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33 Best Art Styles for Midjourney + Prompt Examples

Using the right art style in your Midjourney prompts will help you get better results.

Written by: Milan K

Published on: April 19, 2023

Generating amazing images in Midjourney has a lot to do with the words you use in your prompts. In most cases, people aren't able to generate the exact images they imagine because they don't specify the art style accurately enough in their prompts.

That's why today I want to focus on the different art styles that you can use in your Midjourney prompts to get better results.

What I'm going to share in this article won't all be art styles and movements, but also some cool keywords that you can use to generate great images. For example, the keyword "Pixar" isn't a specific art style but it will help generate an image in a certain way.

I will also provide you with some good prompt examples for some of the art styles I mention in this article.

Before I start talking about the different art styles you can use in Midjourney, I want to note that each image shared in this article was made using the latest iteration of the AI model at the time of writing this article. In other words, they were made with Midjourney v5.

15 Popular Midjourney Art Styles

I'm going to start by sharing some of the more popular styles people use in Midjourney. These are styles that I often come across in the public Discord server for this AI image generation tool.

Steampunk is a style that's often used in Midjourney. It represents a subgenre of science fiction that represents retro-futuristic technology. This art style showcases how people in the 19th century imagined the future. Let me show you an example.

/imagine steampunk steam-powered vehicle resembling a flying car

With the prompt above, I was able to generate the following images.

Psychedelic art represents a style that doesn't need much introduction. It works great if you want to generate mind-bending and abstract images. Here is a prompt that I used to generate images in this style.

/imagine psychedelic art showing an eye staring into the window to a person's soul, repetitive patterns, trippy, weird, abstract, ethereal, otherworldly --ar 16:9

Glitch art is a style that will almost always provide you with incredible results in Midjourney. This is a style that incorporates errors or glitches for aesthetic purposes. It is meant to appear as if the image has been corrupted in some way. Here's an example.

/imagine glitch art portrait of a young woman that is half human and half machine in a dystopian world

That fourth image looks like it could be a movie poster. Glitch art made in Midjourney never ceases to amaze me!

Watercolor art represents one of the oldest styles in the world. It has been used since the Paleolithic times. If you want to create something in Midjourney that looks like a painting instead of a digital image, you should try using the watercolor art keywords. Here is an example.

/imagine watercolor art painting showing the great pyramid opening up to release an ancient spacecraft that was hidden underneath it for millenia

This is certainly an abstract image, and I like the way it turned out even though it's not how I initially imagined it.

Minimalism is another popular Midjourney art style. I think that this style doesn't need an introduction, so I won't give you a prompt example of it. You can simply include keywords such as "minimalism" and "minimalistic art" in your prompts. However, I will give you an example of a minimalist style called flat design .

Even if you're not familiar with the term "flat design" you have seen countless examples of it on the internet. It's a style that is mostly used in graphical user interfaces. Bright colors, crisp edges, and an overall clean aesthetic characterize this style. Here's an example.

/imagine flat design poster promoting a Chinese restaurant that focuses on food delivery, clean, bright colors, takeout, food delivery --ar 2:3

I really like the third and fourth images here. If you don't know, I want to mention that as of right now you can't instruct Midjourney to generate the text you want in its images. This feature will get added to a future iteration of the model. For now, you can edit the text using software like Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop.

Cyberpunk is a similar art style to steampunk in the sense that it focuses on a futuristic setting. This style emphasizes a combination of lowlife and high-tech. It works great on both portraits and landscape images.

/imagine cyberpunk portrait of a young woman wearing cheap torn clothing and holding a weapon in her hand with a futuristic city in the background, dark and detailed, intricate, ultra realistic, headshot, 8k, octane render

I added some keywords to this prompt that will help it appear more photorealistic, such as "intricate" and "octane render". I think it worked since the third image here is especially realistic.

Vaporwave is a visual art style that I see people often using to make images in Midjourney. It's a style that usually incorporates early Internet imagery. I love to use this style to generate landscape images of futuristic cities. Let me show you an example.

/imagine Vaporwave style image of a neon futuristic city, purple, dark blue, bright green, neon --ar 16:9

I included some colors here that I wanted to see. This is a cool trick that will help increase the chances of generating the images that you want.

If you spend any amount of time in the public Midjourney Discord server, you'll quickly see a lot of people generating images in an anime art style . Here is an example of what you can create in an anime style.

/imagine an anime style portrait of a man dressed in a business suit holding a mystical book radiating a bright green light, fantasy, ethereal, wondrous --ar 2:3

Surrealism is a cultural movement and art style that originated in the early 20th century. One of the major figures of surrealism is the legendary artist Salvador Dali. If you want to create an image in this art style that resembles the works of Salvador Dali, you can include his name in the prompt.

/imagine surrealism art style oil painting in the style of Salvador Dali showing how the unconscious mind perceives the evolution of life on Earth --ar 16:9

Art Deco is an art style that initially became popular in France during the 1910s before being widely used in the United States in the following few decades. This style emphasizes bold geometry and rich colors. Here is an example of an image generated in this style.

/imagine art deco style image showing the interior of a hotel filled with luxury items, photorealistic, rich colors, 1920s luxury --ar 16:9

Abstract art is often used to create cool images in Midjourney. I like creating abstract art, as it's one of the few styles where less is more. Sometimes, you only need a few words in your prompt to create abstract art. I'll show you the following example.

/imagine abstract art painting displaying cognitive dissonance

Impressionism is one of the most recognized art styles in history. It was a 19th-century art movement developed by some of the most notable French artists, including Monet, Paul Cezanne, and Edgar Degas.

/imagine impressionism style painting showing a person staring at ancient ruins --ar 16:9

Cave painting is one of my favorite art styles in Midjourney. I especially like to use it to create something I'd like to see on an episode of Ancient Aliens. Apart from cave painting, you can also use the keyword "ancient art" to get similar results. Here is a prompt I wrote for this art style.

/imagine cave painting showing an alien spacecraft flying over a primitive civilization, ancient art --ar 16:9

Hyperrealism represents an art style that started to become popular in the 1970s. It's a style that aims to resemble a high-resolution photograph. You can effectively use it in Midjourney for amazing results.

/imagine hyperrealism style close-up portrait of a very old but charming man, noticable wrinkles on his face, his eyes filled with knowledge and experience --ar 2:3

From what I’ve observed in the public Midjourney Discord server, I’d say that these are the most popular art styles used by people who interact with this AI model. However, there are additional styles that I’d like to mention since using them produces truly beautiful results.

18 More Popular Midjourney Art Styles

I talked about what I'd say are the most popular Midjourney art styles in the previous section of the article. I'm now going to mention additional art styles (and keywords that will help you get a certain result from your prompts), but this time I won't show you the end result. Instead, I want you to experiment with these styles in Midjourney.

Here are 18 more popular art styles people use in Midjourney:

Atompunk - A distinct and bright-colored art style that depicts the future as people from the 1950s and 1960s imagined it.

Pencil Drawing - You can make images generated in Midjourney look like they were drawn with a pencil by including the “pencil drawing” keyword in your prompt.

Fractalism - Do you like making abstract images that include repetitive patterns? If so, you can mention the fractalism style in your prompts.

Crayon Art - It’s always fun to look at art drawn with crayons. Use this keyword to get amazing results in Midjourney.

Chalk Art - If you use the chalk art style in your prompts, you should specify the color of the chalk. It can be a specific color or multicolored. If you want white chalk to be used in your images, it’s best to make sure the background is dark green.

Afrofuturism - The Afrofuturism visual art style is centered on Black history and culture. It contains elements of advanced technology, futurism, and science fiction.

Cubism - Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso are famous for this avant-garde art movement. It involves analyzing the subject in works of art, breaking it up into parts, and reassembling them in an abstract form.

2D Illustration - Two-dimensional art includes shapes that are completely flat. They comprise only sides and corners.

Pixar - Although it’s not a specific art style, Pixar movies have a certain flair to them. That’s why I recommend you use the “Pixar” or “Pixar style” keywords in prompts that will make images look like they’re straight from a 3D animated movie.

Gothic - The Gothic art style was developed during the 12th century and spread all across Western Europe.

Polaroid - If you want your images to feature a retro photography aesthetic, you should use “polaroid” related keywords in your prompts.

Art Nouveau - This is an art style that was popular from the 1890s to World War I, and is inspired by plant forms and nature.

