-: Now what I want to talk
about is something I've been excited
to get to for a while,
which is reiteration and upgrading your output.
So in the past lessons,
we've been really going into prompt specifics deeply
before even getting into really creating your own art,
'cause I really wanted to build a solid foundation of how
to create the best prompts that you can.
And now we made it to the phase
where we can talk about remixing and reiteration.
So I have my personal Discord server,
and what I'm doing is just, I'm scrolling through it
so you can see how many different reiterations I go
through on some of these pieces.
Sometimes Midjourney will do an excellent job
of knowing exactly what you want.
In this case, "neon light art installation
over award-winning landscape photo by Reuben Wu,"
who's got really sick drone photography
that's hyper realistic, photo realistic, sun lighting,
highly detailed, and a few of these ending parameters
that we're not gonna get into yet
because it's gonna be in a later lesson.
But this is a little bit of a difficult prompt
for what I was trying to get Midjourney to do,
which is similar to this style.
I wanted to get a landscape,
which actually let me just show you quickly the inspiration
and the style that I was going for
after seeing this person's art,
which he does really badass landscape photography
and flies a drone
and does a technique called long exposure to get a drone
to draw a shape in the sky.
So I saw it and I said, "Huh, that is super cool.
I wanna see if I can create that on Midjourney.
And you can see I'm going through different reiterations
of using words in different orders
and swapping out different things
and getting to upscaling and creating variations
and remixing, which is a huge part
of using Midjourney within Discord.
So now you know I have a specific goal in mind to create art
that looks similar to this.
I've been going through and using different words to try
to really nail down and land the look I'm going for.
Now, let's go ahead
and hop into the server that we created for the course.
And let's start with a brand new prompt.
So I'm gonna type in imagine,
and let's go with, "award-winning portrait
of a model wearing a futuristic LED visor,"
and I'm gonna be specific,
"that just covers her eyes."
I'm gonna type in daylight
'cause I want it to be outdoors
and lit by the sun.
I'm gonna type in "in a desert"
'cause I feel like that'll be a cool background.
I'm gonna type in photorealistic
because I want the image to resemble an actual photographed.
And let's see what we get, perfect.
So here are our first four options.
Now I like one and four.
And by the way,
the way Midjourney numbers these is left to right.
So top left would be number one.
Top right would be number two.
Bottom left would be number three,
and bottom right would be number four.
And that correlates to these buttons
that we have on Discord.
Clicking U1, for example, is going to upscale
or up-res the top left image.
Now clicking V1 is going to create a new variation
of that same image.
It's not going to start a brand new set,
but it's going to take the elements of this image
and do a slight remix, which you would use if you liked it
but you are wanting to change something in the image.
So let's say I like the first one and the fourth one.
Let's do an upscale version of one
and let's do a variation of one.
And then let's do that same thing for number four.
So I want a higher resolution version,
which you would choose that if you didn't want any changes.
If you liked it as is
and you just wanted it to be higher definition,
you would upscale it.
If you wanted to use it,
but there was something wrong with it,
then you would do a variation or version two of it.
Now, while that's working in the background,
if I didn't like any of the images
that were generated by Midjourney,
I would do the regenerate button.
So let's go ahead and do that as well
just for this example
to see what happens.
And while that's regenerating all the images
in the background,
we can go through and we can see what we did.
So it's gonna rewrite our prompt
and it's gonna say what we did to it.
So we did variations for this specific one.
And for this one as well, we did variations, AKA,
creating a new set of four photos using
what previously was in the initial photo we started with.
And if we scroll down, this is the version that we upscaled.
So let's start with the variations first.
Here's our base photo on the top left.
And if we go to the variations,
we can see there's slight changes.
There's slight changes in the face paint here.
There are slight changes in the helmet design here.
You can see each version has a slightly different look,
but we keep the framing, the background, the lighting,
all the main criteria is the same.
We are just remixing smaller parts of the image.
And you do this purposefully to fine tune getting
to the final output that you want.
Now the other option that we did was the upscale.
And what that did was it took the image that we liked
and it made it a much higher resolution version
rather than the beginning preview that we get
for Midjourney's initial output.
So you never want to use the initial output as your final
because that's gonna be a much lower resolution version.
And you can see on our base image we have the bottom right
that we created four new variations
of, slight change on the skin, slight change on the visor,
the lighting changed a little bit,
the reflection in her visor changed as well,
but mainly everything else stayed the same.
And then the upscaled version that we did is much cleaner.
It'll take away some imperfections
and just overall improve the image when you upscale it.
Now the last example is this regeneration,
which I actually really like that we clicked,
which was this little blue remixing wheel.
This is telling Midjourney, "I don't really like any
of those base outputs that you did.
It's not worth me up-resing,
and it's not worth me creating a new variation of,
I want you to give me four entirely new base images."
If I liked one of these, I can go through that same process
of either up-resing, creating a new variation,
or regenerating an entirely new set of images.
So now that you have an overview of how
to get your base image into a variation
in a high resolution,
in the next lesson we're gonna go
into the next process of using these upscalers
to generate your final output.