# More experiments with Midjourney

### Now getting directly on to advanced options list ! <a href="#id-007d" id="id-007d"></a>

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 —

<figure><img src="https://miro.medium.com/max/1050/1*4NmpCBpI8N3p1oYiknVZGA.jpeg" alt=""><figcaption><p>Style groups in midjourney — Image by author</p></figcaption></figure>

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**

<figure><img src="https://miro.medium.com/max/1050/1*XCvuAUt8YqHTEbWpNG_Xgw.png" alt=""><figcaption><p>Image generated by midjourney, prompts from author</p></figcaption></figure>

* **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`

<figure><img src="https://miro.medium.com/max/1050/1*B21hxdaR0oSrBjzCs0-PAg.png" alt=""><figcaption><p>image generated by Midjourney, artist as style , prompts by Author</p></figcaption></figure>

* **using the rendering/ lighting properties as style**

<figure><img src="https://miro.medium.com/max/1050/1*KYeerTnGUd7DrQALXBGs6w.png" alt=""><figcaption><p>image generated by midjourney , prompt experiments by Author ( prompt text : “fantasy castle” )</p></figcaption></figure>

**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`

<figure><img src="https://miro.medium.com/max/1050/1*B5REVy7azjiq9_ZL8-xRYg.png" alt=""><figcaption><p>Image created by midjourney , prompt : firefighters</p></figcaption></figure>

**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`

<figure><img src="https://miro.medium.com/max/1050/1*VuV7DqTPHQhcoLqr8-SXbA.png" alt=""><figcaption><p>Image generated by midjourney, prompt : Eiffel Tower</p></figcaption></figure>

**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)

<figure><img src="https://miro.medium.com/max/1050/1*WdG5LAm9UTk5KjSwRxhXQw.png" alt=""><figcaption><p>Image generated by midjourney , text prompt : “<strong>jasmine in the wild” ,</strong> tested by Author</p></figcaption></figure>

**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`

<figure><img src="https://miro.medium.com/max/1050/1*lUCir2aWxHBAzhLn9tNkbA.png" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

**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](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.02904.pdf)\
