MidJourney Cheat Codes - Advanced Prompting Guide

all right so check this out all of these images were basically made with the same prompt just changing one little thing this image this image this image this image this image this image this one this one this image this image this image this image this image this image this image this is this and this we're all using pretty much the exact same prompt I just tweaked one little word in each prompt to get each one of those little variations and by the end of this video You're Gonna know how to do that too and I can't wait to show it all to you so let's dive in hey what's up Matt wolf here in my last video about mid journey I really dove into how to set up mid journey and how to do all sorts of cool things with prompting in this video I want to dive even deeper and show you some even more Advanced Techniques to really really dial in what you can do I also came across this awesome awesome resource it's essentially like the cheat codes for Mid Journey it's a giant guide of all sorts of potential prompts that you can try it's like the Game Genie for mid-journey prompting stick around onto the end of the video and I will show you how to get access to that now as a reminder we will be generating all of this inside of Discord so you will need to have a Discord account if you don't know how to do that or you don't have one yet make sure you watch my first mid-journey video because that's going to walk you through how to get that all set up when you get into Discord type slash settings hit enter and it'll give you some options for settings we want to make sure that mid Journey version 4 is on I tend to get the best images out of mid Journey 4 in my opinion and you want to make sure you have remix mode on so before you get started make sure that you've got those settings turned on if you want to replicate some of the stuff that I do in this video so first off let's talk about some of the additional parameters that you can use inside of mid-journey to really get the images dialed into exactly what you're looking for so first of all let's talk about the stylized parameter at the end of one of your prompts you can add a dash dash s and a number between zero and a thousand now this is specifically for mid-journey version four if you're using mid Journey version 3 you're one of the earlier ones the parameter range is actually different but since we're talking about mid Journey 4 here you're going to use the number 0 through 1000 now the lower the stylized number the the lower the s number the more closely your image is going to represent the prompt that you actually put in closer to a thousand you get the more mid journey is going to add its own little style and Flair to it to show this off what I'm going to do is I'm going to do a prompt and then I'm going to show you it at three different style settings and I'm going to use the same prompt and the same seed for each one and you can see how the stylized parameter affects the images in each one so let's go ahead and do imagine a wolf in the forest looking into the camera with a deer in the background now because I want to make sure that these are all the same seed each time I'm going to go dash dash seed and then I'm going to do the seed let's go 2023 and to get the stylized I'm gonna go dash dash s and let's try it at a style of zero meaning it should get as close to the prompt as it can without adding its own mid-journey flare into it and let's see what it generates all right so here's what it came up with we've got a wolf in the front looking into the camera with a deer in the background this one kind of looks more like a wolf deer now let's go ahead and use the exact same prompt and the exact same seed but let's bump it up to 500 so a wolf in the forest looking into the camera with the deer in the background seed 2023 and then style will go 500 so right in the middle alright so now we can see the difference you can see it added a little bit more of that mid-journey look to it that people are used to so let's go ahead and do it one more time but this time we'll use an S of a thousand so let's go imagine I'm gonna paste this back in and I'm gonna change the s number here to 1000. all right so here it is with the S of 1000 you can tell it's a still a similar composition mid-journey kind of added a little bit more of its own Flair to it so let's look at all three of them back to back now so here's stylization of zero stylization of 500 stylization of one thousand all right let's try one more prompt just to get an example this time let's go a blonde woman from the 70s looking at a retro television and let's go seed 2023 just so we're using the same seed all the time here let's do a stylization of zero and run this right so here's what it came up with with the stylization of zero and here's the same prompt with the stylization of 500 and here's the same prompt with the stylization of a thousand so you can see it's all the same seed the higher that s number the more mid-journey kind of tries to add its own Flair to it and style it the way it wants to style it so if you really want to impact how close it gets to the actual prompt that you put in you can add a little s score to the end now the next one I want to talk about is quality which you would use the parameter Q on and this is basically likely how long mid journey is going to bake your image