Mastering Advanced Prompting With Midjourney Ai - Expert Tutorial!

gonna show you guys how to generate the most beautiful and stunning images that give you the most control out of any tutorial you've ever seen on YouTube there's tons and tons of YouTube tutorials on how to do mid journey and I think all of them are too complicated and I'm going to break it down and make it very simple for you guys now I want to show you guys an example this is my octopus we're going to jump into a few different images I'm gonna show you guys how to make images like this show you guys how to make images like this like this like this like this and like this oh my gosh look at that that's my face how incredible is that I'm going to show you guys how to generate images like this and the way that I'm going to do that is we're going to do that through the advanced prompting training that I have for you guys today I'm going to break this down in five prompting steps there's five different prompt Frameworks that you need to know about you probably haven't heard about you're probably only using one or two of these I want to make sure you know about all five so let's go ahead and jump right into it so the first one is the basic prompt second one is the beginner prompt then you have your expert prompt your multi-prompts and your permutation prompts that's what I'm going to cover today we're going to go deep into all of these so common problem that I've seen is you want to get the most accurate and custom images out of mid-journey in the least amount of prompts as possible and that is something that I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out I've done hundreds and hundreds if not thousands of prompts now and I want to try to get one prompt to master the one image that I want first time instead of having to do it three four five times and regenerate images and doing different versions I wanted to make that simple for you guys so the solution I created was this five step training that's going to show you exactly how to do that all right so there are three examples of prompt levels for mid-journey you have your basic prompts your beginner prompts and your Advanced prompts the basic prompts are the ones that I see most people using a green house on a hill right with the aspect ratio of 16.9 that's about the standard stuff I see and you get into the beginner process it gets a little more complicated you start adding in some stylizing maybe some negative prompts things like that and this is where I started making really cool images and having more control over the images that I generated and then the last one is the advanced prompts this is where I've been able to step it up another level if you want an advanced prompting training you're not going to find anything better than this all right so here's your basic prompts template this is what most people are using which is your forward slash imagine a cinematic scene you get your subject your action and then you're seeing what the aspect ratio of 16 9. okay let's use an example let's see what that actually looks like so you have forward slash imagine beautiful mountains in the winter at the Swiss Alps of aspect ratio of 16 9. let's see what that looks like nice image it has its place it has its use there's a good reason for using an image like this and using a basic prompt if this is all you need if you just needed pretty much a stock image that doesn't give you an exact place where you don't want anything custom in the clouds you don't want anything custom in the sky you're not really specific about what you want you just want a general image of the mountains beautiful mountains you got it right it has its place it's important to still know and use this every once in a while when you need it then I took this image and I used this as a seed which I can show you guys how to do the seed here in just a minute make sure I don't forget that this is an example of an expert prompt I wanted to show you the opposite of it a lot of control over the sunset the mountains the location the water the city everything that I have inside of here I have a little town inside there this is what I was looking for this is something I wanted to have more control over and show you guys what a beautiful image would look like all right so let me show you what this looks like so a professional cinematic scene of a city in Switzerland with the two colons which we're going to get to here in just a few minutes Sunset Snowy Mountains cinematic lighting shot on a Fuji Pro 400h extreme long shot ultra realistic hyper detailed extremely well made expansive Landscapes stylizer 1000 which is really important aspect ratio of 16 9 with an image weight IW you can see here dash dash IW of two so I brought it all the way up and then you can see my seated image 352-371-6977 you can see here that is the seed for that image I'm going to show you exactly how to do that here in just a second here's another example of a basic prompt or actually of a beginner prompt of what I did on an octopus right I wanted to have I actually did a Pixar themed octopus and this was the prompt for that you can see your giant purple octopus expansive landscape's top front view cinematic Pixar 32k extremely well made white background it didn't nail it 100 but some of the images that I had of the four that it gave me did hit it high and then I had a stylized of 200. let me go over here real quick and show you guys how to seed