Iterate Your Prompts

MidJourney V6 and later has changed how it interprets prompts drastically from before.

For example, you could start with something like “Traditional Japanese garden.”

Then “Traditional Japanese garden with a water feature and sakura blossoms.”

A meditating man sitting on a mountaintop with a scroll that reads ‘How-To Geek’ unfurled in front of him.

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For example: “A man and a woman are smiling at each other in side-profile.

The man is on the left, wearing a red shirt.

The woman is on the right wearing a purple knitted dress.

An example of MidJourney sticking correctly to a prompt with a man and woman smiling at each other in a garden.

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A huge part of an image’s appeal or final result is the style that it’s mimicking.

It’s quite often the missing ingredient in a prompt that makes all the difference.

In Midjourney simply use “–no” followed by the elements to exclude.

An AI-generated image of toy cars in various colors.

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you could see them all as these buttons below your image in the Discord interface.

One of the best is “Vary Region”, which is Midjourney’s name for its inpainting feature.

None of these tools alter your original image, so it’s perfectly safe to experiment with them.

A Midjourney image in Discord with the modification buttons visible beneath it.

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The advanced tweaking buttons in Midjourney’s web alpha interface.

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A MidJourney image marked with the Vary Region function.