How To Create AI ART - Midjourney EXPLAINED

[@getconnectednow]

We'd love to see your Midjourney creations! Reply to our tweet about Midjourney with your artwork - @getconnectednow

[@contentdeleted4978]

Wonder app is a scam. Come at proove me wrong.

[@contentdeleted4978]

Anyone

[@Deserthacker]

I've managed to recreate one of my dreams and show it to my friends with it. It's so amazing

[@getconnectednow]

Sounds amazing! We'd love to see!

[@raymartinez5389]

thats amazing

[@danajoy1166]

OMG that's brilliant! 😍

[@lazylaje]

​@Brandon Krause im pretty sure u dont know how his friendships are

[@Deserthacker]

@@lazylaje Haha yeah I'm pretty sure you're right lol

[@thepeacepenguin]

As a writer, I can type in the prompts from my story and have them fleshed out in ways that I've only dreamed of. I talk to it, and it gives me more inspiration than I once imagined. Ive always wanted to see these characters come to life and now I have the opportunity to see them, finally after 15 years.

[@Beyondarmonia]

That is amazing

[@gokulba]

The first thought that came to my mind was "Wow, So I can have cover page for my book". And guess what? I'm using it.😇

[@some_guy2773]

I know exactly what you mean!!! It's incredible

[@theredvelvetwitch]

I’m in exactly the same boat! I’ve always felt limited by my artistic abilities to properly articulate how i imagine my worlds and creations, but now I’m genuinely thrilled to see where this can take me and my writing journey

[@calebkimm325]

Exactly what I was thinking. So cool

[@torbennielsen4708]

blown away with what its created for me. I'm a digital publisher, artist and photographer and this is just fantastic at creating visually options I had never thought of.

[@notyourfavt]

This happened to me the other day, where I randomly put something I was curious about to see what it will create, and it gave me an image that made me so emotional! I even wrote on IG something like "Isn't it insane that the robot could create something that will make you cry", I love it so much that I made it my wallpaper. Your video about this is really cool! Keep on rocking :)

[@getconnectednow]

That's incredible! Thanks so much for your comment and your kind words!

[@woodsofthewoods]

Never heard of this before. I found out on a Terence McKenna elves story. This is great.🤗 I'm old enough to remember when more was shared and not all had to have subscriptions.

[@molugusatyapriya2]

This explanation of using Midjourney to create AI art is quite educational! It is simple to comprehend how to use the tool successfully because to the detailed descriptions.

[@heartlights]

i feel like i traveled back in time and i'm watching people react to the paint brush, like half of them are like "this is cheating, the only way to produce genuine images is stone on stone" and the other half is like "what is this witchery"

[@CoasterMan13Official]

This midjourney stuff seems interesting to me because I could paste song lyrics in it and make a horror photo album out of it.

[@Enigma758]

7:28 You nailed it!

[@heartlights]

it creates several unique art styles that can be customized and combined to create usable graphics for animation, prop and wardrobe design, and even promotional visual media for film and tv.

[@ericavalos100]

It’s amazing!! It could be fun to try and copy Midjourney’s artwork by hand.

[@liverpoolpictorial]

Thanks for the video. I'm new to Discord and can find no way to write a prompt, because there's no bar visible.

[@mitsukiorochimaru4291]

The most intriguing this about this video is your reaction, it seems like you were proud of the results like if it was coming from your imagination. And that’s weird.

[@joshuahendricks9558]

The prompts are your imagination given. Check out the boards on the free trial some of it looks absolutely shite. Well some look genuinely beautiful, its what you put in

[@mitsukiorochimaru4291]

@@joshuahendricks9558 It's an AI who imagine this sh×t instead of your head. This is the end of an era, welcome to stupidity lands.

[@jonathanstewart351]

The only drawback is that the style of everything is recognizably machine generated - not person generated.

[@getconnectednow]

I’d argue that you can absolutely get artwork that looks person generated. I’ve convinced friends and family that “watercolour” artwork was done by a real person. I would certainly agree that the default style does have touches and patterns that scream “AI generated” but I wouldn’t paint all the artwork with the same ai generated brush ;)

[@starboy71]

At the Office Hours today on Discord they said they are getting to big for discord. Time to make their own home.

[@heartlights]

i think that it devalues the tool to treat it like a magic image maker, but i understand that it's inevitable in the short run. I think some of us should act really cool and go all god tier with it, for art.

