher

values I hope that's making sense same

prompt at stylize 25 I think these are

still on the ugly side of things but

it's around s50 where I think you'll be

comfortable you can still get some

pretty cool images this way and then we

have s75 just to show you what it looks

like as you approach the default once

again I'll show you the default here

S100 but now take a look at what happens

as we raise the value here it is at 200

and you can already notice some straying

from your promt in terms of the duck no

longer having a police uniform on in two

of these pictures 300 is very

interesting number one and number three

is what I'm starting to expect from the

higher values a much more opinionated

mid Journey like I asked for cartoon and

it's giving me these sort of 3D graphic

look but number two and number four are

just beautiful cartoons so it's around

this value where you're going to start

to see the biggest differences here we

have S400 and it's honestly starting to

look like some sort of real life movie

like these are beautiful you can't deny

that 500 we definitely lost most of the

police uniform like look at this Bear

right here that's so cool these are just

gorgeous 600 yes mid journey is ignoring

most of our prompt except for the main

character the firefighting bear and it's

placing it in these exact same scenarios

what I mean is moving away from the

cartoon effect into this more 3d viby

effect the higher the stylize value the

more you see what midj Journey thinks

you want 700 look at number two that wet

fur that's so cool 800 again a very

similar look in all four of them 900

more of the same I love number four here

and 1,000 look there's a police duck in

the corner I was not expecting that I

think number four is really beautiful I

think they're all really beautiful now

am I suggesting you use a higher

stylized value honestly no unless you

don't know what you want and even if you

do know what you want maybe a higher

value is just fun to experiment with to

see what mid journey is thinking on its

own but if you're looking for prompt

accuracy you're going to want to stick

to the default or consider lowering it

even more all right now we're moving on

to my favorite parameter the chaos value

you can trigger it by adding D- C to

your prompt and then a value between 0

and 100 the default is zero keep that in

mind and we'll use this ProMed as a

template vintage Polaroid photo of a

small alien dressed like Optimus Prime

very cool mid Journey it listened to us

it listened to what I wanted I like

these images and one thing you'll notice

off the start with no chaos value is

that they all look kind of similar and

what the chaos parameter does is it

brings variety into your grid meaning

each of these pictures is going to start

looking different than one another and

what are the costs of raising the chaos

value honestly chaos a little bit of

Chaos chaos is going to get you some

really cool pictures a lot of chaos and

you have no idea what to expect let me

show you same prompt at chaos 4 and

honestly it's around this digit that

you're going to want to stick to it just

adds a little bit of spice to the

generations while still maintaining what

you wrote in your prompt I'd say even

going up to chaos 8 might be okay in

certain situations it's fun to at least

experiment with but you'll see in number

two we're already moving away from what

we asked for I don't really think this

is an alien dress like Optimus Prime but

it is a small being at least maybe and

at chaos 12 12 out of 100 is honestly

too much these are amazing images I

think they look so cool but you'll see

that we've just strayed so far from The

Prompt that is this really worth it I

don't know to me it is I like seeing

what mid Journey can create but I I

don't recommend using this very often

you might be more frustrated than normal

chaos 16 is pretty hilarious like look

at this little guy down here I'd say

it'd be hard to get these images on

their own and the cool thing about chaos

is that you can just add chaos to any

promp and get some really varied

Generations like these 20 love number

three that's so funny we'll jump ahead a

bit here to 25 what can I say except uh

except laugh honestly you're barely

going to get what you asked for but

they're still pretty cool to look at

chaos 30 we get a vintage Polaroid but

no real sign of Optimus Prime although I

do like number one that's that's a cool

Transformer picture 35 we straight up

just get Optimus here and then I have no

idea what's going on in these 40 number

two is cool look at this reptile alien

thing like that is hilarious 45 love

them and just take a look at how

different they are from each other

that's the key point of the chaos value

chaos 50 you'll still see Optimus Prime

come out in some sort of way in these

generations and then you'll get

something like number four which is just

just somebody in a field like okay like

I said I don't recommend anything over

like chaos 8 probably at the most 55

number four here is awesome 60 we got

two Optimus that's good I guess 65 only

one slight Optimus picture and the rest

are nonsense 70 is kind of cool I like

number one 75 one clear example of a

transformer and more nonsense chaos 80

notice Optimus is number to and then

look how strange the other ones are like

what does number four have to do with

anything that is how much variety you

can get inside of your grid I'm not

suggesting you try this this is throwing

darts with a blindfold on completely 85

still two pictures of Optimus that's

