Imagine Weekly – Issue 3 [June 20th]

Welcome to Issue 3 of Imagine Weekly 👋

Hello everyone,

hope you’re doing great! My goal is to ensure you get the most out of Imagine Weekly, helping you elevate your skills as a visual creator. Therefore, from now on you’ll get regular how-to’s to step up your image generation game. And you don’t even have to leave your inbox.

In this issue you’ll find:

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

• A tutorial on how to use the /describe command in the web UI Jump to the article or read below

• Some new srefs to tinker with

Office Hours TL;DR; Recap 2024-06-19

If you’re interested in a more extended recap of the latest Midjourney office hours, check out 🍿My Summary (external link).

🎨 Personalization Feature

• Released personalization feature, well-received

• Users need 200 ratings to personalize (midjourney.com/rank)

• Most users prefer personalization on

• Updating and improving personalization, debating update this week

• Plans for semi-personalization (e.g., demographic profiles, colorblind version)

• Investigating aesthetics and demographics

• Personalization is a work in progress, learning from users who dislike it

🔄 Blending Multiple Codes

• Updating code system to blend multiple codes

• Encouraging users to personalize, share, and blend codes

• Launch expected in a few hours after final QA

🚀 Upcoming Model Releases

• Training Midjourney 6.5, focusing on image quality and edge cases

• Midjourney Version 7 (V7) in progress, expected dramatic improvement over V6

🌐 Website Improvements

• Polishing website based on user testing

• Gradually allowing access without Discord, monitoring stats

• Adding chat room for help on the website

• Experimenting with community features like trends and popular codes

📚 Tutorials & How-To’s

How to use midjourneys describe feature in the new web UI

Midjourney's /describe command is a powerful tool that allows users to upload an image, and Midjourney generates four text prompts that attempt to describe the contents of that image.

Coming from discord, /describe was all you needed to type, followed by an image or an image url.

Now with the web UI this feature has been hidden quite well, however once you know where it has been placed, it’s straight forward to use. It kind of makes sense where it's living but finding it is hard. Maybe that'll change as the team is making a higher effort in crafting a splendid user experience.

Before guiding you through the UI step by step it makes sense to emphasizes the way /describe is intended to be used: to output prompts that are inspirational and suggestive. That’s it. It’s not a tool to recreate an uploaded image exactly (We’ll cover that part in another article). Web UI has taken that fact to another level as you'll see below, cause if you’re comparing the output you can clearly see that the discord /describe command outputs four prompts whereas the web UI suggests building blocks for you to craft your own prompt.

I really like the fact that Midjourney is taking the opportunity to rethink commands and the way they are used when moving to the web instead of just putting the same command behind a button.

Alright, let's go over this.

Step Step guide

1. Head over to the Midjourney website

2. Click the image icon within the prompt bar. Upload your image the same when you would when you’d want to use it as a style or character ref or as an image prompt.

3. Once the uploaded image appears, hover over it and then click the info icon

4. The UI really nicely now displays individual blocks which can be used to build a prompt → Subject and Descriptor.

🙌 That’s it. Now you know how to use the describe command in the new Web UI, at least in the current version of Jun 20th 2024.

🌈 Related

🎨 Inspiration, Prompts and Srefs

For today's issue, I've gathered some nice references for you to save. All images were generated by me, using either full or partial prompts from the original authors.

Night Call / sref 1193720432 by @doganuraldesign

Lollipop Madness / sref 374270748 by @danielreiser

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