-: In this lesson, we're gonna learn more
about the fundamentals of Midjourney
and starting with basic prompting and building our way up
with the different functionalities of this platform.
So let's hop into it.
Now, I want to start with the basic of basics.
Now, I did a one word prompt.
I literally just put in the word car,
and this is the type of artistic renditions
that Midjourney outputted.
Now the interesting thing is
that they're slightly different framing.
They're slightly different years
or eras that these cars come from.
But it's also interesting that it's a similar view.
It's this three-quarter view that is
a very aesthetically pleasing framing for a car.
And the reason it chose this view
is because you have to imagine
the data that it's trained on.
It has millions of photos of cars, and guess what?
Because photographers have found over the years
that this is the best view for a photo of a car
to be taken called a three-quarter view,
Midjourney defaulted to put out an image
that I didn't tell it how to frame the image,
but it put out an image that directly related
to all the images that it was trained on.
So that's just a small little nuance
and something to keep in mind
that it's gonna output images
similar to its own database.
And what you leave out of a prompt,
it's gonna decide for you.
So this top right image
is a very cool Hawaiian look and feel.
I didn't use those words.
This left one is almost like a comic book style.
This bottom one has got a little bit
of a Van Gogh painting in the background.
It's a little bit more dark
and it has a completely look different look
and feel than this vintage car on the right
with some very interesting artistic choices on the top.
So whatever you prompt, Midjourney is gonna receive that
and try to create what you're telling it to
using all of the images it was trained on.
Whatever you don't put in the prompt,
well, Midjourney is gonna decide for you.
So with that understanding,
let's now get into the main functionality
of the Discord interface.
Now, you're gonna control what Midjourney does
via this set of buttons.
So U1, U2, U3, and U4 all relate to upscaling the image.
Now, it counts from left to right.
So this is gonna be one, two, three and four.
And that goes for the reiteration
or the version button as well.
V1, V2, V3, and V4.
That's gonna pertain to top left, top right,
bottom left, and bottom right.
Now what these do is, like I mentioned,
upres is gonna upscale the image
and V is going to create a new variation
or a new version of the image
while maintaining a similar aesthetic.
It's gonna maintain a similar framing.
We're gonna get more into all those elements,
but it's gonna basically take what you've done
and create a new set of options, a set of four options
to be specific around that base image.
Now the last button here is our remix button,
and that's what we used here to get this new set of images.
So let's say that I don't like any
of the initial outputs from my prompt.
I don't wanna reiterate, you know, version three,
I don't wanna upres version four.
What I can do is write an entirely new prompt to try
to get Midjourney to understand what I'm looking for,
or I can hit this remix button.
And what it did is it outputted a brand new style of cars.
Okay, so once we do that,
we can then go through the process of reiterating,
and that's what we did down here.
So I like the top right image the most out
of this first set of images.
So what I did is I hit V2.
What that told Midjourney to do is I like this image
and I want you to create a reiterated version
of four new images from that.
And you can see it kept the same look and feel,
similar framing, color scheme, everything that you can see
with slight variations in the background
and details on the car.
Now let's say I like this bottom right image the most,
and I want a full resolution version of that.
What I would do is I would click U3
because it's the third image,
and Midjourney is going to output this image
as full resolution, which I can download right now.
So I'm gonna save it to my computer
and this is what the downloaded full res looks like.
So again, this would've taken a graphic designer hours.
So to this day, I'm still blown away by this tool,
but let's keep moving.
Now that we upresed our image,
you can see that we now have a new set
of potential buttons to choose from.
So we could remix our image again with a new version,
a new iteration with a strong variation of changes.
Or we could click very subtle
with a lighter toned down version of changes.
So it's gonna keep the original elements
a lot more in the new edit.
We then have our vary by region.
Now this is gonna give us the option to only edit
a certain part of the image, which is really cool,
but we're gonna get to that in a moment.
And then we have our zoom out function.
It's gonna either zoom out of the image two times
or 1.5 times.
And if you wanna do something more custom,
you can also click custom zoom
and set the exact zoom out that you'd like.
Below that, we can pan left
where it's gonna create a brand new part of the image
just to the left of the frame.
Same thing to the right, we can tilt up or we can tilt down.
Lastly, you can heart the images that you really like
to let Midjourney know the type of outputs
that you gravitate towards the most.
And you can click web
to view the image on your Midjourney profile online.
So let's do that now.
So here is that same image on my Midjourney profile
with related images below it
from other creators making similar pieces of art.
So you can gather inspiration and look around
and see people that are creating similar photos to you
and using similar prompts.
But getting back to Discord,
let's look at what was outputted
when we clicked the zoom out 2x function.
You can see it developed all this foreground and foliage
and pushed back the car into the distance.
So there's a lot of flexibility and creativity you can do
once you generate a base image that you really like
and you wanna see what the model would create
if you zoomed out
and saw some things in elements in the foreground.
So that's a really cool new function.
Of course, if you do like that image, you can reiterate,
upres it, remix it completely,
and continue this process
until you have your desired output.
But let's now look at our variation.
If you remember, we clicked variation strong
and variation subtle.
This is what we wanted to create new variations of,
and this was the strong variation output.
You can see the car framing changed slightly.
The car itself actually changed a lot color-wise.
And if we look at the variation subtle,
you can see same framing, really similar shape of the car.
The headlights are very similar.
All of it is a lot more subtle and nuanced in the changes.
This one has a lot more obvious changes.
So depending on how you wanna fine tune your image,
and let's say you just want to change it a little bit
or you want to really remix it,
this is a great way to find a balance between those two
for your specific reiteration.