Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:38 Mid Journey basics
01:43 creating your first image
02:41 Make variations
03:14 upscaling
04:00 Saving images
04:15 Private bot
05:53 User Guide
06:18 Using an existing image with Mid Journey
06:46 Using Image weight parameter
08:13 Creating in the style of an Artist
09:24 Change the aspect ratio from a square
09:59 Using chaos
11:16 Using a tool to generate prompts (promptomaina)
13:00 What does this mean for professional artists and hobbyists? Is it the end of art?
Mid Journey ai tutorial. How to use mid journey to make ai generated art. Ai creates art from text, how you can get started making ai art today. How will this affect artists in the future? Will we be replaced?
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could not understnd
It’s great. Not so much for us as creatives, but as a source of unique stock footage, perfect. For the mere normal person it’s good creative fun! If you can afford it.
Trial is too short to get to grips with it I feel also, it needs to be longer (not just an amount of GPU credits) to get a good grasp of how it works – as you’re just about getting in to it and trial over.
It’s expensive as a subscription for most general folk. Me included.
It could perhaps help me. I'm not a great artist. I use Photoshop for repair, modifying, manipulating, or compositing. An example is a friend wanted his face on a statue and another time I sort of marbleized a head shot of him to create a bust. It would be fun to have this do something and then I manipulate it or use it in a composite.
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A person using AI creating "art" is not, and never will be an artist. They're not even a creative with a vision. AI generated art, will never be as impressive as an artist with the skill to create masterpieces with their own hands. I'm not really worried about this coming for indie artist like myself per say. I will simply just ignore it. But I worry about what it's going to do for non creatives, and those whose careers are now in possible jeopardy of being rendered obsolete.
UMMM…not sure. Created an account and will play with it. Clearly a bit of a learning curve….but doesn't look too difficult. As an artist, digital art does not threaten me. It is another outlet for creativity.
unfortunately from now on all art will have to be labeled:
‘Someone sat for 10 minutes entering prompts into a computer to have it artificially make this art’
Or
‘A real artist sat in front of this canvas with paint and brushes…or sat in front of this computer with a tablet…for hours and days and days designing and deciding and sweating over the exact color and composition of their art.’
This is such a slap in the face of real artist. And I see no relation to the comparison of AI art and the invention of cameras and photography. A real person still has to creatively decide on film stock, lenses, composition, lighting etc…and not just type Giger into a computer and call it art. Especially when a overwhelmingly amount of the ‘art’ is created by a AI bot.
At this stage in the game, it's just a matter of time (less that 5 years) before AI can make, Art, Video, … and you will not be able to tell if a human or Ai did it. Also, I'm trying the Dall-E engine, but I'm not sure why the MidJourney's engine is so much better. I thought it was all using Dall-E 1 or 2 hmmm
this tool may help us to explore our imagination
Love it Colin!
I find it so good I Figured out how to set up a discord server to spread the joy.
it is not creating anything , it is only using illustration that have been already created .
Great video and thoughts! I love doing futuristic cityscapes composites with my own real cityscapes photos and it's going to be a great tool to create new elements to add them to my composites!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and talking a bunch of us off the ledge. I have seen a few tutorials about MJ and Dalle-E already. With each one, I was more and more discouraged. I actually skipped to the third section but will go back and watch it all. Embracing technology is going to be the best way to deal with it. As you said, it is not going away. I appreciate your definition of an artist and that it takes a bit more than typing in a few prompts. Deep breath…
what would be a good price for doing art commission for people with this system?
Why did these companies pile billions of dollars into creating these AI systems for this? What problem have they solved? Too many artists drawing pictures? How about they cure some diseases instead of destroying the creative industries?
Good video though, thanks!
I've been playing with this to use as inspiration and to create components of projects in styles that I'm not good at (like sketching). There's been one major problem I having, the results are full of what I'd call artifacts. There are many spots that just don't make since, like a living room with spots that just have squiggles or blobs that morph into a chair or such and I can't figure out ways to get is to not do that. It's not a major problem because I will be doing edits one the image to make it what I want, but that issue just causes more work and diminishes the time saving element.
The general problem I see with AI generated images will be people paying so called "artists" for work that should take time to create and are given AI created images that took them minutes instead with no reduction in cost. That can cause the rest of us issues when we work with people who have been burned this way. But overall, I see it as a great tool and look forward to finding new and fun ways to use it.
