#+title: S02|L10 - midjourney pt1 - generate art using midjourney #+HTML_HEAD: #+OPTIONS: H:6 * Links #+attr_html: :class links - [[../../toc.org][TOC - ecomm clubhouse]] - [[https://jellyfin.ronnyabraham.com/web/index.html#/details?id=640940d364a72aaf74254b375046c9e8&serverId=99488804638e465693eed17924c57b60][video]] * Notes ** pricing comparison - Dali requires to pay per credit - Midjourney is flat and unlimited ** basic test - using discord - ~/imagine prompt~ - ~/imagine Planet mars, Minimal Design, Flat 2D Animation Style On A White Background --q 2 --v 5 --s~ - ~/imagine Planet mars from the perspective of it in space, Minimal Design, Flat 2D Animation Style On A White Background --q 2 --v 5 --s~ - better to give positive prompts thqn negative - positive :: ask it to do things - negative :: take away things - hit the reload button to regenerate the prompt ** subscription plans *** fast gpu - limited amount of time - depends on plan - can buy more *** copyright protection - free version requres you to show a CC BY-NC 4.0 copyright - this tells people how you got it - paid versions give a general commercial terms - don't have to tell anyone *** stealth mode - for discord - only avaialbe in pro - images don't show up in general public - don't worry about it *** to use without all the crap - in discord - click 'show members' - send a message to the Midjourney bot - right click 'message' - you are in a private convo with midjourney ** prompts *** settings - /settings **** MJ versions - choose latest **** qualities - Half, Base, High - how much time MJ uses - better is slower - high quality is a LOT better, choose this **** style - low, med, high, very high - no right or wrong answer here - high and very high are usually good - sometimes medium and low are good options **** mode - modes - public, stealth - remix, fast, relax - remix allows you to take one of your image and modify it with text - fast lets you use your fast gpu time - relax mode lets you save your fast gpu time for later ** designing *** line art - visible - easy to take in - details get lost - minimalist - higher style does not always create the result we want *** remove background ** examples of prompts *** line art - black line art of a sunflower top down on a white background --q 2 --v 5 --s 750 - minimalist black line art of a sunflower top down on a white background --q 2 --v 5 --s 750 *** corgi - corgi, cartoon, flat, 2d animation style, on a white background --q 2 --v 5 --s 50 - -s 50 means low style *** mars - planet mars from the perspective of it in space, minimal design, flat 2d animation style on a white background --q 2 -v 5 -s 250 - planet mars from the perspective of it in space, minimal design, flat, cartoon, 2d animation style on a white background --q 2 -v 5 -s 250 ** patterns - lot of Print on Demands - prompt ~scribble of japanese sea waves --tile~ - '--tile' - you can check out midjourney support documents for more info https://docs.midjourney.com/hc/en-us/categories/32013335627533 *** aspect ratios - allow you to change the aspect ratio of the image - ~-ar 16:9~ - e.g. create waves that are longer or taller - this can allow you to more better match the product you are printing on * Review ** Summary This lesson introduces Midjourney as an AI art tool for creating images that can be used in print-on-demand designs. ** Core Idea Midjourney works best through iteration. You do not usually get the final image from one prompt. Workflow: - write prompt - generate 4 images - inspect results - adjust prompt - reroll / remix / vary - choose best image ** Why Midjourney - high image quality - flat monthly fee - can generate many images - useful for experimentation - good for print-on-demand research and design creation ** Commercial Use Free plan: - may require Creative Commons attribution - not ideal for products Paid plan: - better for commercial use - no attribution requirement under normal paid terms - starts around $10/month in the transcript Pro plan: - includes stealth mode - keeps generations private ** Discord Setup Midjourney works through Discord. Basic flow: 1. create Discord account 2. join Midjourney server 3. find Midjourney bot 4. right click bot 5. click Message 6. use private bot chat Command: #+begin_example /imagine #+end_example ** Basic Prompting Example: #+begin_example /imagine cartoon planet Mars from the perspective of space #+end_example Important: Midjourney responds better to positive prompts than negative prompts. Better: #+begin_example planet Mars from the perspective of space #+end_example Weaker: #+begin_example Mars but not the surface #+end_example ** Iteration Workflow Use the first output as feedback. Ask: - what did it misunderstand? - what is missing? - what is too detailed? - what is too realistic? - what is too plain? Then revise the prompt. ** Settings *** Open Settings #+begin_example /settings #+end_example *** Version Use the newest Midjourney version unless you have a reason not to. *** Quality High quality: - slower - uses more GPU time - often better results - useful for printable designs Lower quality: - faster - useful for rough idea generation *** Style Style changes how detailed / stylized the result is. Common levels: - low - medium - high - very high There is no universally correct setting. Use different style levels to test the visual direction. ** Style Testing Checklist [0/4] - [ ] test low style - [ ] test medium style - [ ] test high style - [ ] test very high style ** Fast Mode vs Relax Mode Fast mode: - uses fast GPU time - quicker generations Relax mode: - slower - saves fast GPU time ** Stealth Mode Stealth mode keeps images from appearing publicly in Midjourney galleries. Useful if: - you want product ideas private - you do not want competitors seeing prompts - you are developing commercial designs ** Remix Mode Turn remix mode on. It lets you create variations while changing the prompt. Example: - start with happy corgi - remix with “sad” - reroll until expression is right ** Variations Midjourney gives four images. Variation buttons: - V1 = variation of image 1 - V2 = variation of image 2 - V3 = variation of image 3 - V4 = variation of image 4 Use variations when one image is close but not perfect. ** Rerolling Reroll when: - prompt is good - output is not quite right - you want more options Rerolling is central to the workflow. ** Minimalism for POD For print-on-demand, simpler designs often work better. Reasons: - clearer at thumbnail size - easier to understand quickly - prints cleaner - fewer small details get lost - stronger visual impact on shirts Prompt word: #+begin_example minimalist #+end_example Example: #+begin_example /imagine minimalist black line art of a sunflower, top down, on a white background #+end_example ** White Background Use white background when you plan to remove the background later. Example: #+begin_example on a white background #+end_example Reason: - easier to remove background - easier to create transparent PNG - cleaner for POD placement ** Seamless Patterns Patterns are useful for: - phone cases - blankets - bags - all-over-print products Use: #+begin_example --tile #+end_example Example: #+begin_example /imagine scribble of Japanese sea waves --tile #+end_example ** Aspect Ratio Use aspect ratio to match the product shape. Example: #+begin_example --ar 16:9 #+end_example Full example: #+begin_example /imagine scribble of Japanese sea waves --tile --ar 16:9 #+end_example Use aspect ratio when designing for: - wide prints - vertical products - banners - phone cases - product-specific layouts ** Prompt Checklist [0/7] - [ ] subject is clear - [ ] style is clear - [ ] background is specified - [ ] print use is considered - [ ] detail level is controlled - [ ] aspect ratio matches product - [ ] pattern command used if needed ** POD Design Checklist [0/6] - [ ] keep design readable - [ ] avoid excessive detail - [ ] test minimalist version - [ ] use white/plain background for removal - [ ] reroll several times - [ ] export/edit into transparent PNG later ** Key Insight Midjourney is not a one-shot design machine. It is an experimentation tool. The quality comes from: - prompt refinement - rerolling - remixing - testing style levels - choosing the best final image ** Bottom Line Use Midjourney to generate many possible visual directions, then refine the best ones into clean, printable POD designs. * Transcript #+begin_example 00:00 Hey, everyone. And welcome to our video series, 00:04 on Midjourney 00:05 which is my favorite AI tool 00:08 my favorite AI art tool, sorry, and, 00:11 easily the most popular 00:13 AI Art tool out there. When I first started using 00:16 AI Art, I loved DALL E and that was because 00:19 DALL E produced images in the highest quality. 00:22 Over time though, Midjourney now produces images in much higher 00:26 quality than it used to back when I first started 00:29 using AI art. And unlike Dall e, where you have 00:32 to pay per credit, 00:34 for each image that you generate, with Midjourney you pay 00:37 a small flat monthly fee 00:39 and you can generate unlimited images. 00:42 It's an amazing, incredible bargain. 00:45 And adding to that, with MidJourney, there's a free account 00:48 that you can use to try it so that you 00:51 can generate images and see if you like it before 00:53 you purchase a pay plan. With the, pay plans, you 00:57 get unlimited commercial rights. So if you do wanna use 01:00 Dall e to produce images to sell onto products, then 01:03 I highly recommend 01:04 upgrading to a paid plan. 01:06 But again, it's a small flat monthly fee and I'll 01:08 show you. 01:09 But here's how it works. 01:11 So you open up that you open up Midchurney, sorry. 01:14 And then you come and you type in, 01:17 slash 01:18 imagine. 01:19 This is your prompt and you click it. 01:21 And then you just type in exactly 01:24 what you want MidJourney to create. So we're gonna type 01:28 in this prompt 01:30 as our example. 01:32 Now, 01:33 it takes a little while. So, 01:36 it takes less than 60 seconds. 01:38 But if you give it a particularly complex prompt, it 01:42 can take longer. If you give it a really simple 01:44 prompt, it can take shorter. 01:47 So, I'm showing this in real time. 01:51 For the whole Sartete YouTube channel, 01:53 any tutorial videos I show on this are not gonna 01:56 show it in real time. What I'm going to do 01:58 is I'm gonna heavily edit those to cut out this 02:01 waiting time. 02:03 But for the ecom clubhouse members, I would much rather 02:05 give you a raw insight into 02:08 showing you 02:10 exactly what's going on, not cutting anything out for you 02:13 so that you can see exactly what to expect when 02:15 you're using apps such as Midjourney. 02:18 It's 1 of the really nice things about, having, this 02:21 course. I can produce 02:22 videos 02:24 which aren't edited for a YouTube algorithm and instead produce 02:27 images 02:29 produce videos which are as helpful as possible and provide 02:31 the most information as possible. 02:33 And I think it's very helpful to see how long 02:35 it takes so that you can use 02:38 that to figure out, 02:40 realistically how many images you could generate. Because if it 02:43 takes 60 seconds to generate an image but you want 02:46 to reroll an image multiple times, then you have to 02:48 allow for that when you're figuring out how long it's 02:50 gonna take you to come up with a design. 02:53 So this is what it's created for us. It's created 02:55 4 different images for us to choose from. 02:58 Now, here's how to use Mid Journey. 03:02 What you do 03:03 is you give it your best prompt in the beginning. 03:06 So you try to come up with a really good 03:07 prompt, 03:08 but you're probably gonna have to tweak it. You're probably 03:10 gonna have to add things. You might have to remove 03:12 things. 03:13 So looking at this 03:14 1 here, 03:16 we can see that, 03:19 it's produced 03:20 3 images of the planet Mars, which is what I 03:22 was in I was imagining. I was looking for it 03:25 to create images 03:27 of the planet Mars, the physical planet Mars that you'd 03:29 see floating in space, But it has created this image 03:32 here 03:34 of Mars itself 03:35 which is not what I want. 03:37 So this is exactly what I mean by tweaking it. 03:40 So what I'm gonna do, 03:42 I'm gonna come back. I'm gonna go now use the 03:44 imagine prompt 03:46 and I'm gonna put something very similar in. However, 03:50 I'm gonna come in and modify. I'm gonna go from 03:53 the perspective 03:56 of 03:57 it in space 04:01 and we'll do a search for that. 04:03 I also apologize if my voice is weaker. 04:05 I'm currently recovering from who knows what infection I had, 04:11 but, 04:13 I tested negative for COVID. But, 04:16 I currently got a weaker voice as a result, so 04:21 I'm just gonna let this load. When I first started 04:24 using MidJourney, I found it very intimidating that it used 04:27 Discord. 04:28 The MidJourney 04:29 AI team had purposefully chosen to use Discord as a 04:32 way to message 04:34 the bot with your prompt 04:36 because they didn't wanna have to spend extra money 04:39 on creating a UI, 04:42 to do it. So when you go to Dall e, 04:44 it's got this beautiful website with this beautiful UI where 04:47 you come in and you type in your prompt to 04:49 the bot and you send it to the bot and 04:50 the bot sends you back images. And it looks beautiful. 