an image so if you want to see the image what you're going to do is you're going to come up to this like this is a good image I could use this as an example if I wanted to use this I'm going to go ahead and hit add a reaction you're going to find your little envelope so you can type in envelope right you're going to hit this little envelope guy right here they're going to click on it and guess what's gonna happen you're going to get something in your inbox what's gonna happen here is you're gonna actually want to probably either go to your mid Journey bot there we go let's see this is the seed image this makes it really easy to find if you just go over to Mid journeybot you can see it in your inbox but it's better to just go over here I just copy this and I can use this in my prompts going forward if I come back here you can see here I've pasted this let me go here type in seed and you can see here I use this seed image here we just go back and show you where I first used it so I use the Swiss Alps and look I put seed right here at the end of this so this is a really important aspect of using seed images if you want to actually create an image that is based off of an existing image you want to use the seeds so that is a little bit more of an advanced feature Advanced trick but this is something you should definitely be using so getting to the beginner prompt I showed you guys this one let me show you another example here's a BLT looks so delicious you got some dill over there on the right with the board that really cool lighting and Motif with the wine glass behind and the candle just overall an absolutely stunning image uh something I want to eat for lunch today I love BLTs who doesn't love a BLT all right so this is what this was one of the Gourmet Deli BLT sandwiches with a fancy sourdough bread on a board uh in the style of tequina uh at x 11 to 16 millimeter with an f-stop of 2.8 Pro dx2 with the dark baroon and light green pull polish folklore motifs Norwegian nature layered surfaces Rim light layered texture aspect ratio of 16 9 with a chaos of 20. now chaos I showed you guys this I'm going to show you guys more in depth you can do chaos from all the way from zero all the way up to 100 the chaos actually impacts the image a lot and can make it really weird so I'm going to go deeper into that here in just a minute stylized of 600 so you can go from zero to without or 100 to 1000 I went with 600 and makes a big difference depending on what style I use style of raw and then the negative prompt of dash dash no berries look at this that is my face on a character I made I'm going to show you guys how to put faces your own faces onto these characters towards the end of this so make sure you hang with me if you guys want to learn how to do this stick with me till the end and I'll show you guys how to do this but this was the prompt I used and I got my face in here but I had to generate the guy first so this is how I did it award-winning photography of an entrepreneur in his 30s with a dark red hair dreadlocks pointing up to the sky wearing a black shirt hyper detailed expertly executed details stylizer 1000 which is a really good stylizing that gives you the best stylizing you could possibly get out of this aspect ratio of 16 9 which is like the size of my screen here and then the style of raw going into this one this is a product photography mock-up absolutely gorgeous I have a red-headed little girl because I'm a redhead and I wanted to create a mock-up of it she's got really bright hair you can adjust this inside of your prompting but I want to show you guys what this prompt looks like so fashion mock-up you want to start with that you're going to have a genre lifestyle emotion cute redheaded five-year-old girl so it could be 10 year old 12 year old 30 year old 50 year old 60 year old right be a blonde it doesn't have to be a redhead doesn't have to be a five year old you can change whatever you want in there white T-shirt can be a black T-shirt yellow t-shirt green t-shirt texture details of the clothes the red-headed five-year-old and then you have your aspect ratio of 16.9 this is an example of a beginner propped now if you want to change it up you want to do actual vehicle right there's so many different use cases for these so I wanted my favorite truck which is the GMC Denali truck this is specifically the at4 you can see here it's in the Cayenne Red so you need to do your research know what factory colors that GMC makes or whatever vehicle you're trying to get makes and so you're using the right colors and it showed up exactly the way I wanted it to this was a cinematic scene with expansive Landscapes here's the prompt award-winning photography pretty good I would say it's pretty accurate of a Cayenne Red 2023 dually GMC Denali 3500 at4 HD truck with a Scenic background and cinematic now it missed the dually part which is what I want I want a dually so I have to redo this prompt if I wanted to but I was really happy with that image I thought it was really good asterisk ratio of 16 9 version 5.2 and in the style of raw this is another really good beginner prompt example now we get into the advanced prompts I want to show you guys this is where you're going to kind of get your mind blown now you have a Matt forward slash imagine a cinematic scene from a year of a movie the movie genre and the movie name what shot type and I'm going to show you all the shot types that they have you're