I have been playing around with it for a week and like it a lot. Today I am loading my first video with my Mid Journey artworks.
I've been using Midjourney for a while now, and I can say it does not replace artists. The images are beautiful, but flawed. It's fun and relaxing to create, it's nice to lose myself in the process and see my relationship with the AI computer evolve, but it's not a real artist. For me it's just about playing with ideas, colors, visions. It's relaxing, like reading a book.
This is a good thing. Imagine what’s coming next. The sky is the limit.
This is a good thing. Imagine what’s coming next. The sky is the limit.
Making AI art totally lacks sense of accomplishment. Yes you get awesome images, but you feel empty. Also no more respect and admiration from society around you, no matter how your art looks. Because no hard work was involved. There will be an overload of pretty art, and we won't value them anymore. Digital art will get discredited, because nobody can prove that it's not 90% or 100% AI made. So people will lose interest on Instagram digital artists etc… people with existing following will keep theirs. But for newcomers it will be hopeless. Pretty sure that this will lead into a situation, where kids don't care about practicing drawing anymore. Or about high school art class, they just whip out their phones, show their "work" done by AI and laugh at the teacher, "who can't even beat AI". We will be the last generation of skilled artists, who took the time to learn. The craft will die now. Good job Silicon Valley
It was interesting your mentioning the luddites, but I would like to add ons point from that perspective and that is that technological innovation historically has always on some level meant there were folks displaced or left behind as their roles became automated. And in some respects it was a real failing of the society not to recognize this and try and retrain or repurpose individuals into new roles. It has contributed to large portions of various cultures with economic and opportunity stagnation. So while it may be right to say it's inevitable that doesn't mean that we shouldn't try and mitigate the negative impacts of these changes if at all possible. Of course I don't mean to single out this in particular but am speaking more generally. At any rate
Excellent video as always
Cheers
I am currently working on the life project of becoming an artist and at 33, after many jobs and fails I still work on this dream. This said, I think this evolution is great. It is indeed like the birth of printing or photography. I do hope it will grow. And I don't see it as a… threat for artists, it is the normal next steps in the art evolution. And, for working with digital artist, the software houdini manage to do things like this. We already do use computer intelligence to create things. is it less art… In my eyes, art is expression. the medium do change but the need to say something still exist. that's why movies are really far away from a pen and paper medium but still create emotions. we see here the birth of a new medium to help us say and feel something. It's what human always did in the past. search for new tools to succeed quicker and/or better.
A lot of the things i see on social media are people professing to be Photographers, Graphic Designers/Artists or Digital Artists etc… but are no way near any of those things, when you see their work. They have people telling them their stuff is amazing in fear that it hurts their feelings is you told them otherwise. No one can take constructive criticism anymore and this is how people never progress or learn anything. I cringe when i see how bad my 1st composites were, but i never thought at the time i was good either, and now would not consider myself a pro or say i was. I just take pride in my hobby and want people to look at my stuff and not even know it was edited. Compositing i love too, but i am not creative enough at times to think up what i want to achieve.
I create images and manipulate them in photoshop, or add to 3d. Some come out near perfect though I have to admit, but like you said you'll never get what you see in your mind by typing it out and you can spend hours on hours going nuts trying to.
AI >>> Overvalued artists lol
14,000 images in. Hope you enjoyed the invite! It’s like condemning someone. Lol
I started with your channel and was introduced to Midjourney and was fascinated with the concept of AI generated art as I had not heard of this before. I, like you and many other You Tubers, are just not sure where this is going yet but after watching over a dozen or so YouTube channels all with differing opinions on where this will go I am of the opinion that there is a place for this concept of art. One of the channels I looked at was hosted by a film maker who explained that for him it becomes a valuable tool to very quickly conceptualize a thought or idea for a scene or a layout. Others, like you were concerned about the notion of what this kind of tool means for the "artist" who spends years crafting their style or designs or concepts only to find that an AI tool can do in seconds/minutes what they spent years learning. Another YouTuber explained how he plans to use this tool to generate designs, or backgrounds, or objects and then use them as composites in Photoshop which makes perfect sense because he can generate precisely what he wants then cut it out of one image into another. I finished watching another YouTuber explain that for her it was all about using the AI as an artist to craft something that she makes using words as tools to create her art. She went on to explain that in the end it is all about knowing and understanding how the AI tool works in the same fashion as someone who spends time learning how to use all the Adobe tools to do the same thing except the AI tool does it so much faster. I am sure this debate will go on for some time but in the end I think this type of "art" will flourish. The reality is that the Midjourney tool takes the notion of what tools like Topaz studio2 does, to a whole new level.