kind of cool chaos 90 just making me

laugh 95 I like these a lot especially

these stacked Stones here in a field and

Chaos 100 somehow Optimus shows up twice

one is in a hotel room those are just

some examples of what a chaos value you

can do to one prompt and feel free to

use this at your own risk it is one of

my favorite parameters like I said

though and the next parameter I want to

show you is called the weird parameter

you can trigger this by using d-w inside

of your prompt and then a numeric value

between 0 and 3,000 zero is the default

by the way and what does the weird

parameter do well it just makes your

images look more weird it's honestly the

perfect way to describe what happens I

will note that it sticks to your prompt

a lot more closely than the stylized

value and definitely more than chaos but

I don't know how often you'll want to

use the rear parameter let me just show

you the examples we're going to start

with the base prompt a cyberpunk dolphin

made of mechanical Parts swimming in the

fluorescent Caribbean Coral I think

these turned out great but what happens

when we add dash dash weird to The

Prompt at just w50 we're already getting

these and again I don't know how you

would describe them other than more

weird weirder you know weird 100 I like

number three that's sort of reminds me

of a disco ball 200 you can still get

some cool pictures 400 look at number

two that's hilarious and I like number

one a lot but these are weird right 600

H I don't know why you'd want to be

getting this high and keep in mind it

goes all the way up to

3,800 honestly the different parts of

the picture are starting to like blend

together in my mind 1,000 and maybe one

out of four is appropriate I like number

one and then the rest are just hard to

tell what's going on we'll jump ahead a

little more here's 1300 I like number

three 1,600 reminds me a lot of Lego

like literally this is oh man these look

so funny 1900 and these are starting to

get really difficult to look at the

color palette just awful is a good word

weird is a good word we got lucky with

2100 and I think these honestly look

more normal than the prev previous one

2400 and as you can see there's really

no way to know what you're going to get

with the weird parameter 2700 I like

number three a lot that light coming off

of the tail that's that's really cool

and then weird 3000 the highest value I

don't even mind these that much but I

can't in good conscious suggest using

the weird parameter inside of your

prompts although you could see that it

still sticks to your prompt fairly

closely but the results are just not

ideal they're not beautiful in any way

they are weird however I do think it's

fun to combine the parameters I

previously showed you that being a

styliz value a chaos value and a weird

value there is no perfect formula you

might try something like this chaos 18

stylize 700 weird 450 and I used the

prompt futuristic sports car on the moon

I think number one is amazing I like

number two a lot that's a fun little

combo of parameters to try or you might

might try portrait of an Instagram model

old Hollywood style surreal nature with

the combo of chaos 6 stylize 80 and

weird 35 some low values just to add an

extra element of spice to the pictures I

think these turned out great but now

what do you do when you find a recipe of

parameters you like you'll want to save

it as a shortcut and here's how you do

that in the prompt box on Discord you're

going to hit forward slash prefer and

then we're looking for for prefer option

set when you click on an option box

you'll see a list of shortcuts you've

already created we don't want to deal

with that for now right now in the

option box we want to create the name

for our shortcut what do we want to type

into our prompt that will then expand

into the parameters we're looking for I

don't know about you or how your memory

Works keep in mind you can name this

shortcut anything you like for me I like

to sort of stick to acronyms so if I'm

doing a chaos value a stylized value and

a weird value maybe I'll just call this

like

csw1 so you type that in here and the

next important thing to do is click on

the plus one more that appears beside it

this is going to open up another option

above called value we're going to click

on value and then down here back in the

prompt box we're going to input what we

want the shortcut to evolve into this

being the combination of parameters we

just found now when I hit enter it's

going to set the shortcut of

csw1 to expand into the values we set if

I were to type in and prompt for a cute

dog the way you trigger the shortcut is

by using dash dash so we'll say a cute

dog Dash Dash

csw1 when I hit enter you'll see that it

expanded into our values so while you're

experimenting and you find something

that you really like you save it as a

shortcut so you can easily experiment

with it across all of your prompts and

look how cute these dogs are oh that's

amazing and have you noticed that I

always get my Generations in a wide

aspect ratio 16x9 but I've never typed

that into the prompts well that's

because I have it saved as a suffix and

here's how you can do that yourself back

in the prompt box you're going to hit

forward slash prefer and you can type

out prefer suffix or you can find it

here in the menu you're going to see a

new value pop up above click on it and

then down here in the prompt box you can

write whatever you like in my opinion I

think this is best to use for aspect