04:52 Don't get me wrong. But it is expensive to design 04:55 a website like that. So the My Journey team thought, 04:58 well, why don't we take all of our money and 05:00 invest it instead 05:02 into 05:03 the actual bot itself? 05:05 So we'll invest it 05:07 into, 05:09 making this AI the best that it can be. 05:13 And then, 05:15 we can save time on that. Now, 05:18 I wanna show you this here because this definitely does 05:20 happen. So I'm pretty certain 05:22 that we have that the bot, 05:25 has, oh, no. Here we go. As I say, if 05:28 it if it if it takes a little bit too 05:29 long for it to to load, you can always just 05:32 repeat, 05:33 repeat it. 05:35 But I mean, this is the thing. Like, there's a 05:36 lot of people currently sending the bot, 05:39 prompts 05:40 And so, 05:41 it could take a while. And this is exactly why 05:43 I wanted to record this for the Econ Club, house 05:45 members without modifying it so that you can get, again, 05:48 a realistic 05:50 idea about what's actually how long it actually takes and 05:54 the process involved. 05:58 So you can see that it's currently 93 percent. So 06:01 it is loading up. 06:04 Alright. So this is 06:05 this here is a lot more what we want. Now, 06:07 of course, you can see here that 06:09 it's, 06:11 that's showing us some space which makes sense because it's 06:13 seeing the word space. 06:15 I don't mind that though, 06:19 because if I wanna start adding in, 06:22 prompts. Once I've currently with Midjourney, 06:25 and this could change. By the time you're watching this, 06:27 it may have changed. Currently, right now, Midjourney is not 06:30 great 06:31 at taking negative prompts. It's much better instead to give 06:34 it positive prompts. Positive prompts are asking it specifically to 06:37 do things rather than asking it to take away things. 06:41 So if you have a prompt like this here that 06:43 you like, what you do is you just come and 06:46 click this button here. 06:48 And now 06:50 it will reroll the prompt. 06:52 So it's gonna do this prompt again for us 06:55 and, 06:57 we can then load. But yes, I was very intimidated 07:00 by Midjourney because 07:02 I, 07:03 I'm not a big Discord user. I don't use Discord 07:05 a lot. And you can see this time around, it's 07:06 done it a lot faster. 07:08 So, 07:09 sometimes sometimes it takes longer than others. It just depends 07:12 upon, 07:13 the server. 07:16 So I don't use Discord so much. So I was 07:18 very intimidated by it but it's actually really easy. 07:21 And once we finish doing this, 07:23 I'll show you how it works and how to open 07:26 up Midjourney and how to use it. 07:29 But yes, I just wanted to give you a brief 07:31 overview 07:32 of how you use Midjourney 07:34 so that you can, 07:36 see. 07:41 And here we go. 07:42 So 07:44 this here is the way that, 07:47 you're mentioning. You just type in the prompt that you 07:49 want. But, of course, as you can imagine, you can 07:52 come up with some pretty incredible prompts. So that's what 07:55 we're gonna be also discussing 07:57 inside of this video tutorial 07:59 series. 08:00 But let me, for now, just show you 08:04 how to get, 08:06 Midjourney, 08:07 working for you. 08:10 Okay. So to get MidJourney, 08:12 what you just wanna do is you wanna come to 08:15 the MidJourney website 08:17 and, you want to register for a MidJourney account. 08:21 And when you do, you will start out on their 08:25 free trial. So their free trial is, of course, free. 08:28 There is no, monthly cost. 08:32 Currently right now, as I will show you, you can 08:34 set your settings so that you can generate fast images 08:37 faster or slower. 08:38 So if you wanna generate images faster, it will use 08:42 up GPU time and, Midjourney will just track this time. 08:46 And once you run out of it, then you either 08:48 have to purchase more or you just move to the 08:51 slower plan. It's kinda like your it's like Internet, plans 08:54 for your phone where you might have a certain amount 08:57 of, 08:59 gigabytes that you can use that's, really fast and then 09:02 afterwards you have to switch to the slower loading ones. 09:05 Sorry. Again, I'm currently, 09:08 recovering. So I apologize for any coughs or anything like 09:11 that while I'm recording these tutorial videos. 09:15 So, 09:16 the main thing to keep in mind though is that 09:18 the free plan 09:19 has this here, the usage rights. So if you are 09:23 using the free plan and then you want to use 09:25 those images, for example, sell it onto t shirts or 09:28 stickers, 09:29 then you're gonna have to give, 09:32 Creative Commons credit. And there's a whole process for how 09:34 to do that by the way. You can click on 09:36 it to find out more about how you give credit 09:38 for it. The main reason why I I really do 09:41 not recommend this for people who want to sell these, 09:45 these these images as, products 09:47 is because, 09:50 currently right now, we don't know, what's gonna necessarily happen. 09:53 But it looks like that it may be ruled that 09:56 AI generated images might not have the same copyright protections 09:59 as 10:00 non AI generated art, which makes a lot of sense. 10:03 In which case, 10:06 the thing is is that from from somebody who's just 10:09 browsing the Internet, they've got no way to tell. There's 10:11 no way to know whether your images are AI generated 10:14 or whether you yourself have drawn them unless unless you 10:18 purposefully state, 10:20 where 10:21 they were generated from or how they were created. 10:24 And so this here would tell the person who's what 10:27 who's looking at your product that this is AI generated 10:32 art, which if it does not end up having the 10:34 same copyright protections, 10:35 then that person could, in theory, use your art. So 10:39 rather than reveal that it's AI generated art, 10:43 I think it's a lot smarter 10:45 to instead, 10:47 purchase 10:48 a paid plan, which can start from as little as 10:51 10 dollars US a month. 10:54 And go down to 8 US dollars a month if 10:56 you purchase an annual plan so that as part of 10:59 the general commercial 11:01 terms, you don't have to give credit. 11:03 So, 11:06 yes, that's why you can start with the free trial 11:09 and then you can move to, 11:11 a paid plan 11:13 once you have determined that the images that Midjourney creates 11:16 are something that you are interested in 11:19 using for yourself. 