Improve Your Midjourney Designs with These Simple Techniques

Are you a designer struggling to get consistent, authentic visuals from Midjourney? Many designers spend hours crafting prompts, but the results can still look artificial. There's a better way. This guide shares a simple, repeatable workflow that helps you create commercially ready designs more reliably.

Why Midjourney Can Be Tricky

Tools like Flux, Firefly, and Recraft have their uses, but many find Midjourney still offers the most polished look. However, Midjourney has a key challenge. You might have noticed that using an image as a style or character reference can produce unpredictable results.

For example, imagine using a stunning pixel art landscape image as a style reference for a car parked at a mall. Even if you only wanted the *style*, Midjourney might keep adding trees and nature scenes to your car image. This happens because Midjourney sometimes struggles to tell the difference between the image's *style* and its *subject* (or content). In commercial design, control is important, and this can make things difficult.

Focus on Text Prompts for Better Control

To get more predictable results, especially in projects requiring consistent details, let's shift focus back to text. Text prompts are the most reliable way to tell Midjourney exactly what you want.

While image references can be powerful for *inspiration*, use them to *discover* a style you like. Once you find that style, translate it into a detailed text prompt. This gives you much more control over the final image.

Managing detailed commercial projects can be smoother when you have a system. The TitanXT Midjourney Automation Suite is designed to help streamline these complex workflows, allowing you to focus on the creative output.

Crafting Effective Text Prompts

You likely know the basic prompt structure: object + attributes + details. But for serious projects, your prompts need to be very detailed. This helps both control specifics and navigate long prompts easily.

Consider using a simple system for organizing details. You can use square brackets around key elements, separating them with line breaks. Midjourney often ignores special characters, making this work like clear labels within your prompt.

For instance, if a project needed cinematic green-lit photos of different people – dramatic, human, showing wrinkles and imperfections – you could write a detailed prompt but put core elements in brackets like:

• [Scene description: Cinematic green lit photograph]

• [Subject: Vastly different people]

• [Details: Dramatic yet deeply human, wrinkles, imperfections]

Keeping mandatory elements like "green lighting" in their own section ensures they are constant.

Tips for Consistent Visuals

Consistency is key in commercial work. Here are a couple of quick tips:

• Use a Negative Prompt: For higher consistency, add one negative prompt. If you need only green lighting, include `no natural light`. This simple addition can significantly cut down on trial-and-error testing.

• Reference Color: If you need a very specific color consistently, create a small solid square image of that exact color. Use this image as a character reference in your prompt. This helps the AI nail the color you want across generations.

These strategies provide more direct control using AI.

Place Your Designs in Context

Design is about communication and guiding attention, not just creating standalone images. What you generate in Midjourney should be useable in the real world.

Generate your visuals with their final context in mind. Non-designers might see something as "overly AI," but place it in a design context – overlay text, put it in a mockup – and that impression often fades. Context often works wonders, except in severe cases.

You can also guide user attention within the image itself. Carefully adding detail or using metaphors can layer meaning and mask small imperfections without making the image look fake.

To manage and deploy context-specific visuals at scale, consider using the TitanXT Midjourney Automation Suite. It can help manage your workflow from generation to final use.

Refining Your Visuals

Sometimes, regardless of effort, certain visuals remain challenging. Techniques like inpainting can help polish these difficult areas. These more advanced skills build upon the core techniques of using text prompts and adding context.

Getting consistent, professional results in Midjourney for design projects means focusing on detailed textual prompts, using images wisely for style discovery, and always considering the final context of your creation. By implementing these techniques, you can move beyond guessing and start creating authentic, commercially ready designs every time.

Ready to take your Midjourney workflow to the next level? Explore how the TitanXT Midjourney Automation Suite can help you manage and automate your creation process.