Pop Art - Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein are the most prominent figures of the pop art movement. It became popular during the 1950s and is characterized by imagery from popular and mass culture.

Coloring Book - Make your images appear like it’s straight out of a coloring book by using this keyword in your prompts.

Fantasy - If you want to include fantasy elements in images you generate, simply include the “fantasy” or “fantasy art” keywords in your prompts. You can also use the “dark fantasy” keyword for a darker aesthetic.

Low Poly - Low poly art is also called low polygon art. It's a style that is supposed to be used to create images that favor straightforward geometry and colors over life-like art. It's mainly used for illustrations, video game design, and animation.

Pixel Art - Pixel art is associated with low-resolution graphics from the age of 8-bit and 16-bit computers but it remains a popular style to this day. Midjourney can produce awesome pixel art.

It would be impossible for me to list every art style and movement in existence, so I'm certainly missing a lot here. My intent was to focus on the most popular art styles I've seen people using in Midjourney.

I advise that you continue researching and learning about different styles and keywords you can incorporate into your prompts.

Make Better Midjourney Images With These Art Styles

There is no doubt that using the art styles mentioned in this article when you're writing Midjourney prompts will help you get better results.

What's great about Midjourney is that you use your creativity to mix and match different styles and see what type of results you'll get. AI image generation models like Midjourney enable you to easily express your creativity as much as possible.

Once you enter a prompt, an image will usually be generated within 60 seconds. That means that you can experiment with all of the art styles I mentioned in this article in less than an hour.

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How to use Midjourney to generate amazing images and art

Looking for a logo for your business, artwork for a project, or an image for a report? One way to get a helping hand is to turn to an online AI tool . You can choose from an array of sites. 

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But one service that offers truly impressive results is Midjourney. With this AI image creator, you describe the type of image you want to by entering text. In return, the site delivers four high-quality renderings.

How Midjourney works

Initially, Midjourney offered a free trial through which you could test the service by requesting a limited number of images. Unfortunately, the site ended the free trial for now, with the CEO blaming the move on a surge of new users. That leaves you with no option but to sign up for one of the paid subscription plans .

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A basic plan will run you $10 a month or $96 a year, a standard plan is $30 a month or $288 a year, and a pro plan is $60 a month or $576 a year. Each tier ups the speed of the responses and offers other benefits. To get a taste of Midjourney, you may want to start with the basic plan to see how it well it works for you.

How to get started using Midjourney

Getting started with Midjourney can be confusing as you have to jump through a couple of hoops. To kick things off, go to the Midjourney website and click the link at the bottom for Join the beta . 

You're then taken to the website for Discord, which provides the server on which the responses are generated. If necessary, click the button for Continue to Discord . At the sign in window, click the Register link. Enter your email address, type a username and password, and select your date of birth. Click Continue.

Create an account

2. Join the Midjourney community

You can then log in with your account. Close any initial windows or messages that pop up. Instead, click the button on the left side bar for Explore public servers . Among the featured communities, look for Midjourney or type Midjourney in the search field to find it. Select Midjourney to access it. Then click the button at the top for Join Midjourney .

Access the Midjourney community

3. Join a newbie group

After you've joined, the left sidebar will display newbie groups under Newcomer rooms. Click one of the rooms to access it. Scroll up and down the page to see the images that the Midjourney AI bot has created for other users.

View the messages in a newbie group.

4. Subscribe to a paid plan

With the free trial no longer available, you'll have to subscribe to a paid plan before you can try out the Midjourney service. In the Message field at the bottom of the screen, type /subscribe and press Enter. Click the button for  Open subscription page .

Click the button to go to the subscription page.

At the subscription page, choose either yearly billing or monthly billing. Click the Subscribe button for the plan you want and then fill out the payment form. After the payment goes through, return to the Discord page and the newbie group you had accessed.

Choose the subcription plan you want.

5. Describe the image you need

You can now finally describe the image you want created. In the Message field at the bottom, type "/imagine" or just type "/" and then choose imagine from the menu. A prompt field then appears. 

In that field, type the description of the image you need generated. Press enter. Wait at least a few seconds for the images to be fully rendered. By default, Midjourney creates four images for each request, with each one appearing in a small thumbnail.

Describe the image you want, and the AI renders four different ones.

6. Upscale images

Under the images are buttons -- U1, U2, U3, and U4 along with V1, V2, V3, and V4. The U buttons are for upscaling the image. The numbers correspond to the four different images by row. The first image is 1, the image to its right is 2, the first image on the next row is 3, and the image to its right is 4. Click the U button for the image you wish to upscale to see the effect. Scroll down the screen to see the upscaled image.

Ask the AI to upscale one of the images.

7. Alter images

The V buttons are used to make changes to a specific image. Maybe there's a particular image you like among the four but want to see how it can be enhanced or improved. Click the V button for that image. Scroll down the screen until you see another series of four images, each one displaying a slightly different version of the image you selected.

Ask the AI to revise one of the images.

You can also play with an image that's been upscaled. Under the image, click the Make variations button to generate revisions to the image. Click the Light Upscale Redo to upscale the image slightly using the current version of Midjourney. Click the Beta Upscale Redo to upscale the image even higher using the latest beta version. Click the Web button to display the image at a larger size in a separate window.

Use different commands to further revise the image.

8. Choose your image

With the larger image, click the magnifying glass cursor to zoom in on the image. Right-click on the image, and you can use your browser's controls to save it, copy it, or email it.

View the image in a separate window where you can save it.

9. Return to the Discord page and the newbie group

There are a variety of commands you can run at the bottom field to view and manage your interactions. Click in the field and type "/". Scroll down the list to see all the available commands.

View the different commands.

10. (Optional) Cancel your account

Finally, should you decide not to continue with Midjourney, you can cancel your subscription. Sign into your Midjourney account page. Click the Manage link next to Plan details for your plan and then select Cancel Plan. Confirm the cancellation.

Cancel your subscription.

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An Essential Guide to the Top Midjourney AI Art Galleries for Visual Inspiration

As an AI artist, one of the most valuable resources available is the vast gallery of images produced by Midjourney users. With the right approach, these creative works can become a treasure trove of inspiration and knowledge.

In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore the top 5 Midjourney galleries, analyzing the key features and use cases of each. You’ll learn how to ethically browse these image collections to enhance your artistic abilities, spark new ideas, and responsibly create your own unique masterpieces with Midjourney.

Introduction to Midjourney Galleries

First, let‘s quickly recap what the Midjourney gallery is and why it matters:

What is the Midjourney Gallery?

The Midjourney gallery consists of every image generated through the platform from text prompts. Each time a user creates an image, Midjourney adds it to this public repository.

Why Browse the Galleries?

Here are some of the top reasons to explore the Midjourney gallery ecosystem:

• Discover New Inspiration – Find fresh creative directions from the diverse range of images.
• Understand Midjourney’s Capabilities – See the full scope of concepts and styles Midjourney can generate.
• Learn Prompt Patterns – Reverse engineer prompts to adapt ideas without plagiarizing.
• Utilize Seeds – Generate variations on images you like using the seed ID.

Let‘s now dive deeper into the origins and key capabilities of the top 5 Midjourney galleries:

1. Official Midjourney Showcase

As Midjourney‘s flagship public gallery, the Official Showcase is the perfect place to start exploring the world of AI art.

The Showcase debuted in tandem with Midjourney‘s launch in July 2021 as a way to display the platform‘s potential. It has since ballooned to over 1.3 million images and continues growing daily.

Key Features

The Showcase provides a clean and intuitive interface to browse Midjourney creations:

• Slick grid layout with infinite scrolling
• Filters by categories like "Trending" or "Abstraction"
• View image info and prompts by hovering over thumbnails
• Diverse range highlighted in editorial collections

With its refined curation and hand-picked selections, the Official Showcase excels as an initial orientation to Midjourney‘s capabilities. The broad categories and viral images provide a representative overview.

As Elise Swopes, a professional AI artist, described:

“The Midjourney Showcase offers an accessible entry point to encounter the diversity and wonder of AI art. I like browsing the Trending and Collections sections to quickly grasp the big picture then dig into niche genres. It’s a launchpad for my own creative journeys."

Limitations

The main downsides of the Showcase are the inability to copy prompts and the lack of advanced search options. This makes it less suited for reverse engineering images compared to other galleries.

Overall, the Official Showcase remains one of the premier starting points for Midjourney exploration and inspiration.