11:21 And, for the basic plan and the standard plan, the 11:24 biggest difference 11:25 is, 11:26 the fact that you, 11:29 are getting more fast GPU 11:32 time per month. So it means then that you can 11:35 generate images faster so you can generate more images per 11:38 hour. 11:39 The Pro plan has a really big difference though and 11:43 that is that you can use stealth mode. Stealth mode 11:46 means that your images are not going to show up 11:51 in, 11:52 Midjourney's, 11:54 app. And later on in this video series, I'm gonna 11:56 actually show you where you can find the images that 11:59 people have created using Midjourney along with their prompts that 12:02 do get shown to the general public because people don't 12:04 have the pro plan. But if you have the pro 12:06 plan, you can use staff mode. Now, is that really 12:10 a big deal? It depends. If you think about it, 12:13 there are so many images being generated 12:16 every single minute, every single second that chances are your 12:19 image is just going to get 12:21 completely, you know, washed away 12:24 and the sea will be other images. And it's very 12:26 unlikely anybody would ever find it and then ever try 12:29 to use your image. But if you want to keep 12:31 them private, if you definitely want them to be something 12:34 that only you have access to, 12:36 then stealth mode is what you want. And then you 12:39 do have to purchase the pro plan for that. But 12:42 if you, 12:43 don't mind that, then you can start from as little 12:46 as 10 dollars. 12:48 For this, you're also going to need to have access 12:50 to Discord. 12:52 Discord is an instant messaging app as I mentioned before. 12:56 And, yes, the MidJourney team have chosen that rather than 13:00 create 13:01 their own website 13:03 where you send a text message to the bot and 13:06 then they text and then the bot sends you a 13:08 message back, just like with ChatGPT. With ChatGPT, 13:11 you send the bot what you want and then the 13:13 bot sends you a message back. They've got their own 13:15 website for that. MidJourney decided, no, we're not gonna create 13:18 our own website for that. We're just gonna use Discord. 13:21 You send the bot what you want it to create 13:24 and then the bot will send that back to you 13:26 and it's gonna do it through Discord. 13:29 So it works really well, but, 13:32 if you have never used Discord before, you might find 13:33 it a little bit confusing at first, but it's really, 13:35 really not. You get used to it very quickly. 13:38 So you wanna create a Discord account 13:40 and then you come and you open Discord. 13:47 Alright. So you're in Discord. 13:50 You come to your Midjourney 13:54 channel. It's gonna look like this. 13:57 So, 13:58 you'll probably be in 1 of these, 14:01 newcomer rooms. So these are just, general chat rooms. 14:04 Sorry. 14:07 These are just general chat rooms where people 14:10 are, 14:12 adding in their own prompts. And this is public. These 14:14 are public rooms. So you could scroll through these by 14:16 the way and just see what people are generating. 14:19 It's quite a lot of fun and you can get 14:21 a lot of really good ideas from it. 14:23 But, 14:25 what I recommend that you do is that you don't 14:27 use these rooms. You don't use the this this this 14:29 chat room to, 14:32 to generate images. 14:34 So, 14:35 by the way, also, sometimes instead of landing in here, 14:37 you might actually land on homepage. 14:39 If you land on homepage, what you wanna do is 14:42 you wanna come and click on any of these chat 14:45 rooms. So, for example, you wanna come and click on 14:47 newbies 1 2 0 because that will get this button 14:50 up here. Now oftentimes, this button is hidden. 14:54 So if it's hidden, you wanna come and click this 14:56 button here. If you come back here to home, you'll 14:59 see that the button's not there. That's why we wanna 15:02 come to 1 of these newcomer rooms. 15:05 We wanna come and we wanna make sure that we 15:07 can come and find the, 15:09 members list. 15:10 Then you come to MidJourney bot 15:14 and you right click it 15:16 and then you come and click message. 15:18 And now 15:20 you are in 15:21 your own 15:22 private 15:24 conversation with MidJourney 15:26 and, 15:27 no 1 else is in here with you. So, 15:30 you can start messaging 15:31 the MidJourney, 15:33 bot, as you like. 15:35 And so I'm gonna do that right now. Actually, what 15:37 I'm gonna do is I'm gonna come and take this 15:38 property. I'm gonna make it even more specific. 15:41 I'm gonna come and click imagine. 15:47 I'm gonna add in 15:50 the phrase cartoon. 15:52 These are a little bit more realistic than I would 15:54 like. 15:56 Let's see what it creates. 16:01 And we'll just let it load. 16:03 Be stoked. I hope that even if you are a 16:06 big Discord user, that you'll see that this is actually 16:08 so much more simple to use, 16:10 than you might have thought. 16:13 There you go. This time, it loaded up pretty quickly. 16:16 And we'll see what it creates. 16:18 And so this is really what you're doing. You're you're 16:20 tweaking it and you're generating lots of different versions of 16:23 it to find what you want. 16:27 And you can see here that, you get to see 16:30 the whole process of the bot making it for you. 16:32 So now it's at 62 percent. Once it's at hundred 16:34 percent, 16:35 it'll be finished. 16:37 And you can see here that I've got stealth mode 16:39 turned on, so only I can see these images. But 16:42 other people but I'll show you how you can how 16:44 you can turn this setting on shortly. 16:49 Very cool. So this here you can see looks actually 16:52 substantially 16:53 different from these ones here. 16:55 This 1 here definitely has, 16:57 versions of it that are a lot more cartoony. 17:00 So I could keep rerolling this and, 17:04 generate lots and lots of different versions of this and 17:06 then choose the ones that I liked the most. 17:10 Yes. 17:11 Let's now talk about the settings. 17:13 Okay. So here's how to access settings. 17:17 What you do is you ask MidJourney to open them 17:20 up for you. So come, 17:22 go, 17:23 slash settings, 17:25 enter. 17:27 Alright. Here we go. 17:29 So, 17:30 the first thing you need to do is choose the 17:32 version of MidJourney that you want. 17:34 Currently, right now, you don't want to, 17:36 worry about any of these. You wanna focus on the 17:39 main versions of MidJourney. 17:41 So what I have found is that the latest version 17:44 of MidJourney usually creates the best images which makes a 17:47 lot of sense because, the latest algorithm has been modified 17:52 to be made even better. You can use older, 17:55 algorithms if you prefer, 17:56 but generally, I found the latest version of Midjourney usually 17:59 works best. Currently, that is MidJourney version 5. By the 18:02 time you're watching this, it might be MidJourney 18:05 version 6. It might be MidJourney version 10. Who knows? 