Making the Photo: AI Edition
Midjourney version 5 is out for alpha testing (March 15, 2023) and I’ve got good news and bad news. There’s some great news if you’re a creator who likes realism. You’re going to be squealing like a happy pig! But there’s some bad news if you like MJ’s default style.
The style is gone – or maybe just hidden away in a cupboard while MJ team plays with a shiny new AI camera.
Let’s take a look at how v5 is different from previous versions and how you might need to change your prompts to get the best results.
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0:00 Start
0:29 How to turn on v5
1:00 Default v5 style: Realism
1:24 Amazing hands!
2:49 Details in v5
3:55 How to prompt style in v5
5:31 Prompting tips for v5
6:53 Banned words in v5
7:39 Clean up prompts for v5
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So you can't just pick v4 from the settings menu and go on as you were?
Its easy .. you want realistic photos = v5
Imagination photos =v4 ..
And i think when u use the parameters they talked about will change the image style .. and its beta version so its not the final release.. thank you
You've done such a great breakdown and comparison between version 4 and 5! I resonated a lot with the "party trick" idea you mentioned, v4 was more geared towards adding amazing elements to make the image pop. With version 5, we need to basically be more literal with what we want and while it does make it harder for us non-artists, it also gives us the freedom to be more specific with what we want. One thing that did help me though, is using the –stylize 300-1000 to the end of v5 prompts. I got much more detail and flair, it was very impressive! Thanks again
Fantastic video and tips!
The decision to make V5 less opinionated is right on point. It will encourage people to think more artistically and expand their knowledge of styles, composition etc. The spoon fed option is always there for use in V4 for beginners who aren’t necessarily interested in developing their own artistic integrity and just want a quick computer iterated pic so they can share on Insta and claim as “all their own work.”
I like the idea of a realistic image as the starting point. For me, it makes things more predictable. Then I can modify with additional prompts/commands as needed.
happy pig
AI camera
can v5 replace prof photographer?
yes because midourney was using working of other millions of artists out there.
Funny to hear all the people who suddenly found a "digital artist" in themself whine how troublesome and boring it is to actually spend TWO MINUTES to word your prompt properly, instead of just tossing around sounds and buzzwords, generating clichés in teal and orange on a never-ending dopamine ride. How disappointed they are that "art" isnt about just pressing the button and owning the result anymore.
Time traveling penguins.. 🤔… that explains a lot of this world. Lol
Surprisingly both 4&5 still can't create natural looking red eyes. I had fun inputting names and changing versions as well as detail setting to see what would come up.
We thought that one think that can never be replicated is the human touch. Turns out it was one of the easy ones.
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You are not allowed to use the relaxed flag 👎
I prefer this, it is a lot more like SD, you have to KNOW what you want and be more specific–yes that is more challenging for beginners, but it also takes off the midjourney training wheels so to speak.
Artists prefer this way… Now it's up to you to craft the perfect prompt. I love it personally.
Hey hey, im new to this, I hope someone can help me. You all just use less words and get stunning results. When I do it, it does not work well. I used the same prompts as a friend, but my picture looked like drawn by a child, also the perspectives were weird?
The prompts were: unique flower field, colorful, sun.
Question: Is it nececcary to use all the codes like '– quality' or whatever, or are they already 'right' in the default mode?
She said Midjourney V5 is more detailed and less realistic…I thought it was more realistic because everything looks photo-realistic now with this latest version. 🤔🙃🤷🏽♀
Always love your video's, Jenn! Great tips and to the point. Very helpful, keep 'em coming!
Somehow I have SO many more difficulties getting v4 to do what I want than v5. And recently, i discovered v3, and somehow it's the best thing that ever happened to me. My entire life is upside down
Awesome, great summary! This stuff is way too fun.
So cool…very nice video….
How to stop a previous prompt from appearing at the end of a new prompt? Help, please!
it is very different indeed, but as a photographer i can't complain, thanks for the video it was fun watching 🤓
Hi, a newbie here thankyou for all your insights. I found 'no' in certain area refuses the prompt . A recalibration of wording is necessary in each are. Using V 5 and the added indigineous dot art is crazy with animals as hand feet are all over the place.Omg as I was just getting used to version 4 and niji for illustrations. Faces with indigeneous V5 does not give me the variation of faces in Australian Aboriginal only few and looks like american actors black, lol. Also worst is the Copyright Criss Cross Stock Photo is all my aboriginal animals style art with signage and words . It is like all the signaures came together…
As an artist I feel merging a photo will most likely work better which I will try later. Thank you for reading.
I thought v5 was terrible for print on demand at first but now the stickers and tshirt designs end up coming up way better in most cases, in some i'll use v4 instead but in most if you craft the prompt right they come out way cleaner and closer to what you're looking for.
It needs to take into consideration the context in which these banned words written in. It's extremely annoying!!
Thanks so much, This video was quite helpful. I especially appreciated seeing MJ going wrong so many times, which is my usual experience. I recently used Blue Willow that's completely free and super cool
As someone who doesn't use Midjourney, but is into it and uses other AIs, all I can say is that most "artists" or people who use Midjourney don't even want to make the slightest effort to generate proper prompts. On the one hand very amusing to observe how exactly these people are now upset about having to get creative, on the other hand it's quite sad.
You think prompting creativly is hard ? try make the are itself yourself …
V5 seems slower because it's upscaling all images in the background before they show the thumbnails. AI technologies like Blue Willow will become more and more popular over time. Blue Willow recently launched V2 with a brand new model upgrade. Now I got more better-quality images with more aesthetic outputs
I don't even know what a prompt is?
Can I continue to use V4 in the future?
idk what i want
Never used v4, just started using Midjourney 2 days ago. Thank you for making this video, I’ve noticed the option to use previous versions in settings…you’ve inspired me to try out 4🙂
Booty cache. 🤣I'm going to have to start using that.
Another fantastically helpful and perfectly explained description of the differences. You are not a Goddess in the mind blowing world of AI art and evolution, you areThe Goddess. Hope you get 100k subs soon.👏🌟👍
Thanks a lot! Many more useful tips than your competitors. The tip for not having to type stuf like "insane detail" etc. saves me a lot of time Thumbs up!
Not being able to use words to correctly identify medical terms of the human body like breast I might be able to overlook, but "Chest" is taking it too way far as what are we now a "Puritanical Church with Beavis and Butthead" leading the choir!? "She said "Chest"! Heh, heh….." how sophomoric. Fine, I'll use words like upper Pectoralis Major and Minor Muscles just above the sternum and breast bone – oops (can't say "breast" bone). Midjourney needs to decide to either be an artistic masterpiece tool, or just another plugin for Photoshop Photos in LightRoom. Blue Willow and even Adobe are coming up fast and Blue Willow is 100% free where I'm paying $60 a month for the use of MJ. I hope they come off their high horse about words as there are millions of sites to see those other types of images.
Is there a collection of the banned words somewhere?
Sadly Not really helpful . I thought you will explain POWERFUL prompts 🙁
I love it when a new ai model releases and it makes the other one look like a toy.
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All this prompt re-learning costs time and of course money.. do they do it on purpose ? why the fuzz >?..anyway thanks for your informative video.
Can't we simply keep using v4 by adding the prompt –v 4?
Very informative. Thank you.
I do very much prefer Midjourney v5 default photo settings, over the digital art style of v4. 😊
Can we still use version 4?
I used the word chest yesterday and I had no problem, today I see your video and it's about march actualization, maybe it was unbanned?