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About Me
My name is Shane and I am a tech geek and weird artist who got an MFA because I was bored. Well, I got bored again and along came AI imagery. Since I love to teach, I created this website in order to help others master MidJourney and create new things, because creativity makes us happy, and we all deserve to have fun and explore our imaginations.
Prompter Guide is an incredibly detailed and organized resource with visual examples, insightful blog posts, and even a feature-packed prompt design tool. As MidJourney grows and evolves, I plan to keep this resource free and constantly updated – so you might as well bookmark it!
(me… as a muppet)
Recent Updates
NEW Video Released → How to Fine Tune your own Style!
Prompter 11/05 Update → New Prompt-Builder with /tune!
Vary Region → Added notes about the new inpainting feature.
Huge Prompter Update → Prompter, the prompt-builder, has been rebuilt from the ground up… And it’s free!
Weirdness → Added the weird new parameter called “Weird!”
Describe Command Added → Updated the Visual Notebook with /describe and thoughts.
Imagine Shirts → Just launched a shop page with some sweeeeeeeeet shirts.
Video Released → Made a video tutorial about Prompter and how I use it.
About Me → Added a new page with some background info about me and my work.
Table Of Contents
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Chapter 1: Beginner Notes
- MidJourney → A text-to-image artificial intelligence, that is awesome.
- Prompter → A free tool to assist and inspire prompt building.
- Beginner Tips → Useful info everyone starting out should know.
└ Signing Up (Discord and Subscriptions)
└ Pro Tips (what to know when you start)
Chapter 2: Discord Notes
- Discord Commands → Prompting, settings, and more.
└ Beginner Commands, GPU Hours, Prompting (/imagine, /shorten, /describe), Privacy - Discord Interface → How to navigate the main interface.
└ Initial Options (re-rolls, variations, and upscales)
└ Vary and Zoom (vary, zoom)
└ External Upscaling (upscale using other software) - Special Features
└ Vary Region (inpainting, selective changes)
└ Remix (edit prompts or switch models)
└ Remaster (convert V1/2/3 into Test Creative)
└ Upscaling Choices (options and quality)
└ Emoji Reactions (delete images, get seed numbers, and star images)
Chapter 3: Prompting Notes
- Workflow → Some methods I use to create with AI.
└ Additive, Poetic, Image Input - Prompt Writing → Things to think about when designing prompts.
└ Main Idea - Descriptors → Terms to define your image
└ Descriptor, Medium, Camera, Lighting, Color
└ Artist, Movie, Game
└ Weights (::), Separators (,) - Image Prompts → Use your own images as prompts.
└ Uploading, Image Weight, Image Blending - Prompt Batching → Send a bunch of prompt through at once.
└ Repeat (multiples), Permutations (variations of terms)
Chapter 4: Parameter Notes
- Parameters → Fine tune your prompt with quality, stylize, seeds, and more.
└ Algorithms (MidJourney: V1, V2, V3…), Test/TestP (MidJourney + Stable Diffusion), NijiJourney (anime, illustrative)
└ Output Parameters
└ Quality, Stylize, Style, Chaos, Weird, Stop, Tile, HD, No, Image Weight
└ Seeds, Upscaling, Video
└ Frame Size (detailed examples in the Aspect Ratios section) - Aspect Ratios → Change up your frame size.
└ Cinema, Phones, Photography
└ Super Wide, Super Tall
└ Others
New Blog Entries
Be Careful Out There
Here is a very different kind of blog post. A warning, or something like that.
We need to talk about something really weird that’s happening on facebook. Recently there has been a huge spike in random “pages” posting AI generated images of a person and art with stupid captions like “my wife made this wooden owl with his own hand, appreciate it” or “my son made this and no one likes it, please like” and then, because most people are fucking stupid, the image gets literally thousands of likes and shares, along with boomer comments like “amazing talent” and stuff (sorry, not sorry, because most of the commenters are boomers). Here are a few I collected in the last 48 hours.
Now, it seems harmless, but why would “Life Is Beautiful” or “Garden Flowers” or “Love Dogs” take the time to post awful AI images just for some likes? It doesn’t add up to me. Maybe I am overthinking things, but I feel like this could be either a simple way to gather a list of names and profiles of very gullible people to later scam out of money or passwords – or even darker, what if something like this was a big bait-and-switch plan, and when the US election season heats up “Love Dogs” becomes “Vote Freedom” or something and starts spreading political misinformation or even worst, false political AI images. Again, I don’t know, but it’s freakin’ weird and nothing can be done about it because Facebook is a runaway monster. I hope I am just paranoid, but you never know.
Anyway, be careful out there. Don’t accept everything as truth, and always look at images very closely to make sure they are not fake. Question everything, because as I see it, this is only the beginning.
