Portrait Magic: Retain Faces in MidJourney Rendering

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Join us in 'Portrait Magic: Retain Faces in MidJourney Rendering' as we master the art of maintaining facial likeness during photo-to-portrait transformations. This step-by-step tutorial guides you in transitioning from a regular photo to an oil painting, without losing the subject's unique facial features.
Perfect for both beginners and seasoned artists, this guide offers practical techniques to cope with changing environments and colors. It's more than just a tutorial; it's your pathway to mastering the art of mid-journey rendering. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and share your results in the comments!
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[@silverblue73]

Retain is a very generous word, the two faces share some similarities but are very different.

[@Life-Inspired-Healing]

You're a very good teacher. Thank you.

[@MisaelLiranzo]

This is the best and most useful video I've seen in a month of trying to learn all this stuff. Thank you so much!

[@e2amracer]

I’m getting invalid link today. Any suggestions?

[@margaretsedlar1821]

Excellent tutorial! Thank you!

[@Geekatplay]

You're very welcome!

[@joseparedes380]

Dude, this is a hard way to do this, but definitely, the results are worth it. Thanks.

[@brettnfk]

A nice time-saving tip is to simple click and drag an image into the prompt, this will copy and paste its link in one quick motion.

[@Khodorchan]

Thank you for your effort putting in this clip and being so accurate. I have just subscribed with the greatest pleasure.

[@Geekatplay]

Awesome, thank you!

[@theguru143]

We REALLY need this ability in Stable Diffusion without having to make our own Lora/models. Being able to use a single reference photo would be huge

[@1Know1tHurts]

There is such an ability. It's called Roop

[@EddieGoldenberg]

Great video. Didn't know about IW and more. Thanks

[@menesaksoy]

What are the /Settings ?

[@zelogarno4478]

Thanks Vladimir!

[@Geekatplay]

thank you for your support

[@adsertheblade]

Excellent tutorial, thanks

[@Geekatplay]

You are welcome!

[@SureshC360]

Awesome bro

[@spacekitt.n]

great tips, this would have taken me forever to figure out on my own. thanks

[@Geekatplay]

thank you

[@JoelRabe-DJ]

no matter what I do I can't get the face to stay the same. followed your prompts and ideas and it send me female and male images but not the actual face. what am I missing? image is 300 DPI hi res and clear face.

[@ChippWalters]

Nice job, Vladimir! Nice to see you're staying busy 🙂

[@Geekatplay]

thank you!

[@SevenMrLu]

牛逼！WELL DONE! Best MJ tutorial I've seen so far!🔥

[@Geekatplay]

thank you for your support!

[@muhitdin5590]

you should make video about insightface swap bot

[@o.k.2968]

There was a mistake in your prompt: 'rain coatr' - coatR (!) And you also can use the '--seed' parameter for better control of style, pose an facial details.

[@doglovers3883]

Thanks for this instruction. Is there a Swap option where you can work with dogs head . I love dogs and I would like to do some portraits for my dogs.

[@CuddaBrown]

Mr Geek.. another nice one..

[@Geekatplay]

More to come!

[@gerdschwaderer]

Thats smart! I also played with seeds, but this helps!

[@Geekatplay]

thank you

[@slamdefrance]

the AI power is just amazing

[@Geekatplay]

agree

[@TheFunDimension]

Is there a way to create a model of a specific character in mid-journey?

[@JanneWolterbeek]

Very interesting, can't wait to try it out. I have become a real MJ addict, haha, just noticed I generated well over 2000 images in less than 2 months haha...

[@Geekatplay]

Have fun!

[@charliestinchcomb4301]

Is this process possible for dog portraits? Keeping the unique traits of a dog in a source image while changing prompts

[@senzasenso4766]

Hello, really good video , qq, do you like Leonardo AI? could you will do some tutorial ? Thank you

[@SROH-iy8vs]

c'était la vidéo la plus utile que j'ai visionné sur YT. Merci beaucoup !