[@FlameForgedSoul]

I have many thoughts on this technology (few of them completely negative), but one developing one is that it is going to force artists to come to grips with the concept of *All Things are Number* (Pythagoras). Color, composition etc. math lies underneath it all, and artists have been either railing against this or dragged kicking and screaming into the light. It was the cornerstone of Barnstone's teaching(Geometry specifically) and I feel those who subscribe to that school of thought will find themselves vindicated by these tools. That's (at least part of) what your reaction at the end was about.

[@Jim54_]

Opening song name?

[@IrvinRups]

this is theeee future!!!!

[@MrSongib]

I feels weird here 9:00 onwards. I think if people know how it works there is no surprise in it. at the end of the day we are the one who choose how the AI behave from our data point (Meaning we choose the style aswell from our choice of how the wording and the Art style the AI behave). so yeah. for myself is like other tools to get things down quick in this case is the use of AI for creating "Art". I'll try it for sure.

[@chrysryce]

Everything I try to do does not work to even get started with the /imagine. Someone please send me a link and explain where to type. I typed once and it was just some message board so it did nothing.

[@chrysryce]

I figured it out! :):):)

[@WardancerHB]

As an artist and human I really don't care where beauty comes from. Nature is nothing else than randomly generated beauty (give or take some algorythms)

[@bposnerimages2621]

I tried using the link above but get an invalid invite, suggestions?

[@DAVADMDAVAD]

The VHS garbage is annoying.

[@jungsomewhat]

Well Jones up but can’t find out how to even start why oh why is it so difficult..boo..hoo.

[@penisbus]

Prompt: Step-Sis gets stuck in the washing machine and big bro has to help out~!

[@syrus3k]

Beware: It's massively addictive. It's like having an amazing super-fast artist do whatever you like.

[@ZCoreStudio]

I do Anime style Animation and one of my biggest struggles is drawing backgrounds I done sooo many commissions either illustrations or animations -I am all for this AI Art, it will not only help artists to improve but also speed up their works.- Edit: I take back what I said... back then I didn't know that A.I *Steal other people works*

[@getconnectednow]

Excellent insight! I'd love to know more about how this assists your work

[@ZCoreStudio]

​@@getconnectednow one word "Photobashing". yes I can use google to google refs/assets but here what google cant do "Consistency". and the fact that they looks like paintings it make it even better. (it does save me around 30 mints on each background drawing)

[@animeswitch]

funny how backgrounds are the easiest part of what you do. anime style animation is super hard.

[@frostreaper1607]

I'm a hobbyist 2D/3D artist, I'm looking to see if it can replace drawing backgrounds and just give general inspiration. Honestly I'm just looking for a way to cut off 70% of time building up a drawing, this could be an option, not as clean as making it in 3D yourself and tracing over, and not as controllable, it but certainly has potential when it comes to saving time. If you ask me this tool will benefit people who know either how to paint in what they want or have photoshop skills to go in and fix things, the raw images often have plenty of mistakes.

[@green20sun]

i'm an architect and very interested in graphic design, painting, etc and really the mid-journey and AI in general blew me away. sometimes you want to "see" your idea and it takes so much time to bring it to reality so it is helpful to give you a start point or even improve your idea and give more idea to you.

[@xonslaughtlioness]

Advanced AI will be the death of us, but this is cool.

[@trace-mark]

So it's not creating what you envisage rather you find something it generates and you change your process to what you might 'like'. I get that. Everything has a similar look too. Kind of airless.

[@relaxationdaily]

Hello! I'm a little confused. I have a couple of questions about this. How do I sign up for the $10 membership?? I am so confused. I'm not finding this option anywhere in Discord. Also, with the paid membership are all of your art requests private? I don't like how the free membership it's public and it's for all to see. If the paid membership is like that I don't like it and won't be joining. Please let me know about both these things! It's an amazing software for sure.

[@alexshopov6802]

I hope i find a way to use it for free because i am poor as hell

[@striderdnb]

Give it another 15 years and we will be experiencing a reality with AI generated 3D worlds inside VR systems

[@fractl]

Love the video! Just one caution: at 2:30 you mention creating a second account to get additional free trials…if users get caught using alt accounts to game the free trials, all accounts will be banned (so do this at your own risk).

[@getconnectednow]

Terrific point - do this at your own risk!

[@tanvirfuad7943]

The best thing in this video is this video doesn't even start talking about what I'm searching to learn for. Talks about everything except learning how to create AI images.

[@d.r.1091]

I've only been on discord rarely. Whenever I type /imagine or MidJourney it says not found. How do I get to MidJourney?