for how long it's going to continue to process for and it can run from 0.25 all the way up to 5.25 it's going to take about the quarter of the time but it's going to be about a quarter of the quality five it'll probably take about five times the amount of time but you know theoretically be about five times the quality but it sometimes sort of over bakes it and gives you funky images when you go too far in my opinion it seems like the one or two is about the sweet spot for Quality so let's test some of these exact same prompts this time I'm going to do imagine and I'm gonna do a wolf in the forest looking into the camera with a deer in the background seed 2023 instead of an S score let's play with the Q score now let's start with a Q of 0.25 this is the lowest quality setting and let's see what it generates there's not a whole lot of detail in the background the trees aren't super detailed things like that you can sort of get some very artistic looks if you bring down the quality and just don't have it look for as long this one the wolf almost looks like it's floating in the air this one almost looks like it's trying to be a cross between a wolf and a deer and let's go ahead and bump it all the way to the top and go imagine wolf in the forest looking at the camera exact same thing this time let's do a q score a quality score of two okay so here's the same image with a Q score of two you could really really see the difference in detail so this is the Q score of two this is the Q score of 0.25 so you can see this one's a little undercooked so to speak and this one is starting to get just about right now by default if you don't put a q score in there it defaults to one and one usually looks pretty dang good as well I usually go with a Q score of one or two unless I'm trying to get a real artistic look then I might do a lower Q score of something like 0.25 or 5 to get a look of not fully processed all right let's try this one more time with our other image prompt a blonde woman from the 70s looking at a retro television let's start with a Q let's go 0.5 this time so this is the quality of 0.5 and pay attention to the top left and the bottom right you'll notice the look at the Shadows on the face here look at some of the the Shadows on the face here get what's going on on the TV in the background this is 0.5 now if I show you this is 0.1 you can see the details on the face start to change there's more detail on the TV in the background more detail on the face here more going on on the TV in the background here at a q score of one and this is a q of two which didn't really seem to make too big of an impact pretty much kind of the same detail as we saw on the q1 as we see on the Q2 here so you know going any higher than this we're probably not even going to get a whole lot more out of it now the next parameter I want to talk about is the chaos score it is using the letter C in the same way we've been doing the other stuff so let me show you what this looks like let me grab my previous prompt here just so we're kind of getting a direct comparison and let's go imagine and then once again a wolf in the forest blah blah blah and let's do a chaos score of zero once again this is another parameter that's going to kind of affect how much artistic license mid-journey takes with the prompt right the lower the chaos score the more sort of standard is going to try to look the higher the chaos score the more sort of crazy it's going to try to make the image so let's go ahead and do a chaos score of zero and the chaos score can be anywhere from a zero to a 100 so we'll do a chaos score of zero let's try a chaos score of 50 a chaos score of a hundred so here's what it comes up with a chaos parameter of zero pretty standard looking what we expect and what we've seen from some of our other images already here's what it looks like with the chaos score of 50. you could tell that the colors are kind of starting to change the funky thing going on with this steer that's supposed to be in the background a little bit more crazy looking and then here's the chaos score of a hundred on this image not a huge difference between 50 and 100 if we're being perfectly honest a little change in some of the details in the tree this wolf is starting to have like moose looking legs but not a big big difference so here's what we get when we set the C to zero pretty much the same images we've seen before already here's what it looks like when we set the C to 50. now it's starting to get a little bit more stylized here they look completely different when I set the chaos score to a different color we get pretty much completely different color spectrums and then here's what it looks like with a c of a hundred so here's 50 here's a hundred images are slightly different but it's not a whole heck of a lot more chaotic between 50 and 100. all right so the last parameter that I want to talk about before we get into the really cool cheat codes and awesome prompt is the weight of things inside of your image now this is something that's really cool that I actually haven't seen a lot of people talking about with mid-journey but you can actually weight certain things in the image so let's go back to our original wolf prompt here and I'll show you what waiting does when I mess with this so I'm going to copy this same prompt and let's paste it in here and so we've got a wolf in the forest