18:09 But I would choose the latest version. 18:12 Next up, we're gonna choose the quality. 18:14 This 18:15 is how much processing time MidJourney is going to put 18:19 into generating your images. 18:21 If you choose high quality, 18:24 it will use 2 times the cost 18:26 of your GPU time 18:29 and it will also be slower. 18:32 So, 18:33 you could choose base quality or you could choose half 18:36 quality. That will be the fastest. That will be, 18:41 you know, still faster than this, but more time and 18:44 half quality. 18:45 I always choose high quality. Why? 18:48 Because 18:49 I found that the quality of images it creates is 18:51 much better because it's putting more GPU time into trying 18:54 to figure out the best type of image for you. 18:56 And 18:57 even though it might takes longer for it to generate 19:00 the 4 images, 19:01 if you're generating higher quality images then chances are you're 19:04 gonna need to have less you're gonna need to prompt 19:06 at least. And that's gonna save you more time overall 19:09 even if it's taking you longer per generation. 19:12 Generally, when you're producing images that you plan to potentially 19:15 be printing, 19:17 you 19:18 you want to have you're not just if you were 19:21 if we were just creating for example, 19:23 like test images to try to generate ideas, like rough 19:26 ideas, then high quality could potentially be good and base 19:29 quality could potentially be good if we just wanna generate 19:31 lots and lots of ideas. 19:33 But if we wanna generate images that are really good 19:36 quality for us to print with, then we want them 19:38 to be really good, 19:40 with the least mistakes possible. 19:42 And so, 19:43 rather than having to regenerate these over and over again 19:45 to get it, it's much better just to spend more 19:48 time upfront 19:49 but overall less time because you're gonna be generating less, 19:52 prompts. 19:54 Now we're gonna come down to style. And what we'll 19:56 do is we'll come back to style because style is 19:57 quite important. This, you would assume, you would assume when 20:01 you first use this that just selecting style very high, 20:03 making it the most style pop making it the highest 20:05 level of style possible your image is better. No. 20:09 There is no right and wrong answer here. They're just 20:12 different. They just create very different looking images. 20:15 And we'll experiment with this later. 20:17 I found usually 20:20 I'm really I'm usually looking for these 2, style high 20:23 or style very high. There are some times though where 20:25 medium and low can be really good options. 20:29 And if you have the time, it can be good 20:31 to play around with them for each of your different 20:33 designs to try to see which style, 20:35 level, 20:36 generally works the best for the type of design that 20:39 you're going after. So 20:42 this can these can be good and I'll show you, 20:45 the difference in them afterwards. 20:47 So once you've chosen that, you wanna choose whether you 20:49 want public mode or stuff mode. Remember, 20:52 staff mode is only available if you pay extra for 20:54 it so you have to be on the Pro plan 20:56 to have this access to have this accessible. Of course, 20:58 I have paid for the Pro plan so I have 21:00 chosen staff mode. There's no real downside to choosing staff 21:03 mode if you have access to it so I would 21:04 choose it. But, 21:06 you have to select it. I could, for example, choose 21:09 my things to be on public, but I'm gonna choose 21:11 them to be on staff. 21:15 For, 21:16 Remix mode 21:18 hold on. Sorry. 21:20 Sorry. I just had to do I just had to 21:22 cough a bunch. 21:24 So for Remix mode, 21:27 this will enable you when you you can what this 21:30 will enable you to do is it will enable you 21:31 to be able to, 21:33 take 1 of your images and then reroll that image 21:36 but make modifications 21:37 to that image through text. So it's a good idea 21:39 to have it turned on, just to give yourself that 21:42 option. Even if you don't use it, no harm in 21:44 having it on. And then we've got fast mode and 21:47 relax mode. 21:49 So fast mode, of course, is, 21:51 when you were selecting your MidJourney plan, remember 21:54 it came, 21:56 with a certain amount of fast GPU time, 21:59 and you could purchase more of it but you get 22:01 some of it by default. So with, for example, the 22:04 basic plan, you get 3.3 hours. 22:07 Well, if you wanna save these hours, 22:10 what you can do 22:12 is you can choose relax mode and now you will 22:16 generate images, 22:17 slower. They'll take a little bit longer but you can 22:20 always switch back to fast as it says or you 22:22 can just choose fast mode. 22:24 So I'm gonna select fast mode, 22:28 but it's entirely up to you. 22:31 So then, 22:32 what we're now gonna do 22:34 is we're now gonna go through I'm gonna show you 22:36 how 22:37 drastically different these can look, 22:41 depending upon which style setting that you choose. 22:44 Okay. So remember, we've chosen low. 22:48 Let's come and imagine 22:50 and, 22:52 let's 22:55 do, cordy 22:58 cartoon, 23:00 flat, 23:03 2 d 23:04 animation 23:05 style, 23:09 background. 23:13 And we will see 23:15 what it creates. 23:17 So, 23:19 you can see here that it says s 50. This 23:22 is the style prompt. 23:25 So by selecting low, it's just automatically changed the style 23:29 prompt to us to always be set to 50, whereas 23:32 the ones I was using previously were set to style 23:34 250. 23:36 That's because these were set to high, 23:38 And now we've set it to low. So we've set 23:41 it to low style. 23:43 And what it's gonna do is it's gonna create us 23:45 images 23:46 which 23:47 generally have less details. Now, that doesn't mean that 23:50 the images 23:52 are 23:53 bad. Not at all. In fact, sometimes you want them 23:56 to be, 23:57 simpler 23:58 in their design. Simple can still be beautiful. And that's 24:01 something that I'm actually gonna discuss 24:04 soon. 24:05 But yes. 24:07 So 24:08 this here are our images 24:11 on low. And we could re roll these to give 24:13 us some more examples, but this here is just a 24:15 good little basic example. 24:18 So now we're gonna come back to settings. 24:22 We're gonna come and select style medium. We're gonna come 24:25 click dismiss this message just so that we don't have 24:28 it, 24:33 there. 24:34 Let's come and type in imagine. 