ratios so I know that I use 16 by9 a lot

I can put that right here and then I

never have to type it into my prompts

mid Journey will add it at the end of

each prompt itself you could add words

you commonly use you could add styliz

and Chaos values again I recommend just

sticking to an aspect ratio and the

reason why I like it for an aspect ratio

is because it's easily overridden in the

sense that I could type a cute dog

aspect ratio 2x3 and now even though

16x9 is at the end of all my prompts

because I type 2x3 it will appear first

and take priority and that's how we end

up with cute dogs like these I hope

you're not sick of mid Journey just yet

there are a few more things you can do

inside of version 6 that are extremely

powerful one of them that I want to talk

about is image prompting the easiest way

to do this on Discord is to click this

little plus button beside the prompt box

and upload a file you can choose the

files off of your computer I chose these

to experiment with hit enter and Discord

will throw them into a little grid right

here for image prompting we're going to

want to take this picture grab the link

and place it into the prompt so mid

Journey knows what we are referring to

one way you can do this is by clicking

on the picture once it will expand now

you can rightclick copy image address go

into the prompt box and hit paste contrl

+v command V alternatively you can just

click and drag the picture into the

prompt box that's probably way easier

and what you'll want to do most often

now we can hit space and we can even

drag another picture down here and then

the beauty of image prompting is that we

can add some words I have no idea what's

going to happen when I type in the CN

tower a Toronto skyscraper I have no

idea what's going to happen we'll hit

enter and then maybe we can take this

picture of the car and say a dragon

flying through the sky here's that

combination with the CN tower some

pretty cool pictures I really did not

know what to expect and then here's the

dragon flying through the sky from that

picture of the car like that is

hilarious now I'm not going to go very

in-depth into image prompting here there

is a lot to know about it a lot of

different things you can try and if you

really want to learn more maybe that's

when you should check out my course

again sign up for my newsletter in the

description below if you want to be the

first to know about it there are still a

couple more things that I can share with

you here though now if you want to just

combine a couple of pictures without

adding extra words you can hit forward

SL blend that will give you the option

to blend up to five images at first

you'll just see one and two but you can

click down here at plus four more and

that will create a popup up here where

you can choose images three four and

five as well as change the dimensions of

the blend let's do image three and then

now we can pick any pictures from our

computer I'll choose that Spartan we'll

choose that scary guy and then we'll add

some color there what do you think this

is going to create blending is a lot

like image prompting it's basically the

same thing except you don't have the

chance to add words to The Prompt that's

really the key difference blend goes a

lot quicker image prompting might have

more options available to you oh my God

these are so cool that is basically a

blend of all of those pictures I think I

like number one the most and the last

thing I want to show you in version six

for now is the describe feature you're

going to hit forward slash describe this

will give you the chance to upload an

image we'll try this Spartan again and

when you hit enter mid journey is going

to give you four prompt descriptions

based on that picture now this is an old

version of describe this was made back

in version 5 but we should be expecting

an update to this feature sometime soon

so SL describe is going to get a lot

more powerful moving forward and that's

why I think you should know about it now

you can imagine all of them you can

click on any of the prompts that you

like in fact you can even click on them

and tweak The Prompt yourself a little

side note an extra special tip that I'll

share with you here if you really want

to recreate a picture you would run it

through the describe function you would

then click on the picture copy image

address and then we're going to paste

that inside of the described prompt that

will add an extra reference image to the

description super powerful stuff oh like

these are so beautiful I basically

showed you everything that's available

in version 6 at this moment but there

are a lot more features we can expect

coming soon in order to show you these

I'm going to take you back to version

5.2 here we have the prompt moon goddess

of the ninth realm we'll choose one of

these to upscale and then we'll see a

lot more options underneath that image

first first of all like I mentioned

earlier we might see these upscales in

the future that being a 2X and a 4X but

I really want to point to all of these

buttons down here why don't we start

with vary region it is another variation

button but this is specifically in

painting I'm sure you've heard that term

before if we click on this a new box

will appear where we can either take the

rectangle selection or the lasso tool

and we can change individual parts of

this image we can basically ask for an

entire L new face we could change her

accessories we could try to add

something in this Blank Space over here

