![]() To use Midjourney to create book covers, use the “–ar 2:3” aspect ratio setting at the end of your prompt. Or in this image: Midjourney image for prompt “medieval town square sword battle female warrior with short hair merchant stalls fantasy illustration.” (Image by Maria Korolov via Midjourney.) ![]() I mean, look at the detail on this image: Midjourney image for prompt “lucifer dressed as a medieval assassin in black cloak in medieval city.” (Image by Maria Korolov via Midjourney.) Some of the results were better than others - sometimes, they were very, very good. Then I played around with a few medieval-themed prompts. Here’s the same prompt in January, replacing “–wallpaper” with “–ar 3:2”, since the aspect ration options are more limited with version four: Midjourney showcase. I tried again with my space battle, this time with the prompt “photograph of epic space battle, spaceship shooting lasers, above a planet, starry sky, 4k, mixed media, trending –wallpaper –uplight.” Epic space battle image generated with Midjourney. You can even include links to online images for the AI to use as inspiration. Midjourney also has a guide to some optional parameters, which include width and height or aspect ratio. searching for “space battle lasers” I found lots of inspiration images that had descriptive words in them that I wouldn’t have thought to use - words like “hyperdetailed,” “4k,” “trending,” “in the style of alphonse mucha” and “symmetry.” What I found particularly interesting with the Discord server interface was the ability to look at other people’s prompts and see their results.įor example. Here are the results the same prompt gave me in January 2023, using the fourth generation of the Midjourney AI model: (Image by Maria Korolov via Midjourney.) That was back in August, using Midjourney version three. Here’s the first result I got, for the prompt “space battle two spaceships lasers planet in background.” (Image by Maria Korolov via Midjourney.) To upscale an image, or generate different versions of the image, you’ll need to go back to the Discord server. However, other than downloading the images, you don’t get the rest of the functionality. Your prompts will also appear outside of Discord, on Midjourney app page. I recommend making a note of the exact time when you submit a prompt so you can find it more easily later. I submitted a few prompts, then it took me half an hour to find the results because hundreds of other people submitted their prompts while my prompts were processed, and my prompts scrolled far off the screen. Then I clicked on one of them, typed /imagine and then the text of my prompt. It might have been just due to a page refresh. I couldn’t even tell you what I did to get them to come up. Mostly I just randomly messed around until some “newbie” channels showed up in my sidebar. Unfortunately, it had little in common with my own actual experience using the app. There are several official guides, such as this Quick Start Guide. For example, it told me to check my profile to find out what my newbie channel was and I never did find this info. There’s help guide about this, but it was remarkably unhelpful. Once you go through the sign-up process and get on the Discord server, you’ll be randomly assigned to a newbie channel. I find the interface all but impossible to use.īut if you’re up for it, go to the Midjourney website and click on the “Join the beta” button in the middle. There’s a virtual world conference I help organize every year, and we’ve been using Discord for it. Midjourney server Discord pageīut I have used Discord a lot. If you know and like Discord, that may not be an obstacle. The big downside? You have to use a Discord server to place your requests. That’s the plan I’m on because I just can’t stop playing with it. But I recommend going for the $30-a-month plan and using the “/relax” command to get unlimited images. That’s a darn good deal for the kind of images it produces. The first 25 Midjourney images are free, and then the basic plan is $10 a month for 200 images. You can see some recent image examples on the official Midjourney showcase. But Midjorney is now much, much better for book authors looking to create stunning graphics for their book covers or blog posts - and your first 25 images are free. ![]() If you want AI-generated images for your book covers, blog posts, and social media shares - and who doesn’t? - the gold standard used to be OpenAI’s Dall-E 2. Four generations of Midjourney AI models released in 2022. Updated : Midjourney is now up to the fourth evolution of its model, and the latest resources are jaw-droppingly beautiful, with much less prompt engineering required. All proceeds go to helping us pay for original stories and to support writers of speculative fiction. Some articles may include Amazon affiliate links.
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