Using the Midjourney Website: Key Settings for Great Art

A Midjourney generated image using Midjourney Automation Suite

Midjourney has changed how people create digital art. The website is now a much better place to work than Discord used to be. It helps you find ideas, makes things easier to use, and just works better all around.

This guide covers how to use the Midjourney website, explaining different controls and ways to write prompts. Whether you are new to Midjourney or have used it for a while, learning these simple steps can help you get the art you want.

Getting Started on the Midjourney Website

The website is the main spot now. It shows images you have made and lets you sort them in many ways. It is a great place to find new ideas constantly. You can use the search bar to find images by typing words.

When you click an image, you see the prompt and settings used. You can click buttons to use that prompt or use the image to guide your own work. You can even drag images right into the prompt area.

Viewing and Organizing Your Art

Hover over an image and click the small magnifying glass to find similar images. Clicking the like button on images helps you find ones you enjoy later by sorting.

The main area lets you type your idea and hit enter to make images. A number shows how many images are being made. The 'Create' tab lets you watch images appear and see prompts and settings. The 'Archive' tab shows all your past images. You can sort them in different ways, like just images you made bigger, or by shape.

Change how you see images from small squares to larger pictures or change the size of the pictures. You can find images from a certain date by hovering on the side bar.

A simple way to find things later is to like images you make that you think are good. You can create folders. Select images by holding Shift and clicking, then drag them. You can also make smart folders. For example, type the word "logo" and Midjourney makes a folder with every image you made using "logo" in the prompt.

Near the bottom, you can switch between light and dark views. Dark mode is often preferred.

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Understanding Midjourney Settings (Parameters)

Settings, called parameters, change how Midjourney understands your prompt. They help you guide the look of your images in many ways. When you click the small button on the right of the prompt area, you see the main settings.

These settings stay the same for every prompt you use until you change them again.

Image Size

Choose common shapes like tall, square, or wide. You can also move a slider to pick the shape. Doing this is not just for where you share the image; it affects what the picture looks like and how things are placed in it. If you want a size not listed, you can type the numbers right there. Like 1:4 for a tall shape, or flip it for a long side-by-side picture. You can even use unusual sizes for things like old video game art.

When you hit up to get your prompt back, you will see the shape setting written out at the end. Settings are always typed with two dashes before the word, like `--`. They always go at the very end of your prompt. Typing a setting this way will use that setting just one time, even if you have a different one selected in the main settings box.

Look (Aesthetics) Settings

These settings change the art style and feel.

• Stylize: This changes how artistic the image looks. A low number sticks close to your words. A high number makes it look more like art with nice colors and shapes. For example, a child's drawing of a cat looks more like a child drew it with low stylize. Higher numbers make it more artistic, maybe too artistic for a child's drawing. A coffee logo is more simple with low stylize, more detailed with high. Selfies with Bigfoot look more real with low stylize, more posed and fake with high. The default is 100, which is a good mix. You can type `--stylize 50` or `--s 50` to change it. Zero usually looks not great unless your prompt is very detailed. Often, staying between 40 and 200 works well.

• Weirdness: This makes the image look unusual. It can give you very unique results. Often, people keep this low. But if you want something strange, turn it up. An apple on a table starts simple. Higher weirdness gives surprising views and setups. A clown at a bus stop starts normal. Higher weirdness gives strange poses and bus stops. A detailed prompt keeps its main subject better with weirdness, but the setting or how people look might change. If you want strange but still nice-looking images, try increasing stylize a bit too.

• Variety (Chaos): This changes how different the four images are that Midjourney makes at first. Low numbers give results that are more alike. High numbers give a wider set of ideas. You might use a high number when you are just starting to find an idea. Once you find something you like and are making your prompt more specific, you can lower this to get more like the one you like. When you type this, it is `--chaos`. Just a small note, not complex.

These settings work together to influence the final look. You can use the sliders, or type them to use numbers between the steps on the slider.

Mode and Version

• Mode: Standard gives you the usual Midjourney look. Raw pays closer attention to your words and adds less of its own style. Raw is good for photorealistic pictures. For realistic images, use Raw mode and a low stylize number. You can easily try both side-by-side.

• Versions: Version 6 is the main one now. It is best at understanding what you write and makes the most realistic images. It often adds lots of details. Version 5.2 is also good and sometimes simpler prompts work well with it. There is also Niji, which is made for anime and cartoon styles, but can make interesting results for other styles too. Older versions are there but the images are lower quality.