[@Geekatplay]

thank you

[@osamaali95]

everytime i try it changes my face to some other guy ... and i am not getting it

[@magnobarros6215]

I wanted to know how you retrieved photos you had previously uploaded. It's a super useful resource but your screen does not show how you did it. Also, there are no tutorials around explaining how to do it. Pls explain. tks

[@Mrssparklesprite]

I appreciate very much the work you put into these videos! The information is invaluable and I can't find it anywhere else! That being said, I cannot read the words on the screen, as they are very blurry? I am trying to use your method but I cannot seem to replicate your results, and I can't read the screen to verify my steps. 😟Even at --iw 1.5 my images have different faces in every image even though everything else is almost identical. Was there another step my adhd brain missed? Thank you again!

[@Geekatplay]

thank you, MJ update version to 5.2, it does fixed some problems

[@nursinggrad421]

Spasiba

[@biotester]

May we use remix (not copy paste) to do blending and other things you did in this video?

[@Geekatplay]

yes, midjourney command: /blending

[@tykejack]

Hard to replicate without sharing your midjourney settings and after trying for weeks, it pretty much comes down to luck which people midjourney will preserve.

[@Geekatplay]

Thanks for sharing!

[@lilartroom]

Didn't work on my image

[@gpcm9226]

Even at --iw 2 the face is totally different. using MJ 5.2

[@Geekatplay]

It is little tricky, I am working solution with more stable result

[@hfycentral]

You can use the describe on the original image and get the aspect ratio

[@Geekatplay]

yes

I think it would be better if the latest picture and face swap application were applied together. (sorry for my english )

[@Geekatplay]

my english is not good ether ;) blending in photoshop still produce better result

[@bookswithatwist-vanvelzerp9262]

@@Geekatplay your English is really very good ! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@paulchoccyt1303]

Been having issues with MJ recognising my models so i changed my model to a black model and MJ still outputting white subjects nothing related to the images im giving it

[@Geekatplay]

try to use styles, i have latest video about how to match portrait in MJ with using reference photo and reference style

[@Crwfish]

I cant get any good results after multiple attempts. My images are not even close to originals. At all.

[@eddyhaze8239]

my picture came out nothing like the original even tried raw ? guess keep trying

[@fatabayati6390]

Should I pay money for generate new picture? I cant do it

[@Geekatplay]

It is plenty free online, check my other videos

[@LouisGedo]

👋

[@davirosa]

I have a question, brother. Im a photographer and I shot Model portfólios for a local model agency. I shoot a teenage girl with a cute facial features, but foremost, she hás a stunning Brownish skin color, she is gorgeous. But I would like do create an adult version based on her, kinda 21-27 years. Im also a painter and I would like to use this image as a reference... But, using her image as a source --iw - even If I ask in the prompt to create a 21 years old, It still looking like a kid tho. Any ideias? Thank you and hugs from Brazil!!

[@Geekatplay]

If person under age you need acquire proper release form, from model and guardians. I am using EZ Realize, it is accepted by most stock. If you want train AI model, you need permissions from the model and guardians as well. my recommendation.

[@Freewhiler]

Ive tried this with same prompts as you, yet the result is completely wrong. why?

[@Geekatplay]

try to use same looking image , it is hard to tell without seeing all data you putting in

[@borginborges421]

Sorry, but this video is not very useful in practice - OP choosed photo of person which is very similar to one of the models used to teach neural network (very typical east european beauty). So in his case he gets similar generations very easily, which is very not the case usually. He simply avoided one of biggest problems.

[@zentesiaclinic]

this is not working for me --iw {2.0}

[@mal-avcisi9783]

could you please compress your information? you have alot redundant information in your videos. try to be more precise and goal oriented. all the information you give this 25 min. video, you can compress to 10 minutes.

[@marksutherland774]

Be thankful you're getting the information, go use a chatgpt plugin and transcribe the video. Better still go make your own video and compress the info yourself, nope, didn't think so. You get information for free and still moan, some people.

[@mal-avcisi9783]

@@marksutherland774 no I will not be thankfull. He can be thankful that I am wasting my time with shit shiat