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S02|L10 - midjourney pt1 - generate art using midjourney

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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:

create Discord account
join Midjourney server
find Midjourney bot
right click bot
click Message
use private bot chat

Command:

/imagine

Basic Prompting

Example:

/imagine cartoon planet Mars from the perspective of space

Important: Midjourney responds better to positive prompts than negative prompts.

Better:

planet Mars from the perspective of space

Weaker:

Mars but not the surface

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

/settings

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:

minimalist

Example:

/imagine minimalist black line art of a sunflower, top down, on a white background

White Background

Use white background when you plan to remove the background later.

Example:

on a white background

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:

--tile

Example:

/imagine scribble of Japanese sea waves --tile

Aspect Ratio

Use aspect ratio to match the product shape.

Example:

--ar 16:9

Full example:

/imagine scribble of Japanese sea waves --tile --ar 16:9

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

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.

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So you try to come up with a really good

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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,

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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

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AI team had purposefully chosen to use Discord as a

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way to message

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the bot with your prompt

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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

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you come in and you type in your prompt to

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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

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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.

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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.

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So if you have a prompt like this here that

06:43
you like, what you do is you just come and

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click this button here.

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And now

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it will reroll the prompt.

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So it's gonna do this prompt again for us

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and,

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we can then load. But yes, I was very intimidated

07:00
by Midjourney because

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I,

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I'm not a big Discord user. I don't use Discord

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a lot. And you can see this time around, it's

07:06
done it a lot faster.

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So,

07:09
sometimes sometimes it takes longer than others. It just depends

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upon,

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the server.

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So I don't use Discord so much. So I was

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very intimidated by it but it's actually really easy.

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And once we finish doing this,

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I'll show you how it works and how to open

07:26
up Midjourney and how to use it.

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But yes, I just wanted to give you a brief

07:31
overview

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of how you use Midjourney

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so that you can,

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see.

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And here we go.

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So

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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

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how to get,

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Midjourney,

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working for you.

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Okay. So to get MidJourney,

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what you just wanna do is you wanna come to

08:15
the MidJourney website

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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

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set your settings so that you can generate fast images

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faster or slower.

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So if you wanna generate images faster, it will use

08:42
up GPU time and, Midjourney will just track this time.

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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,

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the thing is is that from from somebody who's just

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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

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purposefully state,

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where

10:21
they were generated from or how they were created.

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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.

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You send the bot what you want it to create

13:24
and then the bot will send that back to you

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and it's gonna do it through Discord.

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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

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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

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want to, but you keep it as is.

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Click submit.

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And now it's remixing,

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the image. So it's going to give us different variations

40:37
of that image.

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And and remixing it, you can by adding in different

40:42
details to it,

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you can also

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tweak it and you can change aspects of it that

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you want. So you might just wanna get different versions

40:50
of it. Like I'm gonna get different different versions here,

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but

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you might want to reroll it. So for example,

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so I'll do a fun

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reroll

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after this so that you can see

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things that you could do to an image.

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You see, now we've got different versions. And so,

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you know, you might have liked this 1 here, but

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now, actually, when you come and take a look at

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this 1 here, then this 1 here is getting a

41:20
lot more closer to the design that you want.

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And speaking of remixing,

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so when it comes to remixing,

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let's come back here to our corgis. So this is

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1. This is b 1. This is b 2. This

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is b 3. This is b 4.

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I think all of these are very cute.

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We're gonna go with b 4 which I think is

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particularly cute.

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So

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we're gonna come to b 4 and we're gonna come

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and click on b 4. Now,

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when I'm remixing this,

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I can ask Midjourney

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to make some changes to this variation that I have

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requested.

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It's gonna take that same image but it's gonna remix

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it but I can modify it slightly.

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This can work better sometimes than others.

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Gotta play around with it. Gotta try it.

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But let's come and say that I wanna modify it.

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So currently that corgi looks kind of happy, curious.

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I want it to look sad.

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Okay. Click

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submit.

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And if we scroll down to the bottom,

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we'll see that Midjourney is remixing

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that picture, and it's going to give us

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different variations of it.

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So you can already see,

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even though

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it's nowhere near finished yet,

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it is

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making me different variations that look quite similar to that

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original image,

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but it is modifying it for me.

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Now

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now there are parts of the Gogi that look sad

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and so I tried to modify it. So if we

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come and we do a reroll of that,

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we can get,

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more,

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variations of it too.

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So that is how

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you can take a design

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and that you can tweak it.

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So here we go. We've got see because up here,

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we can see that the AI

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now, by the time you're watching this, the AI may

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have become even more advanced and it may be really,

43:20
really good at taking these tweaks and using it.

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But currently, right now, as you can see, that you

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are going to get a lot of pictures. They don't

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necessarily match with what you have requested.

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So this 1 here is looking a lot more sad

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than this 1, this 1. But it's trying to modify

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the way it

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looks.

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Go.

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Yeah. This 1 here. Look at

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this. Look at this,

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sad, annoyed Corgi.

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Love it. But you can see here how that remixing

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them over and over again is really what you wanna

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do. What you wanna do is you wanna keep re

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rolling it, re rolling it, re rolling it, re rolling

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it, and then pick the best designs from there.

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But yes, there's another,

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prompt that we need

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to discuss

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that's very helpful when you're creating designs for printing products,

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and that is the pattern prompt.

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Alright. So patterns

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can be very helpful when you're creating print on demand

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products. There are a lot of products such as phone

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cases, which benefit immensely

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from patterns.

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Traditionally creating a pattern, a seamless pattern

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that repeats,

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infinitely

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has been very difficult.

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However, with Midjourney,

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it's a lot simpler now.

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So I'll show you how to make them.

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The Gonna come, we're gonna imagine. We're gonna prompt it.

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So,

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scribble

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of

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Japanese

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sea

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waves

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and then,

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title.

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So you wanna add this

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little prompt in

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at the end.

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And that little prompt

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is currently the prompt which tells Midjourney

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to create a seamless pattern.

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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

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the,

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Midjourney

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Support documents and find out what prompt currently would

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you'd put for that.

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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

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and it says that it works for versions 1, 2,

45:52
3, 4, 5. So it didn't work for 4. It

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wasn't it wasn't used for 4.

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So it might be different then. You might have heard

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that sound. That's the little sound that it makes when

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it successfully created it. So

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now we have created our seamless pattern tiles.

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And these repeat

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infinitely,

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infinitely.

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Something

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that also can be very helpful

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is aspect ratios.

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So let me explain this to you. Alright. So we're

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gonna come here

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and we're gonna go

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and copy this. Let me go

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imagine.

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Aspect ratios allow you to change the aspect ratio

46:36
of

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the image. So when we do that, so we come

46:40
here, we type AR,

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and then let's go, for example, 16 by 9.

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Now, instead of getting a square,

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MidJourney is gonna create for us

46:56
a seamless pattern that

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has the aspect ratio of 16 by 9.

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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.

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And so you get to make better use

47:36
of the printing area as a result.

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And so it can be really, really helpful to change

47:42
the aspect ratio to match the type of product that

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you're designing,

47:46
your

47:47
picture for.

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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.

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to use without all the crap

prompts

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qualities

style

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designing

line art

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line art

corgi

mars

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