Now it's time for us to get into some of the more advanced prompt parameters.
And this is what you may have seen at the end of people's written prompts where there's minus, minus
and it'll say something like, ah, 16 by nine, or to say minus minus p.
This is the part of the course where we're going to get into using all of those and what those mean
for your prompts.
So let's go ahead and start with a brand new prompt.
What I want to do is try something we haven't done yet.
Let's do a owl.
Let's do a portrait of an owl with ornate jewelry around the eyes and ears.
Comma, cinematic lighting.
Actually, you know, let's do something different.
Let's do studio lighting for this example.
That's going to give us a much more realistic look, as if it was shot in an actual studio with a three
point lighting setup.
So let's go three point studio lighting.
And at the end of this prompt, actually, I'm going to add one more thing photorealistic.
And at the end of the prompt I'm going to manipulate or change the aspect ratio.
So what Midjourney is going to do by standard is this going to put out a one by one aspect ratio, which
just simply means it's a square photo.
Now there's different diameters that you can now make.
Midjourney export at nine by 16 is the standard vertical size of a vertical phone, like an Instagram
Story or a TikTok.
16 by nine is the standard for a television or a computer screen.
Three by two is a standard for a photo taken from a camera, and four by five is pretty much the portrait
mode of an Instagram post.
So let's go ahead and let's do a nine by 16 export.
So what I'm going to do is paste in minus minus r.
And R stands for aspect ratio.
And whatever number you put behind minus minus R, that's going to be the final dimensions of your post.
So while that's rendering, I'm going to copy what we did and I'm going to do a second version with
a totally different aspect ratio.
So I'm going to do instead of nine by 16 let's do 16 by nine.
And we're going to let this render out.
And here we have it.
We have four different options of the nine by 16 aspect ratio.
This would be perfect for an iPhone wallpaper or a story post, or just sharing anything that you wanted
in the vertical aspect ratio that's going to fit better on a mobile device.
Now, the 16 by nine, on the other hand, and these look really cool, by the way, this is going to
be better for a screensaver or a wallpaper for a computer or anything really the shape or size of a
TV screen.
So you can really manipulate, you know, the dimensions.
But the other thing I want to keep in mind are that I wanted to convey is that it's also going to slightly
change the framing.
I didn't give it any specificity, any specificity on how to frame these, but Midjourney is going to
always do its best to fill the image with the content that's there, so you can see that it's showing
a vertical more.
How do I say this?
You're seeing the face and the body of the owl in the vertical aspect ratio.
And then for these you're just seeing an upper half or an upper quarter much more close up of the owl.
So to further convey how that's going to affect your image, let's just say spaceship flying through
space.
And I'm going to purposely keep this a little bit more, uh, broad spaceship flying through space,
um, with planets in the background.
So I'm going to copy this and I'm going to do our nine by 16 aspect ratio.
Send that out.
And we're going to do this again.
But instead we're going to do the horizontal aspect ratio.
And you're going to see the content that it fills the frame with is going to change.
So while this is loading you always want to keep these parameters at the end.
Because if you put more prompt behind it, it's actually going to give you a error message and it's
not going to be able to create your prompt.
And so I'm glad that we did this second example, because this is the type of prompt and the type of
image that's going to be well suited seen in a horizontal aspect ratio.
We want to see a wide array of images because this could be classified as a landscape type of photo.
We're not looking for a close up portrait of something that fits better in a vertical format.
If we look at the vertical format, these look nice and fine, but everything feels a little bit compressed
compositionally in the image.
So we're not going to get as much of a professional final output.
You can see these, it just doesn't feel as right.
The planets are like right behind the spaceship, and compositionally it's just not as good of an image.
So that's something to really keep in mind that your aspect ratio is actually a really important parameter
to play with.
So if I'm trying to create a portrait of an animal or a person, I'm going to want to use the more vertical
aspect ratios.
And if I'm wanting to create a nice looking landscape that feels well weighted and well balanced and
not too cluttered and visually would be more aesthetically pleasing with a wide angle view, I'm going
to use the more horizontal aspect ratio.
So this parameter is really important when trying to really dial in that really perfect looking photo.