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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
Prompter Update → Prompter now has V5 and a new tool called Batcher!
Notes Updated For V5 → Added all the new charts for compatibility with the new V5.
Video Released → New video tutorial about Batcher and how it works.
Imagine Shirts → Just launched a shop page with some sweeeeeeeeet shirts.
Video Released → Made a video tutorial about Prompter and how I use it.
Links → Started a URL links page to all kinds of AI tools and resources.
About Me → Added a new page with some background info about me and my work.
New Video: Batcher
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 (/fast, /relax), Prompting, Privacy (/public, private) - Discord Interface → How to navigate the main interface, settings, and creating.
└ Initial Options (re-rolls, variations, and upscales)
└ Upscaling Choices (options and quality)
└ External Upscaling (download and upscale using other software) - Special Features
└ Remix (edit prompts or switch models)
└ Remaster (convert V1/2/3 into Test Creative)
└ 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
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, 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
Fonts In MidJourney
Months ago I came up with a method to spell words in MidJourney using image prompt, but it takes a lot of time because you need to design a letter in Photoshop, save it, upload it, and prompt it - for every single letter! I had an idea to automatically batch an alphabet of prompts, and after some testing - it works!
The next version of Prompter will include a new FONTS batching feature. All you have to do is type a style (or pick some from prompter’s many menus), pick a bright or dark background and BAM, prompts for every single letter are ready to copy and paste - each with individual URLs and text automatically added.
I don’t know a release date yet, still have a lot of coding to do, but it’ll be free and a lot of fun! Here are letters in the style of neon lights, sketches, colorful fur, and the man himself - Mr Bob Dylan.
(click the prompt to copy it!)
/imagine prompt: IMAGEURL the letter F photograph of Bob Dylan holding a sign with a letter on it --v 5
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Don’t Use GTP
A little warning on this post. Usually I am a nice and helpful guy, but time to time I need to go on an angry rant, lol… GPT is an amazing AI technology, and incredibly helpful for everything from communication to coding, but it is NOT for MidJourney. When I posted about using GPT with MidJourney, it was an attempt to “train” it on syntax, parameters and such, and I envisioned a speech-to-prompt tool, but by no means am I saying we should use it for the main prompt.
There is this new trend of people using GPT to write MidJourney prompts, and it makes me laugh. I just can’t take the idea of people using a long book-like paragraph from GPT as a prompt. Did the image come out cool? Of course it did. You can bash your head into your keyboard and the images will look interesting. Anyway, I decided to use GPT as well, with some dark humor and sarcasm…
(click the prompt to copy it!)
/imagine prompt: Wibbledy wobbedy floo, a bumbleflap zapperdoodle swooped through the air, leaving trails of shroomfizzles and whizzing sneezles. A grand gooblesnort, with its wobbly chumblywump, danced atop a flibberdijibbet, spinning dinglebops and tingly spangleblams. In the midst of all the blopitty blurps, a whooshing sound swept through the confuddled jibberjabber, as the clitterclatter of zibberzabber filled the air with a wafting scent of zumblequacks and frizzlefrazzle. The skriddlydoo wobbled and wiggled, its magnobberous tendrils tickling the wigglywaggly fribbledyflop. Abruptly, a fandangled zorklewooper erupted, spraying giddybits and spronklewinks in a dazzling display of jumblejazzle. And there, in the midst of the kerfluffledy goo, a shimmering flibberdegibbet whispered, "Shplonk!" --ar 16:9 --q 5 --v 5
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Willow Dog Runs
I have a little corgi puppy that I adore, but she is a bit crazy. We like taking her for hikes in the woods, but she seems to think the point of hiking is to run at full speed, like it’s a race, gotta win! It makes me laugh, and so I wanted to make a flicker animation of her running day and night.
I first used an image prompt of her face with a description, re-rolled a few times, and found one I felt really looked like her. I then used that MidJourney image in another prompt to get the woods scene I wanted. After finding the image that had a good look to it - corgi, motion blur, paws, trees - I re-rolled over and over, upscaled the images, then created an animation (blending some frames together to ease the flicker feel). The rest was some simple color grading that fades from bright sunlight, to orange glow, some purples, then night… To all of you it’s just a cute running dog, but I laugh because this is 100% my Willow Dog.
(click the prompt to copy it!)
/imagine prompt: https://s.mj.run/sHP5JxWpo9k cinematic fisheye action shot blurry legs young happy furry tricolor cogri running in the forest bokeh --ar 16:9 --v 4 --style 4c --v 4
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Tutorial: Batcher, For Batching
So I just made a new tool in Prompter called… Batcher… and It does exactly what you’d think, you know, it batches, duh. If a prompt builder is designed to create one prompt, why not have one to create TONS of prompts to pick from?! Typing sucks.
Check a box next to medium, or color, or camera. Batch a huge list, or pick and choose by hand selecting terms you like. It’s easy, and since it’s built off of Prompter, you have a big database of terms to test out, and can even add weights, stylize, chaos, or aspect ratios.
With Batcher you can turn something like a “decrepit mansion” into a plethora of styles: brutalism, low poly, psychedelic, horror, stone age, world war, fractal, kaleidoscope, ice and rain - see what works, and upscale the best!
(click the prompt to copy it!)
/imagine prompt: diorama decrepit mansion silhouette:: ice::1.2 --seed 420 --stylize 700 --chaos 10 --ar 1:1 --v 4 --style 4c
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ChatGPT Personality Portraits
I had an idea the other day. If ChatGPT is an AI that is like a person who always does as they are told - what if I told them to be multiple people instead. I began by creating some personalities, such as CHEERFUL MAN who is always upbeat and happy, or DEPRESSED MAN who has a cynical outlook on everything. I then added more, like STONED MAN who is high all the time, or POETRY MAN who is a romantic who loves to rhyme (among others too). It started out fun, getting all kinds of answers and opinions rather than just one from GPT, but then I went deeper.
I started to have them talk to eachother about topics. They began to develop life stories, some with creative upbringings or even abusive parents. I incerted myself into the chats and STONED MAN got upset because he works in a grocery store while I get to work from home… It’s incredibly fascinating, actually.
Anyway, I then “taught” GPT what MidJourney is and how the syntax works, parameters and such. I thought, what do these people look like? So I asked them all to write prompts describing themselves and their setting. Their prompts were awful. Like, bro, that’s not how you write a prompt (but we all know GPT ain’t made for that thing). Still though, it was incredibly fun, and actually interesting to not only see their personalities develop but then an image of them. Below is the prompt from POETRY MAN as an example.
(click the prompt to copy it!)
/imagine prompt: A serene and picturesque park, with a tranquil pond and lush green trees. You see a man with a contemplative expression, wearing a tweed jacket and corduroy pants. His hair is gray and his face is lined with wisdom. He is holding a leather-bound notebook and a fountain pen in his hand. The beauty of his surroundings inspires him to create poetry that captures the essence of life. --v 4 --ar 9:16
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