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Evil Shane Styles
Evil Shane… I made a custom “Evil Shane” style, and I encourage you all to make some Evil Shane’s and share them if you are up for it, prompt below… but, before you think this is some genius science, it’s not. It’s stupid. I love messing around with new tool, plus it’s fun, and I love fun.
(1) I used the new /TUNE feature with a URL link of a headshot of myself with a simple prompt “portrait” after it. (2) I selected a few really creepy Shane images to fine tune my style. (3) I then ran a bunch of PERMUTATION prompts to find the best looks with variable stylize and image weight. (4) I used the /PREFER OPTION SET command to make –EvilShane replace a prompt with my URLs headshot,style code, stylize, and image weight. (5) Lastly, I pushed through a bunch of random prompts adding –EvilShane to them to get really weird results! (keep in mind the –EvilShane thing is local, for me only, so you’ll need to copy the entire prompt below)
Want to make an Evil Shane? Just type in any prompt idea and add to it:
(click the prompt to copy it!)
/imagine prompt: YOUR PROMPT HERE https://s.mj.run/ZAVpESe9BOw https://s.mj.run/rATstUmIv6w --style buLsr5r9E9IERM-2U4NwPvHtUVQG --stylize 850 --iw 0.8
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Fine Tune Your MidJourney Styles
My last video about the Style Tuner was a quick intro, but now we dig deeper and really fine tune those looks. Here is a longer tutorial that goes more in depth, so you can be a pro in no time. Learn about the new Prompter and a few useful features, how to best use the Style Tuner for your work, and follow along with some random and funny prompts.
HERE is a link to the Style Tuner I used so you can play around, and below are style codes for the three example styles in the video. Feel free to copy and use in your own prompts while you watch!
(click the prompt to copy it!)
--style 1GRrA8D6rhfnB2c2nsN1E7euH (bright, washed out, vintage)
--style Hkrz0ovIoeA5q4U0cbR (dark, underexposed, creepy)
--style yVW0VP8Wuj (colorful, pop, surreal)
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How to TUNE your own STYLE
Hayyyy… A new MidJourney feature was just released that allows you to fine tune your own styles. Sure, it might seem complicated at first, but watch this little 5 minute tutorial of how I use TUNE and you’ll be a master in no time.
You can use TUNE for a single prompt idea, select more or less pairs to fine tune, or even combine the feature with –stylize to make the style stand out more. In this video I do what I enjoy, using “looks” but you can also be generic and enter “a city street” then select only 1 or 2 of the styles you like best, and run some prompts. Want to try more? Just unselect those and pick another 1 or two, and run more prompts with your new style code! – I’ll walk through the steps and even include prompts and images so we can inspect things as we go!
PS: Adding –stylize 1000 and changing the prompt to something completely different is REALLY fun to play with!
(click the prompt to copy it!)
/imagine prompt: a cat --style cXnsD1zCaIieSBrE
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Breaking MidJourney with 50MP
Any mad scientists here? For the past few days I have been running the same prompt over and over in an attempt to break MidJourney – and I finally succeeded… well… kinda. I created a 50 megapixel image (16,320 x 3,072px) and then MidJourney said, “Nah man, you done!” 🤣
The new pan feature is really amazing, but I was curious about its limits (and learned some things in the process). I came up with a prompt to give some cool psychedelic sci-fi output, then added “–ar 1:8” in order to make a really tall canvas. Then I simply kept panning to the right and changing colors in my prompt, nothing else. The cool thing about panning is that it keeps your resolution, but adds more with the new generation. If you zoom out or anything, it downsizes the image again, so you have to only use pan.
Anyway, after a bunch of pans the grid images stopped displaying. Maybe a size limit on Discord or something, but instead of an image I was given a URL link – that didn’t work either, lol. So to even see the images I would upscale all four, then they showed. Finally, after 3 days of prompting, I hit the wall. After reaching over 16 thousand pixels it fails every single time. I’m sure the devs are aware of a file or pixel limit on their site or Discord or something, but I got it. I also found that if I compare an image early in the process to late, the early one actually has more detail in shadows, whereas the later images are underexposed. This shouldn’t happen, but I’m thinking it is from saving an image over and over again, losing quality in the process. Interesting. So technically I could composite the old with the new and get a great image. Okay, I’ll shut up now. Back to my mad scientist AI experiments!
(click the prompt to copy it!)
/imagine prompt: blue color::1.5 photography of a fantastical city of crystal and holographic light, on the edge of a rocky cliff, led lights, foggy, volumetric lighting, bright beams of light, insanely detailed, gothic architecture, ultra-wide angle view --ar 1:8
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