2. Midjourney Community Feed

The Midjourney Community Feed contains every public image generated by Midjourney users. It provides the most comprehensive look at Midjourney‘s true capabilities.

The Community Feed launched in January 2022 as a premium feature exclusive to paid Midjourney subscribers. This unlocked the full archive of over 25 million public images.

Power users flock to the Community Feed for its robust set of features:

• Scrollable feed of all public user images
• Advanced search with filters for likes, dates, etc
• View detailed image metadata and prompts
• One-click copying for any image‘s prompt
• Grid view to rapidly scan creations

With its sheer breadth of content and metadata access, the Community Feed enables more advanced investigation and education:

• Discover new prompt styles by experienced users
• Study subtle prompt variations that alter image outcomes
• Research themes and seed images to emulate
• Compile prompt ingredients for your own hybrid ideas

As Reddit user secondaidkit analyzed:

"The Community Feed let me analyze prompt patterns from talented Midjourney photographers. I picked up tips like adding ‘–ar 9:16‘ for portrait shots. This level of learning simply isn‘t possible just from the Showcase."

The main drawbacks include the paid subscription requirement and potential overwhelm from the firehose of unfiltered images.

But for serious Midjourney artists, the Community Feed provides unparalleled access for reverse engineering and prompt development.

3. Midjourney Subreddit r/Midjourney

With over 200,000 members, the r/Midjourney subreddit has emerged as the top community forum for Midjourney discussion and inspiration.

The r/Midjourney subreddit formed in July 2021 following Midjourney‘s initial beta launch. Early adopters shared their creations and feedback which fueled growth.

As a Reddit community, r/Midjourney operates similarly to other subreddits:

• Primarily image posts to showcase Midjourney art
• Upvote system surfaces most popular images
• Comment threads provide context on prompts and techniques

The Midjourney subreddit excels as a source of curated inspiration:

• Upvotes pre-filter the highest quality images
• Quickly scan for eye-catching images and concepts
• Participate in discussions around improving prompts

As one Redditor u/mooncrkit explained:

"I love browsing r/Midjourney‘s top weekly posts to catch trends and see what‘s inspiring people. It‘s like having a curated magazine of the best AI art tailored to your interests."

Since it relies on user sharing, r/Midjourney has inconsistent prompt info. Reposts and duplicates are also common.

The Midjourney subreddit works well for visual inspiration but falls short for prompt research.

4. DeviantArt Midjourney Gallery

With over 60 million monthly users, DeviantArt is firmly established as the top social platform for sharing artwork. It has become a hotbed for Midjourney creations.

DeviantArt gained traction in the early 2000s as an online artist community. The introduction of AI art over the past two years has further accelerated sharing.

Core DeviantArt features that enable Midjourney gallery exploration include:

• Searching "Midjourney" to isolate relevant images
• Tag system to find related images
• Liking, commenting, and sharing
• Watching artists and collections

DeviantArt excels more as a social experience for Midjourney art:

• Passionate artist community exchanges tips
• Images compiled into themed collections
• Discussions on improving prompts and techniques

As DeviantArt user futurevibes described:

"I love getting together with my DeviantArt friends and browsing each other‘s newest Midjourney creations. We share ideas to improve our prompts and exchange inspiration."

The lack of prompt metadata and moderation results in low quality galleries:

• Prompts are often inaccurate or completely absent
• Rampant reposting without credit
• Difficult to find breadth amidst low quality

DeviantArt provides community but falls short for prompting research purposes.

5. ArtStation Midjourney Gallery

ArtStation has emerged as the leading platform for digital artists to publish professional portfolios and sell prints.

ArtStation launched in 2014 as a portfolio site catering to game, film, and media artists. It has since expanded into digital art prints.

Key aspects of ArtStation for Midjourney include:

• Search filter isolating Midjourney created images
• Professional artist galleries and portfolios
• High-resolution downloads available
• Prints, merch, and commercial licensing

ArtStation offers a more curated look at high quality, printable Midjourney art:

• Striking, polished collections and portfolios
• Commercial licensing for marketing materials
• Photorealistic quality for decorative prints

As ArtStation creator Alumx described:

"I license my Midjourney pieces through ArtStation to companies who want professionally created marketing assets without paying for a human artist."

The focus on printables results in a less diverse gallery:

• Very scarce image metadata and prompts
• Smaller range of styles and genres
• Curation limits breadth of concepts

ArtStation provides a commercial slant on Midjourney images but lacks data for prompt research.

Key Tips for Responsibly Browsing Midjourney Galleries

Now that you‘re familiar with the top galleries, here are some best practices to utilize them most effectively:

• Start with the Official Showcase and Community Feed to grasp capabilities
• Use Subreddit and DeviantArt for styles and concepts you want to emulate
• Analyze common prompt patterns but avoid directly copying prompts
• Utilize seeds rather than full prompts to legally generate similar images
• Take notes on themes, styles, and techniques to inspire your unique creations

Transforming the inspiration sparked by Midjourney galleries into your own original art requires skill and care:

• Identify specific visual elements that inspire you, not whole images
• Catalog moods, color schemes, and compositions to guide your work
• Start prompts from scratch using your own descriptions and seed images

As Midjourney engineer Lisa Lu cautioned:

"The gallery can provide creative direction, but avoid letting it limit your own imagination. Your most original ideas come from within."

Key Questions About Responsible Use of Midjourney Galleries

Let‘s wrap up this guide by addressing some frequent questions about properly utilizing these resources:

How Can I Access All the Images I‘ve Created?

Your personal Midjourney image gallery is available by logging into the website or mobile app. You can browse small thumbnails and click to expand.

For easy bulk access, try downloading one of the available third-party gallery archiving tools for Midjourney.

Are My Images Public or Private by Default?

Midjourney‘s Showcase and Community Feed galleries are always public. But you can opt into "Stealth Mode" in Account Settings to privatize your personal gallery.

Who Owns the Copyright on Midjourney Images?

According to Midjourney‘s Terms of Service, users own the copyright and IP for any images they generate. However, you cannot legally copyright AI-generated works under current US copyright law.

So while you own the image itself, you cannot stop others from using Midjourney to create similar images. Handle this limitation with integrity by focusing on your own originality.

What Are Some Alternatives to the Top Midjourney Galleries?

Beyond the 5 covered, some other notable Midjourney galleries include:

• Nightcafe : AI art community
• Big Sleep : Gallery focused on Big Sleep AI
• Lexica : Algorithmic art collections

I hope this guide provided a comprehensive orientation to the top Midjourney AI art galleries for sparking your creative imagination. We covered the origins, capabilities, use cases, and limitations of each major option.

Remember tobrowse ethically by using these image collections for inspiration rather than plagiarizing prompt combinations. If we all contribute our own artistic perspectives, Midjourney‘s amazing potential can be multiplied even further.

The future possibilities from generative AI remain boundless. I can‘t wait to see the innovative directions you explore from here using this knowledge!

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How to Use Midjourney to Create AI Art

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Key Takeaways

• Get started with Midjourney by downloading Discord and creating an account.
• Sign up for Midjourney through Discord, choose a subscription plan, and create prompts.
• Use variations, parameters, and remixes to get different results, before downloading your AI-generated images for creative use.

Midjourney is a rare AI image generator that requires a different sign-up process than what's expected. So to help you cut through the confusion, we have made a simple guide to help you get started using Midjourney.

Step 1: Download Discord Before Creating AI Art With Discord

Midjourney is hosted on a platform called Discord, where different online communities get together under what are called "servers". The Midjourney server is where you can create AI images and see what others are doing too.

Head to the Discord Download page and click the correct download link for your operating system. It's available as a mobile application, but to start with, download the desktop version for either Mac or Windows. Follow the installation instructions to finish setting it up.

Once installed, head to the Discord Registration page to make an account for yourself. After you've done this, you'll be ready to sign up for Midjourney.

If you need some more help with Discord, then don’t worry, you can learn how to get started with Discord here .

Step 2: Sign Up to Midjourney to Start Creating AI Art

Navigate to the Midjourney website and click on Join the Beta at the bottom-right.

Next, click Accept Invite . You will be prompted to open the Discord app by your browser, but if this doesn't happen, you can click Continue to Discord .

Once Discord opens, click on one of the Newbies rooms. You can find them listed under the heading Newcomer Rooms in the navigation panel on the left.