going to put your subject your scene in your action shot on a cinematic camera what kind of camera is that like I showed you guys in the beginning of a Fuji camera film directed by who is the directed by what's the emotion what's the lighting aspect ratio what's the stylizing I only did a hundred versus a thousand and an image way to 0.5 so you can go from zero all the way up to two you can do a point five point six point seven point eight you can just adjust this image weight that fits your needs but this makes a big difference of making images look the same and very similar to each other when you use those different image weights then version 5.2 here's what I got I just can't help but look at this one there's just something about this image that just totally grabs my eye something that I just can't stop looking at absolutely gorgeous this the crystal clear quality of this image just blows my mind and even this one on the bottom left is is really beautiful too I mean they're all great you can't go wrong with any one of these and this is the prompt that I used or these so the Cinematic scene from Dances with Wolves one of my favorite movies like top three movies 1990 was the year it's a western Dances with Wolves close-up shot so this is really important you're going to see these different shots that I'm going to show you guys beautiful Native American young woman staring at a camera shot on a Sony Sonata cinematic camera film directed by Kevin Costner happy cinematic lighting dramatic lighting backlit aspect ratio of 69 stylize of 750. I didn't go all way up to a thousand look how good the quality was put an image weight of 0.2 so I wanted to see I didn't want too heavy of an image weight on there and then I did version 5.2 which is important they have 5.1 5.0 you can mess with the versions I like to use the most recent version with a style of raw so this is really important if you love what you're learning so far drop a comment down below introduce yourself let me know who you are I hope you're getting a lot of value this already I've already showed you the basic the beginner and now the advanced prompt and we're only going to go deeper we're only a few minutes in we're going to get deeper than that this is an image I showed you I'm going to show you guys here at the end I told you how to put your face into an image this is an image of my client right here on the left this is Haley and I added her into an image that I created and I'll show you guys The Prompt here's another one of Christy this is an image of her I was able to get her face on here I can adjust the skin tone if it doesn't match exactly her skin tone in Photoshop it's pretty easy to do but overall this is really neat so what I did is an award-winning photography of an attractive blonde-haired woman with blue eyes and a tie-dye shirt standing up in a commercial cannabis Greenhouse eye level shot is for how some chain one of my biggest clients shot on a Sony Sonata camera Moody lighting smiling and happy you can see they were both smiling and happy highly detailed Moody lighting anamorphic style after creation of 69 I brought the stylized all the way up to 1000 with a version 5.2 and the style of raw here's a logo mock-up so you can see here I wanted to really go heavy on this and see what I can produce messing around with some of the image weights and some of the stylizing and you can see here the image weight of two so I brought it all the way up to the max so the image weight really just customized and added a lot to it and this is for an award-winning Vector logo for an accounting company notice where I put the colons again I want you to pay attention to these colons and where I'm dropping these colons at this is the two colons after there I ended it there and I put black and white logo flat design minimalism Saga Vive style design in Adobe Illustrator white background Asic ratio of 16 9 stylized a 500 with an image weight of 2 and version 5.2 with a style of raw here's another version of it this is a lot more simple a lot more of a flat design a couple of these have shadows on them but much more of a flat design all I did was take out the image weight out of there I took the stylize out of there and it just kept it very very simple so sometimes you need to pull this stuff out to keep it very simple you can see here this is another image I created absolutely gorgeous this is another image I created notice how quick how much these look alike there's a reason for that I put the image weight of two on both of these and a stylized of 750 on both of these so this is this very similar image and see here I put the colons again I really want you to pay attention to these because I'm going to get to these in a few minutes all right here's another good image now all I did on this image is I changed the image weight I went from two down to 0.5 so let's go back so 2.5 I went from stylized of a thousand from stylize 750 so I just increased the stylizing and I dropped the image weight all right so let's go to the next one here this is where I get into the advanced prompting framework but specifically this first piece is specifically for clothing so if you want to do a product mock-up any kind of mock-up this is what you're going to be using this is the advanced prompting template specifically for clothing I pulled this I don't even remember where I got this from I think I saw this in a Discord group or somewhere in some sort of a