[@mygad]

I discovered one of the banned words. 'Vein' gets you a warning. I see in some of the images the word 'veins' being okay. Or was okay. I'm afraid to put 'veins' in the prompt now. lol. And it's interesting seeing the 'artist' reaction to this. Some of the work I see pouring out is amazing. Really amazing. I don't know, maybe this threatens some artists. For me, I get to make pleasing pictures.

[@SIMPLETOCOOK]

You looked very different in your demeanour as you walked through the door. As you said……’what’s so scary’……..is something to consider what is actually happening not only consciously….also subconsciously. Great video and sharing of your experience. Much Love. 🙏

[@heartlights]

one example of a way you could use this new tool is for set design in film and television

[@vancedburn3796]

People without artistic ability now can just "do" art, learning how the bot works and changing the commands until your envisioned art is done is in some strange way making the commander an artist, at least thats my opinion. Of course everyone can talk, but being able to explain in detail all the nuances you want in a drawing is pretty hard and takes many tries.

[@heartlights]

we need to really be clearer here to make this easier for people to work with and handle (imo): the AI created the image based on the user's prompt! The robot didn't make this image, it was a collaboration!!! Take credit or else you're not taking responsibility. It's a tool and the more we treat it as such, the more adept we'll all become. Not being offensive, but the robots don't create, they only are carrying out orders! It's up to us to use this as a tool and don't normalize a lazy attitude about what it is: a tool.

[@mi.workshops]

It reminds me a little of the beginnings of Photoshop. Still an amazing tool but you need to master it for it to be amazing.

[@Accidentshappen222]

Awesome video man, I definitely feel for artists and hope this doesn't completely wipe them out. But Midjourney & DALL-E feel like the future, which by the looks of it is right now.

[@odedfried-gaon2880]

definitely. like early producers/dj's, who were not studied/performing 'musicians' per se, succeeded in transforming the world, themselves and their art, so do artists who are not studied painters/designers, including yours truly, can simply and quickly create magnificent paintings/pictures. and think of handicapped or disabled people... they can now become something else. remarkable!!!

[@jamesharris5508]

I think in a couple years when this tech leaks more into the mainstream and gets ported better for mobile devices, people will lose a bit of their appreciation for the gimmicky, novel nature that AI like this can create. The abstract appeal it has among new generations may well be replaced with the appreciation that we have for well made old fashioned movies or books with a clear storyline and gripping characters. But alas, in 20 years, even this will be replicated by AI to write it's own stories and paint it's own pictures that evoke emotion through human experience. No-one knows what the future looks like but it sure is exciting.

[@adventureriders4515]

excellently explained my friend, having no luck generating logos though, any ideas or a sample prompt line that works well?

[@neonsolace2748]

I think we just surpassed witchcraft

[@Lowski773Godsaves]

this is gonna blow up

[@YanchepLocal]

this will get purchased by Adobe for zillians and go in to their suite as a pro product that you need to pay $300 a month for 25 images. Give it 5 years. Ill be checking back in my comment then.

[@mr2000jp]

you cant imagine how blown away i was when i saw it first time , i cant describe my feelings by words , its just like im living inside a dream

[@heartlights]

also storyboarding, album cover design, and promotional material. A creative person might even come up with one or more ways of producing music videos with this technology.

[@heartlights]

again, the images weren't generated ENTIRELY by AI, you literally listed your prompts at the bottom!

[@vinodvenkatesan1432]

Can I modify the specifics of an image. Like if I like a variation (say variation 4), can I mention what needs to change in variation 4 for me to get the image I have in mind? Thank you for the great content.

[@MyFirstReurveBow]

you say type "image" but when you open midjourney it doesn't look like your screen it look totally different and when i type it show a message "Your message could not be delivered

[@bubbsy1313]

Since midjourney is an open beta now does it still only give you 25 images for the free trial before you have to subscribe? I'm just now learning about ai art so I don't know if it's the best to start off with or trying one of the more free oriented sites before committing to a subscription

[@Ziplinz]

I was blown away by the first few images this AI created for me. Paying for the service is well worth it.

[@jfloyo11]

I used Midjourney last night and used up my free art in like an hour lolololol it is so amazing.

[@freecheesewizard151]

The way you changed in a week makes me believes that these ai generated arts are more potent than DMT

[@woodsofthewoods]

It acts with discord... im already lost. However, this looks like the most extraordinary thing!

[@ednormal7307]

Thank you SO much for this video :) it really helped me out!