24:40 And now 24:43 we are 24:44 going to see, 24:48 what the medium style is. So 24:58 Oh. 0, my 24:59 my little dog just he just, Starbuck just got up 25:02 for a nap. I was like, oh, is he gonna 25:04 is he gonna bark? 25:06 He didn't bark luckily. He looks like my dog, Starbuck, 25:09 looks a lot like 25:11 a, 25:12 cookie. 25:13 The little Swedish fellant. 25:26 93 25:27 percent. 25:29 There we go. 25:30 So 25:31 this here is our medium, 25:36 and this here is our low. 25:44 Alright. Now let's change it to high. 25:56 So, 25:58 you can see why 25:59 this 26:00 is really good for that it's good to try out 26:03 these different styles to yourself when you're coming up with 26:06 a design 26:07 because 26:08 you might have a particular art style in mind. 26:11 And if you selected the wrong style, 26:14 if you selected it to be either not detailed enough 26:17 or too detailed, you might not get what you wanted, 26:19 and you might be disappointed. 26:21 And you might think, Oh, this isn't 26:23 what I imagined. 26:24 This is not 26:26 it. 26:29 But if you had just tried a different if you 26:30 just tried a different style setting, then you could have 26:33 exactly what you want. Like, there are some there are 26:35 some sticker designs 26:36 which look really great, 26:39 in a in a style like this where, there are 26:42 these details. And a lot of children's products, 26:46 work really well with the style as well, 26:50 whereas, 26:50 there are products that are aimed at an older audience. 26:53 Oftentimes, the designs do benefit from more detail. 26:57 So you can see that there's no right or wrong 26:59 answer yet. They're just different. 27:01 All right. So now we've got something on high style. 27:04 Very different, isn't it? That's extremely 27:08 different 27:10 from this here which is our medium. 27:13 And so now, 27:15 very high adds 27:16 in a lot of details 27:18 usually. 27:20 But, of course, there is a element of randomness 27:23 to AI. So we'll see what it creates for us. 27:29 And so now our style is set to 27:31 70 it's 750. 27:34 So that's quite 27:37 quite a big difference. So it's definitely gonna be very, 27:40 very interesting, 27:42 to see 27:44 what it creates for us. 27:47 And you can see that the quality of images here 27:49 is stunning. 27:51 MidJourney creates some, 27:53 sorry, some very, very beautiful, 27:58 incredible images 27:59 that would have cost a lot of money to purchase, 28:03 a lot of money in the past. 28:08 So it's quite amazing. 28:11 And 28:12 we're not done yet, but can definitely see that this 28:15 is looking quite a bit different. 28:22 So let's check out that. That is our very 28:25 high 28:28 style. Substantially 28:29 different, isn't it, from when we first 28:32 produced, 28:35 our style on low. 28:37 And you can absolutely imagine there are some children's products 28:41 that benefit from this style 28:44 and that there are some, 28:48 designs 28:49 which benefit 28:50 a lot more 28:51 from, say, this style. 28:54 So there is no right or wrong answer here. They're 28:57 just different. 28:59 Okay. So the next thing I want to discuss when 29:01 it comes to, 29:03 using the journey to create great designs for printing 29:06 is 29:07 to 29:08 embrace minimalism. 29:10 So 29:12 if we come here and we take a look at 29:13 sunflower T shirts, we can see that while there are 29:15 definitely some designs which are quite complex, 29:18 a lot of the best designs 29:20 that or designs that sell the best aren't actually that 29:24 complex. 29:25 This 1 here, for example, is 1 of the 29:28 best selling sunflower t shirts. 29:30 And the line art itself, while you might look at 29:33 this and go, this is quite complex, 29:35 as I'm about to show you, 29:37 it's a lot less complex than it seems. So, 29:40 a lot of people, if they were creating a design 29:44 for, 29:45 a sunflower 29:47 t shirt like this, which has come to Midjourney, 29:49 they've come to settings, 29:53 And they'd change it to, for example, B style very 29:56 high because I'd assume that that's the best. And then 29:58 it'd come and go imagine. 30:01 And then they would go, 30:03 black line 30:05 art 30:06 of 30:07 a sunflower 30:09 top down on a white 30:12 background 30:13 and then 30:14 do 30:16 a prop for this. And, also, the reason why, by 30:18 the way, you put a lot of these images on 30:20 a white background is so that it makes it very 30:22 easy to later on remove that background and make it 30:26 transparent 30:26 so that you can then take that image and put 30:29 it onto a product like, say, a sticker 30:31 or 30:32 a t shirt, something like that. 30:36 So 30:37 we will just 30:39 let this load 30:43 doing its thing. I apologize again if my dog barks. 30:46 Fingers crossed we get through this and he doesn't bark. 30:49 When he wakes up though, he's often quite 30:53 lively 30:54 after a nap. 31:00 So 31:01 don't get me wrong. 31:03 You can see it's not yet finished. It's about to 31:05 finish. But you can see that these are stunning pictures. 31:08 Like, they're amazing pictures. They're incredible pictures. It's come so 31:11 far. 31:13 But 31:14 these are a lot more complex 31:17 than, 31:17 you know, this. 31:19 And 31:21 the reason why is because, 31:24 we've set you know, we haven't asked Midjourney to make 31:28 this more minimal. 31:29 And the truth is is that while these do look 31:31 beautiful, 31:32 oftentimes 31:33 as you will discover with 31:35 print on demand designs, 31:37 more simple pictures 31:39 often sell best. And there are legitimate 31:41 consumer reasons as to why that is the case. And 31:45 1 example of a reason 31:47 is that, 31:49 it stands out visually. A lot of little details can 31:52 be very easily lost 31:54 especially when, you know, they're printed on Tuesday, 31:58 like a t shirt. 31:59 The printing space in reality when you look at it 32:01 physically, 32:02 if you've got a lot of little details, it's very 32:03 easy for them to not really be that visible when 32:06 someone's wearing it. And so having a design that just 32:09 stands out, that's very easy to take in and look 32:12 at visually 32:13 is great. And 32:16 from from the perspective also of online marketing, 32:19 having a design which, 32:21 is very visible and easy to take in while you're 32:25 browsing like this here. 32:28 Yeah. When you're browsing this here, you've only got a 32:30 certain thumbnail size. It can only be this size. 32:34 So if you've got lots and lots of little details, 32:36 they might they might make for a beautiful picture but 32:37 it doesn't mean that the consumer 32:39 is able to see all of those little details. 