imp painting is a super powerful feature

it's just not available yet at this time

of recording but it's on the table

they're working on it we'll see that in

version 6 soon here's the generation of

her that changed her face you see how

powerful it could be other than in

painting we also have the chance to zoom

out we can zoom out at a 1.5 scale or a

2X scale now those are pretty simil ilar

I'm not going to lie you're not going to

see that big of a difference but this

works amazing when mid Journey doesn't

quite get your framing right especially

in this case maybe it cut off her hair

maybe you weren't happy with that and

you want to see more of the image here's

what the 1.5 would look like and here's

what the 2x would look like but we

aren't done there you can also use

custom zoom and the prompt box will

appear so the zoom value isn't going to

change very much I don't think you can

raise it too high I don't think you can

raise it past two to be honest with you

but the main point of this is that you

can change your prompt so that when you

zoom out you can change what gets added

around the image pretty cool pretty

powerful in its own right but if this

ever comes to version 6 here's why you

would want to use it we're going to want

to change the zoom from two to one and

then we can change the aspect ratio to

anything we want let's try 2x3 and what

that's going to do is stay focused on

this image but it's going to change the

aspect ratio like this which means we

might see more on the bottom and the top

it's a different way of zooming out and

it's the only way to change your aspect

ratio change the frame of the

composition and save any image you've

ever made and then we come to this

option make square and this is just

maybe ideal for Instagram easily make

any image into a square aspect ratio you

can do that from Custom Zoom for sure

but here's just a quick button for you

there you go what do you think but we

are not done in 5.2 and in the future

you should have these options as well

these arrows down here trigger the

panning feature if I click to the left

it's going to take this image and expand

the frame to the left and create

something new we can do that to the

right we can do that up and we can do

that down now I do want to note that if

remix is turned on again you can find

that in your settings or you could type

in prefer remix into the prompt box hit

enter and that will toggle the remix

feature now if you were to hit pan in a

direction a prompt box appears and you

can change the prompt we could say the

legs of an octopus now this doesn't work

very well in version 5.2 but you should

know that this feature is available and

will probably be way more powerful when

it comes to version 6 here are the

results of panning left we get a larger

view of space here it is panning to the

right and we get some more of whatever

this background circular device is

panning up and that's kind of cool I

guess I like where her hair is going

here and panning down we're going to get

to see more of the character wo and then

panning down with the remix feature

enabled the legs of an octopus we're

going to get some tentacle like stuff

going on here that is pretty cool now

there is one more really cool feature

that used to be available in mid journey

and you should be excited about seeing

this come to fruition in version 6 and

I'm talking about style tuning if you

type in forward SL tune into the prompt

box you're going to be given the chance

to write a new prompt in this tuning box

you could type in literally anything you

want here let's just try something like

a tropical Sunset it's going to create a

test for you a tuning test where mid

journey is going to take that prompt in

a bunch of different directions and you

get to choose which style best suits

what you were looking for you can choose

between 16 32 64 and 128 directions I

recommend just sticking with like 16 to

start until you get used to what you're

about to do we'll stick with the default

mode hit submit are you sure yes this

can get quite expensive just want to

point that out I have a whole video on

tuning maybe I can link it up here if

you want to check that out but come back

to this video cuz we are not done yet

once the test is done it's going to send

you a link and now this is going to open

you're going to ask to choose between

Pairs keep in mind you don't have to

make a selection on every pair if that's

sort of the fun with it but let's say

you like this style here and then maybe

this style down here oh but you like the

minimalism scene here and scrolling down

you really like this plain color palette

here you're going to see that a code

gets created at the bottom and this code

is dynamically updated anytime I make a

selection it gets changed now you can

copy the code here take it back in a

Discord make sure version 5.2 is set and

then you're going to see this amazing

outcome get created just using a style

code style tuning is so powerful it's

one of my favorite features ever

unfortunately like I mentioned it's not

available in version 6 at the moment and

when they do make it available it's

probably going to look and act a little

differently than what you just saw but I

wanted to show you what you can expect

in the future keep an eye out for style

tuning it's the best I do also want to

mention that if you're interested in

anime Aesthetics you should be checking

out nii journey n ji this is a sort of

subsidiary of mid journey in a sense

basically it's a model that has been

