-: As we're building our way through the fundamentals,
getting more towards the complex.
In this lesson, we're going to 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 going to 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 going to 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 going to 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 going to 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 going to evoke an entirely different emotion.
So, we're also getting now a frontal view of our subject,
which is key.
So, that's going to 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 going to 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 a photorealistic version,
and then we started to give a time period
and in 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 going to 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 going to change the aspect ratio to be 4:5,
which is going to 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 going to be well suited for each other.
And these images are looking great,
but now I want to take a similar direction,
but let's 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 going to change the time of day at night
wearing the same exact thing
with the same framing.
And we're also going to 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
kind of does an okay job with 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,
that 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 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 16:9 aspect ratio."
So, this similar prompt,
but with these little key word changes
are going to 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 going to 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.