-: Using a tool like Midjourney
is really a brand new wave of interacting
and creativity itself with a medium.
Generally, with any other kinda medium,
let's say photography, you're holding a camera
and you're making all of the creative choices
with the settings, the framing, the composition,
how the lighting is.
With something like Midjourney,
you're using a prompt to push the model
in a specific direction.
And most of the time,
you're gonna have an image in your mind
that you're trying to use words to have Midjourney output
that image, and most of the time,
it's not gonna output the exact image you're wanting.
Because you're exporting some of your creativity
in this creation process
to a third party, and then that third party,
Midjourney in this case,
is then outputting that final image.
So let's dive deeper into settings
to see what's really going on underneath the hood
with these different parameters.
And what we're gonna focus on now is RAW Mode
and our level of stylization.
I just wanna mention this bottom row of buttons.
Now, these are all gonna affect the speed
at which Midjourney is creating your image.
Now, Relax mode is gonna be the slowest.
Fast mode's gonna be faster.
Turbo mode is gonna be clearly the fastest mode.
Now, the faster modes are gonna use more GPU time.
So that's just something to keep in mind
for your subscription.
The different plans have different amount of Fast GPU Time
and Relax GPU Time.
So it is something to consider
when changing your speed settings.
But with that said, let's now hop back into RAW Mode
and our stylization levels.
So what I wanna do is set it to RAW Mode,
which is essentially going to completely turn off
all of Midjourney's own creative interpretation
and stylization that it adds on top of your image
and your prompt.
What turning on RAW Mode is gonna do is remove
all of Midjourney's additional creative choices
and freedoms that it takes when it's creating your image.
So it's gonna be a lot more of a plain
when it comes to details.
Now, stylization is similar.
This influences the amount of creativity
that Midjourney is adding to your prompt.
For example, low is gonna be the lowest amount
of creativity and additions.
Very high is gonna be clearly the highest.
So let's now see what this effect has.
So I'm gonna type in the /imagine,
and I'm just gonna keep it really simple.
I'm gonna use the word sphere.
We're not gonna do any bells and whistles.
We're gonna keep it ultra simplified.
Now, while that's rendering in the background,
we can see our style is RAW
and our stylization is set to 50,
which is the lowest setting.
What I'm gonna do now is undo RAW Mode
and put the stylization to high,
and we're gonna do the same exact prompt.
What this does is it shows how Midjourney
is really creating things underneath the hood
and really how important the settings are
when you're creating your different prompts.
So let's first look at our RAW style.
You can see, not a whole lot of creative interpretation.
Very monochromatic.
Still descent looking raw images,
but this would be just, let's say,
a version one of an edit if you were a graphic designer
or a photographer building this from scratch.
This doesn't have any post-production processing
or really any creative liberties taken
in the creation process.
Which, if this is what you're looking for,
can be really great settings.
Now, let's take the same exact prompt,
just the word sphere, but with the stylization set to high.
And we can see, we have a whole different world.
This has got a desert in the background,
some interesting things going on on the inside
of the sphere.
This one's got a whole castle on the inside,
very "Lord of the Rings."
And we have four different creative interpretations,
almost as if we had four different artists
that were hired to just create whatever they wanted
from our base prompt, just the word sphere.
Now, you can use these different settings
for all kinds of prompts,
whether you're creating something for a personal project
or a professional project,
whether you wanna go in that fantasy direction,
or you want something a lot more realistic.
You're gonna wanna dial these up and down accordingly.
If you want something more real-life,
you should probably set the stylization to low.
If you want Midjourney to not make decisions for you,
for example, we didn't tell it to add a castle,
we didn't tell it to add clouds, the desert,
a water reflection with a person standing next to it.
It took those creative liberties
because its creativity was turned all the way up.
So if I wanna have complete creative control,
I'm gonna have a very long, detailed prompt
with the creativity set to low,
and I'm gonna type in exactly what I want.
Give me a silver sphere floating in space
with stars in the distance
and the sun shining through in the background.
With the creativity set to low
but with my exact prompt being given,
that's when Midjourney is gonna do more
of what we want versus taking its own creative liberties.
Now let's move
to the variation of creativity between reiterations.
Now, this is done by the High Variation Mode
and the Low Variation Mode.
I'm gonna set it to low,
and let's go ahead and choose one of these images.
We've been talking about the castle a lot,
so let's go ahead and choose our castle image.
And I'm gonna make a new set of four variations
to that image by hitting V4.
And while that's rendering in the background,
I'm gonna go back up to our settings,
and now I'm gonna change the High Variation Mode
and turn that on.
We're gonna do the same exact thing.
We're gonna create a new set of variations for V4.
So now, let's take a look at our different variations.
We have our Variations, Subtle,
and our Variations, Strong.
So the subtle, we see little changes,
basically the same shape of the castle,
very similar backgrounds.
This is great for if we just don't wanna completely remix
our image all the way.
We just wanna make tiny adjustments.
Now with the Variations, Strong, again,
Midjourney is taking more creative liberties.
So really, the main takeaway from this lesson is that,
depending on your desired output
and how much creativity you wanna give to Midjourney
and how detailed you wanna be with your prompts,
you should be adjusting your stylization
and variation accordingly to get your desired image.
And if you want to keep things more raw, more realistic,
then you can turn that creativity down,
and you can be a lot more specific inside of your prompts.