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-: As we're building our way through the fundamentals,

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getting more towards the complex,

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in this lesson, we're gonna build a prompt step by step

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to really understand more of how Midjourney

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is processing our prompts and also outputting its image,

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and this understanding is just gonna really help you

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in all of your future prompting,

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which I like to focus on first,

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because if we have a solid understanding

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of the foundational aspect of the tool we're using,

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it can be a lot more effective down the road.

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So let's hop into Midjourney and get started.

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Start with opening up the Settings panel,

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and I'm gonna turn our stylization to low, okay?

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Now, let's start with our prompt, /imagine.

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And the prompt I wanna start with is very open,

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leaving Midjourney to a lot of its own interpretation.

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So we're gonna type in a woman in the desert.

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So here's our output.

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We have exactly what we asked for, a woman in the desert.

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There's no specific rhyme or reason to what we have.

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Midjourney kind of changed a few coloring,

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a few lighting changes.

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The subject is wearing a different outfit.

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Why is that, though?

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We didn't specify what we wanted.

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We didn't say the style that we were looking for,

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which is a really important one.

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Do we want black and white photography?

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Do we want photorealistic?

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Do we want fantasy, sci-fi, steampunk style?

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All of these different keywords we're gonna get into,

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but let's be a little bit more specific

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and build this prompt up part by part.

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So now what I wanna do is type

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in a photorealistic woman in the desert.

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So now we're getting somewhere.

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We went from a very neutral, very ambiguous image

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where there was no real personality,

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there was no style, there was just a feeling

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of kind of desolation, and no description here.

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There's no specific emotion being created from these images.

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Now, when we type in a photorealistic woman in the desert,

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we're giving Midjourney a direction to go

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in when it comes to the stylization,

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which is gonna evoke an entirely different emotion.

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So we're also getting now a frontal view

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of our subject, which is key.

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So that's gonna allow for the viewer

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to connect more with what they're viewing.

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So now that we have this updated one,

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let's take things one step further.

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We have our subject, we have how we want our subject

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to be seen in the style choice.

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Now let's be more specific

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around what our subject is wearing.

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So a photorealistic woman in the desert wearing

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an advanced technology visor.

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So this is gonna point Midjourney in a direction

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of a more futuristic look and feel.

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Now we're actually really starting to create a visual,

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a brand identity,

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and just a very interesting aesthetic just

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with a few keyword choices.

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So we started here, we got to photorealistic version,

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and then we started to give a time period,

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and an overall era, and an overall flavor

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and look and feel to our photo.

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And now let's take things another step further.

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We're gonna add what kind of framing

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we want the image to have.

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For this example, we're starting to develop our character

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and our location and our background

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and the era that this person is existing in.

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We wanna get a really great looking photo,

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so we'll use the term portrait framing.

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We could use wide shot, closeup, medium shot,

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all the terminology you would use

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if you were an actual photographer.

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And we're gonna change the aspect ratio to be four by five,

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which is gonna be well suited for a portrait image.

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So by making these small changes,

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we're adding all these little additions

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to create a better final outputted image.

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So now with this new aspect ratio,

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we're starting to build a framing around an image

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and a subject that's just gonna be well-suited

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for each other.

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And these images are looking great.

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But now I want to take a similar direction,

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but switch things up,

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so we're gonna do a completely different style of photo.

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We're gonna type in a Pixar animation

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of a woman in the desert,

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and we're gonna change the time of day, at night,

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wearing the same exact thing with the same framing,

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and we're also gonna change the lighting scenario,

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so moonlit lighting versus what it defaulted to.

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Because we did not specify,

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it defaulted to the desert in the daytime,

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which is likely because a lot of the photos you see

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that Midjourney was trained on through its massive datasets

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were likely images of deserts in the daytime.

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But that doesn't mean you can't specify

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and change the prompt.

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So with this new slight change in our style,

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we went from photorealistic

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to more of a Pixar animated movie.

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Now, I think this one on the bottom right kinda does

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an okay job with the, what I had envisioned.

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But what I went ahead

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and did was I slightly changed the prompt.

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And this is something that you'll find

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as you're trying to get your ideal output,

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it's sometimes little keyword changes.

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So instead of Pixar animation of a person,

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we typed in Pixar-style render,

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which is actually a lot more accurate wording choice

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to explain what we're looking for,

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of a woman in the desert wearing this specific technology

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and also, I added the key term Pixar character

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so that it more understood

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that I don't just want the animation graphic styling,

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but I also want our main character

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to resemble a Pixar character.

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So these do a much better job of that,

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especially this bottom left one.

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And so now that we know we can not only change the style,

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the look, the feel, what our subject is wearing,

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what time of day our subject is in,

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the location, all of these things,

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now let's take a similar prompt

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and let's change the aspect ratio.

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Let's change the background.

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So we want a photorealistic woman in the desert walking

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to a futuristic city, high-tech buildings,

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beautiful structures,

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and a wide shot at 16 by nine aspect ratio.

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So this similar prompt,

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but with these little keyword changes

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are gonna make a massively different final output.

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Here's what we got.

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So we technically have the same character,

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a similar subject,

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but in a completely different environment.

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Even though we kept them located in the desert,

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now we're having basically a scene from a movie.

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This could be for "Dune" or "Star Wars"

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or anything like that.

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And to get to this different end product from here to here,

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what it comes down to is your specific word choice

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and the key words that you're choosing.

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So if you're finding that you're getting prompts

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that you love, awesome, you're using great word choice.

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If you're finding that you're not quite getting

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that final product you know that you're looking for,

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it's probably the word choice.

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And on top of that, it can also be

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possibly changing your settings.

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So now what I wanna do is change our stylization

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to very high, and what we're gonna do

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is keep our same prompts that we used.

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So let's grab this prompt, let's re-input it,

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but now our stylization is set to high,

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and let's go ahead and do the same

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for one of our more basic prompts

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towards the beginning of this lesson.

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And we're gonna see the difference in how much

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of a creative liberty Midjourney took

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with this creativity change.

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So we can see stylization set to low.

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These are not bad looking images by any means.

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The world that it's creating is very immersive,

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and these are pretty unique looking images.

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But with the stylization set high, look at these.

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These are even more of an immersive place

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with more lighting, more details, more intricacies,

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and just more of an overall artistic brush has been used

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in creating these images.

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Now, the same goes for these portraits

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that we took from our relatively simplistic prompt,

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a realistic woman in the desert, the outfit, the style,

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the facial expression, the lighting,

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all of this looks incredibly, incredibly professional.

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So the takeaway here is dialing in the right keywords

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for your prompts, trial and error, reiterating,

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trying again and again, and also using the settings

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and the aspect ratio to your advantage.