In this guide, I assume you already know the basics of how to use MidJourney.

If you don’t, it’s a good idea to read ourMidJourney primerfirst.

a person in the right pose) you first need to send that image to the MidJourney Discord Bot.

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Don’t submit any sensitive or private images into the Discord chat with the MidJourney Discord bot.

Only ever send images in any chat app that you’re 100% comfortable showing to anyone.

To do this,right-clickon the image and select “Copy link”.

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Now, paste the image link as the very first part of the prompt.

Now you’re able to write the actual prompt.

Don’t submit the prompt yet, because we have to include two more important parameters.

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Here we’re going to add the parameter “–iw 2” at the end of our prompt.

Next, we’ll specify the aspect ratio.

MidJourney makes square images by default, but that’s not always what you need.

MJ Image Prompt

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To do this, we add “–ar 16:9” to the end of the prompt.

Now, finally, we’re ready to submit.

This hasn’t turned out very well at all!

Copy the link to the image you just uploaded.

This is because the image weight setting is too high.

So let’s fire off the same prompt again, but this time at 1.5.

Let’s retry at 0.5.

Start typing a regular prompt in the Discord server.

And now we have a pretty cool result!

Paste the link to your image.

Type your prompt after the image link.

Use weight parameters to modify how the output image will look.

Specify the aspect ratio you want for the output image.

Photo of a Starship Enterprise model slightly modified by MidJourney.

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Starship Enterprise image generated by MidJourney.

MidJourney / How-To Geek / Sydney Butler

An image of the Starship Enterprise generated by MidJourney with space in the background.

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