Midjourney v6.1 & Leonardo.AI Acquisition!

This week was a pretty massive one for AI Art and Images! Midjounrey dropped their v.6.1, so we'll take a dive into that and see how much of a gamechanger it is-- Plus, we'll take a look at the recent aquistion of Leonardo.AI by Canva and see how that might affect Adobe down the line!

Plus, I've got a look at an open source Midjourney competitor that just popped up, and news about a pricing decrease from RunwayML!

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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:29 - Midjourney v.6.1
1:39 - Using 6.1 with Personalization
2:13 - The new Quality Mode
2:56 - The new Upscaler
3:37 - Text in 6.1
4:49 - New Describe Coming?
5:53.- Midjourney's Future Roadmap
6:28 - The new Open Source Midjourney
6:52 - Leonardo.AI acquired by Canva
7:50 - The hidden story
9:21 - RunwayML Pricing Announcement

[net_cap]

I've never seen such an "organic" YouTube storyteller. Have you worked on TV before, or something? It's always interesting to watch regardless of the topic. Thank you very much!

[giri.goyo_yt]

5:31 Hey! It's Pirate Anne Bonny! Thanks for the book recommendation. Looks fun. Insider Neo knowledge. Also: thanks for checking Runway prices.

[WillowsAIAcademy]

Thanks for the really interesting update. I hadn’t heard about affinity also become part of “the canva family”. As a very keen user of Leonardo’s Canvas editor, which hasn’t been updated at all since it’s released, I’d love to see that updated with some of the more human-lead image editing capabilities we see in affinity. But I’m sure they’d actually be happier with us paying our subscription fees for each of the tools in their suite separately.

[High-Tech-Geek]

I think Canva, like Runway (and others), is trying to create a full-service, one-stop-shop for creating images. I occasionally use the free Canva to create flyers, illustrations and graphic art type stuff in a pinch. It's pretty good for mocking up stuff in the traditional way with clip art and fonts.

[kadenickel]

one quick note - for the Midjourney personalization feature, they say you have to rate at least 200 images for it to work, not 2000. great video thanks for the updates!

[BinaryFrameProductions]

Great video as always! Thanks Tim!!! Have a great weekend! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎥🎬

[Jade-exkb]

Great videos - I love your presentation style. re: Midjourney "Tools" option on the web, I don't have this option. Looks like you have special powers.

[circelink]

I'm an IN TO TM Book Club! Also I think Tim's Bar and Grill has no Wifi. Great stuff as always Tim, thank ya!

[LouisGedo]

😲 Canva purchased Leonardo? That's news to me!


Fascinating

[OrinThomas]

TIm's Bar and Grill definitely has the vibe of the real world Bora Bora Beach Club Bar/restaurant on the south west side of Bora Bora

[LouisGedo]

4:48

The old Describe wasn't great. I hope the new Describe fares much better because it can be a very useful tool. 👍

[deborahbelding]

The statute ala heresy syrup was not Michelangelo's, actually the "David" would be a good choice because it has a worried look, which is how I look when they pour syrup on my head.

[suzannecarter]

I wanted to see if the new, improved Midjourney would accept an image of a dead movie star so I uploaded a high-res photo of Lauren Bacall at the height of her days with Bogie with a prompt that exactly described the reference photo. Midjourney gave me a buxom fifteen year old with big pouty lips. Bacall's ash blond medium length hair was changed to very long dark curly hair and her piercing blue eyes now looked like she was on serious downer drugs. This was the creme de la creme image generator! I feel like I'm going crazy (or it is).

[FriscoFatseas]

I hope This month is hype because i think ill still be waiting for advanced voice for "a couple weeks"

[NoCodeFilmmaker]

The thing that really sucks about Adobe's generative fill is that even if you use it to SOLELY remove an object from the background, it embeds it with a made by Ai metadata tag. I don't think that's really fair because simply removing an object doesn't suddenly negate an entire project built from scratch without AI assets. I get tagging it if you use actual AI generated elements such as pictures or components. That's really my only gripe with it

[carlosophia]

Thanks for the heads-up about a Keanu book. I'm curious about it as he uses to say he's not really a "man of words". About Affinity, I've just downloaded it. I lean heavily into LR for processing my photos but if they did manage to get a decent RAW editor paired with a PS equivalent, I'll be SO HAPPY to ditch Adobe. And, as you said, Adobe's "AI" is incredibly bad. Let's see how it goes... Tks!

[cvaderx]

Canva esp. will eventually kill the market for graphic artists. That company doesn't even try to make the user put some decent effort into getting good results... If any average person can access pro features so easily, why would anyone hire you as a professional? I think the best thing for any artist to do is to actually learn to create his/her own AI network and saturate the market just these companies are doing with their software and level the stress out. This whole scene is crazy! With all that subscription we would end up not owning our tools of trade. Great channel btw...Don't say I didn't tell ya!

[gu]

midjourney is great for art and sci fi but i still think it lags a bit behind with people and still feels "ai" i find for people images stable diffusion xl lightning + realvis 4.0 or crea checkpoint really is the best workflow for me but HOPEFULLY 7.0 will add better generation of people plus improved lighting etc and something to look into! flux is not bad but i still find in my test for realism and lighting SDXL with the right checkpoint does better but thats just the base model so im sure in time with user made checkpoints and updates it will only get better! and gen 3 alpha image to video rocks!

[PhilAndersonOutside]

It's also been a big week for music and audio AI. Wait, that was last week. ...I can't keep up anymore!

[spacekitt.n]

i really hope the canva thing doesnt make leonardo come down harder with censorship