32:42 So sometimes less is more. And when it comes to 32:45 print on demand, 32:47 less is often more. 32:49 So, 32:51 instead what we wanna do is we wanna be focusing 32:53 on designs that usually, not always, but usually we wanna 32:56 be focusing on more minimal designs. And so that's why 32:59 using the minimalist prompt 33:01 can be very powerful. 33:04 So, 33:05 imagine 33:06 minimalist 33:08 black line art of, 33:11 sunflower 33:13 top down on a 33:14 white 33:16 background. 33:20 And of course, because of this, 33:22 as you can imagine, we want to also play around 33:25 with the different quality not quality settings, we want with 33:28 the different style settings. 33:30 So 33:31 we want to play around 33:33 with, the different levels of of style 33:35 because 33:36 a lower style 33:38 could indeed be what we want here. A higher style 33:42 does not always 33:43 create the result that you want. 33:48 But until we try it out, you won't necessarily know. 33:51 So this is also 1 of the really nice things 33:53 about MidJourney. Because it's a flat fee for unlimited pictures, 33:57 it lets you do 33:59 a lot of experimentation 34:00 so that you can find what you want, and that 34:02 is the key to using Midjourney. 34:03 It is 34:05 experimenting 34:06 with lots of different tries. 34:10 So already, 34:11 you can see that we've gotten something much, much closer 34:16 to, 34:17 the designs 34:19 that you would see over here. 34:21 Much, much closer 34:24 than than these 34:25 beautiful yet very complex pictures. 34:28 So what we can do, of course, 34:31 come and we'll take this, 34:34 and 34:35 this can play 34:36 with the sex. So we'll come, and we'll set the 34:40 star to be high. 34:42 It's just imagine. 34:50 And we will let it load. 34:56 And so other things I'm gonna be showing you is, 34:58 for example, how to take these images and how to 35:01 do things like remove the background on them because currently, 35:04 and this could change, but currently with MidJourney, 35:08 the background of the images is not transparent. 35:11 It is a solid color. 35:13 So if you're going to print this 35:16 if we were to come and we were to print 35:19 this sunflower image 35:21 onto a t shirt, 35:23 the white box around it would also print with it, 35:27 which is not what we want. We want to make 35:29 sure that there is no white background, that it's just 35:32 the picture. 35:33 And so I will show you how to remove it 35:36 so that, 35:37 you can just have the picture, 35:40 which is what you want. 35:44 But 35:46 here we go. 35:48 So this here is also looking, 35:51 a bit different as well, but it'll be interesting to 35:53 try it with, 35:55 other 35:57 settings. 35:58 So our style medium. 36:02 Oh, hold on. Let's dismiss this so that it doesn't 36:04 take up space here. 36:08 And then we'll just let it load. 36:16 I'll also show you 36:18 different 36:19 ways to generate 36:22 ideas for creating, 36:23 fantastic prompts. Because 36:25 as you can see, 36:27 your prompts 36:29 drastically 36:30 impact, 36:32 what you get. 36:34 And it can be very hard to come up with 36:37 prompt ideas. 36:39 And the best way is to, 36:43 research 36:44 and to use, 36:45 data to help you come up with different prompt ideas. 36:49 And 36:49 I will be showing you different ways that you can 36:52 research and come up with those. 36:56 So, 36:58 this here is already looking pretty different 37:02 from 37:03 these here. So we'll just come now and do 37:09 another we'll do 1 more switch out. We will switch 37:11 to low mode, and then let's come and go imagine. 37:19 And let's see what we get. 37:24 Currently, right now, 37:25 it's looking like 37:28 that we will probably get the best results overall if 37:32 we were to do a lot of different rerolls 37:34 using, 37:39 the high style. 37:41 But, again, this is why we and you could potentially 37:44 experiment also 37:45 with 37:46 the, 37:48 with the medium style as well. 37:52 But we'll see what we get from our low style. 37:58 62 percent, 38:00 78 percent, 38:04 93 percent. 38:11 Alright. So that is definitely not what we want. 38:16 And, 38:18 yeah. Yeah, this is substantially 38:20 different 38:22 from, 38:25 from our very high quality, isn't it? 38:28 Substantially 38:29 different. 38:30 But this is why it's really good to experiment. So 38:33 once you've chosen the 1 that you, want so let's 38:35 take for example, 38:37 this here. We can come and we can reroll it. 38:40 So if I come down here, you'll see now down 38:43 here at the bottom 38:44 that 38:45 it is 38:47 going to rerun 38:49 that prompt for me. And so it's gonna give me 38:52 even more to work with. 39:03 31 percent. 39:09 Oh, 62 percent. We're over 39:11 we're over the 50 percent, 39:14 line here. 39:19 93 percent. 39:26 100 percent. 39:28 Very cool. 39:29 So, 39:31 yes. 39:33 You can see then that, sometimes 39:35 sometimes when it comes to, 39:37 print on demand, less can be more. 39:40 So, 39:41 using minimalist, 39:44 will get you very far. 39:46 Something else that's very good, to also keep in mind 39:49 is that you can, 39:51 reroll, 39:52 particular versions of it. So let's say I came here 39:57 and I thought that this had this was quite interesting. 39:59 And I was like, well, this has potential. I'd like 40:02 just to get some more versions of this 1, please. 40:04 What you can do is you can come and you 40:07 can click on this here. So v 1 would be 40:09 this 1. V 2 is this 1. V 3 is 40:13 this 1. And then v 4 is this 1. So 40:16 we come here. 40:18 This is our Remix prompt. We turned on Remix mode 40:20 so we're gonna be able to get this. So we 40:21 could come and we could actually modify this if we 40:23 want to, but you keep it as is. 40:28 Click submit. 40:30 And now it's remixing, 40:33 the image. So it's going to give us different variations 40:37 of that image. 40:40 And and remixing it, you can by adding in different 40:42 details to it, 40:44 you can also 40:45 tweak it and you can change aspects of it that 40:48 you want. So you might just wanna get different versions 40:50 of it. Like I'm gonna get different different versions here, 40:52 but 40:53 you might want to reroll it. So for example, 40:56 so I'll do a fun 40:59 reroll 41:00 after this so that you can see 41:03 things that you could do to an image. 41:10 You see, now we've got different versions. And so, 41:13 you know, you might have liked this 1 here, but 41:15 now, actually, when you come and take a look at 41:17 this 1 here, then this 1 here is getting a 41:20 lot more closer to the design that you want. 41:23 And speaking of remixing, 41:27 so when it comes to remixing, 41:28 let's come back here to our corgis. So this is 41:31 1. This is b 1. This is b 2. This 41:33 is b 3. This is b 4. 