1 00:00:00,410 --> 00:00:02,310 -: In this lesson, we're gonna learn more 2 00:00:02,310 --> 00:00:04,830 about the fundamentals of Midjourney 3 00:00:04,830 --> 00:00:08,605 and starting with basic prompting and building our way up 4 00:00:08,605 --> 00:00:12,300 with the different functionalities of this platform. 5 00:00:12,300 --> 00:00:14,130 So let's hop into it. 6 00:00:14,130 --> 00:00:17,370 Now, I want to start with the basic of basics. 7 00:00:17,370 --> 00:00:20,130 Now, I did a one word prompt. 8 00:00:20,130 --> 00:00:23,130 I literally just put in the word car, 9 00:00:23,130 --> 00:00:26,340 and this is the type of artistic renditions 10 00:00:26,340 --> 00:00:28,260 that Midjourney outputted. 11 00:00:28,260 --> 00:00:29,850 Now the interesting thing is 12 00:00:29,850 --> 00:00:31,740 that they're slightly different framing. 13 00:00:31,740 --> 00:00:33,870 They're slightly different years 14 00:00:33,870 --> 00:00:36,840 or eras that these cars come from. 15 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:40,140 But it's also interesting that it's a similar view. 16 00:00:40,140 --> 00:00:43,200 It's this three-quarter view that is 17 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:47,490 a very aesthetically pleasing framing for a car. 18 00:00:47,490 --> 00:00:50,130 And the reason it chose this view 19 00:00:50,130 --> 00:00:52,050 is because you have to imagine 20 00:00:52,050 --> 00:00:53,250 the data that it's trained on. 21 00:00:53,250 --> 00:00:56,280 It has millions of photos of cars, and guess what? 22 00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:58,500 Because photographers have found over the years 23 00:00:58,500 --> 00:01:01,980 that this is the best view for a photo of a car 24 00:01:01,980 --> 00:01:04,410 to be taken called a three-quarter view, 25 00:01:04,410 --> 00:01:08,490 Midjourney defaulted to put out an image 26 00:01:08,490 --> 00:01:11,190 that I didn't tell it how to frame the image, 27 00:01:11,190 --> 00:01:14,400 but it put out an image that directly related 28 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:16,350 to all the images that it was trained on. 29 00:01:16,350 --> 00:01:18,870 So that's just a small little nuance 30 00:01:18,870 --> 00:01:20,040 and something to keep in mind 31 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:22,560 that it's gonna output images 32 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:25,830 similar to its own database. 33 00:01:25,830 --> 00:01:27,780 And what you leave out of a prompt, 34 00:01:27,780 --> 00:01:29,160 it's gonna decide for you. 35 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:30,450 So this top right image 36 00:01:30,450 --> 00:01:32,550 is a very cool Hawaiian look and feel. 37 00:01:32,550 --> 00:01:33,860 I didn't use those words. 38 00:01:33,860 --> 00:01:37,470 This left one is almost like a comic book style. 39 00:01:37,470 --> 00:01:39,300 This bottom one has got a little bit 40 00:01:39,300 --> 00:01:41,310 of a Van Gogh painting in the background. 41 00:01:41,310 --> 00:01:42,450 It's a little bit more dark 42 00:01:42,450 --> 00:01:44,256 and it has a completely look different look 43 00:01:44,256 --> 00:01:47,820 and feel than this vintage car on the right 44 00:01:47,820 --> 00:01:51,720 with some very interesting artistic choices on the top. 45 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:56,250 So whatever you prompt, Midjourney is gonna receive that 46 00:01:56,250 --> 00:01:59,790 and try to create what you're telling it to 47 00:01:59,790 --> 00:02:02,520 using all of the images it was trained on. 48 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:04,140 Whatever you don't put in the prompt, 49 00:02:04,140 --> 00:02:07,500 well, Midjourney is gonna decide for you. 50 00:02:07,500 --> 00:02:09,030 So with that understanding, 51 00:02:09,030 --> 00:02:11,550 let's now get into the main functionality 52 00:02:11,550 --> 00:02:13,560 of the Discord interface. 53 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,920 Now, you're gonna control what Midjourney does 54 00:02:16,920 --> 00:02:19,740 via this set of buttons. 55 00:02:19,740 --> 00:02:24,740 So U1, U2, U3, and U4 all relate to upscaling the image. 56 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:29,280 Now, it counts from left to right. 57 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:32,730 So this is gonna be one, two, three and four. 58 00:02:32,730 --> 00:02:35,868 And that goes for the reiteration 59 00:02:35,868 --> 00:02:38,727 or the version button as well. 60 00:02:38,727 --> 00:02:40,740 V1, V2, V3, and V4. 