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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
Describe Command Added → Updated the Visual Notebook with /describe and thoughts.
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.
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 - 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, 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
Art Photography to AI
I am a media editor. For money, sure, but I mean as a person. It is one of my many passions. I have edited probably 2,000 plus videos (commercial, social, interview), a shameful amount of photographs (nature, art, real estate) - and somehow it has never lost its appeal. I always seek things that I find to feel magical: Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, OneWheel! I think there is magic in editing, like, I can turn something into something else. My hand is in it… I love to shoot - but most of the joy I get is in front of my PC working up the final piece.
Okay, romanticized chatter aside, I wanted to test MidJourney V5 by describing a photograph I made. I have done this with all the old versions and many did (what I thought was) quite well, but I picked a weird edited art image from my recent work (on the left) this time to toss the AI a strange curveball. I will say, I was incredibly shocked at how well it handled the prompt, but also the many other beautiful variations that I am not showing here. I picked this one (on the right) because it was similar to my vision, but also a new thing.
By the way, this post is not some comparison of AI to photography, or about skill or anything like that - just a fun example of seeing how two different creative mediums can… create.
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/imagine prompt: photograph of a line of solid black rectangle columns coming out of the ocean at sunset and stretching into the distance dark blue water orange sun magenta light vibrant colors --ar 3:2 --v 5
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Cable Management
This is Edgar. Edgar hates cable management… I will (happily) admit that I am the opposite of Edgar. I am lazy at some things, for sure, but a neat freak about others. I might or might not have a folder on my desktop called “SORT” with months of screenshots I know I will never sort. When it comes to the neatness of my workstation, however, for the amount of stuff I have hooked up to my computer, it’s all very well hidden and compact. It’s a sit-stand desk too, so I worked that slack out.
Anyway, I made this image and portrait with MidJourney AI thinking about someone who was the opposite of me. Don’t be like Edgar.
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/imagine prompt: photograph of cluttered hoarder decrepit warehouse, computers monitors printers speakers, wires extension cord knotted tangled::1.1 bearded long hair old man wrapped in wire cord::1.2 ultra-wide angle lens:: vivid color::1.3 --ar 2:1 --v 5
/imagine prompt: photograph of cluttered hoarder decrepit warehouse, computers monitors printers speakers, wires extension cord knotted tangled --ar 2:1 --v 5
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Bangin’ Prompts
Is this a joke? Obviously, yes.
Does it kind of make you think about things? I think so.
I’ve been pondering prompting a lot recently, and how sometimes it doesn’t matter if your prompt is short or way too long, has commas or parentheses, contains nonsense, or is even incredibly well thought out with detailed terminology - it almost doesn’t matter, because you WILL get some results that are interesting. AI is just really good at making an intriguing composition.
Folks who don’t like AI think you can bang your head on the keyboard and make “art” and do they have a point? Yea, kind of. You can (literally) smash a bunch of keys, spell things wrong, not actually know what a word you used actually means, and in the end you might get an image that is incredibly beautiful or surreal… but that’s not what we do, well, most of us.
Don’t get me wrong, I love silly gibberish prompting for fun, but the real work in AI is experimenting with structure, terms, and ideas to get something we envision, or explore things we can’t. I can bang my head on a keyboard, and I did, but control and exploration are what I am really after - and that does take a lot of time and skill. There’s no denying that.
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/imagine prompt: nby hjugt76 vcfd m ,jkn vc v --v 5
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Describe, Or Don’t
The developers just added a really fun (and useful) command: Describe! Where MidJourney is mainly a text-to-image AI, the new /describe command now let’s us turn image-to-text, in a prompt-like format. This can be fun for just playing around, but it can also be useful to find new terms for images you like but can’t seem to describe… but keep in mind, it’s not always to be trusted.
As a photographer, I have been quite outspoken against many camera terms (like aperture or ISO settings) because they never seem to do anything logical, so there is no use in typing them - however - I am getting a lot of camera types and settings back from the new /describe feature. So this is a good reminder to take what it says as inspiration, not as some master prompter.
Okay, so I just uploaded an image of R2D2 on the beach and used the /describe command, and this was the first prompt that came out. I really think it was onto something with the repetition of “pop-culture-infused” (sarcasm) so I decided to ad a ton more to make my prompt even more amazing. 🤣
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/imagine prompt: r2 d2 standing with a beach chair under an umbrella, in the style of historical reimagining, pop-culture-infused, pop-culture-infused, pop-culture-infused, pop-culture-infused, pop-culture-infused, pop-culture-infused, pop-culture-infused, pop-culture-infused, pop-culture-infused, pop-culture-infused[…]
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The Film
People think AI is simple and you just type stuff - sure, sometimes. I have been working on this prompt for 5 days trying to get what I wanted, and still didn’t quite get 100% there, but I decided to use what worked. This new piece is called “The Film” and is just a short about pain.
I’ve been listening to a lot of Nine Inch Nails lately, which isn’t my norm, but he’s some great tracks. The young gamer in me really loved the Quake soundtrack that Trent Reznor did. Music inspires, and so I had this idea to create an old film movie showing pain, suffering, saddness. The dark stuff.
I used the new V5 with a weird aspect ratio of 1:7 to get film strips that I was able to zoom into. I then upscaled the imagery with Visions Of Chaos, animated the frames in Adobe Premiere, and added some sound mixed from Riffusion AI and my own edits in Adobe Audition.)
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/imagine prompt: IMAGEURL film strip scan of a man crying screaming in the rain --ar 1:7 --stylize 1000 --chaos 0 --v 5
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