41:36 I think all of these are very cute. 41:38 We're gonna go with b 4 which I think is 41:40 particularly cute. 41:42 So 41:44 we're gonna come to b 4 and we're gonna come 41:46 and click on b 4. Now, 41:49 when I'm remixing this, 41:51 I can ask Midjourney 41:53 to make some changes to this variation that I have 41:56 requested. 41:56 It's gonna take that same image but it's gonna remix 41:59 it but I can modify it slightly. 42:02 This can work better sometimes than others. 42:05 Gotta play around with it. Gotta try it. 42:07 But let's come and say that I wanna modify it. 42:09 So currently that corgi looks kind of happy, curious. 42:13 I want it to look sad. 42:15 Okay. Click 42:16 submit. 42:17 And if we scroll down to the bottom, 42:21 we'll see that Midjourney is remixing 42:23 that picture, and it's going to give us 42:26 different variations of it. 42:30 So you can already see, 42:32 even though 42:33 it's nowhere near finished yet, 42:36 it is 42:37 making me different variations that look quite similar to that 42:41 original image, 42:42 but it is modifying it for me. 42:47 Now 42:50 now there are parts of the Gogi that look sad 42:52 and so I tried to modify it. So if we 42:54 come and we do a reroll of that, 43:00 we can get, 43:01 more, 43:02 variations of it too. 43:04 So that is how 43:07 you can take a design 43:09 and that you can tweak it. 43:11 So here we go. We've got see because up here, 43:14 we can see that the AI 43:16 now, by the time you're watching this, the AI may 43:18 have become even more advanced and it may be really, 43:20 really good at taking these tweaks and using it. 43:24 But currently, right now, as you can see, that you 43:26 are going to get a lot of pictures. They don't 43:29 necessarily match with what you have requested. 43:33 So this 1 here is looking a lot more sad 43:35 than this 1, this 1. But it's trying to modify 43:38 the way it 43:44 looks. 43:45 Go. 43:48 Yeah. This 1 here. Look at 43:50 this. Look at this, 43:52 sad, annoyed Corgi. 43:54 Love it. But you can see here how that remixing 43:57 them over and over again is really what you wanna 43:59 do. What you wanna do is you wanna keep re 44:01 rolling it, re rolling it, re rolling it, re rolling 44:03 it, and then pick the best designs from there. 44:07 But yes, there's another, 44:09 prompt that we need 44:11 to discuss 44:12 that's very helpful when you're creating designs for printing products, 44:17 and that is the pattern prompt. 44:21 Alright. So patterns 44:24 can be very helpful when you're creating print on demand 44:27 products. There are a lot of products such as phone 44:29 cases, which benefit immensely 44:32 from patterns. 44:33 Traditionally creating a pattern, a seamless pattern 44:37 that repeats, 44:38 infinitely 44:39 has been very difficult. 44:41 However, with Midjourney, 44:43 it's a lot simpler now. 44:45 So I'll show you how to make them. 44:49 The Gonna come, we're gonna imagine. We're gonna prompt it. 44:51 So, 44:52 scribble 44:53 of 44:54 Japanese 44:56 sea 44:57 waves 45:00 and then, 45:02 title. 45:03 So you wanna add this 45:06 little prompt in 45:08 at the end. 45:10 And that little prompt 45:12 is currently the prompt which tells Midjourney 45:16 to create a seamless pattern. 45:19 Now different versions of Midjourney in the future might change 45:21 that prompt. It might be different. It might be something 45:23 else. However, currently right now is that if the version 45:27 of Midjourney by the time you're watching this has changed, 45:30 then you might just wanna go to 45:33 the, 45:34 Midjourney 45:35 Support documents and find out what prompt currently would 45:38 you'd put for that. 45:40 Because if you come to the, Midjourney Support documents right 45:43 now, you'll see, for example, 45:46 that in here it discusses a tile, 45:49 parameter 45:50 and it says that it works for versions 1, 2, 45:52 3, 4, 5. So it didn't work for 4. It 45:55 wasn't it wasn't used for 4. 45:58 So it might be different then. You might have heard 46:00 that sound. That's the little sound that it makes when 46:02 it successfully created it. So 46:05 now we have created our seamless pattern tiles. 46:08 And these repeat 46:10 infinitely, 46:11 infinitely. 46:13 Something 46:14 that also can be very helpful 46:17 is aspect ratios. 46:20 So let me explain this to you. Alright. So we're 46:22 gonna come here 46:23 and we're gonna go 46:27 and copy this. Let me go 46:29 imagine. 46:33 Aspect ratios allow you to change the aspect ratio 46:36 of 46:37 the image. So when we do that, so we come 46:40 here, we type AR, 46:43 and then let's go, for example, 16 by 9. 46:50 Now, instead of getting a square, 46:53 MidJourney is gonna create for us 46:56 a seamless pattern that 46:58 has the aspect ratio of 16 by 9. 47:02 So you think about it. You can use this then 47:04 to, modify, 47:08 yeah, the the ratio of an image, 47:12 so that you can have it match the type of 47:15 product that you want to create. So if you've got 47:17 a long product I mean, oftentimes with long products here, 47:19 these designs can work really well. But But with an 47:21 aspect ratio of 16 by 9, it gives Midjourney, 47:26 a lot more freedom to create certain types of images. 47:29 It can have, for example, waves which are longer. 47:33 And so you get to make better use 47:36 of the printing area as a result. 47:39 And so it can be really, really helpful to change 47:42 the aspect ratio to match the type of product that 47:45 you're designing, 47:46 your 47:47 picture for. 47:49 And you can already see 47:52 by doing this 47:53 that we've been able to take really good advantage 47:56 of how 47:58 long these are. So 48:01 we've got some waves that are much longer 48:03 than the waves up here. These waves are all very, 48:05 very short because they have to be because it's just 48:07 a little square. 48:09 Whereas down here, because of the aspect ratio change, we've 48:12 been able to achieve much longer waves. 48:16 So, yes, 48:17 as you can see, 48:18 Midjourney 48:20 is extremely powerful. 48:22 By the time you're watching this, again, 48:25 may have changed. There may be, 48:27 the prompts may have different words. 48:30 There may be some different settings. 48:32 However, it will still all work 48:35 roughly the same. 48:37 And, 48:38 you can use it to achieve some 48:41 very incredible images 48:43 starting for free and for many people 48:46 for as low 48:47 as 10 dollars a month currently, 48:50 which is pretty amazing. 48:52 So this is the first video in this series 48:56 and 48:57 I hope that you enjoy the rest of them. #+end_example