61 00:02:40,740 --> 00:02:43,380 That's gonna pertain to top left, top right, 62 00:02:43,380 --> 00:02:45,690 bottom left, and bottom right. 63 00:02:45,690 --> 00:02:48,540 Now what these do is, like I mentioned, 64 00:02:48,540 --> 00:02:50,520 upres is gonna upscale the image 65 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,460 and V is going to create a new variation 66 00:02:53,460 --> 00:02:56,010 or a new version of the image 67 00:02:56,010 --> 00:02:59,940 while maintaining a similar aesthetic. 68 00:02:59,940 --> 00:03:01,500 It's gonna maintain a similar framing. 69 00:03:01,500 --> 00:03:04,830 We're gonna get more into all those elements, 70 00:03:04,830 --> 00:03:07,380 but it's gonna basically take what you've done 71 00:03:07,380 --> 00:03:11,280 and create a new set of options, a set of four options 72 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:14,310 to be specific around that base image. 73 00:03:14,310 --> 00:03:17,460 Now the last button here is our remix button, 74 00:03:17,460 --> 00:03:20,970 and that's what we used here to get this new set of images. 75 00:03:20,970 --> 00:03:23,970 So let's say that I don't like any 76 00:03:23,970 --> 00:03:27,120 of the initial outputs from my prompt. 77 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:29,850 I don't wanna reiterate, you know, version three, 78 00:03:29,850 --> 00:03:32,310 I don't wanna upres version four. 79 00:03:32,310 --> 00:03:35,880 What I can do is write an entirely new prompt to try 80 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:38,430 to get Midjourney to understand what I'm looking for, 81 00:03:38,430 --> 00:03:40,560 or I can hit this remix button. 82 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:45,560 And what it did is it outputted a brand new style of cars. 83 00:03:46,590 --> 00:03:48,810 Okay, so once we do that, 84 00:03:48,810 --> 00:03:52,560 we can then go through the process of reiterating, 85 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:54,690 and that's what we did down here. 86 00:03:54,690 --> 00:03:59,550 So I like the top right image the most out 87 00:03:59,550 --> 00:04:01,650 of this first set of images. 88 00:04:01,650 --> 00:04:04,320 So what I did is I hit V2. 89 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:07,320 What that told Midjourney to do is I like this image 90 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:09,840 and I want you to create a reiterated version 91 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:12,720 of four new images from that. 92 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:15,750 And you can see it kept the same look and feel, 93 00:04:15,750 --> 00:04:19,230 similar framing, color scheme, everything that you can see 94 00:04:19,230 --> 00:04:21,750 with slight variations in the background 95 00:04:21,750 --> 00:04:23,940 and details on the car. 96 00:04:23,940 --> 00:04:28,230 Now let's say I like this bottom right image the most, 97 00:04:28,230 --> 00:04:31,080 and I want a full resolution version of that. 98 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:33,090 What I would do is I would click U3 99 00:04:33,090 --> 00:04:35,160 because it's the third image, 100 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:37,980 and Midjourney is going to output this image 101 00:04:37,980 --> 00:04:40,770 as full resolution, which I can download right now. 102 00:04:40,770 --> 00:04:42,600 So I'm gonna save it to my computer 103 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:45,870 and this is what the downloaded full res looks like. 104 00:04:45,870 --> 00:04:49,830 So again, this would've taken a graphic designer hours. 105 00:04:49,830 --> 00:04:52,680 So to this day, I'm still blown away by this tool, 106 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:54,180 but let's keep moving. 107 00:04:54,180 --> 00:04:57,060 Now that we upresed our image, 108 00:04:57,060 --> 00:05:00,690 you can see that we now have a new set 109 00:05:00,690 --> 00:05:03,060 of potential buttons to choose from. 110 00:05:03,060 --> 00:05:07,440 So we could remix our image again with a new version, 111 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:11,130 a new iteration with a strong variation of changes. 112 00:05:11,130 --> 00:05:13,380 Or we could click very subtle 113 00:05:13,380 --> 00:05:17,340 with a lighter toned down version of changes. 114 00:05:17,340 --> 00:05:19,620 So it's gonna keep the original elements 115 00:05:19,620 --> 00:05:21,540 a lot more in the new edit. 116 00:05:21,540 --> 00:05:23,910 We then have our vary by region. 