-: In this lesson,
because prompts are so important to Midjourney,
I wanna spend more time going over the Community Showcase
to learn what inputs create great looking outputs,
and how we can use this to create our artwork
that we are looking to create.
So if we go to midjourney.com
and navigate to the Community Showcase,
or really it's called the Community Feed,
we can see what's new,
or what's popular right now technically, what's new,
and the all time top rated photos.
So let's take a look at this one.
This is a very realistic, very simple photo
that has been the most saved
and most liked photo on Midjourney.
And here is our prompt.
Beautiful kingfisher catching a fish, cinematic lighting.
It's not even really necessarily doing exactly
what the prompt was, which is what I mentioned.
Midjourney has its own randomness
and its own thought process to a certain degree
of creating art that's different than the human brain.
So it's rarely gonna output exactly what you're wanting.
Not to say that that output's not gonna be bad.
It's probably gonna look great, but it's gonna be different
than you initially thought, I guarantee.
So having an open mind that you are coming to it
with an idea and you're brainstorming
and it's going to show you something
that you weren't even imagining or thinking of specifically,
that's gonna make your interaction
with Midjourney a lot better.
This is another one that's pretty cool.
So bedroom melting into the ocean.
You could visualize that in so many different ways.
What Midjourney is doing
is it's taking the huge amount of photos it has of bedrooms,
of beds, of walls, of paintings, of rooms,
and it's taking a huge amount of photos it has of the ocean,
and it's combining those two together
in an intelligent way as much as it can.
And that's how it comes up with its photos.
So if we go to, let's say, this other example,
we have the prompt, a kneeling cat knight, portrait style,
finely detailed armor, intricate design,
silver silk, cinematic lighting, and 4K resolution.
So this is exactly what we're talking about.
We have the subject, is the cat.
The composition is a portrait.
The other details are he's wearing finely, he or she,
is wearing finely detailed armor with intricate design,
and the lighting style is cinematic.
Now, this person could have added a mood,
they could have added an environment,
and they could have added a photographer or artist
to emulate that would've changed the style of the output.
We can also see with any of these images
the exact prompt that the creator used.
So if we go to these three dots,
we go to Copy, and we click Prompt, and we paste that,
that gives us this prompt here.
But the important part, which I wanna show you now
and we're gonna learn more about in later lessons,
are copying the full command, which I just did like this,
because that's gonna give us, also, not just the prompt,
but the parameters that you add to the end of the prompt.
So we'll just take a peek at this real quick.
We have our basic parameters
where we can change the aspect ratio,
the quality, and the seed.
This is the random number that's generated
that allows for Midjourney to create a uniqueness
with every single photo.
And we can copy those seeds,
once we find a specific look and feel that we like,
and paste it onto future art.
And just as a little tip,
one of my favorite parameters to use is the testp parameter.
I pretty much always add that to the end of my prompts
because this tells Midjourney that I want it
to look photorealistic rather than abstract,
which is what Midjourney
will generally default to when creating images.
Now, another thing I wanted to mention
about looking at other people's art
is you can see the parent image,
AKA, what was the original that it came from?
So we can see this is the first output that Midjourney gave.
Then the artist chose this top left style,
which we'll talk about how to do that,
and that's what gave him this final output.
So that's kind of an interesting thing to look at
because you can see the process it took
to get to their image.
So a few other things I'll mention about the feed.
You can also personalize your feed by favoring
and following other creators.
Then it'll give you a much more specific style of art
that's related to you.
You can go to the Bookmark section
to see what art you've bookmarked.
And that kind of wraps it up
for learning from other people's art on here.
What I would recommend doing is spending 20 minutes
just going on here, looking for styles, aesthetics,
and outputs that you like,
clicking on 'em, and looking at the prompt.
This is gonna give you more inspiration
and more stuff to work with
as we progress through the course.
So that wraps it up for this Community Showcase section.
One last thing I did want to add is that a cool factor
about Midjourney is that you can use emojis to create art.
So this output came
from this very simple level of input of an astronaut
and the dancing red dress emoji
and just digital photography.
That's what created this.
So again, Midjourney is not gonna create
exactly what you put into it.
It's gonna use its massive amount of images that it has
to create something in the direction
of what you're putting in the input.