Midjourney V5 How To Upload A Reference Image Or Art And Use As A Prompt (2023)

Summary

This video explains how to use an image as a prompt in Midjourney AI art generator. It instructs to upload the image to Discord, copy its link, and paste it in the prompt along with text descriptions. Set the image weight to 2.0 so it closely replicates the reference. Type the prompt with descriptions like 'dog looking up' and 'natural light, trees background.' Midjourney will generate variations based on the image and text. Select the best result, upscale and download it. This allows creating custom AI art by providing an image prompt.

Takeaways

• 👉 How to upload a reference image to Midjourney Discord
• 👉 Right click on uploaded image and copy its link
• 👉 In prompt, type desired output then paste image link
• 👉 Add -- (double dash) plus IW and image weight value after link
• 👉 Higher IW value means output matches reference image closely
• 👉 Wait for Midjourney to generate images based on prompt
• 👉 Upscale desired output image in the web UI
• 👉 Download and save final image to computer
• 👉 Use generated image anywhere needed
• 👉 Ask questions in comments if the video was helpful

Outlines

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🐶 How to Upload a Reference Image and Use it as a Prompt in MidJourney v5

This paragraph provides a step-by-step tutorial on how to upload a reference image to Discord and use it as a prompt with the MidJourney AI art generation bot. It covers copying the image link, pasting it into the prompt with commands to match the style, adjusting the image weight parameter, and generating high quality AI variations of the reference image.

Keywords

💡mid Journey

Mid Journey is an AI art generator bot available on Discord. It is used in the video to generate photorealistic images based on text prompts and reference images provided by the user. The video demonstrates how to utilize Mid Journey's image weighting feature to make it adhere closely to a reference image when generating new AI art.

💡reference image

A reference image is an existing image that the user uploads to Mid Journey to guide the image generation process. The video shows how to upload a reference image of a dog from Pinterest and use it to make Mid Journey generate similar looking images.

💡prompt

The text description provided by the user to Mid Journey specifying what kind of image to generate is called a prompt. The video provides examples of prompts like "dog looking up" and shows how prompts can be combined with reference images.

💡image weight

Image weight is a parameter in Mid Journey that controls how closely the generated images should match the visual characteristics of the reference image. Setting image weight to 2.0 makes Mid Journey adhere very closely to the reference image.

💡photorealistic

Adding the word "photorealistic" to prompts makes Mid Journey generate highly detailed and realistic images that resemble actual photos. This can enhance image quality.

💡background

Prompts can specify the background environment like "trees" that should be included in the generated image alongside the main subject.

💡lighting

Descriptors for lighting such as "natural light" allow controlling the illumination and mood of AI generated images.

💡orientation

Words like "looking up" in prompts can dictate the orientation and posture of subjects in images generated by Mid Journey.

💡art generation

The core theme of the video is using Mid Journey to automatically generate new AI artworks based on user text and image inputs.

💡Discord

Discord is the platform and chat interface through which Mid Journey's AI bot is accessed to utilize its image generation capabilities.

Highlights

Open Discord to access the MidJourney bot

Drag and drop image to Discord then right click to copy link

Use /imagine to start a MidJourney prompt

Add text prompt with description of desired image

Paste image link and add --iw 2.0 to strongly weight reference image

MidJourney will generate images based on text prompt and reference image

Can upscale and download generated images to use elsewhere

This allows creating images using a reference image

Open Discord and access MidJourney bot

Upload reference image to Discord

Create prompt with /imagine and description

Paste image link and weight with --iw 2.0

MidJourney generates images based on prompt and reference

Can upscale and download images for use elsewhere

Allows creating images using a reference image

Transcripts

mid Journey version 5 how to upload a

reference image or art and use it as a

prompt so go ahead and open Discord to

access the mid Journey bot and the first

thing that we need to do is to send here

the images that we want to be referenced

so open the folder where it is located

make sure that it's downloaded on your

device so here is a dog which I got from

Pinterest

drag it to Discord and present enter to

send it once it's uploaded right click

on it and among these additional options

select copy link

now that we have its link let's Now

command mid Journey so type in slash

followed by Imagine and click on this

on the prompt box just type in what you

want to make in your image so for

example I want the same dog to look up

so I'll just type in dog looking with

heads up and then I'll also add natural

light

trees as its background and then I'll

just add a photorealistic so that it

will be high quality

now press command V or Ctrl V on your

keyboard to paste the link of the photo

that we copied a while ago

after that type in Double Dash so dash

dash followed by the letters IW which

means Image Weight image weight on Mid

journey is the parameter that sets the

weight of the image prompt relative to

the text while generating AI images its

value can range from 0.5 to 2 with 0.5

being the lowest and 2.0 is the highest

now I want it to be copied as close as

possible to the reference image so I'll

add in space and type 2.0 enter that and

then wait for my journey to finish

generating your image now as you can see

it generated four images of the same dog

but its head and eyes are looking up

because of what we typed in here upscale

what you want as for me the 1 and 2 is

the best result so let's use that open

in the web and that's it you can

download and save it to your computer

and use the image to anywhere you want

so that is how to upload a reference

image or art and use it as a prompt in

mid Journey version 5. do let us know if

this video helped you out and if you

have any question feel free to drop them

down below thank you for watching and

have a nice day