looking to the camera with a deer in the background now let's say I want the wolf to be much more prominent than the deer I can put Poland colon and I can give a weight that I want that wolf to be so if I put a weight of five here and then I want the deer to be a much lower weight I want the deer to really not have much focus in the image I could put colon colon and one with this the wolf should be five times more prominent than the deer so just adding that waiting and nothing else let's see what happens alright so check this out it's pretty much an entirely different image from what we did before in fact the deer isn't even visible and it pretty much waited it out because of the five to one ratio that I did so let's go ahead and do this exact same prompt again with the exact same seed but let's swap the waiting let's change the wolf to a one and the deer to a five and let's see how that affects things so check this out now it made pretty much a complete slightly different image the wolf is pretty much not even visible anymore because of the waiting and the deer is the main piece of the image with the exact same prompt so this time let's give the wolf a weight of Two and a the deer the weight of three to make sure that the deer is a little bit more prominent and see how this affects things this time it kind of tried to blend the wolf and the deer together and we got sort of a wolf deer hybrid looking thing in some of these images now one other thing about the weighting that I want to show you is let's go ahead and grab our other image prompt that we've been messing with here and let's paste this one in and you can actually do weights for entire segments of your prompt so we've got a blonde woman from the 70s looking at a retro television so if I put a bracket around blonde woman here and I give this a weight of three and then I could put a retro television a weight of two it should give the blonde woman more prominence over the Retro television so let's see what happens with this one so there you go you can see that the woman is a little bit more prominent than TV this one it kind of got real creative and put the woman's head inside the TV alright so let's see what happens when we flip those so I'll make the blonde woman a two and the Retro television a three so this time around it made the television more prominent and in most of these pictures it actually pushed the blonde woman into the TV this one made her looking at the TV but the TV is definitely very prominent in this image so not only can you wait certain words you can actually wait certain chunks of your prompt as well to make them more prominent or less prominent and so those are some parameters that you can mess with inside of mid journey to get it closer to what you're looking for you can mess with the style eyes the S and the lower the number it is the closer it'll get to the prompt the higher the number it is the more mid journey is going to put its own flare on it you can mess with the quality score the Q of it the lower the number the less processing it's gonna do and the the less polished it's gonna look the higher the number the more processing it does on it and the more it tries to add detail to the image there's the chaos score the C the lower the score the less chaotic the image is going to be the higher the score the more chaotic it is then there's the weighting which you can wait individual words or you can weight individual sections of your prompt alright so now what I want to show you is some really cool ways to get inspiration for more prompts and there's two resources that I want to show you the first one might seem fairly obvious but I doubt many people think of it and that's the actual mid-journey Gallery so pretty much anybody can get access to this mid-journey Gallery here just go to midjourney.com Showcase slash recent and you can see some images that people have generated recently this is totally free it's open you don't even have to log in to see it if I hover over these you can see the prompt that somebody is using to get that image so that'll give you some inspiration for some prompts so for example this one the god of avarice in the style of Ryu takamasa and then it's you know got a bunch of artist names that I'm not going to try to pronounce well you can try some of those artist names and see what kind of art you get this one here Double Exposure of avarice economy starry night and then another name I'm not going to try to pronounce you can go and copy this prompt here and test it inside of mid-journey with your own sort of image and use some of these additional things at the end to get the prompt that you want now this doesn't tell you some of the stuff we just talked about some of the parameters right if I click on these three dots it actually doesn't let me if I go to the free gallery here so I can't actually see that but if you do have a mid-journey paid account and unfortunately this is only in the paid version you actually get access to the same feed if I refresh this you'll see it's going to be the same images that I was just looking at on this page here but when I hover over it these three dots are clickable if you have a mid-journey account I could hover over this one right here that says a bird's eye view of a multi-layered wooden Shanty Town multi-colored awnings and Penance lots of walkway way dot dot dot and then it cuts off if