I have seen a few tutorials out there about how
to use ChatGPT with Midjourney to create its prompts, but I feel like there's something missing.
She's right. There is something missing. The results can be unpredictable, and most of them are actually
focused on the paid version of ChatGPT version 4. So if I have the version 3.5, which is free, what do
I do then? So, I want to show you in this video what I did to optimize the way that I use ChatGPT
in order to create my prompts for Midjourney. And for that you're gonna need some understanding
of how Midjourney works, what you can do with commands, with parameters... the more you know about
Midjourney the better you can explain to ChatGPT what he should do, what he can do... or she... the bot.
And I highly recommend that you have the Midjourney's documentation open as well and on a different
tab, so that you can modify on the go all the instructions that you give to ChatGPT in order
to achieve what you're looking for. But before we start I just want to say welcome back, or welcome
if you're new here. I am Bella and if you like this type of content don't forget to subscribe to the
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love reading all your thoughts, everything helps with the crazy YouTube algorithm. So thank you in
advance. Let's do this. Okay. So, the first thing we need is a Template, and by template I mean the
structure that the prompt needs to have so that we can use in Midjourney to obtain our images.
So, for example a template would be: the prefix, the scene, the suffix and the parameters. Or the
prefix, the scene, the suffix. Or you can be even more specific. If you're looking for images for
example always with a cat in it you can break it apart and say that your template has a suffix, a
cat, a location, or an environment, and a suffix. And parameters whatever you want to add afterwards.
So you can play a bit around with these templates. Remove one of these items, add another one to see
if you can better work around these structures to achieve what you are looking for. For the example
in this video I'm going to go with the most simple one, that allows GPT to run wild and free to
generate creative outputs for me, so I can generate images on Midjourney. So, let's teach ChatGPT how our
prompts should look like following this template. So first we start defining to the bot the basic
anatomy of this prompt. Here, basic prompt anatomy. And how does a prompt for Midjourney should
look like? Well, it should start at least with the command imagine, that's the command that generates
images. But you know that, you know that, I know. And here we add our template it should have a prefix,
scene, and a suffix. Now, in reality when you're yourself writing prompts to Midjourney, these
elements can actually overlap each other, right? Let's inform the ChatGPT that this can happen. And
we are going to use like parenthesis here and just say that this categories can overlap. Now, we have
to explain what each of these elements is. So we go ahead and we start with the prefix. And the
prefix should define the image artistic medium and the style. One thing that I add that I noticed
after using for a while, is that it doesn't know that it can actually use artists names for example
to follow the same artistic style. So let's tell him that he can also use artists names to follow
their styles and color patterns, color palettes, for example. And now for the scene, it simply defines
the content and the theme right? What is supposed to be in that picture. If there's a person in there,
if there's an animal, where it is, so characters, and environment. Great. And the suffix modulates the
prefix and the scene. It can give more emphasis to one element than another, you can set the vibe,
the mood of the picture, the mood of that image. Amazing. And now another thing you can do you
can also give ChatGPT an example of how that prompt should look like. You can use any prompt
that you have already used in the past and you liked the results. And with this example that you
you provide the ChatGPT it's going to permutate, to iterate through the same structure that you,
that you have there, but with new ideas and new sentences. But the structure is going to be very
similar to your example so you can try with and without and see what fits best for you. Amazing.
And now, to separate our instructions from our request, I'm going to use here three hashtags.
And now, we can request. I want 10 new prompts that's the way they should look like, and I wanted
to I want them to illustrate the theme gaming. And once we hit enter, these are the results that we
get. So let's go to Midjourney now and see what we can get from these prompt generated by ChatGPT.
