Advanced Styles and Insights with Midjourney: Imagine Beautiful AI Prompts

Cover....1 Title....2 Copyright ....3 Table of Contents....4 About the Author....8 Introduction....9 Chapter 1: Midjourney and You....13 Midjourney Versions....13 The Best Prompt Template for v 5.2....14 The Secret Midjourney, v 5.2R....16 Collaborate with AI....19 How Midjourney’s AI Kitchen (Likely) Works....20 Prompts and Styles....22 Prompts and Series of Images As AI Art Form....22 Be Brief, Unless Your Scene Is Complex....24 What to Draw? Debugging the Output....27 Aspects of Image Prompting....28 Summary....29 Chapter 2: Gauging the Effectiveness of Midjourney’s Prompts....30 Prompts Are Not in English: They Are in MJEnglish....30 Character and Color Confusion....35 Include Artists and Photographers in Prompts....36 Include Drawing Styles in Prompts....39 Set a Tone for the Scene....40 Limitations....41 Summary....43 Chapter 3: Using Existing Images As Your Base (Multimedia Prompts)....44 Vary(Subtle)....45 Vary(Strong). Remixing with the Prompt Change....50 Vary(Region)....52 Image Reference, --sref....56 Summary....61 Chapter 4: Advanced Midjourney Capabilities....62 Multi-prompts....63 Being Negative....64 Upscaling in v 6.0....69 Midjourney Styles and Aesthetic Parameters....71 Pan and Zoom....75 Controlling Contrasting Characters in v 6.0....78 Text in v 6.0....80 Midjourney Troubleshooting....83 Logos....84 Summary....86 Chapter 5: Advanced Creative Techniques....87 Midjourney Versions and Remixing Them....87 Bouncing....92 Using Vary(Region) to Combine the Imagination of v 5.2 and Quality of v 6.0....95 The Power of Misspellings....97 Summary....99 Chapter 6: Consistent Characters....100 Image Prompts and Images As Style References....100 Character Sheets, Pan, and Zoom Out....105 Character Reference, --cref....106 Summary....108 Chapter 7: Use AI for Prompt Creation....109 Write Prompts with ChatGPT and Gemini....109 Teach ChatGPT with Your Prompts....111 Summary....122 Chapter 8: Image-to-Text Tools....123 Midjourney’s /describe....123 ChatGPT Image Describe....126 Gemini Image Describe....127 Summary....128 Chapter 9: Midjourney Challenges (Exercises) for You....130 Challenge #1: Textures....130 Challenge #2: Pairs of Colors....131 Challenge #3: Structured Prompts....133 Challenge #4: Glass....139 Challenge #5: Fill the Space....142 Challenge #6: Design a Character Sheet....143 Challenge #7: Explore --style raw....145 Summary....148 Chapter 10: Conclusion and Sample Images with Prompts....149 Samples of My Prompts and Images....150 That’s a Wrap....162 APPENDIX A. Styles and Descriptions....163 Appendix B. A Giant List of Textures....190 APPENDIX C. Prompts to Demonstrate Artists’ Styles....194 APPENDIX D. Goblincore and Others: Midjourney’s Vocabulary....215 APPENDIX E. Strong Modifiers....219 APPENDIX F. Two-Color Combinations....225 APPENDIX G. References and Resources....228 Index....230