Imagine Weekly – Issue 21 [October 25th]

Welcome to Issue 21 of Imagine Weekly 👋

Hi to all new subscribers, and welcome back to all existing ones. It finally happened—Midjourney's long-awaited image editor just dropped a few days ago, and people are already creating amazing images with it.

🤖📋 Have you checked out Midjourney Parameter cheat sheet, it’s free. Head over to Midjourney Cheat Sheets and give it a try. This is still an early release and work in progress. I’ll introduce more features over time. If you want to see something specific, feel free to reach out [email protected].

In this issue you’ll find:

• All about Midjournys latest updates

• 📖 TL;DR; Weekly Recap of the Office Hours (or the extended recap)

• 🛠️ Tools to explore

• 🎨 Some new srefs to tinker with

✨ Say hi to the new external image editor

The updates introduces a new external image editor with features such as image uploading, expanding, cropping, repainting, and modifying scenes. It includes an 'image retexturing mode' that changes the lighting, materials, and surfaces of a scene. Users can control these editing actions through text prompts and region selection, with compatibility for model personalization and style references. Additionally, a new V2 AI moderator is being tested, which aims to intelligently analyze prompts and images to reduce false positives and increase user freedom. Initially, these features are available to users who have generated 10,000 images, have yearly memberships, or have been monthly subscribers for the past year. Known issues include potential inaccuracies with small region changes and disproportionate outpainting. The team encourages users to explore these tools creatively. Down below in the related section you’ll find many cool things people have already created with it.

📅 Office Hours TL;DR; Recap 2024-10-23

🚀 Release Plans: Midjourney is launching a new image editor and re-texturing features, with simultaneous changes to website components and moderation tools.

🎯 Launch Strategy: Initial rollout to a subset of users, including the 10k Club and recent subscribers, targeting 25% of the community for a safer launch.

🖼️ New Features: Advanced image editor with masking and personalization, and Retecster for texture changes while retaining shapes.

🔧 Challenges: Limitations in unconventional edits and potential model inconsistencies, requiring iterative changes.

🛡️ Moderation: New tools for image analysis, with jobs private by default to prevent unintended sharing.

🔮 Future Developments: Enhancements in personalization, batch image generation, and progress on the V7 model with incremental updates.

🌈 Related

Currently on X, it's hard to miss people exploring the new Midjourney image editor. The results are amazing, and the variety of uses is incredibly broad.

Enough about the editor—give it a shot and explore what's possible.

Coming up next, I discovered Marco's first PDF, which could be really beneficial for you. Take a look and support a fellow creator!

🛠️ Tools

You all probably know RunwayML. Looks like they’ve been concentrating on a new product and it looks super fun and will probably change a whole industry:

Another great tool I've mentioned before but haven't presented in detail is Ideogram. It has a sleek UI and delivers great results. Check it out!

🎨 Inspiration, Prompts and Srefs

See you next week 👋🤖

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