Personalization

This setting makes Midjourney learn what you like. It uses your own feelings about art to finish images. This means results change for everyone. You turn it on with `--p` or by selecting it in the settings. To get your own personalization, you need to rate at least 200 image pairs. Go to the 'Tasks' tab and click 'Rank Images'. Pick which image you like better. Try to pick based on just how it looks, not if it perfectly matched the idea. You can use keys 1 (left), 2 (right), and 3 (skip) to go faster. Doing more than 200 might help.

Once it learns what you like, it will apply your style when personalization is on. You can share your personal code so others can see images using your style. You can control how much your style is used with the stylize setting when personalization is on.

Speed and Time

• Speed: Fast is the usual speed. You have a set amount of Fast time each month based on your plan. Turbo is 4 times faster but uses your time twice as quickly. Relax mode is free and unlimited for some plans, but images take longer, maybe 1 to 10 minutes. You can buy more time if you run out.

• Free Time: You can earn free Fast time by rating images under the 'Tasks' tab. Top rankers get free time daily. This is also where you do the ranking for personalization.

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Other Helpful Settings

• No ( --no ): Use this to keep something out of your image. Type `--no bananas` at the end of your prompt if you want a bowl of fruit without bananas. This is very useful.

• Seed ( --seed ): Every image starts from a random noise pattern based on a number called a seed. If you use the same seed number with the same prompt, you will get very similar images. Find a seed number by clicking 'More' on an image and then 'Copy Seed'. Type `--seed` followed by the number. It helps if you are comparing how different settings or words change an image, like seeing how stylize changes the exact same starting picture.

• Permutations: This is not a parameter, but a way to try different things quickly. Use curly brackets `{}` and commas `,` to separate words or numbers. For example, type `--s {50, 75, 200}` at the end of a prompt to run that prompt three times, once with stylize 50, once with 75, and once with 200. You can do this with words in your prompt too, like colors or camera ideas.

Crafting Your Prompts

Parameters change the look, but your words in the prompt are key to what the image is about. There is no single "right" way to write a prompt; it takes trying things out. But using a simple structure helps:

Start with the basic idea, then add the main subject, then add details about the setting, and finally add style details. You could call this Scene, Subject, Setting, Style.

For the subject and setting, if you mention something early, like "an owl," call back to it with "the owl" when adding details. This helps Midjourney know you are still talking about the first thing you mentioned. For example, "an owl exploring a temple" then "the owl is wearing robes" and "the temple has relics".

For style, you can name artists, types of cameras, or film names to guide the look.

Using Details and Power Words

Midjourney breaks down words into small pieces. Some words have a bigger effect. These are sometimes called power tokens. For example, Instead of "big," use "high," "gigantic," or "enormous".

Try to be clear. Saying "cats" might give you 3, 10, or 100 cats. Say "three cats" if you want exactly three. Say what you *want* in the image. Using `--no` is better than asking for a party "with no cake". If something is important to you, write it down. This includes the subject, the art type, the place, the light, colors, mood, and how things are lined up.

If you want a person's whole body, mention their shoes. Midjourney often cuts off the bottom part otherwise.

To get a movie-like look, add "cinematic still" or "35mm cinematic".

If you are stuck, look at the 'Explore' tab on the website for ideas and prompts others used.

Prompts for Specific Uses

• Vector Art (Logos, Symbols, Art for Shirts): For logos, a square shape is common. Good words include minimalist, abstract, brandmark, geometric. You can add words about your brand style like psychedelic or retro. Experiment with stylize, but very high values can make logos too busy (over 200). You can add text using quotation marks ("Your Company Name").

• Art for Printing: Use words like "vector art", "vector graphic", "graphic design". Also "icon", "emblem", "shirt design", "sticker", "clip art". "Silhouette" or "outline" can be useful. Using color names or uploading a color image can help guide the colors.

• Text: Getting text right is hard but getting better. Put the words in quotation marks. Use it for things that normally have text, like signs or paper. Sometimes you need to try many times. If it is close, use the 'Vary' buttons or 'Repaint' to fix small mistakes in the letters. Use 'Repaint' to add or change text areas. It is good at making new text match the style and colors.

Finding Prompt Ideas and Learning Styles

Learning about different art styles, artists, and techniques helps you use the right words. A great website for this (not run by Midjourney) is Midlibrary (midlibrary.io). It shows you how Midjourney makes art in many styles. You can see different techniques and artists. It is very helpful for inspiration and finding words to use.

Another way to get help is to upload an image to Midjourney and click the small 'I' icon. It will describe the image for you, giving you ideas for words to use in your prompt or names of artists with a similar look.

Working with Your Images: Variations and Edits

Once you have your first images, you can work with them more. When you click an image, you see different tools.