In the text box at the bottom of the screen, type the command /subscribe and hit enter twice on the keyboard.

You will receive a message from the Midjourney Bot with a link to Manage Account . Click this link to open a page with all the available subscription plans. Finally, click the Subscribe button on the plan you want to buy.

While it's no longer free to try, Midjourney is still worth subscribing to . A basic plan at $10 a month offers you enough server time to create hundreds of images with the option to cancel the subscription at any time.

Step 3: How to Create a Prompt Using Midjourney

Head back to one of the Newcomer Rooms named Newbies, followed by a number. Any one of these will do.

Because there are usually a lot of people generating images on these channels, it makes it difficult to keep track of your work. So to avoid this, we reccomend opening a private chat with the Midjourney Bot. You can use the chat to generate all your images in one convenient place.

To open a private chat, click on the Midjourney Bot name wherever you can see it on the channel. Then in the message box that appears, type Hi and hit enter.

Once you have the private chat open, you’re ready to begin. To get Midjourney to generate an image, you'll want to run a Discord command. All you have to do is type /imagine and then begin describing whatever it is you would like Midjourney to create.

Midjourney will produce four images for each prompt. If you like one of them, you can use the U buttons to separate the image from the set. The top left and right images are U1 and U2, and the bottom left and right images are U3 and U4.

There are all kinds of AI art prompt ideas worth trying out, so let your imagination run wild.

Step 4: Making Variations in Your AI Art on Midjourney

Underneath each set of images are buttons labeled V1 to V4 . They match the images in the set, starting from the top left and right (V1 and V2) and moving down to the bottom left and right images (V3 and V4).

When you click one of these buttons, Midjourney will create a variation of that image. This is useful for spinning-out an idea until you get an image that you really like.

As it is, this function is like a game of roulette where the output is random. So the way to gain control over variations is to turn on the Remix setting.

In the text box, type the command /remix and hit enter twice. You will see a message confirming the Remix mode has been turned on. Now, when you hit the V button on an image, you will see the Remix Prompt dialogue.

You can use this to make changes to the original prompt. Feel free to add new subjects, change colors or alter any other part of the image. Because this is still a variation, Midjourney will make sure to produce an image close in composition to the original.

Step 5: How to Get the Best Results With Your AI Art on Midjourney

To really get the most out of Midjourney, you can include a number of different parameters in your prompt. These parameters are like tags that you put at the end of your prompt to tell Midjourney to behave differently than it normally would.

How to Change the Aspect Ratio in Your Midjourney AI Art

One of the most useful commands to know when you're just starting out is the one for aspect ratio, which uses the tag --ar . With this parameter, you can change the image from the default square shape to landscape or portrait.

In the image below, we added --ar 2:1 to the end of the prompt, which creates a nice wide-angle image of the scene.

Here's the full prompt:

• /imagine Illustration of Tokyo in the rain, people walking with clear umbrellas, moody, daytime --ar 2:1

You can learn about the different aspect ratios in Midjourney and get to know which ratio is used for profile pictures, desktop images, printing images and more.

How to Upscale Your AI Images in Midjourney

Upscaling your image to the highest resolution is another essential feature worth understanding.

First, select the image you want to upscale using the U buttons, just as we did in step 3. Once the image is separated from the set, click the Upscale (Subtle) button. If you're using an earlier version of Midjourney, the button will be labeled Upscale (4x) .

Using Other Parameters in Midjourney

There are a huge number of different parameters that you can use to adjust Midjourney's end results, such as the chaos, style, and weird parameters. Each of these can have an immense impact on your AI-generated images.

You can explore the full list of paramters in the official Midjourney documentation .

Step 6: How to Download Your AI-Generated Image From Midjourney

When you're ready to download an image, separate the image from the set using the U buttons, then click on the image to preview it.

In the bottom left corner of the image, click Open in Browser . In the browser, you can right-click on the image and select Save Image As .

Step 7: How to Make Use of Your AI Art

Now that you're up and running with Midjourney, there are plenty of ways to put the AI image generator to good use.

Creating custom desktop images with Midjourney is the perfect excuse to create AI art and a great way to put it on display.

Another fun way to use Midjourney is to create AI self-portraits to replace your profile picture. It uses some of the more advanced features on offer, like uploading your own image as a reference for the AI model.

You can dabble in typography, too, and use Midjourney to create text . Or combine all these techniques together to create the perfect logo using Midjourney .

There are a lot of AI image generators available out there, but Midjourney may just be the most advanced option available to anybody who cares about AI art. Midjourney's results can sometimes be nothing short of breathtaking.

Getting started with Midjourney isn’t as difficult as it initially seems. Midjourney is a powerful tool with a serious suite of features, and once you start to play with it, you'll soon be creating your very own masterpieces.

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Go to the Midjourney web page, click “Join Beta,” and join the Midjourney Discord server. Enter one of the newcomer rooms and type /prompt (your prompt here) to generate an image using AI.

AI-based image generators like DALL-E 2 have boomed in popularity. People love to enter bizarre prompts and see what gets spit out. Midjourney is one of the more advanced tools for this, and you can try it now.

Before we talk about Midjourney, let's start with DALL-E 2, the one you may have heard about. DALL-E 2 sits at the high end of these AI-based image generator tools. It can create completely brand new images from a simple text prompt. You enter "a robot eating a taco," and it creates an image depicting a robot eating a taco.

At the more basic level is Craiyon , formerly known as "DALL-E mini." This is a free web tool that anyone can use, but it's not nearly as sophisticated as DALL-E 2. The results are often strange and somewhat creepy, but it's still very fun to play with.

Related: The Best AI Image Generators You Can Use Right Now

Midjourney sits somewhere in the middle of DALL-E 2 and Craiyon. It also uses AI and machine learning to generate images based on text prompts. The results are usually quite good, but not as mind-blowing as DALL-E 2.

The only thing you need to use the Midjourney Beta is a Discord account. That's where you will give text prompts to the Midjourney bot. You can sign up for a free account on Discord's website . After that, you can use Discord in a web browser or download the app for Windows , Mac , Linux , Android , and iPhone .

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Once you're all set up with Discord, we'll head over to the Midjourney website and select "Join the Beta."

This will take you to Discord, where we can select "Accept Invite."

We're in. There are a couple of things to know about the beta. You start with a free trial that includes around 25 prompts. After that, you can buy a full membership if you'd like.

To get started, go to one of the "Newcomer Rooms" channels in the sidebar. We'll be using "#newbies-42," but there are a number of others.

In the text box, enter

and then type your prompt and submit it.

You can watch the progress as the four images are created.

When the images are finished, they'll be displayed in a new message. Now you have some additional options.

• U = Upscale: Creates a larger version of the image.
• V = Variation: Creates a new image based on the one you selected.
• Refresh: Get four new images from the same prompt.

The results will be delivered in a new message just like before, and you'll have some new options to make more variations or upscale it to the max.

If at any time you'd like to save the images, simply select the image and tap the download icon on mobile or "Open Original" on desktop to see the full-size image to save.

That's pretty much all there is to the Midjourney Beta! Simply type

and you can follow it with a prompt. Keep in mind certain words aren't allowed, but it's mostly fair game, and you can see what others are creating. There's some pretty crazy AI out there these days, go have fun!

Related: How to Run Stable Diffusion on Your PC to Generate AI Images

To generate images on your own PC, try Stable Diffusion . Unlike most AI image generators, it's open source, and you can download and run it on your own hardware.

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How to Make AI-Generated Images and Art with Midjourney

Are AI-generated images the new frontier of design for brands and businesses? Maybe. In this article, I'll walk you through creating your first AI-generated piece of art using Midjourney. I'll also highlight some best practices for getting the results you want.

If you're fascinated by AI-generated art and want to know how to make your own, you've come to the right place. While there are several AI image generators available to the general public, in this article I'll be focusing on how to use Midjourney.

What Is Midjourney?

• Getting Started with Midjourney
• How to Write an AI Art Prompt
• How to Use Midjourney Art (Copyright Matters)

This way to start creating AI-empowered art!👇

In the company's own words , "Midjourney is an independent research lab exploring new mediums of thought and expanding the imaginative powers of the human species." Which is a very philosophical way of saying that it is an artificial intelligence powered art generator.

Using text input, Midjourney renders images that range from photorealistic and stunning to surreal and unsettling to anything in between. At the time of writing this, Midjourney is still in beta and is therefore changing and improving as the developers process and incorporate user feedback .

