V6 Prompt Design - Midjourney Beginner Tutorial

Summary

The video discusses how to craft effective prompts for AI art generation using Midjourney. It emphasizes using specific categories of words to establish the subject, setting, visuals, context, and style. The presenter first highlights the importance of nouns as the core subject and setting. Nouns like archetypes, characters, animals, places, objects establish the primary focus. They are powerful at the start of a prompt to guide the AI. Next, prepositions indicate direction, location and spatial relationships between elements. Words like 'above', 'below', 'against' position subjects and create perspective. Adjectives visually describe nouns - weathered, serene, beautiful. They enhance prompts by specifying appearance, size, shape, texture, materials and colors. Vivid colors like emerald add richness. Adverbs emphasize and refine descriptions, focusing on the 'how'. For Midjourney, adverbs clarifying extent or degree are most relevant, like 'dimly lit' or 'extremely large' muscles. Finally, historical, cultural and artistic references provide context. Styles like art deco or eras like Victorian England set aesthetics. Contrasting time periods like futuristic Viking generates intriguing juxtapositions. The presenter recommends placing references at the start, or sandwiching them between the beginning and end. He provides examples combining all elements into detailed, visually compelling prompts. The key message is carefully selecting descriptive words in these categories significantly improves Midjourney prompts. Nouns establish subjects, prepositions arrange them spatially, adjectives describe appearances, adverbs emphasize details, and references provide stylistic context.

Takeaways

• Use nouns to establish the subject and setting of your prompt.
• Prepositions indicate direction, location and time of objects in a scene.
• Adjectives visually describe the appearance and qualities of nouns.
• Adverbs provide more detail about the manner in which something appears.
• References add depth by linking context like artistic styles or time periods.
• Place key nouns near the beginning of the prompt for maximum impact.
• Use prepositions to define spatial relationships between elements.
• Adjectives like colors deeply influence the visuals generated.
• Emphasize actions and extent with adverbs to refine descriptions.
• Sandwiching references at the start and end helps prompt understanding.

Q & A

What role do nouns play in a prompt?

Nouns establish the main subject and setting of a prompt, serving as the backbone that other descriptive words build on.

How can prepositions be used effectively?

Prepositions indicate direction, location and time to establish spatial relationships between objects in a generated scene.

Why are adjectives important in a prompt?

Adjectives visually describe the appearance and qualities of nouns, adding depth through details like color, texture, size and shape.

What do adverbs provide in a prompt?

Adverbs provide emphasis and refinement, offering more detail about the manner or extent to which something is described.

How can references enhance a prompt?

References add depth and context by linking to artistic styles, cultural elements and historical settings.

Where should key nouns be placed in a prompt?

Key nouns should go near the beginning of the prompt to have maximum impact in establishing the subject and setting.

How do prepositions enhance a prompt?

Prepositions define spatial relationships between objects, creating a sense of place and arrangement.

Why are adjectives like color so influential?

Color adjectives deeply influence the visuals generated, significantly changing the look and feel.

How can adverbs refine a description?

Adverbs emphasize actions and the extent of attributes, refining the qualities described.

Why sandwich references in the prompt?

Putting references at the start and end helps ensure prompt understanding and context comes through.

Outlines

Introduction to Using Effective Words in Midjourney Prompts

The narrator introduces himself and explains he will teach viewers about five categories of words to use in Midjourney prompts: nouns that establish subjects and settings, prepositions that indicate direction and spatial relationships, adjectives that describe and enhance, adverbs that provide emphasis and refinement, and references that give stylistic or cultural context.

Using Nouns as the Backbone of Prompts

Nouns name people, places, things or ideas and serve as the main subjects in a description. Using archetypal nouns for characters works well. Other examples are animals, creatures, places, settings, objects and items. Start prompts with nouns as they establish key subjects and settings.

Using Prepositions to Define Spatial Relationships

Prepositions indicate direction, location or time of objects. They establish spatial relationships between elements, creating perspective and depth. Some examples are a cat beneath a tree or leaves drifting across a river, which imply movement over time.

