Discover 15 Unique Styles and Blending Tricks for Midjourney

A Midjourney generated image using Midjourney Automation Suite

Ready to explore new looks for your Midjourney images? Style reference codes, or sref codes, are a powerful tool. They let you quickly apply distinct visual styles without long text descriptions. Even better, you can now combine these codes for amazing results. Let's dive into some exciting styles and how to use them.

What Are SREF Codes?

Think of sref codes as shortcuts to visual styles. Instead of writing out a detailed description of the look you want, you just add "--sref" followed by a number. Midjourney uses this number to recreate a specific artistic style.

There are billions of possible sref codes out there. You can find a random one by adding "--sref random" to your prompt. Using these codes saves you time and opens up a world of visual possibilities.

Explore 15 Notable Style Codes

Here are fifteen interesting sref styles to try in your Midjourney prompts:

Green Nuvo

This style creates detailed, colorful illustrations. It mixes geometric shapes with plants, showing an Art Nouveau feel. The main colors are green, teal, and reddish pink. Add the sref number after your prompt to use it.

Painterly Wanderlust

Painterly Wanderlust creates beautiful illustrations. It uses warm colors and has a distinct painted look, almost like digital paintings. This sref code works well for many different prompts.

Dystopian Haze

This is a photographic style perfect for cinematic or post-apocalyptic scenes. It features smoky, muted colors with touches of red. Images often look hazy with a slightly futuristic, tough feel.

Nostalgic Peach

A fun and flexible style. It often creates sketchy illustrations but can also produce photographic images. Pinks, peaches, blacks, and greens are common colors. Some images are simple, showing subjects on solid backgrounds.

Carmine Underworld

A bold style using mainly pink and black. It usually makes photographic images, though results can sometimes be surprising. This style is quite strong, so you might want to adjust its influence.

Golden Goose

This has become a popular one. It's mostly a photographic style featuring yellows, creams, and blacks. It's excellent for creating images that look like movie screenshots.

Your Highness

This unique sref code produces detailed, fancy images. It often includes plants and flowers. The base style is illustrative and paint-like, but it can sometimes create photographic images.

Daydream Illusion

A hyper-realistic photographic style. It uses teals and yellowy oranges. Images have an atmospheric, dreamlike feel, sometimes creating a sense of unease. It looks good when the style's influence is lower.

Nautical Tide

This is a great illustration style, perfect for storybook or comic visuals. Its main colors are blue and red. It works well with various prompts and often shows things from a low angle.

Vapor Space

A colorful style with shiny, changing colors, often pink and blue. It blends photography, 3D digital art, and hyper-realism. Images often include water or shiny surfaces with a touch of the surreal.

Fabled Twilight

This illustration style is both dark and colorful. Images look painted and can appear slightly rough or aged up close. It uses dark greens, blues, and blacks, with small dots of color added. It's a nice style to explore.

Delicate Glow

This is a black and white style that looks like sketch or charcoal drawings. Images have an Asian feel with detailed fine lines and a gentle glow effect.

Comic Spring

A bold and bright style that works for comic or cartoon-like pictures. Subjects often have thick black outlines. Like Nautical Tide, it often favors lower camera angles. This sref can also make photographic images sometimes.

Midnight Enigma

A fantastic dark style that produces photographic and hyper-realistic images. Black is the main color, with hints of green and blue. It creates moody, atmospheric scenes, great for dark or cinematic looks.

Cerulean Moment

This sref code produces smooth illustrations that look like vector art. Subjects often stand out against a gradient background for a clean, simple look. Blue is definitely the main color here.

How to Use SREF Codes

Using these codes is simple. Add `--sref` followed by the sref code number to your prompt. For example: "/imagine prompt a cat in space --sref 123456789".

You can also try to nudge a style towards a different medium. For example, if a style is mainly illustrative, you can sometimes get a photographic image by adding "photo" or "photorealistic" to your prompt text. It doesn't always work, but it's worth experimenting with.

Adjusting Style Strength

You can control how much influence a style has on your final image using the style weight parameter, `--sw`. The default weight is 100. Lowering the number (e.g., `--sw 50`) makes the style less noticeable. Increasing it (e.g., `--sw 200`) makes it stronger. This helps you fine-tune the look.

Combining SREF Codes: A New Trick

Midjourney now lets you blend multiple sref codes in one prompt! This opens up even more style possibilities. To blend codes, just list them after `--sref` separated by spaces. For example:

/imagine prompt a fantasy landscape --sref 123456789 987654321

By default, each sref code you list contributes equally to the final blend. With two codes, it's a 50/50 mix.

Controlling Blend Ratios

Want one style to be more dominant in a blend? You can add weights to individual sref codes using double colons `::`. Add `::` followed by a number after the code. A higher number gives that style more influence compared to others in the blend. For example:

/imagine prompt a fantasy landscape --sref 123456789::2 987654321::1

In this example, the first sref code has twice the influence of the second one within the blend. This is different from `--sw`, which adjusts the total influence of *all* combined styles on the final image.

Working with multiple styles and adjusting their weights can get complex. Tools like the Midjourney Automation Suite by TitanXT can help you manage prompt variations, track results, and make experimenting with sref codes and blending much easier. Explore its features to streamline your creative process.

Taking Your Styles Further

These 15 styles are just the beginning. With the ability to random an sref, adjust its weight, and now blend multiple codes, you have near-endless ways to shape your Midjourney art. Don't be afraid to experiment with combinations and see what unique visuals you can create.

Managing all these prompts, styles, and experiments can become a task itself. Consider using a dedicated tool like the Midjourney Automation Suite from TitanXT. It helps you organize your prompts, manage your sref codes, and automate variations to speed up finding the perfect style.

Conclusion

Sref codes are a powerful way to quickly apply distinct styles in Midjourney. Whether you use a single code, adjust its strength, or combine several for a unique blend, you have incredible control over your output. Keep exploring these codes and blending techniques to push your creativity.

For serious Midjourney artists looking to manage and scale their experiments with sref codes and other parameters, the TitanXT Midjourney Automation Suite offers features designed to make your workflow more efficient. Check it out to take your style exploration to the next level.