So, how do you use Midjourney?

How to Get Started Using Midjourney

There are a few hurdles to jump through before you can start creating AI-generated art with Midjourney, but don't worry, none of them are particularly difficult or even all that time consuming. It took me about five minutes to get set up the first time I used it.

Here are the steps I took:

Step 1: Join the Midjourney Discord Server

If you navigate to midjourney.com , you'll notice that it's a pretty sparse site and there actually isn't a "generator" anywhere on the site. That's because the Midjourney bot is hosted on Discord.

Note: If you don't have a Discord account, you'll want to set that up as your Step 1A before joining the Midjourney server.

You can join the server by clicking either "Join the beta" or "Sign in" on the Midjourney homepage. Doing so will prompt you to sign in to your Discord account if you're not already logged in and authorize the Midjourney Bot's access to your Discord username, avatar, banner, email address, and member info for servers you belong to.

Step 2: Review the Rules and Accept the Terms of Service

Once you're in the server, you can head over to either the Getting Started channel or the Rules channel for a run down of the community guidelines and how the server works. Make sure to accept the terms of service while you're at it, or you won't be allowed to use the bot.

One of the most important tidbits you'll get from these channels is that all new members receive a trial run of about 25 queries. "About 25" may sound vague, but Midjourney membership are actually built around GPU minutes rather than actual images rendered because some queries, upscales, and variations take more GPU time than others.

This trial period gives you a chance to try out AI image generation and learn the ropes before committing to a paid plan. And considering that generating AI images can be a tricky art to master (more on the AI prompt writing in a moment), you really do want the practice time.

Speaking of practicing, I'm sure you want to start making AI images already. There are two main ways you can use the Midjourney bot: In one of the Newbie channels or in your own Discord server.

Step 3: Add the Midjourney Bot to Your Server (Optional)

If you plan to collaborate with other people on your team or just don't want to deal with the clutter and noise of a busy server like the Midjourney server, you can add the Midjourney bot to your own Discord server.

To do so, click on the Midjourney bot's profile pic in any channel where the bot is active (like one of the Newbie channels). You'll see a quick breakdown of the / commands for the bot as well as a button with the text "Add to Server."

Click the button. In a new pop-up window, you'll be asked to give the Midjourney Bot access to your server. Choose the server you want to add the bot to from the drop-down menu, then hit Continue.

Navigate to the server you chose. You can now use the bot commands to start generating images. Type /imagine to initiate the prompt command, then add your query.

Step 4: Write Your Prompt then Let Midjourney Do Its Thing

To create an image, you'll need to use the /imagine command. If you've properly initiated the command, it will look like this:

In the editable text box to the right of the word "prompt," you can enter your query for the bot. For this example, I entered the following query: "australian shepherd with heterochromia, photorealistic, portrait style."

The more detail you give the bot, the closer the results should be to what you're looking for. Midjourney will then generate four results based on your prompt.

These were my results from this query:

Underneath the results, you have the option to request an upscale or variant of any of the four images. Upscaling will give you higher resolution version of the same image; variant will give your four variations of the same image.

Step 5: Download Your Midjourney Image

When you're happy with the resolution and variation, all that's left to do is download your image.

There are two main ways to download a Midjourney image.

1) Open Original in Discord

You can download right from your Discord feed. Click on the variant you want to download and then click on the "Open original" text in the bottom left corner.

This will open the image in a tab on your web browser where you'll have the option to save it as a high resolution, lossless .webp file.

If you want to download the image as a PNG instead, there's an option for that, too.

2) Download from Your Midjourney Profile

Sign into your profile on the Midjourney website and navigate to your home page.

You'll see all of your images generated on this page and be able to view them individually. When you click into the image, you can see the query, any associated tags, resolution details, the parent image, and options for sharing and downloading.

Click on the three dot menu underneath the image to access the "Save image" option.

How to Write an AI Art Prompt for the Best Results

AI-generated art should be a collaboration between an artificial intelligence and the querier. There are two roles being filled here: the role of creative director (that's you and your human brain) and the role of design executor (the AI generating the image). And like any creative director, you're going to need specific communication skills to make sure your designer understands your idea well enough to bring it to life.

So, how do you communicate with an AI bot?

Midjourney has a helpful Tips for Text Prompts article that I would recommend reviewing as a first place to start.

Here are some other best practices that I've found through my own trial and error as well as speaking with my team mate, Eric Lu (Co-Founder at Kapwing and the mind behind the AI stock image library, Cosmic Basin ):

1) Define size parameters

Midjourney defaults all images to a 1:1 aspect ratio (aka, a square).

If you need a different size and don't want to crop or resize your image , you'll need to specify that to the bot in language the bot understands. For the Midjourney bot, that means using the --ar tag in your query.

In the example above, I added "--ar 16:9" to my query to get a horizontal image.

You can also specify specific pixel widths and heights using the --w and --h tags, however Midjourney advices that your results might not be as consistent as --ar is currently better supported. To get exact pixel dimensions with the aspect ratio tag, use reducable fractions.

2) Study the Community Showcase

The Community Showcase on Midjourney is a great place to go for inspiration. People are making truly incredibly art with this tool. But it's also quite useful for learning how to talk to the bot.

You can hover over any of the images in the showcase to see what the user wrote for their prompt.

I recommend finding images you like with elements you want to replicate in your own results and then reading through the queries and taking notes on how different users arrived at those results.

3) Name specific artists and/or art styles

If you have a specific style in mind, think about which words are used to describe that art style, like modern, detailed, surreal, photorealistic, etc.

If you want the art to emulate a certain artist, add "by Artist Name" to your query.

For this example, I wanted an impressionist piece in the style of Claude Monet, so the prompt was: "woman walking through a rose garden at sunset by claude monet, romantic."

4) Try to use common words and phrases

Midjourney is able to create such an incredible diversity of images because of how AI training works. Essentially, the bot associates specific words and phrases with images it was shown during training.

It will be more effective when you include words in your query that are visually well-defined. The more images that would show up in a Google search, the better chances that Midjourney will accurately interpret your prompt.

Take for example my prompt of "australian shepherd with heterochromia, photorealistic, portrait style." If you look at the results, none of these images show a dog with heterochromia — a condition that causes an animal or person to have two different colored eyes.

A probable reason for this is that the word "heterochromia" isn't visually well-defined. There aren't enough images of that online for Midjourney to be able to iterate on it.

If you run into this problem, you can try describing what the word means instead of using the word itself. For example, I adjusted my prompt to read "australian shepherd with different colored eyes, photorealistic, portrait style" instead.

My results: this variant with one blue eye and one hazel eye, which is basically the most classic presentation of heterochromia out there.

Using the above best practices and simply getting familiar with the Midjourney AI and how it interprets prompts will have you on the fast track to creating stunning AI-generated art.

Do You Own the Images Created with Midjourney?

Copyright and licensing plays an important role when creative assets are involved. AI-generated assets are no different. Well, they're a little different, but you still need to make sure your licensing is in order before you start posting your new images all over your website and social media .

If you want to ensure that you do not violate copyright when using an AI Image generator, try Tess , the first properly-licensed AI Image Generator.

Midjourney offers three tiers of licensing available for assets created with their bot.

1) Licensing available to free users

For non-paid members (trial users fall under this category), Midjourney grants the user rights under the Creative Commons Noncommercial 4.0 Attribution International License .

This license only covers noncommercial reproduction, sharing, and adaptation of the assets created with Midjourney. According to the Creative Commons, "noncommercial" is defined as "not primarily intended for or directed towards commercial advantage or monetary compensation."

That means that if you're intending to use Midjourney to create images for your website or an ad campaign, you cannot use any images you created during your free trial until and unless you pay for a membership.

Speaking of which...

2) Licensing available to paid members

There are three paid Midjourney plans that you can subscribe to: Basic, Standard, and Corporate.

Both the Basic and the Standard plan include restricted commercial use rights for assets created in Midjourney. These are good options if you plan to use your AI artwork for your business or personal brand.

3) Licensing available to corporate users

The final licensing option Midjourney offers is a commercial use license for their Corporate subscription holders. If a user is the owner or employee of a company that grosses over $1MM a year (and they intend to use their Midjourney plan to make commercial assets for said company), they must purchase a Corporate plan.

Most individuals and many brands will be covered with the commercial licensing under either the Basic or Standard plans.

