![]() ![]() Step 8: Use Midjourney’s website to see all your photos. There’s also a refresh icon to the right of U4, which is short for ‘give it another go’. Click ‘V4’ to make 4 variations of the fourth picture, or the one in the lower right. ‘V’ means ‘variations, ‘as in ‘use this image as a starting place to create new variations’, or ‘riff off of this one!’. ![]() Click ‘U1’ to upscale the first picture, or the one in the top left. ‘U’ means ‘upscale’, as in ‘create a larger version of this exact photo‘, or ‘add more pixels to this picture so I can use it for something. When the bot’s done, you should see 4 pictures in a 2×2 grid, each a different take on your prompt.īelow those pictures, you’ll see a number of buttons related to those images. Step 7: choose to upscale, create variations, or tell the bot to try again. It’s all part of the learning process with the AI. That isn’t exactly what I asked for… but that’s how it goes sometimes. Step 6: take in what Midjourney has created. Be aware that if you’ve scrolled all the way down in a channel, Discord will automatically show the newer posts as they come in… and with hundreds of thousands of people on the server, there’s a lot of requests coming in. Watch the process if you like, or go grab a cup of something. Step 5: give the bot a minute to work its magic. The powers that be periodically give out more credits to try out new versions or tweaks to their algorithm, but I wouldn’t count on those showing up when you want them to.įor now, head (back) to a #newcomers channel, find the text box at the bottom of the channel, then type ‘/imagine’, a space, and then your prompt. This is enough to play around and get comfortable with the technology, but if you like what you’re creating, you’ll probably want to pay for a monthly membership (more on that later). Presumably, some images use more while others use less.) This is what you buy when you pick up a paid plan. (Technically speaking, the currency you use when creating images is ‘GPU-minutes’ or ‘GPU-hours’. Step 4: imagine!Īs a free user that just joined, you’ll have about 25 free uses. Left-click on any of the newcomer or general channels you have access to and scroll up. There’s literally millions of images that have been generated, and many of them are right there on the server. Step 3a (optional): keep exploring the Discord server. My advice for now is to not worry about them too much – this post is for absolute beginners, after all. In the interest of keeping this post as futureproof as possible, I won’t try to go into all the various pieces of the puzzle. There’s a whole syntax that can be used to interact with the AI, and it’s ever-evolving to take advantage of the different ways to coax the AI to creating what you want it to create. Feel free to scroll up through them to go down the rabbit hole and see what other people have created. Step 3: find one of the #newcomers channels.Īs an extremely active and busy server, there’s a LOT going on. Step 2: join Midjourney’s Discord server. Discord is a free program to install on a computer, tablet, or smartphone. Step 1: download the Discord program.įirst things first – you will need Discord. ‘Publishing-ready art’ is likely to take some editing or manipulation in other photo-editing software, so look at Midjourney / AI art as one step of the art creation process, not the whole shebang. There are paid plans to make a lot of images and get commercial-use rights.įor board game designers (or really anyone that likes art, but has wanted an easier way to create it), Midjourney and other AI art services are about to change the way we make art for prototypes, cards, or possibly publishing-ready art. It’s accessed via Discord, and as of July 13th, 2022, it’s in open beta (meaning anyone can join and use it for free). The service connects your prompt to supercomputers running powerful GPU’s, so it’s not a program that runs on your computer. What is Midjourney?Īccording to itself, “Midjourney is an independent research lab exploring new mediums of thought and expanding the imaginative powers of the human species.” For users like me, it’s an opportunity to create astonishingly detailed images using a powerful AI from a text-based description. This is a open beta version of a product I do not control, and it may go any number of ways from now until when you’re reading this. WARNING: this post was up to date as of publication (August 2022). Midjourney is an amazing new tool for creating AI art with nothing more than a text prompt… and it’s ready for you to use… but how?
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