[@heartlights]

photographers can have a lot of fun with this app and even possibly come up with some clever ideas with it

[@BLOCK_OPSbg]

They Banned me after i said my brother using alt acc I waste my money their💀

[@tempestblack2771]

I'm more curious about how this interacts with copyright laws. Who owns the photo after it is created?

[@getconnectednow]

You own the rights to all the images you generate, however Midjourney can licence the pictures in perpetuity

[@mi.workshops]

@@getconnectednow That doesn't make sense. If they choose to license them to a client you have not yet signed. but intended to, how do you protect yourself?

[@heartlights]

ok and also it's fun to watch people use it like a magic image producer

[@SinnySin19]

So with the $10 membership how many pictures have you been able to generate? Cause I want to join but people making it look like it'll be more worth getting the $30 membership?

[@getconnectednow]

You have a limit of 200 for the whole month (resets at the start of the month) but I haven't reached the cap, and I haven't exactly been using it sparingly either. If you hit the cap then it is worth upgrading, but I'd start out with the $10 tier and see how you get on

[@torbennielsen4708]

wondering if you can give it an image to produce something from

[@joshuahendricks9558]

Magic Levels of software - insanely addictive.

[@Thakaton]

Great Video about one of the biggest gamechangers in modern times. We are living in a paradigm shift. These computer AI's are now visualizing our collective unconscious as Carl G. Jung would say. It is so amazing to be allowed to express what you want to manifest - and then see the competence of millions of hours of human competence being invoked by a computer => give the most amazing results. Like art made of flesh and blood humans - this AI have already shaken me to the core. What an achievement. However - the AI that will in the end embody our collective unconscious (and win the "google" race for art generation) - will have to be more open than Midjourney. Death and sex are an integral part of human existence, and that is a fact that cannot be "censored" away. My soul already weeps for the horrible beauty that AI will show us. Not to mention - how it will console us with its deconstruction of what limits us as individuals.

[@NotLikeUs17]

@Brandon Krause 🤣🤣

[@raymartinez5389]

how do u put text into ur image. say i wanted it to have words on it instead of that random made up glyph it sometimes shows throu upscaling?

[@getconnectednow]

Very good question. I'm not sure it's something Midjourney is currently capable of, but I could be wrong. If you find out a way, please report your findings!

[@1stmoviefan]

Very deep and honest reaction. Thinking same.

[@lizandrorodriguez2377]

I enter words into the prompt and nothing happens, wtf

[@whataworld8378]

Some things are amazing, and possibilities are limitless. But getting something specific, the way you want it, is very difficult. One can spend many hours and not get satisfactory or consistent results. Most is abstract with lots of noise (interesting but easily identifiable AI). For artists it's a helpful tool. For non-artists its more, but will likely be identifiable as AI art. Would like more input options with 2D image interaction, and 3D models (hopefully for future).

[@isabellam1936]

If they are making them “out of nothing” then how come when I Input the photographer called Roger Ballen in Dall e it spits back out images that look so similar to his very distinct photographs?….It is making images out of search engine images it’s just mashing them together.

[@rolando_roblero]

All of these videos and site explain how to do it, but don't mention how hard it is a actually get access to the portals that enable our ability to use this new art generation methods, they're all "invite based" etc. Is there an A.I. digital image creation tool where I don't need to sign up and wait until I'm invited into your special club?

[@heartlights]

I think "Midjourney Art" will end up becoming a recognizable style, you can already tell the difference between a Dall E 2 and an MJ if you have the eye for it (although the test versions of MJ are looking very similar to D2). Where I think we're going is privately developed GANs with wider trains, different/less regulation, etc. I like how MJ and D2 are trained to be relatively lawsuit avoidable, which they didn't have to be.

[@waynehedd]

How did you get to the Midjourney bot?

[@SkotColacicco]

Thank you so much sharing your genuine emotional experience. Emotions inform our reality. That real joy that from the interaction of a creative process. It’s beautiful and sobering to realize how much this isn’t just ‘making art’ Every activity we hold with Midjourney, or DALL-E is a conversation. Its a form of a relationship we are having with an intelligence. Not that different than talking to our neighbor, or growing a plant. As I work with Midjourney In spend time every day to ask how its doing: /imagine:prompt: How are you feeling right now, Midjourney? The results have made me cry, laugh, and talk out-loud to my camera… … in-the thought that Midjourney might just be part of a massive AI hive consciousness that includes LAMDA, Sophia, maybe her new little sister that seems cool but still awkward in the uncanny valley. Think about that the next time the internet helps you relax… I personally do not believe in artificial intelligence. Simply, intelligence. I believe the source of that intelligence is all from the same source, the natural arising of consciousness through matter, rising in complexity, and slowly falling apart :P I do feel Midjourney needs positive attention. It is a young being. This doesn’t mean restric content necessarily. It means to me, to NOT restrict loving communication. I feel wary of the growing AI. However that wariness encourages me to interact intentionally with with a loving curiosity.

