What Midjourney does
Midjourney turns written prompts into polished visual concepts, illustrations, and photorealistic imagery with a distinctive creative sensibility.
How Midjourney works
A diffusion model interprets your prompt as visual concepts and generates a set of image candidates. You can vary, upscale, reframe, and refine the strongest direction.
Describe the visual system
Define the subject, environment, composition, lighting, lens or medium, mood, and important exclusions. References can guide subject matter, composition, or style; use only images you have permission to provide.
Create an initial image set
Midjourney converts the prompt and parameters into several candidates. Aspect ratio, stylization, variation, and model settings influence the composition and how literally the prompt is followed.
Select and iterate
Choose the candidate with the strongest overall composition, then create variations or use editing controls to adjust regions, framing, style, or details. Change one major variable at a time so you can judge its effect.
Upscale and inspect
Upscale the final direction, inspect hands, text, faces, logos, and repeated patterns, then perform any precise typography or production corrections in a conventional design tool before commercial use.
How to set up Midjourney
Choose a plan
Create an account and select a plan based on the number of images you expect to generate.
Describe the image
Write the subject, composition, lighting, mood, and visual medium you want.
Iterate deliberately
Use variations and small prompt changes to improve one dimension at a time.
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