Using Midjourney v5 and beyond - Midjourney Tutorial

- [Host] Recently at the time of this recording, version five for Midjourney was released. And there are several changes that just make the algorithm better for when producing images. For instance, faces of people when you're trying to get photo images are much better. Not to mention just the way that it interprets hands in addition to this V five supports a much more natural linguistic based prompt compared to earlier versions. Let's take this information in mind as we see some prompts generated with version five. Now, in order to follow along at the time of this recording, V five is only available for paid subscription members. And what you have to do is activate it in your settings. This could be changed by the time of this recording, but in order to do this, we need to click forward slash followed by settings and then followed by the return key in order to see our settings. And here's where we have access to change the default version four to version five. And in addition to this, make any other additional changes that we'd like. I have everything else at the base settings, the style, the medium, the base quality, and not to mention I'm in stealth mode because of my paid account. Now let's just see if we can get a more photorealistic image inside of Midjourney. And one thing to keep in mind is if you're looking for a photo realistic image is to think like a photographer. A photographer wouldn't type in the word photorealistic. They might mention the name of their lens, the type of lighting, the time of day that it was shot to keep into consideration how the person producing the artwork would talk can go a long way to get you the images that you're looking for. So let's keep this in mind. I'm going to type in that forward slash the imagine prompt, followed by a colon, a black and white photo of a woman shot with a 50 millimeter lens in 1950s, Paris wearing a yellow scarf on a sunny day. I'll follow this with a comma and actually press dash dash to choose an aspect ratio like we've done before with AR. I'll make this photo four five in this instance, and I'll follow this with the return key. Midjourney is now waiting to start, and we'll see in a second the four variations that has come up with. Now, based on the results, we can see a couple things. In one case, we have a nice 1950s black and white photo with the Eiffel Tower In the background, we did get one interpretation with a splash of yellow color, although it's a black and white photo, which is pretty cool, and you can see, but based on the lens that I picked, not to mention the prompt settings, it created a photo in that style. So keeping this in mind and to this advantage, you can use this for all types of things. In many cases, you want to think in the medium of the art that you're trying to produce. Now, one really interesting thing about Midjourney is that in version five, the aspect ratio sky is the limit. So unlike previous versions where you were restricted in the type of aspect ratios you can use, in version five, we can create some pretty cool stuff. So for instance, I'm going to type in the word imagine prompt, a series of icons for the next video editing application. Now, I know that most toolbars that we'll see happen to be not very wide and just very high. So let's type in that dash dash for AR and we'll make a really small width first and a very large height. I'm going to do something like 20. And then with this prompt press return, Midjourney waits to start. And let's see the end result here in a second. So here's the results of the icons. We can see here the second version kind of didn't crop this off properly, but liking the third version here. So I'm just going to enlarge this by pressing U3. One thing to note about enlarging with V five is it's instantaneous because when it produces the four variations, it's already automatically uprised. So now we can just click on this to get a better sense of the different icons that were created. Not to mention, open this inside of our Midjourney.com account or save it to our computer right here. And now let's explore just a couple other things. Want to do another imagine prompt. Follow that by colon. I'm going to type in a UX mockup illustration of a financial app for the iPhone. I'll press the comma key and follow this by knowing the aspect ratio being nine by 16 for phone. And follow this with the return key Midjourney gets to work. Okay, so here is the end result produced with version five. While we do get a mockup and actually it placed inside of a phone, the image is slightly cut off and we really had no control over the illustration that was produced. But by being a little bit more specific to Midjourney, we might be able to get something a little bit more along the lines of what we're looking for. So what I'm going to do is copy this prompt. I'm just going to select that with my mouse and press command C or control C, and then I'll bring up that forward slash here in the chat. And type in Imagine prompts followed by control V or command V to paste what I just copied. And let's make some more changes. I'm actually going to get rid of for the iPhone here to see if it will vary where the illustration produces these images. And I'm going to get more specific with this prompt. I'm going to mention the colors, a purple and blue UX mock-up illustration of a financial app. And I'm going to add at the end, showing bank account information for stocks. So just adding or changing your prompt slightly, not to mention let's change the aspect ratio to 12 by 16 could help guide the way that these mockups are created. Let's press return. We get this lovely purple and blue UX mockup on addition to this by changing the aspect ratio slightly, these images produced UX mockups that are in a phone display that isn't actually cut off at the frame. Now, in addition to this, because we didn't actually specify a type of phone, we get different variations of phone here supplied in the mockup. So just keep in mind, making subtle changes to your prompt can have a massive impact in the images that Midjourney produces.