Make Your Midjourney AI Photos Look Ultra-Realistic: Simple Advanced Steps

Want to create AI images that look like real photos? Midjourney V5.1 has powerful tools, and understanding some key concepts can take your results from good to amazing. This guide covers advanced tips, from crafting better prompts using AI helpers to adding photography style and fixing common issues.

Use Built-in Midjourney Tools for Better Prompts

See How Images Are Described with /describe

Midjourney has a cool feature called `/describe`. You upload an image, and Midjourney gives you four possible ways to write a prompt that might create a similar picture. This helps you understand how Midjourney "sees" and describes images, giving you new ideas for your own prompts. Just type `/describe` in Midjourney Discord and upload your image.

Blend Ideas with Multi-Prompting

Besides blending images, you can blend text prompts. This means you can combine different ideas into one image. Use the double colon `::` between parts of your prompt. For example, you could describe a scene in one part and a specific style in another. This lets you mix and match concepts.

Give Prompts More Weight

Multi-prompting isn't just for mixing ideas. You can tell Midjourney which part of the prompt is more important. Add a number after the double colon, like `cat ::3`. This gives the "cat" part three times the importance of a part without a number. It helps Midjourney focus on elements you prioritize in your image.

Get Prompt Help from Other AI

You can use tools like ChatGPT to write prompt ideas for you. Ask it to describe a cinematic scene or give you different ways to word your core idea. This can help you get started or find new angles for your images.

Think Like a Photographer

Creating realistic AI photos means understanding photography basics. Thinking about cameras, lenses, angles, and light makes a big difference.

Choose Your Gear (in Prompts)

Specify camera types (digital, analog, GoPro, drone) and lenses in your prompt. Different lenses are used for different effects in real photography, and Midjourney can mimic this. Mentioning gear helps define the look and feel of the shot.

Master Camera Angles and Shot Types

[P]Angles and shot types describe where the camera is and how close it is to the subject.

• Camera angles: High-level, low angle, high angle, side angle, bird's eye view.

• Shot types: Close-up, extreme close-up, medium, full shot, full body shot.

Using these terms tells Midjourney exactly how you want the subject framed.

Control the Light

[P]Lighting changes everything in a photo.

• Weather conditions: Sunny, rainy, snowy light.

• Time of day: Golden hour, midnight.

• Sources: Moonlight, LED lights, candlelight.

• Directional lighting: Creates shadows and depth.

• Colored light: Add color to directional sources for effect.

• Hard vs. Soft light: Changes how shadows look.

Adding lighting details makes your images look more real and creates mood.

Add Style and Detail to Your Prompts

Make your images unique by adding specific styles and details.

Incorporate Filmmaker or Photographer Styles

Mentioning a well-known filmmaker (like Wes Anderson) or photographer in your prompt can influence the mood, colors, lighting, and composition, giving your image a specific artistic touch.

Use Color Palettes

Applying colors or color palettes sets the mood. Use terms like autumn palette, warm colors, or specific color names. You can also specify the number of main colors (monochromatic, tri-chromatic).

Define Outfits and Appearance

[P]Control what your subjects wear and look like.

• Style: Berlin street fashion, luxury brands (Gucci), athletic brands.

• Color/Materials: Specify colors, materials (leather, denim), and patterns.

• Occasion: Wedding dress, graduation outfit.

Manage Age and Diversity

To show a subject at different ages, create a base character image, then use it as an image prompt and simply add the desired age (e.g., "age 20"). Adjust the image prompt weight if the original image is too strong. For diversity, use terms like "plus sized model" or country names/flag emojis to represent ethnicities.

Experiment with Art Styles and Textures

Besides realistic styles, try hyperrealism, fantastic realism, retrowave, nostalgicore, vintage, antique, cyberpunk, and post-cyberpunk. Add texture keywords like cracks, dirty, icy, glossy, or reflective to give surfaces detail.

Managing all these prompt elements can become complex. If you’re looking to streamline your workflow and automate repetitive tasks in Midjourney, consider the Midjourney Automation Suite from TitanXT. It can help you manage prompts and generations more efficiently.

Handle Imperfections

[P]Sometimes Midjourney close-ups show strange skin issues. To avoid this:

• Remove the word "macro" from your prompt.

• Add phrases like "skin of a baby" cure (be careful with phrasing here to just mean smooth skin).

• Use negative weights or the " --not" parameter to exclude unwanted elements.

Get Ultra HD Resolution

[P]Midjourney's built-in upscaler is good, but for truly ultra-high definition and to avoid blurriness, you can use external tools.

• Gigapixel AI: Uses AI to enlarge images while keeping details sharp.

• Pixelbin: Also upscales, especially good at enhancing faces. It can do bulk upscaling and has other tools.

Creating stunning, realistic AI photos with Midjourney involves more than just basic prompts. By understanding how to use tools like `/describe`, multi-prompting, and varying the weight of your prompt elements, you gain more control. Adding photography concepts like camera settings, angles, and lighting further refines your images. Plus, you can easily add unique styles, manage character details like age and diversity, and even fix common close-up issues. For the final touch, external upscaling tools provide ultra-high resolution results. Keep experimenting with these techniques!

Ready to take your Midjourney work to the next level? Check out the Midjourney Automation Suite from TitanXT. It’s designed to help you manage and enhance your AI image generation process.