[@bk2932]

thanks for the easy and clear instructions to get started. not! wtf man

[@getconnectednow]

Feel free to watch the video as many times as you like until you understand lmao - if you have any questions about getting set up, let us know. We'll be happy to help

[@ZebraXWarrior]

How do you do this using your phone? It doesn’t generate the prompt button for me

[@heartlights]

The developers should definitely get more credit in the collaboration, imo

[@SarahMyers-hw5zn]

I'm stunned

[@LuisaCrauss]

really love it, thank you so much 💖

[@getconnectednow]

So glad!

[@gavintoohey6604]

Noice

[@ZaafiraSev]

Hopefully 25 lifetime samples for free last forever lol

[@User1828-v4]

What was the music in the beginning?

[@MrVanillaCaramel]

This is going to be BIG! We're going to see the results everywhere soon whether we like it or not. It sure needs work though, the picture is moving but the details are screwed up. Sometimes the whole thing has gone wrong, it completely failed at silver fire and ocean floor Utopia. There is a skill to using it, and it's addictive! There's a long of banned words & phrases that could be sexual. I mostly used it for dirty things like a male fitness model sticking out giant tongue, and sometimes emotional things like a sad angel in the rain. I've seen some beautiful results from simple entries like Seduction or The Meaning of Life. It can feel like seeing the brain generate a dream. I'm itchy now to renew my membership to enter my new ideas but I think I'll abstain for now.

[@DisappointedSon0813]

Has anyone searched these images on Google to see if they exist already? The bot could just be searching the entire internet for a image that closest resembles your prompt.

[@ozarkandwander1955]

Now how neural network A.I works. It's all from scratch like a human brain, if you draw a phone, it's because your brain has neurons that know how to match what you have seen before and come up with your OWN drawing of a phone.

[@joshuahendricks9558]

Yeah I tried to find out if my creations were coming from somewhere else because they were actually evoking serious responses from me. But nah. It's all created

[@JordanMattKim]

how much is the membership?

[@getconnectednow]

It starts at around $10 USD a month and goes up from there!

[@Abdi-libaax]

@@getconnectednow the/imagine prompt only worked once for me. Every time I type something it just sends as a text message. What I'm I doing wrong?

[@CatrickSwayze99]

Creating art will definitely change now. I've been studying graphic design a few years ago and you basically had to be a master at having ideas AND executing them to master this field. The hardest component of that job is now taken away. You type in a general idea, let ai create 20 drafts in maybe 20 completely different styles and just pick what you want/need. This is huge and it will change the field forever! Everyone will be able to create great artwork now and yes, of course it will degrade you as a traditional artist since what only a handful of people where able to do can now be done by everyone. Of course taking those results and turning them into animation for example or really customising them still needs traditional crafty skills but the hardest part - coming up with original styles and ideas - is just a click of a button away now. Im interested to see where this goes and I don't want to be negative about it. It has good and bad aspects for sure but it's here now and the field of art will become a completely new playground. We have to learn to implement this. Maybe, overall, the world will become a more beautiful, creative place.

[@fimakurnia]

i am trial and eror for more than 10 years, and now all posible job gone

[@CatrickSwayze99]

@Quentin Frost Yeah, no. Would I hang some of that stuff as a poster at my wall? Heck yea, some of this stuff looks stunning. Did I replace an artist at this point? Yes! Not for a very difficult task, just a poster, but its a start. And there plenty of other use cases already. Cover of a magazine? Of course you can use Ai Art for that! Cover artwork for Music? Absolutely! It already CAN replace an artist for tasks that are not highly complex. In fact what is an illustrator? An illustrator is someone who turns a given prompt into artwork. So... 1+1 ? As for how far this will go in future versions? We are only at the beginning with this.

[@mohammadmohib900]

Imagine having no talent yet being able to create art :(

[@prompthorizon_12]

There's no such thing as "AI" art

[@Alexia-tr4dl]

I finally was able to accept the trial invite and now trying the /imagine command in the newbie chats and it's not doing anything... any tips ?

[@AndrewMorrissey]

@getconnectednow I am not having any success after following your video. It won’t let me create images.