focused trained on anime you can create

similar Aesthetics in mid Journey but

nii journei is all anime we should be

expecting version six of nii journei

sometime soon in January but for now

I'll just give you a comparison between

mid Journey version 6 and M5 here's the

prompt Gundam Mecca in version 6 and

this is what we get kind of cool but if

you were to put Dash Das ni5 in the

prompt you're going to get these this is

the default nii look and what's really

cool about what this team accomplished

is that they added a bunch more styles

that you could choose from what I mean

to say is that if you added Dash Dash

style expressive with the same prompt

this is the type of look you would get

you could also try style Scenic for

these more expansive compositions lots

of background detail and lastly we have

style cute which is clearly focused on

creating the cutest images possible now

I'm not saying all of those Styles will

be available in version 6 I don't know

if that's the case but this kind of idea

is something that we can look forward to

in the future the next thing I want to

show you is mid Journey's new website it

went through a complete redesign in the

last couple of months and it is quite

impressive you'll notice right here at

the top imagine is coming soon we're not

there yet but the rest of the mid

Journey homepage will look like this the

explore page where you can browse the

most popular and recent Creations from

the entire community in fact you can

even search for

prompts here's every prompt involving

Batman this goes on forever you see how

fast that was that search is like

instantaneous if you go over here on the

left to my images you'll be presented

with your entire gallery in order to

download you have a few different

options you can select all next to a

specific day and download everything

that you created on that day or you can

simply drag and select photos that way

alternatively you can hold down shift

and deselect or select new pictures now

I'm pretty sure they will be adding an

archive feature soon where you can look

through what you've created on any day

ever however until then if you want to

search through your prompts you'll click

up here and let's try looking for the

word Neon do you see how quickly that

populated every time I've ever entered

the word neon in a prompt it shows up

that quickly and you can just keep

scrolling and scrolling and scrolling

and it's all there just for you super

fast this new website is amazing another

feature they have is rate images over

here on the left if you click that

you'll be asked to choose which image

you like more left or right one or two

rating these images helps tell the bot

what we find most beautiful and we can

sort of correct the course of the entire

model now if you're one of the top 2,000

people to rate images in a single day

you'll be given one free hour of GPU

time for fast Generations it's a really

good deal it helps mid Journey out and

you get a nice reward out of it now I

know I said creation will be coming soon

but I can give you a sneak peek of what

that looks like if you've made more than

10,000 images you have access to the

alpha mid Journey website and here is

where creation is enabled let's prompt

for an underwater rainbow all of your

settings will be over here we can make

it in portrait landscape we can adjust

the slider anywhere in between you

remember stylization weird and Chaos

known as variety here we can bump that

up and down you can use the standard

model or raw mode change which version

you're on and whether you're generating

in private or not we hit enter and it

will create our images for us over here

these look okay maybe not the best

prompts but whatever you get the point

image prompting is actually really easy

to do from the website all of your image

prompts will appear here and then you

can drag and drop as you see fit let's

just blend those two together oh and

it's still has my styliz value the weird

and the chaos oops let's see what it

turns into here we go these are amazing

those are gorgeous now I want to talk

about what we can expect in the future

as far as updates to the website is

concerned we can expect creation to be

enabled for everyone pretty soon maybe

by February the website will also be

updated with social features similar to

Discord a place to communicate create

with each other and receive help we'll

also have organizational features like

folders Collections and personal

workspaces then as far as overall tools

that we can expect from mid Journey

they're working on things like

consistency tools that's for both style

and character consistency they know

their audience wants it and they're

working on it we can also look forward

to some storytelling tools it's hard to

say how that will actually be visualized

but the team sounds excited about that

Prospect furthermore there will be some

sort of video generation coming in the

next couple of months and 3D generation

probably sometime after that right now

version 6 was just launched but we

should expect version 7 sooner than

later I mean within a couple of months

and a version 8 after that and I think

it's likely we see a version 9 before

the end of 2024 I'm confident in saying

that because of mid Journey's new

strategy and that is a date-based

release cycle rather than a feature

based release cycle we are going to see

constant updates more often there's

everything you need to know about mid

journey in 2024 I hope you found this

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