Controlling image settings - Midjourney Tutorial

While we created our first GenAI images, we did so without exploring the settings available to us and how they affect the image output. Let's start off this movie with a very simple text prompt to see how subtle changes of our settings will go a very long way. Let's start off with something very basic. I'm going to type in to the text field that we entered our first prompt in earlier here at the top. I'm going to type in a giraffe, noting that I'm still in the create tab. I'm going to head over to this three-slider icon where we're going to adjust the prompts settings. The first and very notable option here is image size. Depending on what social media format or where you'd like to display your work, you may want to change this to something more of a portrait such as 9 by 16 for a story on Instagram or for that, a video that you might want to see on YouTube, we can go to 16:9. In this case, let's create a portrait image and we'll take note at the current Midjourney version being used. So that is 6.1. And also note that the mode is set to standard. Standard mode uses Midjourney's based stylistic settings and mixes it in with your text prompt. So it gives your image a style whether you like it or not, and will take your text prompt less literally. Another option just below the version is personalized, and this becomes available to you if you've gone through several images and rated whether you like them or not. Based on the rating of those images, Midjourney will introduce your own personal style in everything that you create. Going back to the mode that we're using, the standard mode has some built-in aesthetics that are controlled by the stylization value. To see the stylization that has been applied, we can take a look at the stylization value, and I'll just hover over the question mark so we can see how much Midjourney aesthetic is being applied. Currently, it's set to a low setting, but if we wanted no influence at all, we could set this to a value of zero. And let's see what Midjourney delivers with no stylization. While it's creating this job, I'm going to close my settings here for a second. I'm just going to grab this giraffe text prompt here within the Creative tab by clicking on Use Text. Bringing it back up into the field, I'll go here to settings again, and this time just make the stylization setting to be 500 just so that it's right there in the middle. I'll keep all the other settings at their default and I'll run this a giraffe again. I'll do that yet again. A third time, I'll just bring this all the way up to a thousand and type in a giraffe, and just press Return. And now, in the background, if I just close out those settings by clicking on the black area, I could see, first of all, my first giraffe setting with no Midjourney stylization. My second set of giraffes with the Midjourney stylization value up to 500, and then the third one still now just being complete where the stylization value has been brought up much higher. You'll see here how that aesthetic is now ingrained in the giraffe image versus that that was created without any Midjourney aesthetic. Now, just like stylization, we can take a look at some of those other settings. So I'm going to type in a giraffe again, and just so that we focus on one setting at a time, I'm just going to reset the aesthetics by clicking here on the top right. Next up is a weirdness value. So this is sort of like your oddball mix where you drag up weirdness. This weirdness value is going to just add some quirkiness to your image, and if you drag it up to extreme amounts, it's going to do so without, in some cases, even considering your text prompt. The base weirdness is set to zero, so let's compare that to something mid-range. So I'll create a giraffe with a weirdness of 1500, and I'll repeat that a second time, just typing in a giraffe again, cranking up the weirdness all the way. And last but not least, I'll introduce the giraffe images being created with no weirdness. So here's giraffe with a middle weird parameter amount. We can see that we get this quirky background for our giraffe in this particular case placed into a setting that we didn't ask it to go to, not to mention unique characteristics that we might not see on a giraffe. When we get to an extreme weird amount, we get an overexcited giraffe, again in various locations that we might not expect and various moods, not to mention artistic styles. And with no weirdness amount, you could see that result of Midjourney's personal aesthetic being added to this but without any weirdness applied. Last but not least, if I go back here to the settings, we have variety. Unlike weirdness, variety affects how varied your images are, the four that are being created. So if I rack up this variety all the way to a hundred and type in a giraffe, press Return, we're going to see our images very varied from one to the other. Variety gets transferred over to chaos as a parameter when you take a look at the information of the images that you've generated. As we can see from the four created images, the chaos value has had a bit of variation from a colored illustration of a giraffe to a composite or double exposure to another two illustrations. Last but not least, if we take a look at more options, depending on the plan that you have, you can speed up the generation of your images, not to mention hide any creations that you make from the community by simply going into stealth mode. By turning it on, the images that you create aren't available unless you go into the individual image and make it available. Alternatively, you can share your artwork and text prompts with the community by turning stealth off. Now that we've become familiar with these parameters and how they're added to the end of a text prompt in Midjourney, we can then apply this with other techniques in the next movie.