117 00:05:23,910 --> 00:05:26,610 Now this is gonna give us the option to only edit 118 00:05:26,610 --> 00:05:28,890 a certain part of the image, which is really cool, 119 00:05:28,890 --> 00:05:30,420 but we're gonna get to that in a moment. 120 00:05:30,420 --> 00:05:32,550 And then we have our zoom out function. 121 00:05:32,550 --> 00:05:35,640 It's gonna either zoom out of the image two times 122 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:37,620 or 1.5 times. 123 00:05:37,620 --> 00:05:39,360 And if you wanna do something more custom, 124 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:41,340 you can also click custom zoom 125 00:05:41,340 --> 00:05:44,940 and set the exact zoom out that you'd like. 126 00:05:44,940 --> 00:05:47,940 Below that, we can pan left 127 00:05:47,940 --> 00:05:50,670 where it's gonna create a brand new part of the image 128 00:05:50,670 --> 00:05:52,230 just to the left of the frame. 129 00:05:52,230 --> 00:05:57,230 Same thing to the right, we can tilt up or we can tilt down. 130 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:00,000 Lastly, you can heart the images that you really like 131 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,730 to let Midjourney know the type of outputs 132 00:06:02,730 --> 00:06:06,030 that you gravitate towards the most. 133 00:06:06,030 --> 00:06:07,380 And you can click web 134 00:06:07,380 --> 00:06:11,160 to view the image on your Midjourney profile online. 135 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:12,570 So let's do that now. 136 00:06:12,570 --> 00:06:17,130 So here is that same image on my Midjourney profile 137 00:06:17,130 --> 00:06:19,890 with related images below it 138 00:06:19,890 --> 00:06:24,600 from other creators making similar pieces of art. 139 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:26,940 So you can gather inspiration and look around 140 00:06:26,940 --> 00:06:29,670 and see people that are creating similar photos to you 141 00:06:29,670 --> 00:06:32,190 and using similar prompts. 142 00:06:32,190 --> 00:06:33,570 But getting back to Discord, 143 00:06:33,570 --> 00:06:35,760 let's look at what was outputted 144 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:39,720 when we clicked the zoom out 2x function. 145 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:43,740 You can see it developed all this foreground and foliage 146 00:06:43,740 --> 00:06:46,320 and pushed back the car into the distance. 147 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:49,680 So there's a lot of flexibility and creativity you can do 148 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:52,050 once you generate a base image that you really like 149 00:06:52,050 --> 00:06:54,930 and you wanna see what the model would create 150 00:06:54,930 --> 00:06:55,920 if you zoomed out 151 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:59,130 and saw some things in elements in the foreground. 152 00:06:59,130 --> 00:07:00,750 So that's a really cool new function. 153 00:07:00,750 --> 00:07:03,870 Of course, if you do like that image, you can reiterate, 154 00:07:03,870 --> 00:07:05,910 upres it, remix it completely, 155 00:07:05,910 --> 00:07:07,410 and continue this process 156 00:07:07,410 --> 00:07:10,290 until you have your desired output. 157 00:07:10,290 --> 00:07:12,660 But let's now look at our variation. 158 00:07:12,660 --> 00:07:15,360 If you remember, we clicked variation strong 159 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:17,250 and variation subtle. 160 00:07:17,250 --> 00:07:20,700 This is what we wanted to create new variations of, 161 00:07:20,700 --> 00:07:24,390 and this was the strong variation output. 162 00:07:24,390 --> 00:07:27,630 You can see the car framing changed slightly. 163 00:07:27,630 --> 00:07:31,770 The car itself actually changed a lot color-wise. 164 00:07:31,770 --> 00:07:34,350 And if we look at the variation subtle, 165 00:07:34,350 --> 00:07:38,880 you can see same framing, really similar shape of the car. 166 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:40,620 The headlights are very similar. 167 00:07:40,620 --> 00:07:45,390 All of it is a lot more subtle and nuanced in the changes. 168 00:07:45,390 --> 00:07:48,300 This one has a lot more obvious changes. 169 00:07:48,300 --> 00:07:51,120 So depending on how you wanna fine tune your image, 170 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:53,610 and let's say you just want to change it a little bit 171 00:07:53,610 --> 00:07:55,470 or you want to really remix it, 172 00:07:55,470 --> 00:07:59,400 this is a great way to find a balance between those two 173 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:01,743 for your specific reiteration.