For more resourced made by creators for creators, visit our Resources Library for more articles like this one or check out our YouTube channel .

Curious if you can use Midjourney to make thumbnails for your YouTube channel? Check out our recent experiment and decide for yourself. ↓

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• Aug 31, 2023

Midjourney: A Comprehensive Guide to AI-Generated Artwork Creation

Updated: Sep 1, 2023

Discover the power of Midjourney, a generative AI tool for creating stunning artwork. This in-depth guide will walk you through getting started, writing effective prompts, and optimizing your usage of this fascinating technology.

An Introduction to Midjourney

Midjourney is a text-to-image generator that leverages cutting-edge AI to turn language prompts into photorealistic images. Despite only launching in 2022, it has quickly become one of the premier AI art platforms alongside giants like DALL-E 2 and Stable Diffusion.

So how does it work exactly? Midjourney relies on a combination of natural language processing and generative adversarial networks. First, it analyzes your text prompt to understand the core concepts. It then gradually transforms random noise into an image through a process known as diffusion, which involves adding and subtracting noise in steps.

The key benefit of Midjourney is that it removes the need for artistic skills. As long as you can describe an idea in writing, the AI will handle the rest. Of course, crafting effective prompts is an art form unto itself.

Getting Started with Midjourney in 4 Steps

Ready to dive in? Here's how to get up and running with Midjourney fast:

1. Join Discord

Midjourney is only accessible through Discord right now. So first, sign up for a free Discord account if you don't already have one. You can use Discord on just about any device.

2. Join the Midjourney Server

Head to the Midjourney website and click "Join the Beta." This will redirect you to an invite link for the Midjourney Discord server. Accept the invite to gain access.

3. Choose a Subscription

4. Start Creating!

Once subscribed, you can start generating images through text prompts in any channel. Share your creations in #showcase .

Crafting Your First Midjourney Prompt

The key to success is writing effective prompts. Here are some tips for your first one:

Keep it short and concrete. Aim for 20-50 words.

Use vivid, emotive descriptors.

Avoid ambiguity. Be as direct and specific as possible.

Give Midjourney creative freedom when appropriate.

Here's an example starter prompt:

This gives Midjourney clear direction while allowing room for interpretation. Feel free to tweak it and make it your own!

Refining Your Image

Midjourney provides tools to further refine your generated image. Here are some options:

Upscaling (U1-U4): Generates a larger, more detailed version.

Variations (V1-V4): Creates different renditions with the same style/composition.

Reroll (🔄): Reruns the prompt to get new results.

Edit Prompt: Change the text and re-generate the image.

Don't be afraid to experiment! The more you use Midjourney, the better you'll get at coaxing out your intended creation.

Advanced Prompt Syntax and Settings

As you become more experienced with Midjourney, you can start fine-tuning your prompts using parameters, weights, and settings:

Parameters: Add conditions to alter the output (e.g. --ar 2:3 for aspect ratio).

Weights (::): Stress important keywords over others (e.g. space::ship).

Negative Prompts: Use exclusions like --no text .

Settings: Customize options like quality and aspect ratios.

Take time to learn all the advanced syntax Midjourney supports. Small tweaks can make a big difference!

Tips for Prompt Engineering

With the basics covered, here are some pro techniques:

Do test runs to see how Midjourney interprets words.

Use a prompt generator for inspiration.

Add the --creative flag for more outside-the-box results.

Chain prompts together for narratives and sequences.

Leverage image prompts along with text.

Try different styles and artists for aesthetic variety.

Ask for feedback to improve over time.

Prompt engineering is an iterative process. The more you experiment, the better you'll get!

We've only scratched the surface of Midjourney's capabilities in this guide. As you spend more time with the platform, you'll discover just how versatile and powerful AI art generation can be.

The key is learning what prompts work best for your desired outcomes. Be patient, persist through failures, and always keep iterating. With practice, you'll be able to produce images beyond your wildest imagination.

So what are you waiting for? It's time to unleash your creativity with Midjourney!

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The lists were both partially included in a recent class-action lawsuit and accidentally shared via a public google spreadsheet.

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Lists containing the names of more than 16,000 artists allegedly used to train the Midjourney generative artificial intelligence (AI) programme have gone viral online, reinvigorating debates on copyright and consent in AI image creation. Among the names are Frida Kahlo, Walt Disney and Yayoi Kusama.

Outrage among artists on X (formerly Twitter) was first provoked by the posting of a Google spreadsheet named “Midjourney Style List”, supposedly retrieved from Midjourney developers during a process of refining the programme’s ability to mimic works of specific artists and styles. While access to the web document (which remains partially visible on the Internet Archive ) was swiftly restricted, many of the artists and prompts which appeared also feature in publicly accessible court documents for a 2023 class-action lawsuit , within a 25-page list of names referenced in training images for the Midjourney programme.

Even though the practice of using human artists’ work without their permission to train generative AI programmes remains in uncertain legal territory, controversies surrounding documents like the “Midjourney Style List” shed light on the actual processes of converting copyrighted artwork into AI reference material.

In a series of posts on X, the artist Jon Lam (who works for the video-game developer Riot Games) shared screenshots of a chat in which Midjourney developers purportedly discuss preloading artist names and styles into the programme from Wikipedia and other sources, guaranteeing that selected artists’ work would be available for mimicry and prevalently featured as reference material for image creation. One screenshot features an apparent post by Midjourney’s chief executive, David Holz, in which he welcomes the addition of 16,000 artists to the programme’s training. Another contains a message in which a chat member sarcastically addresses the issue of copyright, saying that “all you have to do is just use those scraped datasets and the [sic] conveniently forget what you used to train the model. Boom legal problems solved forever”. (Four members of the group responded to this with an enthusiastically affirmative “100” emoji.)

The “scraped” datasets mentioned in the chat are a central feature of the class-action lawsuit, also gaining attention online, which seeks to win compensation from Stability AI, Midjourney and DeviantArt for the non-consensual use of human artists’ work in training generative AI programmes. While the original lawsuit was partially dismissed by a federal judge in October for being “defective in numerous respects”, it was amended and refiled in November, adding several plaintiffs to the suit as well as the video generator Runway AI to the list of defendants.

Lam has urged artists who found their names among the list of more than 16,000 to sign on as additional plaintiffs, saying : “Gen AI techbros would have you believe the lawsuit is dead or thrown out, no, the lawsuit is still alive and well, and more evidence and plaintiffs have been added to the casefile.”

The updated case file notes that “the Court denied Sta­bil­ity AI’s attempt to dis­miss plain­tiffs’ most sig­nif­i­cant claim, namely the direct copy­right-infringe­ment claim for mis­ap­pro­pri­a­tion of bil­lions of images for AI train­ing”. Midjourney’s attempt to dismiss the claim was also denied.

Central to the claim that Midjourney is guilty of copyright infringement is its programme's use of the LAION-5B dataset, a collection of 5.85 billion images collected from the internet, including copyrighted works. While all iterations of LAION were made public with the request that they “​​should only be used for academic research purposes”, the lawsuit alleges that Midjourney knowingly used the collection in its monetised services, training the company’s generative AI programme on LAION images. The case also claims that Midjourney’s use of Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion text-to-image software constitutes copyright infringement, as the programme was itself trained on a collection of uncredited, copyrighted works.

Judge dismisses most of artists’ copyright lawsuit against AI image generators

Tools for artists to combat copyright infringement have been mentioned in nearly all discussions of generative AI, with the University of Chicago’s Glaze programme among the most popular. With a stated goal of protecting artists from programmes like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, Glaze alters the digital data of an image so that it “appears unchanged to human eyes, but appears to AI models like a dramatically different art style”. While imperfect, the free system has been increasingly recommended in response to new concerns for targeted style mimicry— a post on X following the “Midjourney Style List” urging artists to “Glaze” their work received more than 1,000 likes and 400 reposts.

The website haveibeentrained.com has also been widely shared amongst artists, offering the opportunity to see whether one’s work has been included as a training image in a generative-AI programme. It also has a Do Not Train Registry, which precludes works from inclusion in cooperating datasets.

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Beginner's Guide to Using Mid-Journey's Groundbreaking AI Art Generator

Table of contents, what is mid-journey and how does it work, step-by-step tutorial for new users, tips for communicating effectively with mid-journey, advanced features and customization options.