Using Adjectives to Enhance and Describe

Adjectives describe or visually enhance nouns. They can define appearance, size, shape, texture, material or color. Focus on using descriptive words to add depth and detail. Some examples are ornate vs. minimal silverware or a colossal vs. miniature rodent.

Using Adverbs for Emphasis and Refinement

Adverbs provide more detail about the manner in which something appears by emphasizing or clarifying parts of the prompt. For example, smoke blowing violently versus calmly across a field. Adverbs can also describe the degree or extent of an attribute, like extremely large muscles.

Using References for Stylistic and Cultural Context

References add stylistic framework, cultural or historical context. Some examples are detecting in art deco style, a scene reminiscent of Victorian England, or an ancient Greek sniper rifle. Place references near the beginning of prompts and consider mentioning again at the end.

Keywords

💡prompt

A prompt is the text description or instructions given to AI image generators like Midjourney to tell them what kind of image to generate. The video focuses on how to write effective prompts by using different categories of words like nouns, adjectives, adverbs etc. A well-structured prompt helps generate more accurate and rich images.

💡nouns

Nouns name key subjects like people, places, objects that serve as the backbone for a prompt. They establish the main topics and context. The video advises using archetypal nouns like 'warrior', 'doctor' or nouns denoting fantasy subjects like 'mermaid', 'phoenix' etc.

💡prepositions

Prepositions indicate direction, location or spatial relationships between subjects established using nouns. They enhance prompts by arranging subjects and objects to create perspective and depth. For example 'cat beneath the tree' places the cat in a specific position relative to the tree using the preposition 'beneath'.

💡adjectives

Adjectives describe visual qualities of nouns like physical appearance, color, texture etc. They make prompts more vivid. For example 'weathered wooden bench' suggests age and exposure. Adjectives like 'colossal', 'miniature' also define scale and size.

💡adverbs

Adverbs provide more details about verbs and adjectives by specifying the manner or degree of an action or description. For example 'dramatically dunked Oreo' emphasizes the splash. Adverbs enhance prompt descriptions.

💡references

References provide contextual links by mentioning artistic styles, cultural elements or historical settings. For example 'in the style of art deco' gives stylistic context. References enrich and give depth to prompted images.

💡seed number

The seed number generates similar images across prompts for comparison. The video uses the same seed number to showcase the effect of changing just the adverb in two prompts resulting in noticeable differences in the generated images.

💡version 6

Refers to version 6 of Midjourney AI. The video advises sandwiching style references between start and end of prompts for best results when using version 6.

💡emphasis

Emphasis in prompts is achieved using adverbs to highlight an action or description. For example 'dramatically dunked' emphasizes the splash visually. Emphasis clarifies the most important parts of the prompt.

💡spatial relationships

Prepositions like 'beneath', 'behind', 'against' indicate positions of subjects relative to each other by establishing spatial relationships. This creates perspective and depth in generated images.

Highlights

Nouns are the foundational subject of your prompt. They establish the key subject and setting.

Prepositions establish a spatial relation between different elements in a scene.

Adjectives enhance the prompt by painting a visual picture.

Adverbs provide more detail about the manner in which something appears.

References add depth and context to a scene by linking stylistic, cultural or historical elements.

Place nouns at the beginning of the prompt to make them more powerful.

Use prepositions to define spatial relationships between subjects.

Adjectives like 'weathered' and 'serene' evoke emotion and atmosphere.

Emphasize actions with adverbs like 'dramatically' or 'violently'.

Reference art styles like 'art deco' or time periods like 'Victorian England'.

Combine all elements into one prompt for visually rich, detailed images.

Adjust prompt structure if needed - try sandwiching references.

Generated images beautifully followed long, structured prompts.

Small word changes like adverbs impact the generator output.

Take the prompt writing process step-by-step for best results.

