The Beginner Guide To Getting Started With MidJourney (A.I. Art)

I’ve been playing with MidJourney, which allows you to direct artificial intelligence to create art based on text alone.

People have been asking how to get started using it, and I hope this helps!

I will be sharing tips and tricks there in my "Story Highlights" at the top of the page, and in my posts and stories.

It’s been a hot topic with polarizing opinions, feel free to write your thoughts about the future of A.I. in our industry.

I have been using it mostly for fun: Generating concepts as a moldboard tool and just seeing if I can get the visions in my head out in visual form as I’m not great at drawing. It’s been inspiring, and a fun exercise in communication.

0:00 - Introduction
0:54 - Installing and using discord
1:27 - Getting started with Midjouney
2:51 - How to generate images using prompts
5:44 - Using options to refine the image
7:35 - Saving images
8:13 - Further refinement of the image
8:51 - Inspiration for future prompts
8:59 Subscriptions
9:53 - Community Feeds
11:01 - Organizing your images
12:28 - Outro

Chapters by Rafael Hernandez

[fullygamingforya]

As a student artist, I see my career being doomed before it started lol

[HCforLife]

My tip: don't use for idea generation full quality. Just add --q 0.25 flag - this is the fastest way to generate images. Until you get the prompt you want - use this to not block you and others from getting relaxed generations.

[sunso]

i just started playing with MidJouney,
it is amazing! i am recreating some of my dreams with it and touch it up with photoshop after
I started a dream journal and this is just phenomenal

[RafaWasHere]

0:00 - Introduction
0:54 - Installing and using discord
1:27 - Getting started with Midjouney
2:51 - How to generate images using prompts
5:44 - Using options to refine the image
7:35 - Saving images
8:13 - Further refinement of the image
8:51 - Inspiration for future prompts
8:59 Subscriptions
9:53 - Community Feeds
11:01 - Organizing your images
12:28 - Outroduction

[maryflores-camacho]

Great intro to a new medium I wasn't aware of. I introduced it to my daughter, son-in-law, and grandkids. We created a few together. It was so cool to create a piece of art as a family. I have a feeling I will be subscribing. You're the best, Pratik!

[kristinakashtanova]

It's super useful for filmmakers to make storyboards. I am loving it

[grim]

Just purchased there $50 a month plan this is so freaking awesome. I have always had Ideas I wanted to portray in art but don't have art skills this is perfect to express that. Love supporting this group to be able to do that.

[mollymom]

Thank you, Pratik, for taking the time to do this great intro! Just a little FYI: at the 3:15 mark, you say to type “back slash imagine” but you were actually typing a regular (forward) slash. Thanks again, I appreciate your generosity. 🥰

[LSD]

Creative fields will, for lack of better -merge. Using A.I. as a tool. As for the rest of the work-world's position's and roles and not excluding all the way up into the
administrative/clerical positions, it could be a bit of a debacle.

[DeanWilson]

I did everything you said but the discord says "you do not have permission to post messages" and that's in every area. what am I doing wrong?

[DoowTael]

Thank you so much for this video! I had NO idea how to make AI art and was so frustrated with the apps on Android. I listened to your video in the car and then watched it when I got home and spent the following 5 hours making ai artwork. They have a new subscriber because of your video, I don't think I ever would have found this had it not been for you. Thank you thank you thank you 👏😁❤

[Francis-Kanja]

Why is Midjourney tied to discord? Why can't it be on a site by itself?

[Patrick-khhy]

I have just tried it. I would never suspect that generating some random images (just a hint of direction given by me) would be so much fun. I used my 25 free credits in 10 minutes and it sucked me in. The images are totally different from what i am thinking and yet better than what i wanted. Arwen from Lotr as a catgirl in Cyberpunk futuristic style is the love of my life now <3

[Bujoniq]

Awful user experience and way the program operates - why would you create such a messy way to use it

[romainvicta]

The only big negative with this is for small time artists who achieve a similar standard . AI could potentially make alot of young artists obsolete unless they are top tier artists

[JackieTab]

Thank you you’re the only person who made a helpful video on how to get on the Discord group and use it

[HalkerVeil]

The fact is certain words work well for the AI. They are like levers and buttons. Nobody copyrights a button.

[josenadesan]

how do you get MJ to edit an existing photo on your Google Drive?

[erindegroot]

Good tip about DMing the bot…someone took one of my first images and I was so annoyed hahaha

[bamboocake]

Wish they had not chosen discord for this amazing technology. Discord is by far one of the most messed up, amateurish and confusing software's I have come across.