-: Now what I want to talk about is
this really cool prompt book made by OpenArt.ai,
and I would highly suggest checking out this website
because the resources that they put together
for platforms like Midjourney
and Dall-E 2 are excellent.
So a lot of this stuff we've kind
of already gone over in this chapter,
but I wanna just kind of go through this prompt book
so that we can dive further into prompt engineering
and just overall creating great prompts.
So let's talk about ordering your words
'cause ordering your words can be just as important
as the words that you're using.
So in this example, we have a cat sitting on a Martian table
versus a cat that is sitting on a table on Mars
and a cat sitting on a table and the table is on Mars.
So three different outputs with slightly different wording,
but really the ordering of the word is gonna dictate the way
that the platform or that the AI tool lays out your artwork.
So if you're not getting the output that you like,
it possibly might mean that you need
to change the words you're using,
but it also might mean that it would be better
to remix the ordering a little bit to keep trying,
because it's not likely you're gonna get an output
that you are gonna use
as your final product right out of the gate.
There are some photos that Midjourney can do really well
because it has a lot of reference images
and what you're asking isn't too far off the beaten path.
If I ask it for, let's say slash imagine,
I want a portrait of an astronaut,
which it'll have tons of reference photos of,
because there's a lot of those available online.
On the moon.
It's gonna have an easy time putting together this type
of photo, boom.
So as you can see, these are all pretty dang good.
It did a good job of this, especially this top right one.
It has so many reference images
of the moon from past history that's been uploaded online
and it's got tons of reference images of astronauts.
Now, if I were to ask it something that,
let's say a scuba diver driving a car,
it's not gonna have
that many reference images of something like this.
It's gonna have a lot of reference images
that are gonna be colored blue with scuba divers underwater.
For example, if I were to Google search scuba diver,
you have to keep in mind these are
the images it's pulling online,
so it's gonna have a harder time
with the coloring, with the positioning of the scuba diver
and just really creatively combining it with this type
of image online to then transitioning it
to driving a car is gonna be more difficult than something
that it's used to seeing.
Okay, cool, so these actually look pretty great.
You can see it was struggling with a few parts
of these images.
It did mess up a few things so it didn't do as good
of a job, but it still
creatively combined these two elements.
So we would be able to kind of rework the wording in this
to get a more desired image.
And going back to the prompt book, you know,
there's so many just different directions you can take
this art creation in.
We can choose any style that we want.
So let's just go ahead and take Polaroid
and let's do our same scuba diver.
Scuba diver driving a car,
the style of a Polaroid.
And the style of a Polaroid
with let's say neon purple lighting.
So now we're giving it a much more specific direction
to go in.
So it's not gonna pop out these more general styles.
It's gonna be colored completely different,
and the feeling
of the image is gonna be completely different as well.
So there we have it, we have four different options.
It created a Polaroid like border on a few of these,
and it totally changed the color scheme
from this option to this option.
So I actually really like this top left one.
That's pretty cool feeling.
Let's see what else we can learn from the prompt book.
Going back to the mediums,
we can completely change the texture.
We can go graffiti style, watercolors,
oil painting, fabric, pencil, wood, clay.
And one of the really cool parts is telling it
to create in the style of artists.
So not only can we create something more anime style,
so let's go ahead and do an example
and let's keep it with this scuba diver.
I think we're getting some good results here.
Scuba diver driving a car
in the style of this and the style of this artist.
And let's also grab one more example
that's gonna be a completely different look and feel.
So Ansel Adams, very famous photographer.
Let's go ahead and grab the beginning of this prompt
in the style of Ansel Adams
and let's see what it comes up with.
Perfect, so we have our two different styles.
So we have our anime style here,
and then we have our Ansel Adam style.
So what I wanna do is let's go ahead
and see what the original art would look like
from this artist to see how good of a job Midjourney did.
So we can see very airy,
very kind of fantasy feeling.
And this is art that it created.
Same color palette, same tonality, same feeling.
And if we go to Ansel Adams, the more black
and white photographer, let's type in on Google,
you can see really good job of getting that look and feel.
So that's why I was mentioning that it's only as good
as the data set that it's pulled from online,
and it does a really good job of blending different styles
and different prompts together.
So you could even blend these two styles together.
So let's go ahead and try that.
Okay, I am gonna create my new prompt scuba diver
in the style of Ansel Adams blended
with our other artist.
And the cool part is this would take a human many,
many hours or possibly days to create,
to go through researching the artists,
looking at the nuances that makes their art unique
or specific, or just brainstorming
and thinking of, okay, how am I gonna combine
a scuba diver in a car?
And just that whole process
and the amount of energy it would take
to go through that process.
That is one of the biggest keys of Midjourney is
that it's going to remove that time and allow for you
to be reiterating what's already been created
versus the excess time creating it from scratch.
So here we go.
We started with our more colorful anime style.
We had our black and white portrait photography style,
and now we have kind of a good balance.
I honestly think in between that it has some colors,
but it's a monochrome feel that did a good job
of mixing the blue tones of our first artist
with that anime style and the black
and white feeling of our second artist.
So really, the possibilities are completely limitless.
Now, in the next lecture we're gonna go further
into our prompt book and see what else we can learn.