Transcripts

mid journey is now much more responsive

to the words you use you have the chance

to really tell the bot what you want to

see but what words should you use in

your prompt I'm going to teach you all

about that today and if you're new here

my name is Nolan it's my goal to make

learning AI as straightforward as

possible I want to thank clarinet and

whoever else helped put together those

guides over on Discord I'll leave a link

to that thread in the description below

you see there are five categories of

words you should be exploring in your

prompt we are going to go through them

one at a time and the first category

should be familiar to you it's the

concept of nouns nouns are the

foundational subject of your prompt they

are words that name people places things

or ideas serving as the main subjects or

objects in a description like a

skyscraper they can also establish a

setting or context as in a forest which

sets the scene for further description

nouns for characters like archetypes are

really powerful in your prompt I'm

talking things like doctor warrior angel

they are all well represented by mid

Journey you could mention people or

characters like a mermaid or detective

Jimmy crabcakes number three is

hilarious you could mention animals or

creatures like a phoenix or a cyborg

Chimera you could mention places or

settings like an island Palace or a

spaceship and finally you can mention

objects or items like the sword of

Montreal or the book of Eternal Secrets

start your prompt with nouns as they are

the backbone of your prompt they

establish the key subject and setting

you know instead of a tall building you

could say skyscraper instead of lots of

trees you can say forest to be honest

you can place nouns anywhere in the

prompt but the closer they are to the

front the more powerful they will be in

the sense that mid Journey has

historically favored the beginning of

the prompt more than what appears after

if you're interested in seeing more

examples of words you can use I created

a free PDF for you to download the link

will be in the description below it is a

few pages long and covers the topic of

this video a little more in depth there

are a lot more examples the name of the

next category might be new to you but I

promise you use these words all the time

they're called prepositions and all you

need to know is that the preposition is

a word or phrase that gets placed before

a noun these words are often tiny and

you'll notice them everywhere now words

like at Jimmy crabcakes is sitting at

the bar on a living room made of clay

there is a blue mug on the Shelf these

small words indicate the direction

location or time of an object they can

also introduce an object as in a can of

monsters prepositions are all about

space they establish a spatial relation

between different elements in a scene

these prepositions can be used to place

objects in relation to one another

creating a a sense of depth or

perspective for example a cat beneath

the tree it's going to place the cat in

a specific spatial relation to the tree

unfortunately here I think number two is

the only one that actually worked

although you could argue the cat is

looking up in the other three and maybe

that signifies that it's beneath the

tree either way number two is what we're

looking for prepositions can also

suggest movement or Direction adding a

dynamic element to the scene leaves

drifting across the river implies motion

over time mid Journey version 6 is quite

an impressive tool and it's only going

to continue to grow and evolve over time

meaning you'll almost certainly be

tempted to include more than one

specific subject in your prompt after

establishing the subjects use

prepositions to Define their spatial

relationship creating a sense of place

and Arrangement an old robot leans

against a phone booth or a dog hiding

behind a palm tree I hope what I've been

saying has made sense so far and if

you've learned something new please

leave a like like on this video so we

could share it with more people I need

your help thanks the third category of

words you should know are called

adjectives I'm sure you've heard of

those before and these are really simple

adjectives describe or modify a noun

prepositions show direction or the place

of a noun adjectives describe the look

of the noun visually descriptive

adjectives are going to enhance our

prompt these adjectives can paint a

picture of the physical appearance of an

object like a weathered wooden bench

suggesting age and exposure to elements

they can also evoke emotion or

atmosphere as in a Serene Mountain Lake

beautiful and calm adjectives might

actually have the most weight when

determining the look of your generation

I'm talking the difference between

ornate silverware and minimal silverware

the difference between a colossal sized

rodent and a miniature sized rodent

they're pretty cute adjectives can be

used to define the appearance of

something something like a rustic car

the size or shape of something like a

winding staircase they can be used to

specify the texture or material of

something like a leathery laptop or a

fuzzy laptop I don't I don't think these

turned out very well number two is kind

of funny though color is also a key

adjective you can use Simple colors like

red or blue or you can specify the color

even more with a specific word like an

emerald colored PlayStation 6 pretty

cool mockups you can mention a

collection of colors like a pastel