training but this is a really good way to create product mock-ups amazing amazing way to lay this all out goes really detailed from the type of t-shirt position of it the mock-up design showcasing in high resolution and quality fabric subtle Shadow effect black T-shirt so you can change that out you can pick it black t-shirt white sweater right you can switch out those keywords there it's displayed on a sand background actors you can put actors in there if you want to location you can change the location type I put outdoor setting you can put indoor you can put studio all the different things you can put in there camera model again you're going to see all the camera models here in just a minute camera lens what kind of camera lens so this is a 50 millimeter theft Point F stop of 1.2 special effects with soft lighting and then tax these are key in doing these product mock-ups so product Market photography fashion stylish again you can put t-shirt in there that's kind of just an example mock-up design high resolution high quality Shadow effect in a beach background you can swap out that beach background for a forest background for a black background for a white background there's so many different things you can do aspect ratio style of 5.2 style of raw alright so getting into the advanced prompting framework even more you should probably go back and watch my previous video where I've shown you the beginner one but I added a new one here we have it now number four which is a cinematic scene so you got award-winning professional expert and then a cinematic scene these are really key to make sure you add one of these two to the beginning of your prompt second stop second part of your prompt is going to be what kind of prompt is it photography illustration graphic design Vector you want to know what image type you want to create is it artwork Vector illustration is a sketch is it a pencil drawing is it a billboard design whatever that is you want to make sure you specify in there I added in number 16 which is now product mockup which I think is going to be very very common for people to use mid journey to create product mock-ups so easy and it does a really good job alright so the next step here is your prompting description your subject your action and your scene I've updated this this is really important subject action scene you can add whatever details what they're wearing green hat black hat whatever it is depending on it is green race car red race car white race car whatever you want in there and this is to be really fun and I'm going to show you a little trick here in a few minutes that you're going to want to hang tight for that's going to show you how to create if you're doing like a wearing or you're doing some sort of what we call permutation prompt you can change this up so it could be white shirt black shirt red shirt and you can create multiple different images so I'm going to show you guys that here in just a few minutes art style so now we have the different art styles I've covered this before you guys can add your own you can do Michael Goddard whatever you want but these are some really good options for you I'm going to give you guys a link down in the description to this entire presentation this Google Slides document you guys can use this on your own and you guys will have the full download of this expert prompting guide training all right so stylized effects pretty much the same as before I don't have time to cover all this because I want to keep this video a little bit short order so it doesn't go long-winded but you can see here a lot of really good options for you on the stylized that's going to be the next piece of your prompt the next spot is what I wanted to talk about this is your shot type this is what I feel like is going to give you a lot more control over your images where their position where they're looking from where the camera is at imagine if you're shooting some of these images with a camera what type of shot are you gonna have is this extreme long shot like the mountains you saw is this a long shot is this a medium shot close up extreme close-up right is it just the eyes it's just the mouth right a full shot bird's eye view rule of thirds this is a really good one the rule of thirds silhouette shot if you don't want to actually see the details of the person but just see the silhouette of them over the shoulder this is kind of like that looking to the side view right point of view low angle high angle eye level shot I'm using eye level shot a lot Dutch angle drone shot I'm gonna use this as well and quite a bit of the things I have planned coming up and a candid shot so those are the shot types you have different cameras and they all have different things so portrait landscape Event Photography with the Canon EOS you have the Sony Alpha A7 III which is street photography Sports and Wildlife the Hasselblad the Canon the Nikon the Panasonic the Kodak all these if you want to do that nostalgic shot that Kodak is going to hit the freaking ball out of the park for you that's definitely something I would recommend and then if you want to go to the Cinematic cameras which I highly recommend Sony sonalta Canon Cinema Phantom high speed the black magic let's go love blackmagics the Aria Alexa super 16 for that Cinema style and then if you want to do drone you're all probably going to want to use that DJI Phantom 4 Pro drone camera this is a really big one you get aerial