Don’t waste your Time.
There are a lot of guides out there on how to tweak settings, manipulate things with image prompts, Remix and do all those complicated things that give people a false sense of control.
But honestly - I think they’re a huge waste of time
I literally use parameters such as Weight and Quality maybe once out of 2000 times.
At the current state of Midjourney I find that it simply wastes more time than it saves.
Even the inventor of Midjourney once said he thinks —Q2 (The quality parameter I talked about in the Settings chapter) is a huge waste of time and resources and he wants to remove it already.
But still you’ll be able to find people making “expert” guides on these kind of things and showing you how much control and power they give.
But in the end if the results don’t look that great, it doesn’t matter if feel like you have a (false) sense of control.
Didn’t work? Try again, Differently.
Many times I see people asking questions such as:
“I love this character in the image, but I want to see it looking in a different direction.”
or “I really like how it came out but I want this small detail to be different!”
My advice? Start over. Don’t get attached.
Forget about trying to fix things and get used to a workflow of replacing them with something new.
You had some specific idea in mind and it didn’t work with a specific prompt that you spent a lot of time on?
Scrap it, find a new prompt and start over.
There are infinite ways to approach a task with AI Art. If one didn’t work, the next will.
If the 5th one didn’t - the 6th will.
It’s important to keep a fluid and flexible workflow while “hunting” for an idea.
When I start a new project I usually try 6-12 different prompts to see how I could best approach it.
Each prompt comes with it’s own pros and cons and in the end you’ll have to choose the prompt you feel is the most flexible and allows you to work on your project peacefully.
You need to get this in your mind, the AI has most of the control - you are simply a shepherd (and we want to make you a masterful one) and your job is to learn how to guide it as close as possible to your destination.
I always tell my students:
Imagine the world of AI Art as an endless maze full of precious diamonds.
Your job is to learn how to traverse that maze without getting lost in the way.
And even better - learn how to traverse the maze in such a way that you can almost "see the diamonds through the maze walls” and reach them 100/100 times.
No technical lessons in this chapter, but this philosophy is incredibly important for understanding AI Art.