More experiments with Midjourney

Now getting directly on to advanced options list !

Here are some of the ways you can generate variations in images and some of the advanced settings for the same : (details on each of these settings follows the list)

  1. Providing keywords — ‘style’

  2. stylize

  3. chaos

  4. Resolution

  5. Aspect ratio

  6. passing an image as a prompt as URL

  7. applying weights to the image prompts

  8. weights to the word prompts

  9. filtering out words

In a nutshell, your style is affected by the keywords of your choice — and you can specify what kind of styles you choose to go for — A broad classification of the style types are shown in this figure —

Style groups in midjourney — Image by author
  1. Style — keyword

providing a set of supporting prompt keywords associated with “styles” can create different outputs based on what kind of style you opt to choose. Here are some of the keywords and sub-types based on the artform/design/artist/ genre you might want to choose as styles :

  • using design/genre as style

Image generated by midjourney, prompts from author
  • using artist name as style

You can also specify the artist as your style output . Some samples to the same prompt are shown below

/imagine horse galloping at sunset painting Andy Warhol style

image generated by Midjourney, artist as style , prompts by Author
  • using the rendering/ lighting properties as style

image generated by midjourney , prompt experiments by Author ( prompt text : “fantasy castle” )

2. stylize the output

You can add the setting--s <some number>( denoting style )

The following images are from the same prompts — with low and high stylize option.

/imagine firefighters --s 6000

Image created by midjourney , prompt : firefighters

3. chaos — Increase the abstraction

Takes a number from 0 to 100 to increase or decrease the level of abstraction in the subject

/imagine Eiffel tower --chaos 60

Image generated by midjourney, prompt : Eiffel Tower

4. Resolution

To specify the output resolution, you can use some of the usual keywords like 8K , 4K , photorealistic , ultra photoreal , ultra detailed, intricate details etc

Or you can go with the standard settings for predictable outputs hd and quality / --q are two such settings

/imagine red rose flower --hd

/imagine red rose flower --quality 5

5. Aspect ratio

You can specify what . The default output is a square image (1:1 aspect ratio). But if you want a more cinematic view — or you just want to make a wall paper for your laptop, you can change the aspect ratio

/imagine jasmine in the wild flower --ar 4:3

If you want to specify a custom image size , use the following example

/imagine jasmine in the wild flower --w 600 --h 300

👉 You cannot specify your custom aspect ratios — but can specify some of the standard ratios and some non-standard too ! ( Here are some examples)

6. Image as a prompt

If you want to get some outputs similar to an image style , ( when you want to get consistent outputs ) across multiple images, pass a URL of the image

/imagine http://www.imgur.com/Im3424.jpg box full of chocolates

The image generated will take cues from both the seed image ( from the URL you passed ) and also the text prompts.

👉 You can give multiple images as prompts

👉 You can specify weights to the images ( see the next point )

7. Weights to Image prompt

If you want your output to be looking more like your prompt image ( see the previous point), give a higher weightage to that image (keyword : --iw <number>) .

/imagine http://www.imgur.com/ks34f24.jpg chocolates --iw:4

8. Weights to text prompt

/imagine wild animals tiger::2 zebra::4 lions::1.5

9. Filtering out words from your image

Use the --no keyword to discard any unwanted subjects popping in your

/imagine KFC fried chicken --no sauce

10. Finally, some interesting keywords you can try to use

* Sony Alpha α7, ISO1900, Leica M,  = to specify any lens type or camera type * photorealistic , ultra photoreal , ultra detailed, intricate details,  = to specify some possible details and a realistic look and less of artistic * unreal  = to specify an unreal engine feel* volumetric light , cinematic lighting = to specify some lighting conditions

References: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.02904.pdf

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