shots that are just absolutely gorgeous and in a cinematic version so definitely check out those different camera types and again I have a link down in the description if you want to see these and you want to use these on your own all right lighting another beautiful thing to be able to implement backlighting and Moody lighting and just all the neat things you can do with lighting try these out try different images I'd love to see what you guys can come up with maybe post these images on Instagram or whatever site you're on and tag me in the images I want to see what you guys have created off of this prompting training let me know down in the comments and make sure you introduce yourself you got chaos so this is where you're going to take it from zero to 100 and it's going to increase the abstraction if you go to 100 your images are going to be really abstract I mean like oh like whoa I try to keep this to a minimum 20 is usually about the threshold I like to do because it gets really crazy anything over that but zero to a hundred you could do 25 30 35 40. so just really important for you guys to check all that out all right the next thing here is your negative prompts do you want to make sure you're using negative prompts negative prompts are really important for removing things out of your images I did one earlier where I had to get rid of the berries you can get rid of fog you can get rid of people you can get rid of cars you can get rid of all kinds of things out of the images that you don't want there right so if it generates something you don't want something in the image just regenerate it put the negative prompt at the end and it should do a good job of popping that thing out of your image and taking that out aspect ratios you guys should know all about this this is kind of a basic thing you can use 18 different aspect ratios here just right out of the box and there's almost no limitation to what Aster creatures you can use you can come up with your own if you want but this is really important to use the right ask ratios for your images what I'm using here and most of my images is 16 9 or I'll use 916 I don't think I've ever used any one of these other ones myself because then I can always adjust them and edit them if I want later on um you have your stylize your stylized 100 all the way to 1000 if you want to keep it very basic right out of the box you're going to do that stylize of 100 if you want to make it crazy you're going to go to that stylize of 1000. you can go really really beautiful I find that I get the best images when I'm using stylized of anywhere from 600 to 1000. all right your multi-prompt remember what I was talking about those colons this is where it gets really fun we're getting towards the end of this depending on where you put your colons the colon colon it's going to totally change up your image and a good example of that is the chocolate pig so I'm doing a fancy colon colon chocolate pig statue this is what it gave me it gave me a fancy right the emphasis was on fancy chocolate pig statue right put that all there then I was able to create the same image and I did fancy chocolate pig that was the basic focus of it when the statue is at the end so you have statue by itself it knows that the statue was the key thing that I wanted to pull out of this so it made me a statue it wasn't just about the chocolate pig I got a statue that was a chocolate color that was fancy I did get a big old chocolate pig up there in the right hand corner that's a statue which was really cool which is a little bit different from that but all of these are just typical pigs right that are fancy versus a statue that is chocolate right so this is a big difference between the two depending on where you place those colons this is the multi-prompt that you need to be using and take into consideration when you're riding your props all right permutation props now this is one of my favorite things that I learned this is one of my secret strategies it allows me to create a lot more images and give me a lot more variation right out of the box so I have a cinematic scene of a space movie Daytime Nighttime lunar eclipse the side of those little brackets I don't even know what those brackets are called I'm not a pro but I know that as far as creating like you know those little brackets but I know what those brackets are what they look like I don't know what they're called but they're shot on a Sony sonalta camera and so what I was able to do is I was able to generate four images for daytime four images for night time and four images for lunar eclipse and let me show you look at that this is going to create three commands three different prompt commands all at once so you're gonna get literally 12 different images if you do it just like I did and you can change the scene it doesn't have to be a space scene it could be an underwater scene it could be a forest scene it could be of a woman on a beach and it could be a woman with a red t-shirt green t-shirt black T-shirt it could be a white logo a black logo a green logo right so you can change this up but you're gonna have three different prompts that are going to be produced all at once that are each gonna have four Images so this is the daytime this is the night time and here's the lunar eclipse look how amazing that is that top right one blew my mind when I first saw it especially with the reflections on the water and it's shining on that like