you're on the free version you couldn't see the rest of it you also don't get to see any extra parameters that they would have added into it in the paid version I can click on these three dots and come up here to copy and they have copy prompt and copy full command now if I copy The Prompt let me show you what it just copied I'll paste it into a notepad here it copied in the whole prompt bird's eye view of a multi-layered wooden Shanty blah blah blah blah blah all of this stuff that you can actually experiment with Hyper detailed photorealistic a bunch of different artist names so that's the entire prompt that you can use now if I come back over here on this same image click the three dots and copy the full command and then paste this into notepad I'll paste it right below you can see that it actually shows all the additional commands that were added in so they're using version four at a quality setting of two so you actually want to copy the command and not necessarily the prompt if you're going to get some inspiration this way because it will give you that extra little detail of what they did with it let me just look at one more example here but here's another really cool artistic colorful image so if I come to the three dots here inside of the mid Journey account and I come up to copy and copy the full command and I paste this into a notepad here you can see consumed by Envy gorgeous stunning vibrant digital art by Yo Nago and Ken Price mid-journey version 4 aspect ratio 2 3 chaos of 50 the style score of 1000 so they're pretty much telling mid-journey get creative with this prompt so that's one way to find inspiration let's talk about the cheat codes this is the coolest resource I've found or mid-journey and a lot of the stuff that I talked about in the last video you can actually find here so there's this GitHub repository and there's this long link here I'll make sure I paste it in the description below the video here and these are all mid Journey 4 styles that you can mess with if I come in here and I click on themes let's open this in a new tab here you can see there's all sections here so realism slash abstraction open this up here's what happened when you use the prompt realistic here's photorealistic here's surrealism dreamlike otherworldly Wonderland abstract fantasy these are all little cheat codes little additions that you can add at the end of The Prompt to get these various Styles so let's go ahead and add Wonderland so let's go back to our mid-journey here so here's what I get what I type in a blonde woman looking at a TV Wonderland style let's try dream like and see what happens let's try imagine a dream like image of a blonde woman staring at a television and here's what we get when we type a dream like image of a woman staring at a television I would argue that some of these are more nightmare like but that's what it comes up with so let's jump back over to our cheat codes here here's surrealism let's see what that looks like so here's what that prompt generates a surrealism image of a blonde woman staring at a TV and there are all sorts of different styles that you can try here Iowa is only looking at the realism abstraction so if we click here you've got retro modern you can see you can try retro you could try cyberpunk rustic modern futuristic let's try cyberpunk a cyber Punk of a woman staring at a TV and here's what that generated you definitely get the cyberpunk Vibes now sci-fi styles that you can try we've got some outer space styles that you can mess around with they're all things that you can add to the beginning or the end of your prompt to get different images lots of cool stuff to try inside Labyrinth architecture and manufactured so you know steampunk that might be another interesting one to try here alright so here's our steampunk blonde woman staring at a TV ioms and Landscapes you know you could try tropical deep sea waterfalls various seasons and weather lightning tornadoes various holiday themed images time of day you can mess with morning and midday and afternoon to try to get different lighting dusk night midnight Twilight Dawn music Styles add groovy to it see what comes out add funky disco Post Punk Rave vaporware in my last video we talked about synthwave chill wave let's see what happens if we had chill wave here's what you get with the chill wave prompt added in brake core cargo punk spongle I don't even know what that means but you can try Shpongle hey let's try Shpongle so here's what we get when we type the word Shpongle into our prompt so now I'm curious apparently Shpongle is a music group I don't know various cartoon styles that we can try Marvel Comics cartoon anime anime core manga Kawaii let's add anime core in and see what happens here's what we get when I add anime core into it an anime core image of a blonde woman staring at a TV we've got different colors and crystals and things that you can try Crystal core Sparkle core rainbow core pastel wave pastel Punk neon Punk glowfi glow Wave light core these are all different prompts that you can add to get just totally different styles with every image let's try rainbow core and here's what that prompt generated that's definitely rainbow so many cool styles to try mood-based themes warm core love core happy core Gloom core all sorts of stuff in here other themes Gourmet miniature World MLG this is just looking at the styles so