• Conclusion and Additional Resources

Mid-journey is an independent research company based out of San Francisco that has developed an AI art generator system. The system takes text prompts from users and generates corresponding images through machine learning algorithms.

The mid-journey AI aims to explore new creative mediums and expand the imaginative capabilities of humans. In essence, whatever users can describe in text, the AI attempts to translate into visual form, whether that's photorealistic images, abstract art, sketches, or a variety of other styles.

Mid-Journey's Capabilities

Mid-journey is capable of generating images across a wide range of styles and artistic genres based on the prompts it receives. This includes photorealistic images, abstract art, sketches, anime art, paintings in different styles, and more. The AI uses machine learning to continuously improve its image generation capabilities.

How Mid-Journey Interprets Text Prompts

Since mid-journey does not actually understand human language, it relies on analyzing text prompts statistically to try and discern what users want generated. Using certain keywords and phrases that describe artistic styles, colors, composition, etc. can help the AI better interpret prompts. Essentially, the mid-journey AI tries to translate text into the machine language and representations used internally for image generation. Providing more descriptive detail and relevant keywords generally produces better results.

Getting started with mid-journey requires creating an account and joining the Discord server where images are generated. The process is relatively straightforward, but involves a few steps for new users.

Notably, mid-journey is currently still in beta, so access requires joining a waitlist before being invited to create an account and join the Discord.

Creating a Mid-Journey Account

Visit the midjourney.com website and join the waitlist to request an account. You'll need to provide an email address. Once invited off the waitlist, create your account through the emailed link. Accounts are currently free, with limited generations available before needing to subscribe for $10/month.

Navigating the Mid-Journey Discord Server

Nearly all interaction with mid-journey happens through the Discord server. Accept the Terms of Service and explore channels like #newbies to see examples. To generate images, use bot commands in Discord. Type /imagine to open a prompt bar for entering text descriptions. The AI will generate 4 image variations to choose from.

Generating Your First Image

Try generating your first AI image with a simple prompt like "a happy person standing in a flower field". Add details, styles, or keywords as desired. Upscale and tweak generations with additional commands. Share your creations and provide feedback to improve the AI.

Since mid-journey relies entirely on text prompts to generate images, learning how to craft descriptive prompts is key to producing desired results.

Certain techniques, like specifying aspect ratios and artistic styles through keywords, can help guide the AI's image generation process.

Specifying Aspect Ratios

Include aspect ratio for intended medium, like "16:9" for horizontal thumbnails vs "9:16" for vertical phone backgrounds.

Using Artistic Style Keywords

Prompt prefixes like "impressionist landscape" or suffixes like "pop art style" inject stylistic intent. Reference specific artists too.

Emulating Famous Artists and Genres

Terms like "cubism style", "art nouveau", "baroque", or artist names like "Picasso" and "Van Gogh" can guide aesthetic style.

Beyond basic text-to-image generation, mid-journey offers more advanced options for customizing and tweaking results.

Photographic post-processing effects, animation styles, and an ever-growing library of artistic genres help users achieve their creative vision.

Photography Effects and Lenses

Emulate camera lenses with "wide angle" or "telephoto", and techniques like "long exposure" and "tilt shift". Post-process with "vibrant colors" and "reduced glare".

Anime and Animation Styles

Generate anime art mimicking popular shows like "Dragon Ball Z style" or "Death Note style". Simple terms like "animation style" also work.

Trending Styles and Genres

New genres emerge daily as creators prompt exciting blends. Remain active in the Midjourney community to stay on top of trends.

Mid-journey presents groundbreaking, generative AI capabilities for producing stunning visual media. While still an emerging technology, the potential applications already appear vast.

With an engaged community constantly pushing boundaries, mid-journey promises to become an increasingly versatile creative assistant for all manner of visual arts and design.

Q: Is a Mid-Journey account free to use? A: Yes, new users get 25 free generations to start. After that, a paid subscription of $10 per month is required for ongoing private access.

Q: Can I edit the images Mid-Journey generates? A: Yes, you can download Mid-Journey images and edit them further in graphic design software like Photoshop or Canva.

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Artists Are Suing Artificial Intelligence Companies and the Lawsuit Could Upend Legal Precedents Around Art

By Shanti Escalante-De Mattei

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Mike Winkelmann is used to being stolen from. Before he became Beeple, the world’s third most-expensive living artist with the $69.3 million sale of Everydays: The First 5000 Days in 2021, he was a run-of-the-mill digital artist, picking up freelance gigs from musicians and video game studios while building a social media following by posting his artwork incessantly.

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“My attitude’s always been, as soon as I post something on the internet, that’s out there,” Winkelmann said. “The internet is an organism. It just eats things and poops them out in new ways, and trying to police that is futile. People take my stuff and upload it and profit from it. They get all the engagements and clicks and whatnot. But whatever.”

Winkelmann leveraged his two million followers and became the face of NFTs. In the process, he became a blue-chip art star, with an eponymous art museum in South Carolina and pieces reportedly selling for close to $10 million to major museums elsewhere. That’s without an MFA, a gallery, or prior exhibitions.

“You can have [a contemporary] artist who is extremely well-selling and making a shitload of money, and the vast majority of people have never heard of this person,” he said. “Their artwork has no effect on the broader visual language of the time. And yet, because they’ve convinced the right few people, they can be successful. I think in the future, more people will come up like I did—by convincing a million normal people.”

In 2021 he might have been right, but more recently that path to art world fame is being threatened by a potent force: artificial intelligence . Last year, Midjourney and Stability AI turned the world of digital creators on its head when they released AI image generators to the public. Both now boast more than 10 million users. For digital artists, the technology represents lost jobs and stolen labor. The major image generators were trained by scraping billions of images from the internet, including countless works by digital artists who never gave their consent.

In the eyes of those artists, tech companies have unleashed a machine that scrambles human—and legal—definitions of forgery to such an extent that copyright may never be the same. And that has big implications for artists of all kinds.

In December, Canadian illustrator and content creator Sam Yang received a snide email from a stranger asking him to judge a sort of AI battle royale in which he could decide which custom artificial intelligence image generator best mimicked his own style. In the months since Stability AI released the Stable Diffusion generator, AI enthusiasts had rejiggered the tool to produce images in the style of specific artists; all they needed was a sample of a hundred or so images. Yang, who has more than three million followers across YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter, was an obvious target.

Netizens took hundreds of his drawings posted online to train the AI to pump out images in his style: girls with Disney-wide eyes, strawberry mouths, and sharp anime-esque chins. “I couldn’t believe it,” Yang said. “I kept thinking, This is really happening … and it’s happening to me.”

Yang trawled Reddit forums in an effort to understand how anyone could think it was OK to do this, and kept finding the same assertion: there was no need to contact artists for permission. AI companies had already scraped the digital archives of thousands of artists to train the image generators, the Redditors reasoned. Why couldn’t they?

Like many digital artists, Yang has been wrestling with this question for months. He doesn’t earn a living selling works in rarefied galleries, auction houses, and fairs, but instead by attracting followers and subscribers to his drawing tutorials. He doesn’t sell to collectors, unless you count the netizens who buy his T-shirts, posters, and other merchandise. It’s a precarious environment that has gotten increasingly treacherous.

“AI art seemed like something far down the line,” he said, “and then it wasn’t.”

Yang never went to a lawyer, as the prospect of fighting an anonymous band of Redditors in court was overwhelming. But other digital artists aren’t standing down so easily. In January, several filed a class action lawsuit targeted at Stability AI, Midjourney, and the image-sharing platform DeviantArt.

Brooklyn-based illustrator Deb JJ Lee is one of those artists. By January, Lee was sick and tired of being overworked and undervalued. A month earlier, Lee had gone viral after posting a lowball offer from Epic Games to do illustration work for the company’s smash hit Fortnite , arguably the most popular video game in the world. Epic, which generated over $6 billion last year, offered $3,000 for an illustration and ownership of the copyright. For Lee, it was an all-too-familiar example of the indignities of working as a digital artist. Insult was added to injury when an AI enthusiast—who likely found out about Lee from the viral post—released a custom model based on Lee’s work.

“I’ve worked on developing my skills my whole life and they just took it and made it to zeros and ones,” Lee said. “Illustration rates haven’t kept up with inflation since the literal 1930s.”

