Crafting Better AI Art: Simple Prompting Tips for Midjourney
May 3
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Want to create amazing images with AI art tools like Midjourney or Stable Diffusion? It all starts with a good prompt. Learning how to structure and refine your text prompts makes a big difference in the results you get. This guide shares straightforward ways to build more specific and detailed prompts.
If you find managing many prompts challenging, consider using a tool designed for automation. The Midjourney Automation Suite from TitanXT can help streamline your creative process.
Finding Inspiration for Your Prompts
Sometimes the hardest part is figuring out what to create or what style to use. Luckily, there are resources online that share prompts and the images they created.
Lexicon: This site lets you search for Stable Diffusion prompts. See an image you like? Look at the prompt used to make it. You can search by subject, style, or anything else to see examples.
Urania.ai & Proxy Mentor IB: These sites show images created in the style of different artists. It's a great way to explore various artistic styles to include in your own prompts.
aiart.com: This resource offers lists of modifiers you can add to your prompts. You can find suggestions for angles, lighting, filters, photographic styles, and more. This site sometimes shows comparisons between Midjourney and Stable Diffusion results for the same modifier.
Checking these resources can provide great ideas for artists, styles, or specific descriptive words to add to your prompts.
Basic Ways to Structure Your Prompt
A simple way to think about structuring your prompt is to follow a basic pattern:
Medium: What is it? (e.g., oil painting, photograph, watercolor)
Subject: What is the main thing in the image? (e.g., a dog, a spaceship, a fantasy city)
Details: Add descriptions, styles, or modifiers (e.g., vintage, by artist Salvador Dali, dramatic lighting)
For example, you could write "a watercolor of a dragon, flowing lines, bright colors".
When you want an image specifically in an artist's style say, it's good to be clear. Use "by artist [Artist Name]". Just putting an artist's name might sometimes create a picture *of* the artist themselves, not in their style.
Control How Much Influence Things Have
You can tell the AI which parts of your prompt are more or less important using special characters.
Putting words or phrases in parentheses (like this) gives them more influence.
Using more parentheses makes it even stronger ((like this)).
Putting things in brackets [like this] gives them less influence.
Using more brackets makes it even weaker [[like this]].
This is useful when you have conflicting ideas (like two different artist styles) and want one to be primary while the other adds just a touch.
Blend Ideas or Morph Images
Another helpful technique lets you blend different concepts or effectively morph one image into another over time or steps in the generation process. You do this by separating different ideas with a colon and a number, indicating how many steps or how much weight to give that idea.
The format looks like "thing1:steps thing2:steps". The steps can be numbers that add up to the total steps, or decimals that add up to 1.0.
Example: "flower:0.5 snake:0.5" might start with a flower concept and transition towards a snake concept during the image creation.
This method is powerful for combining distinct ideas or creating interesting transitions in your visuals. If you find yourself creating many complex prompts or needing to experiment with these blending techniques repeatedly, a tool like the Midjourney Automation Suite from TitanXT can help manage and quickly test different variations.
Put It All Together
Mastering AI art prompts takes practice. Start with a basic structure (medium, subject, details), find inspiration online, and then experiment with controlling influence and blending ideas. Keep your language simple and direct.
By using these tips, you can move beyond basic prompts and start creating the specific, imaginative AI art you envision.
Looking to automate your process and create high volumes of unique images efficiently? Discover how effortless it can be with the Midjourney Automation Suite from TitanXT.