colored top hat or even a color scheme

like monochromatic colors are really

powerful adjectives once the foundation

of your prompt is set adjectives add

depth and color to your nouns on to

category 4 I think you should be

including adverbs in your prompt we

learned that adjectives describe nouns

adverbs are all about modifying you're

not changing the description you're

specifying it you're going to provide

more detail about the manner in which

something appears in your prompt I'll be

honest a lot of adverbs aren't really

applicable to Mid Journey at the moment

so we are going to narrow our Focus to

one concept emphasis how is something

happening what do you want to emphasize

in your prompt what have you already

said in your prompt that could be helped

with clarification remember I want you

to think emphasis it's a complimentary

action that you're going to be

describing like here the Oreo was dunked

drama ically we're emphasizing that

Splash that we're looking for adverbs

can also refine the qualities described

by our adjectives detective Jimmy

crabcakes contemplates under a single

dimly lit Street Lamp now look you don't

have to explicitly remember the concept

and definition of adverbs but you should

try your best to remember that adding

more descriptive words will probably be

a good thing in the end focus on the how

of your prompt I use the same seed

number for this next example example to

show you the difference the green smoke

is blowing calmly across the field pay

attention to this grid and what you see

here maybe staring at number one might

help the most because look what happens

when we change calmly to violently the

green smoke is blowing violently across

the field same seed all we changed is

the adverb how is the smoke blowing you

might not think that's a big difference

but the fact that there is a difference

means that these words matter to the

generator adverbs are not just about how

something happens they can also refer to

the degree or extent of an attribute a

foreign anthropomorphic alien with

barely any muscles I think number one is

absolutely hilarious I like the pose in

number two as well contrast that with a

foreign anthropomorphic alien with

extremely large muscles the adverb of

extremely describes how much of

something we get in the prompt I would

not want to mess with any of these guys

oh boy remember it's just about

enhancing the description now we're

almost done we're on to the fifth and

final category that last category of

words you need to consider are

references these references can mention

specific Artistic Styles cultural

elements or historical settings that all

add depth and context to a scene it's

all about linking context within the

prompt they can provide a stylistic

framework or aesthetic like detective

Jimmy crab case in the style of art deco

these are so cool that hazy anime Vibe

amazing but references can also give

cultural or historical context something

as simple as a scene reminiscent of

Victorian England I love number one I

think that looks so beautiful it's going

to set a specific time and place along

with the associated cultural norms you

could reference the dichotomy between

time periods like a futuristic Viking

axe and look how cool these are those

are sick likewise maybe an ancient Greek

sniper rifle pretty cool I highly

suggest you consider play placing the

reference near the beginning of the

prompt maybe even the first thing

normally I wouldn't consider this that

important but version six acts a little

funny sometimes so much so that you may

even want to sandwich the references in

your prom mention it at the beginning

and mention it at the end for good

measure now let me show you some

examples of what this process might look

like when you put it all together an

Andy Warhol inspired pop art painting of

a softly luminous mystical Garden the

garden mysteriously grows inside of a

volcano crater radiant bioluminescent

plants among ancient angular rock

formations this was at S400 and C6 so we

might lose a little bit of detail in our

prompt but I don't think you can deny

how beautiful these images are how

visually Rich they are same idea here

look at number three that is just so

gorgeous I I can't believe it like look

at that man like oh oh my God even this

one holy cow now I took took that

prompts foundation and I tweaked it a

little bit here we have an Andy Warhol

inspired pop art painting of a

translucent Temple the temple is

fiercely lit with a vibrant fire inside

there are glossy clouds above the temple

there are radiant bioluminescent plants

spread out around the base of the temple

in between ancient angular rock

formations and look at number one that

is absolutely incredible I can't believe

how well it followed the prompt maybe

not the glossy Cloud's part but maybe

that just wasn't a very good descriptive

phrase I'm more impressed with the

glowing plants in between angular rock

formations the translucent Temple where

we can see a fire lighting it up from

the inside amazing amazing work mid

Journey you are the best this one too is

pretty incredible right this was stylize

40 I think that's so cool remember

there's a free pdf in the description

below if you want some help remembering

which words can flow into each category

of your prompts and if you want to see

the best way to combine these categories

into one prompt I suggest you watch this

video right here I hope this made sense

I hope you're doing well take care and

I'll see you next time peace