check this out let's click on TV and movies coming back to this front page here these are more prompts that you could add in here so TV shows you can add TV show Teletubbies Rick and Morty style Simpson style Family Guy Style Adventure Time Star Trek movies you've got Fantasia Tron saw Godzilla let's see what happens if I do it in the style of Tron blonde woman staring at a TV in the style of Tron and here's what we get when we do it in the style of Tron let's close out of this you've got structural modifications you can see different styles of knots that you could add into the image zigzag Styles deflate inflate biflected Hollow bowed awesome fun stuff to experiment with these are all different styles and this is literally just scratching the surface so check out special effects and shaders here open this one up we've got various styles of Reflections that you can add to your prompts various styles of Parallax let's try nagalith I don't know if I'm saying that right and a glyph image of a blonde woman staring at a TV and here's what it gave us totally different style for pretty much the same prompt got different types of distortion look at this you can make faces look like they're exploding or morphing interlaced dramatic special effects add some chromatic aberrations or displacement various additional stylization that you can do shaders and post-processing that you can add to it like Ray traced let's take a look at perspective some different like views and angles that you can take on your photo so top views side views satellite views view from an airplane aerial views close-ups extreme close-up centered shot selfie first person field of view these are all different perspectives that you can play with there's different angles you can mess with low angle high angle various perspectives Panini projection never heard of that one let's try adding that to our prompt and see what happens a blonde woman looking at a TV Panini projection I thought that was a sandwich so what we got with our Panini projection we messed around with some isometric in my last video miniature faking this is a really really cool style here you can try some stuff with that aerial perspective something to play with with some different landscape type photos try doing the landscape from an aerial perspective instead of the normal perspective we've got some object and animal ideas that you can mess with you know fungi sea life microscopic objects instruments like I said this is just cheat code after cheat code after cheat code of prompting here check out materials here so under materials you've got various solids that you can add look at this and each one of these has sub categories you know meteorites let's go plastic and foam look at this Lego style non-Newtonian fluids and polymers slime and putty add Flubber to your prompt and see what kind of images it comes up with powders and particulates add some smoke add some powder you can really really get dialed in with some of these additional prompts lighting there's definitely some cool stuff you can do with lighting so types of Lights you've got fluorescent lighting plasma Globe ultraviolet got lighting illuminated illumination cinematic lighting Moody lighting Studio lighting volumetric lighting split lighting nightclub lighting light pollution let's see what happens when I add nightclub lighting to my prompt here's what we get when we add nightclub lighting to the blonde woman staring at her TV you've got intangibles mess with various emotions you know happy Angelic weak strong durable powerful work with symbols as with geometry 2D shapes 3D shapes 40 hyper shapes dimensionality Zero D through 5D Zero Dimensional one-dimensional two-dimensional three-dimensional four-dimensional five-dimensional all stuff to play with you've got various Multiverse and over-dimensional options some really really cool stuff that you can try extra dimensional excessively dimensional parallel universe look at this this is all little extra things that you can add to your prop to get some really really cool Styles you get the idea this Rabbit Hole goes very very deep and I could make a video that was four hours long about all the various prompts that you can use this is the ultimate cheat code this is The Game Genie if you will to get mid Journey just right and between this video and the last video I made on mid-journey you should be pretty much a prompt engineer by now a prompting expert in mid-journey and get almost any image you can possibly imagine now if you love tools like mid-journey and like all the various AI tools and chat GPT and all that kind of stuff make sure that you check out Future tools Future tools is the website that I built to curate all of the cool tools that I come across I review about 20 tools every single day pick my favorite tools put them on this website and categorize them and tag them so that they're easy to find let's say you really love generative art come up here click on generative art it'll you'll find 78 different tools that all deal with generative art very very cool site I really think you're gonna like it if you haven't visited already also check out our new newsletter I've got the Future tools newsletter if you go to futuretools.io newsletter it's a Weekly 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Length: 26min 47sec (1607 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 13 2023