-: As we're building our way through the fundamentals,
getting more towards the complex,
in this lesson, we're gonna build a prompt step by step
to really understand more of how Midjourney
is processing our prompts and also outputting its image,
and this understanding is just gonna really help you
in all of your future prompting,
which I like to focus on first,
because if we have a solid understanding
of the foundational aspect of the tool we're using,
it can be a lot more effective down the road.
So let's hop into Midjourney and get started.
Start with opening up the Settings panel,
and I'm gonna turn our stylization to low, okay?
Now, let's start with our prompt, /imagine.
And the prompt I wanna start with is very open,
leaving Midjourney to a lot of its own interpretation.
So we're gonna type in a woman in the desert.
So here's our output.
We have exactly what we asked for, a woman in the desert.
There's no specific rhyme or reason to what we have.
Midjourney kind of changed a few coloring,
a few lighting changes.
The subject is wearing a different outfit.
Why is that, though?
We didn't specify what we wanted.
We didn't say the style that we were looking for,
which is a really important one.
Do we want black and white photography?
Do we want photorealistic?
Do we want fantasy, sci-fi, steampunk style?
All of these different keywords we're gonna get into,
but let's be a little bit more specific
and build this prompt up part by part.
So now what I wanna do is type
in a photorealistic woman in the desert.
So now we're getting somewhere.
We went from a very neutral, very ambiguous image
where there was no real personality,
there was no style, there was just a feeling
of kind of desolation, and no description here.
There's no specific emotion being created from these images.
Now, when we type in a photorealistic woman in the desert,
we're giving Midjourney a direction to go
in when it comes to the stylization,
which is gonna evoke an entirely different emotion.
So we're also getting now a frontal view
of our subject, which is key.
So that's gonna allow for the viewer
to connect more with what they're viewing.
So now that we have this updated one,
let's take things one step further.
We have our subject, we have how we want our subject
to be seen in the style choice.
Now let's be more specific
around what our subject is wearing.
So a photorealistic woman in the desert wearing
an advanced technology visor.
So this is gonna point Midjourney in a direction
of a more futuristic look and feel.
Now we're actually really starting to create a visual,
a brand identity,
and just a very interesting aesthetic just
with a few keyword choices.
So we started here, we got to photorealistic version,
and then we started to give a time period,
and an overall era, and an overall flavor
and look and feel to our photo.
And now let's take things another step further.
We're gonna add what kind of framing
we want the image to have.
For this example, we're starting to develop our character
and our location and our background
and the era that this person is existing in.
We wanna get a really great looking photo,
so we'll use the term portrait framing.
We could use wide shot, closeup, medium shot,
all the terminology you would use
if you were an actual photographer.
And we're gonna change the aspect ratio to be four by five,
which is gonna be well suited for a portrait image.
So by making these small changes,
we're adding all these little additions
to create a better final outputted image.
So now with this new aspect ratio,
we're starting to build a framing around an image
and a subject that's just gonna be well-suited
for each other.
And these images are looking great.
But now I want to take a similar direction,
but switch things up,
so we're gonna do a completely different style of photo.
We're gonna type in a Pixar animation
of a woman in the desert,
and we're gonna change the time of day, at night,
wearing the same exact thing with the same framing,
and we're also gonna change the lighting scenario,
so moonlit lighting versus what it defaulted to.
Because we did not specify,
it defaulted to the desert in the daytime,
which is likely because a lot of the photos you see
that Midjourney was trained on through its massive datasets
were likely images of deserts in the daytime.
But that doesn't mean you can't specify
and change the prompt.
So with this new slight change in our style,
we went from photorealistic
to more of a Pixar animated movie.
Now, I think this one on the bottom right kinda does
an okay job with the, what I had envisioned.
But what I went ahead
and did was I slightly changed the prompt.
And this is something that you'll find
as you're trying to get your ideal output,
it's sometimes little keyword changes.
So instead of Pixar animation of a person,
we typed in Pixar-style render,
which is actually a lot more accurate wording choice
to explain what we're looking for,
of a woman in the desert wearing this specific technology
and also, I added the key term Pixar character
so that it more understood
that I don't just want the animation graphic styling,
but I also want our main character
to resemble a Pixar character.
So these do a much better job of that,
especially this bottom left one.
And so now that we know we can not only change the style,
the look, the feel, what our subject is wearing,
what time of day our subject is in,
the location, all of these things,
now let's take a similar prompt
and let's change the aspect ratio.
Let's change the background.
So we want a photorealistic woman in the desert walking
to a futuristic city, high-tech buildings,
beautiful structures,
and a wide shot at 16 by nine aspect ratio.
So this similar prompt,
but with these little keyword changes
are gonna make a massively different final output.
Here's what we got.
So we technically have the same character,
a similar subject,
but in a completely different environment.
Even though we kept them located in the desert,
now we're having basically a scene from a movie.
This could be for "Dune" or "Star Wars"
or anything like that.
And to get to this different end product from here to here,
what it comes down to is your specific word choice
and the key words that you're choosing.
So if you're finding that you're getting prompts
that you love, awesome, you're using great word choice.
If you're finding that you're not quite getting
that final product you know that you're looking for,
it's probably the word choice.
And on top of that, it can also be
possibly changing your settings.
So now what I wanna do is change our stylization
to very high, and what we're gonna do
is keep our same prompts that we used.
So let's grab this prompt, let's re-input it,
but now our stylization is set to high,
and let's go ahead and do the same
for one of our more basic prompts
towards the beginning of this lesson.
And we're gonna see the difference in how much
of a creative liberty Midjourney took
with this creativity change.
So we can see stylization set to low.
These are not bad looking images by any means.
The world that it's creating is very immersive,
and these are pretty unique looking images.
But with the stylization set high, look at these.
These are even more of an immersive place
with more lighting, more details, more intricacies,
and just more of an overall artistic brush has been used
in creating these images.
Now, the same goes for these portraits
that we took from our relatively simplistic prompt,
a realistic woman in the desert, the outfit, the style,
the facial expression, the lighting,
all of this looks incredibly, incredibly professional.
So the takeaway here is dialing in the right keywords
for your prompts, trial and error, reiterating,
trying again and again, and also using the settings
and the aspect ratio to your advantage.