• Vary Subtle and Vary Strong: Subtle makes four new images like the first one, but with small changes. Strong makes four new images with bigger changes to how things look and are placed. These are good ways to get more options from an image you like.

• Upscale: Subtle and Creative make your image twice as big. Subtle keeps details very close to the original. Creative adds new details. Try both to see what works best. They do a good job. Creative upscale can sometimes fix blurry faces.

• Rerun: This makes the exact same image again using the same prompt and settings.

• Reframe: Change the shape of the image easily. You can move the image within the new shape (start or end) and Midjourney will create the parts missing. You can also zoom out up to 2 times.

• Edit Prompt during Reframe/Zoom: While reframing or zooming, you can change the prompt to add new things in the areas Midjourney is creating. You could add objects or people, or zoom out into a totally different view.

• Remix Strong/Subtle: Change the prompt for an image you made without using Reframe/Zoom. Click 'More Options' and select Remix. Subtle remix is great for making small changes to an image while keeping it look very similar. Strong remix changes it more. This is a good way to try out ideas quickly.

• Repaint (Inpainting): Select a small part of an image to change just that area. Use the rectangle or drawing tool to pick the spot. Write what you want in that spot (or leave the prompt the same). This is helpful for fixing small things that are off, like hands or faces. You can even try to replace a face here.

Using these tools helps you refine your images. For even more efficient workflow, especially when trying many variations or edits, the Midjourney Automation Suite by TitanXT can help automate these tasks.

Using Images to Guide Your Art (References)

Using reference images is a strong way to guide what Midjourney makes. You drag an image into the prompt area. Then select what kind of reference it is. You can use one image for different types of references at the same time by holding Shift and clicking.

• Image Prompt: This pulls the structure, shapes, and main ideas from the image. Type a prompt and add an image as an Image Prompt. Midjourney will try to make your prompt look like the reference image's layout. You can control how much the image affects the result with `--iw` (image weight) and a number (0-3). Higher numbers mean the image has more effect.

• Style Reference: This pulls the look, colors, and mood from an image. Drag an image and select 'Style Reference'. Midjourney will make art based on your prompt, but with the style of the reference image. It does not try to copy the layout like Image Prompt does. Control how much the style is used with `--sw` (style weight) and a number (0-1000).

• Character Reference: This looks at a specific character in an image. It tries to match the face most closely. Depending on weight, it might also follow clothing and style. This is useful for keeping characters looking the same.

A simple way to think about them is: Image Prompt is about the layout, Style Reference is about the look and feel, and Character Reference is about the person's face. Using images to guide your art can feel more natural and sometimes faster than just using words.

Using Multiple References

You can drag in more than one image for Image or Style references. Midjourney will try to blend them. You can also mix Image and Style references. If you use multiple Style References, you can give them different importance using `::` and a number after each reference. `srf1::2 srf2::1` means the first style is twice as strong as the second.

Special Parameters

These settings have specific uses.

• Tile ( --tile ): Makes images that can repeat perfectly to create patterns, like for wallpaper or textures. Type `--tile` at the end of your prompt. A "super tiling" trick lets you edit a tiled image (using 'Vary Region') to add more variety while keeping it tileable.

• 360 Panorama: You can use `--tile` with a very wide aspect ratio (like 2:1) to make images that can be wrapped into a seamless 360-degree photo viewed in a special viewer. Results can sometimes be slightly off at the top and bottom, so editing the seam in a photo program might still be needed.

• Stop ( --stop ): Stops the image from finishing completely. Use `--stop` and a number between 0 and 100. 100 is the full image. Lower numbers make the image blurry or less detailed. Stopping at 80 or 90 can give a softer look. It can also be used for backgrounds that will be blurred later, like for images used for video covers.

• Multi-prompting (Older Versions): In Midjourney version 5 and before, you could split parts of your prompt using `::` and give them different importance with numbers after the colons. This is basically not needed in version 6 as it understands language better.

• Video (Discord only): Use `--video` in Discord. When your image is done, react with the envelope emoji. Midjourney sends you a link to a short video showing the image changing as it was made. It does not make a moving video based on your prompt; just shows the creation process.

Putting It All Together

Midjourney offers many tools on its website to help you make the art you want. You can start simple and add details, use parameters to guide the look, or use images to influence your final piece. Experimenting with these settings and prompting methods is the best way to learn what works for you.

Practice using parameters like stylize and weirdness. Learn to use prompt structure and helpful words. Play with image controls like vary and repaint. Try using image and style references to blend ideas.

Midjourney is always changing, so keep trying new things to see what you can make. The more you use it, the more you will find it feels like creating with magic.

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