Illustration rates have stagnated and, in some cases, shrunk since the ’80s, according to Tim O’Brien, a former president of the Society of Illustrators. The real money comes from selling usage rights, he said, especially to big clients in advertising. Lee continued, “I know freelancers who are at the top of their game that are broke, I’m talking [illustrators who do] New Yorker covers. And now this ?”

Lee reached out to their community of artists and, together, they learned that the image generators, custom or not, were trained on the LAION dataset, a collection of 5.6 billion images scraped, without permission, from the internet. Almost every digital artist has images in LAION, given that DeviantArt and ArtStation were lifted wholesale, along with Getty Images and Pinterest.

The artists who filed suit claim that the use of these images is a brazen violation of intellectual property rights; Matthew Butterick, who specializes in AI and copyright, leads their legal team. (Getty Images is pursuing a similar lawsuit, having found 12 million of their images in LAION.) The outcome of the case could answer a legal question at the center of the internet: in a digital world built on sharing, are tech companies entitled to everything we post online?

The class action lawsuit is tricky. While it might seem obvious to claim copyright infringement, given that billions of copyrighted images were used to create the technology underlying image generators, the artists’ lawyers are attempting to apply existing legal standards made to protect and restrict human creators, not a borderline-science-fiction computing tool. To that end, the complaint describes a number of abuses: First, the AI training process, called diffusion, is suspect because it requires images to be copied and re-created as the model is tested. This alone, the lawyers argue, constitutes an unlicensed use of protected works.

From this understanding, the lawyers argue that image generators essentially call back to the dataset and mash together millions of bits of millions of images to create whatever image is requested, sometimes with the explicit instruction to recall the style of a particular artist. Butterick and his colleagues argue that the resulting product then is a derivative work, that is, a work not “significantly transformed” from its source material, a key standard in “fair use,” the legal doctrine underpinning much copyright law.

As of mid-April, when Art in America went to press, the courts had made no judgment in the case. But Butterick’s argument irks technologists who take issue with the suit’s description of image generators as complicated copy-paste tools.

“There seems to be this fundamental misunderstanding of what machine learning is,” Ryan Murdock, a developer who has been working on the technology since 2017, including for Adobe, said. “It’s true that you want to be able to recover information from the images and the dataset, but the whole point of machine learning is not to memorize or compress images but to learn higher-level general information about what an image is.”

Diffusion, the technology undergirding image generators, works by adding random noise, or static, to an image in the dataset, Murdock explained. The model then attempts to fill in the missing parts of the image using hints from a text caption that describes the work, and those captions sometimes refer to an artist’s name. The model’s efforts are then scored based on how accurately the model was able to fill in the blanks, leading it to contain some information associating style and artist. AI enthusiasts working under the name Parrot Zone have completed more than 4,000 studies testing how many artist names the model recognizes. The count is close to 3,000, from art historical figures like Wassily Kandinsky to popular digital artists like Greg Rutkowski.

The class action suit aims to protect human artists by asserting that, because an artist’s name is invoked in the text prompt, an AI work can be considered “derivative” even if the work produced is the result of pulling content from billions of images. In effect, the artists and their lawyers are trying to establish copyright over style , something that has never before been legally protected.

The most analogous recent copyright case involves fine artists debating just that question. Last fall, well-known collage artist Deborah Roberts sued artist Lynthia Edwards and her gallerist, Richard Beavers, accusing Edwards of imitating her work and thus confusing potential collectors and harming her market. Attorney Luke Nikas, who represents Edwards, recently filed a motion to dismiss the case, arguing that Roberts’s claim veered into style as opposed to the forgery of specific elements of her work.

“You have to give the court a metric to judge against,” Nikas said. “That means identifying specific creative choices, which are protected, and measuring that against the supposedly derivative work.”

Ironically, Nikas’s argument is likely to be the one used by Stability AI and Midjourney against the digital artists. Additionally, the very nature of the artists’ work as content creators makes assessing damages a tough job. As Nikas described, a big part of arguing copyright cases entails convincing a judge that the derivative artwork has meaningfully impacted the plaintiff’s market, such as the targeting of a specific collecting class.

In the end, it could be the history of human-made art that empowers an advanced computing tool: copyright does not protect artistic style so that new generations of artists can learn from those who came before, or remix works to make something new. In 2012 a federal judge famously ruled that Richard Prince did not violate copyright in incorporating a French photographer’s images into his “Canal Zone” paintings, to say nothing of the l ong history of appropriation art practiced by Andy Warhol , Barbara Kruger, and others. If humans can’t get in trouble for that, why should AI?

In mid-March, the United States Copyright Office released a statement of policy on AI-generated works, ruling that components of a work made using AI were not eligible for copyright. This came as a relief to artists who feared that their most valuable asset—their usage rights—might be undermined by AI. But the decision also hinders the court’s ability to determine how artists are being hurt financially by AI image generators. Quantifying damages online is tricky.

Late last year, illustrator and graphic novelist Tomer Hanuka discovered that someone had created a custom model based on his work, and was selling an NFT collection titled “Punks by Hanuka” on the NFT marketplace OpenSea. But Hanuka had no idea whom to contact; such scenarios usually involve anonymous users who disappear as soon as trouble strikes.

“I can’t speak to what they did exactly because I don’t know how to reach them and I don’t know who they are,” Hanuka said. “They don’t have any contact or any leads on their page.” The hurt, he said, goes deeper than run-of-the-mill online theft. “You develop this language that can work with many different projects because you bring something from yourself into the equation, a piece of your soul that somehow finds an angle, an atmosphere. And then this [AI-generated art] comes along. It’s passable, it sells. It doesn’t just replace you but it also muddies what you’re trying to do, which is to make art, find beauty. It’s really the opposite of that.”

For those who benefited from that brief magical window when a creator could move more easily from internet to art world fame, new tools offer a certain convenience. With his new jet-setting life, visiting art fairs and museums around the world, Winkelmann has found a way to continue posting an online illustration a day, keeping his early fans happy by letting AI make the menial time-consuming imagery in the background.

This is exactly what big tech promised AI would do: ease the creative burden that, relatively speaking, a creator might see as not all that creative. Besides, he points out, thieving companies are nothing new. “The idea of, like, Oh my god, a tech company has found a way to scrape data from us and profit from it––what are we talking about? That’s literally been the last 20 years,” he said. His advice to up-and-coming digital artists is to do what he did: use the system as much as possible, and lean in.

That’s all well and good for Winkelmann: He no longer lives in the precarious world of working digital artists. Beeple belongs to the art market now.  

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The T20 World Cup fever is on as India is about to battle it out against South Africa tonight, and there is so much euphoria in the air. Parallel to this is the world of presenters who have been loved over the years by cricket fans. One of them is the iconic Mandira Bedi , who changed the game for women in the presenters' pool when she was appointed as the first female presenter by Sony back in 2003. Over the years, she achieved new heights by sticking to her presenter tag, and many of us have known her by that. This is nothing less than an achievement for the actor-presenter.

In her latest chat with Curly Tales, Mandira Bedi spoke about her time as a presenter, getting appointed, and how the game was completely different two decades ago compared to today. While there was immense fame and love that came with the job, the tag also took some things away from her. Mandira recalls how being a presenter took a heavy toll on her acting career. She even recalls being told not to read any comments.

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“We didn’t have social media where you could see people’s comments at that time. We did have the internet, but not like now. Sony kept me away from all this. They said, ‘You are not allowed to know what people are saying’. They shut all that out for me. What I did learn from the cricket time is that there’ll be people who like you in life and then there will be people in life who won’t like you. So the ones who like you, be grateful for them and the ones who don’t, don’t try and please them,” Mandira Bedi said.

Mandira also spoke about starting her journey in the world of sports. “In 2002, India beat England and made it to the semi-finals of a tournament called the Champions Trophy… Now, because I love cricket, I decided to travel to Sri Lanka to watch the match. So, I booked a ticket for myself and reached there…” she recalled.

People at Sony were very curious to know why Mandira Bedi had spent her money to see the tournament because “at that time, they were flying celebrities down to watch the cricket,” and they had her in mind as someone who is actually fond of the game. In the same interview, Mandira also recalled how the presenting gig took a toll on her acting career, where she stopped getting acting offers. She was rather approached for anchoring and MC jobs only. It was almost like people had forgotten she could act. She recalls how after working for eight years as an actor and then taking the presenter job, she had to remind people that, “You have forgotten, but I know acting, I am an actor. I started my career as an actor.”

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