that like what I was able to produce with a pretty basic prompt a pretty basic permutation prompt was absolutely incredible so I definitely recommend using this feature if you want something in different colors and different styles if you want a Lamborghini a Ferrari and uh motorcycle right it'll create three different props give you 12 different images of all those and I think you can use up to four different permutations instead of one prompt which that's gonna give you four eight to 16 images so that's a lot of images it's gonna create all at once so you just gotta keep your credits in mind so you don't blow through all your credits doing it like that all right so we covered all the things here now I want to cover and to talk to you about the training summary but I promised you guys I would show you how to do the face swap feature inside so we're going to get to that here in just a second but as a summary I showed you guys the basic prompt I showed you guys the beginner prompt I showed you guys the advanced prompts which was really neat the multi-prompter you're putting the two colons and then the permutation property you can create multiple images with one prompt which is really cool major Time Saver major ability to give you multiple options out of each of your prompts and something I'm going to be using a lot more even myself so let's go over here into the finite face swap and let me show you guys how this part works so I generated this image of this really cool fella here as a scuba diver my prompt for that was scuba instructor with open arms floating in the ocean looking at the camera top front view in the style of Alex Patrick uh light Indigo and white and I had light nice light colors performance oriented for finality Carson garbach cut ripped high angled stylized of 1000 and that's why this thing looks so cool so what you're able to do is you're going to download let me close this out you're going to download Insight face swap you're going to go to Google you're going to type that in Insight face swap you're going to go to their website download it and what you're going to do is you're going to import that into your mid Journey there's a specific tutorial on how to do that I'll help you guys do that in another tutorial but I want to show you guys here what you're going to do once that's downloaded and there's a step-by-step instruction guide on their website so it should be pretty freaking basic and pretty easy for you to do but you're going to hit forward slash you're going to hit s and you're going to hit save ID see this first one right here it pops up you're gonna hit save ID I'm going to drop in a picture of myself so I'm going to go over to my promo photos and I'm going to drop in a picture of me it could be any photo of me like let's just use this one as an example I'm going to say Mr boycell 3. I've actually already uploaded this image and when I hit that I'm going to hit enter and it's going to save that image inside of there then what I'm going to do let's get out of here and just show you guys once I've done that now I'm going to go back to S I'm going to hit swap ID now I'm going to hit enter and it's going to have me put that little name in there so I've got Mr voice cell one because I'm going to use my Mr voice cell one and I'm going to drop an image in here and let me just find an image inside of my mid-journey art that I can use to swap my face with so I'm gonna put my face on this guy okay so I'm gonna take my face I put the Mr boy cell in here hit enter Watch What Happens holy moly look at that it just literally took my face I did a pretty good job too this is what you do this is how you do this little bonus trick I did this for Haley I've done this for Christy I've done this for a lot of clients I could show you a few of my images that I've done here let me just show you guys I'm going to open this up I'm going to show you a few of the ones that I've done go back to my mid-journey art I've created a lot of different images so I created that's the original this is with my face right let me show you another one real quick here this is the original this is the one with my face I wanted to show you guys this feature I hope this training was super powerful and super impactful for you if you guys need anything else I'm going to be doing unless I get feedback from you guys I'm probably gonna do a training on each one of these five different prompts individually so we can go even deeper if you guys want to go deeper with me inside a mid Journey drop a comment down below I have a lot of fun doing these I want to do more of these and make sure if you haven't already check out the instagraphics pro Network there's a link down in the description you it's free to join there doesn't cost anything I have a circle Community that's free as well as the Facebook Community it's free all you got to do is click the link down below make sure you fill out all the questions or I can't let you in and I really appreciate you guys if you're a web designer graphic designer motion designer I want to do community I want to do life with you guys and help us all level up in our health wealth and relationship so thank you guys so much for watching I'll see you guys on the next video I major in boycell and as always keep looking up

Channel: Adrian Boysel

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Length: 25min 44sec (1544 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 05 2023