So now what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna copy one of these resulting prompts from GPT and paste in Midjourney
and we have like a comic style one. Which is pretty cool. And by the way if there any of
these images is really appealing, you really like like how it looks like, and you would like to use
for book covers, for printing T-shirts or whatever you want don't forget to check it out my other
video about how to upscale these images so that you have enough resolution for printing let's
see another one of these images. Now, let's see this nostalgic tribute to gaming history. We get
a bunch of colorful controllers and video games. Now another thing you can do to increase even
more your possibilities to generate a specific art is using permutations in Midjourney. So I'm
going to teach GPT how to create prompts using these variation, these permutations. I'm going
to copy what we previously used as an input for instructions to GPT and just change a little
bit some stuff. And paste here in the input field and now we are going to add the information
uh required so that he, the GPT knows how he can create prompts using these variations. So
let's say that he can group that. You can group variations in list lists like this. Okay, perfect
and now how permutation works in Midjourney? You just have to add different elements for the
same component inside brackets for example you can generate three different prefixes so we create we
open brackets, prefix one, two and three. We can have two different scenes in one scene two, or a suffix
one and two. And Midjourney itself it's going to iterate through all the possibilities that you
have there and create in four images for each one of those possibilities. But it's important to
remember that each one of these items inside this list has to be a single word or a phrase without
comma, because otherwise you're gonna break the syntax. So, we have to let GPT know as well. So we're
gonna say: Important... otherwise we break the syntax. Perfect. And now instead of create 10 prompts that
illustrate the theme gaming, I'm gonna change gaming to cat. Because why not? Everything with cats
is good. So, let's keep "cat" here. And now I also want it to have two different variations for I
think different variations is uh redundancy so two variations for prefix and three variations
for scene. And we hit enter to see what we get Awesome! So these are our results and as you can
see um we have these brackets now containing two items which are the two prefix that we asked and
there's the second one contain the the second list after the comma has three different elements to
for three different scenes. Each of these prompts is going to generate six different images (prompts) right?
Two times three possibilities. So we'll have six prompts out of one. I'm going to copy one of those
like this one with the dreamy landscape, and paste on Midjourney. And you can see here that as soon
as you press enter, Midjourney is going to ask you "are you sure about what you're doing?" "do you know
what you're doing?" This is going to generate six different prompts. "Do you want us to create
all those images?" This is important because of course, the more images you make the more GPU time
you use. So, I'm gonna say yeah yes. Oh and by the way, there's also this button here that allows
you to preview all the prompts that are going to be used out of this permutation prompt. So if
I click here you can see there's a list and you can see all the possible variations out of that
permutation prompt. And here we have our first cat with our first prefix, which is acrylic painting.
And oh my God I really like them. Look at this! It's a bit Van Gogh style, I feel like. But they are
so colorful, so beautiful. I love it. And our second acrylic painting with our second scene this time
bold and vibrant colors everywhere. Oh look at these cats they are so beautiful. Even ugly cats are
beautiful cats. There are no ugly cats. And our fourth image is already now the second prefix the
second option which is this artwork. But with uh now we go to through this three different scenes
with the second option of prefix right so we get these different cats uh oh my God this one is
beautiful I love this one! But it has too many ears. The cat has three ears. This covers everything,
but it's really important that you keep practicing that you keep you know alternating between these
different elements. As I said you can add new things to your template. I am going to leave a
link down below if not now, if it's still not there, you can come back a little bit later, as soon
as possible I'm going to put this in a shareable Google Docs, all the possibilities that you can
use that I have already used I also have already done a list of the parameters. And ChatGPT
uses the parameters a little bit um randomly... So just be certain that you check them out if you
if you don't like one of those suggestions you can change it. But I got some pretty wild things some
pretty good things. It's very different. I'm gonna leave everything there and I hope you get the most
beautiful images and the best part is even if you have the free GPT version, you know, you can
keep your conversation there so you just have to teach GPT in one chat once and then you can use
forever. So... I mean "forever" it's a huge word... maybe there's no more GPT in a hundred years. I don't
know. But anyway I hope you guys like it. I hope this was super useful for you. I hope you enjoyed.
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