Ready to Customize Your Midjourney Art? Explore New Personalization

Midjourney just released a big update for how you can personalize your images. Now you have more ways to guide the AI to create art that matches your vision and style. This update includes a new way to use mood boards directly in your prompts. If you've wanted more control over the look of your generated images, this is great news.

Understanding Midjourney Personalization

Personalization lets you create custom settings that change Midjourney's default look. Think of it as teaching Midjourney about your unique visual interests. You can create different profiles for different projects or just to suit your general taste.

Global Personalization Profile

The Global Profile is likely familiar if you've used personalization before. It learns your overall style preference. To set it up, you rank pairs of images, picking the one you like best from each pair. You can do this on the personalize page or through tasks by ranking image styles. Don't overthink it; just pick what you like. You can skip pairs or use keyboard numbers.

After ranking at least 40 pairs, you get your first Global personalization code. It's a mix of letters and numbers. You use this code in your prompt by adding [--p code] at the end.

Your Global code gets better as you rank more images and as you like images on the Midjourney explore page. More ranking makes your profile more specific to you.

Standard Personalization Profile

The Standard Profile is set up the same way as the Global Profile. You rank image pairs to build it.

Why Use a Standard Profile?

• Start Fresh: Maybe your Global profile isn't exactly what you want. You can create a Standard profile to begin anew with your ranking choices. This is helpful if your Global profile was built a long time ago or doesn't fit your current needs.

• Experiment with Focus: You can focus your ranking for a Standard profile on specific types of images. For example, rank only photorealistic styles, illustrations, or images with a certain color palette. It's a simple way to explore different aesthetics based on your rankings.

Create Styles with Mood Boards

This is a really exciting new feature. Often, we gather inspiration images for creative projects. Now, you can use those images to make a mood board profile.

To create a mood board, click the "create mood board" option. You can upload pictures, paste image links, or choose images you've already organized. You can make mood boards using styles like autochrome photography, unique wave patterns, or even dark, surreal images. It's a flexible way to define a look based on example images.

After creating a mood board, copy its code to use it in your prompt. The code might look long at first but shortens after you run the prompt. You can see the shorter code on your create page later and copy it again easily for future prompts. There’s also a button to go straight back to edit your mood board.

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Key Tips for Using Personalization

Adjusting Influence

Use the Stylize parameter (--s). It lets you control how strong the effect of your personalization profile or mood board is. You can set it from 0 (minimal influence) to 1000 (maximum influence).

Keeping Codes Updated

Remember that your codes can change. Global and Standard profile codes update as you rank more images. Mood board codes change if you add or remove images from the board. If you make changes to a mood board, copy the new code to use the updated version.

Setting Default Profiles

To save time, you can set a profile or mood board as your default. It will be added to every new prompt automatically. Find this option in your Midjourney settings menu. Turn personalization on and select the profile(s).

Blending Profiles

Yes, you can combine profiles! But there are rules.

• Combine multiple Standard or Global personalization profiles.

• Combine one Moodboard with multiple Personalization profiles (Global or Standard).

• You cannot combine multiple Moodboards together.

You can also set these blended defaults from the personalized page. Keep in mind that on Discord, you can only turn your Global personalization on or off as a default, but you can manually use any code in a specific prompt there.

Compatibility Notes

• Moodboards work well with Midjourney's Niji model (for anime styles). Global and Standard personalization profiles shown here work with the regular Midjourney models. You need separate ranking tasks to create a personalization profile specifically for Niji.

• Moodboards currently do not work with the Style Reference parameter (--sref). However, Global and Standard personalization profiles DO work with Style Reference.

• Both personalization profiles (Global/Standard) and Moodboards are compatible with Character Reference (--cref).

• You can also use both types of codes in retexture prompts within the image editor and in Midjourney's Patchwork feature. For example, if you build a world in Patchwork for a fantasy project, you can add a mood board code as a note tied to that world. Any images generated in that world will use the mood board style.

Share Your Style

Yes, your mood board and personalization profile codes are shareable. If you want someone else to use your style, just give them the code.

Finding Your Images

The Organized page now has a new filter. This makes it simple to see all the images you've created using a specific mood board or personalization profile.

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Putting It All Together

This update brings powerful ways to define and apply your unique style in Midjourney. The Global profile captures your overall taste, the Standard profile offers flexibility to start fresh or focus, and Moodboards allow you to use direct image inspiration. Experiment with all three!

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