Who owns the ( copyright ),images? If the AI creates the images on the web no art director will touch it. I found the eyes were poor in all the images the Ai created
and had some difficulty finding the images but it is an interesting program.
I'm too old to let it bother me! LOL But, I can see it coming to a tone of something like in the movie A Clockwork Orange…
I just had this discussion with another YouTube guy who is all in on this stuff. He compared himself to Marcel Duchamp, whom he called "One of the greatest artists of modern times." In case you are not familiar with Duchamp, he is most famous for purchasing a urinal from a plumbing supply store, signing it with a fake name, and submitting it to an exhibition as "Ready-made Art." This goes even beyond Warhol and his paintings of soup cans. (I have thought I might sign the Chrysler Building or the Sears Tower and call myself "One of the greatest architects in history," but I don't know if the world is ready for "ready-made architecture." )
Do what you want. Go to a neighbor, have him paint a picture, sign it, and call yourself an artist. If you think you did something significant when you really did nothing at all, go for it. Take the money. There's a sucker born every minute.
My thoughts – I love the look of AI generated art, but feel totally empty when "creating" with these AI apps since the bots do all the creating. I can spend Days on my work – these can get pumped out in minutes after some simple text prompts. Sadly more and more people are embracing this. Where others see art I see ghosts of a new technology.
Very useless. Especially concerning the dimensions
so you just type words and it creates art ? So stupid 😄🤦
Very interesting video, twenty minutes plus, but never got bored! I would disagree a bit on the artist part. Imo someone that finds very clever or unique – never imagined before texts, is akin to a conceptual artist. We could call this person a prompt artist. And I think they will be needed soon either in the industry or in modern thinking art galleries that can show how the medium can be pushed to its boundaries, expanding the process to never imagined before visions. For example if one can consistently make a unique style with repeated results he /she had found a "formula ' that is not reproducible by other prompters and no matter how much" chaos " you put to the ai it will never reproduce a similar style as the " prompt – artist "
(it will eventually though by having the new style as a reference and then" newer" styles will have to be created by the prompt artist)
I can’t join the app as safari doesn’t recognise the address,anyone else getting this ?
Please help with a question.
– Can I use the works that I made in this neural network for the cover of a music album or book cover? (It seems to be impossible for free, but if through a subscription?)
– and the second question, is it possible to use them for the same purposes if I change the detail in Photoshop? (Are small changes enough, or are big changes needed?)
We should keep in mind that AI art is ultimately human generated. It’s taking an amalgamation of human art as it’s input. As human’s make new forms of art, the AI can essentially piggyback their style
In at least 5-10 years we will only need art directors. Also there will be a huge spam of ai art online devaluating everything (already happening). Yes, it is fascinating, but scary too. I have been working as concep and 3d artist and designer for over 15 years….
But weren't the luddites trying to save jobs as people's livelihoods were getting removed because of the machines, these machines also led to more deaths and illnesses within the working and middle classes. Also they understood that people working with machines would themselves become almost like robots, if you watch the Charlie Chaplin move Modern Times it basically highlights the problem back then. A small example of it playing out today is people trying to walk through you in the street because they are too busy looking down on their phones instead of watching where they're walking but there are many examples of this in today's day and age.
I did computing at university and we learnt ethics, that it's supposed to be about enhancing people rather than remove their jobs but look around you. driverless trains, self scan shops, Amazon factories or car manufacturers, breweries without a single person working in them and all were once working class jobs that have vanished but instead the working class can do…………..what?
By the way I like Midjourney but just because we can doesn't always mean we should. I think you're right it might damage the people trying to break into the industry sadly although I'm not sure that the disappearance of Fiverr might be a bad thing with some of the shysters that seem to have a hustle going on that site.
Very good video thank you!
I think there will be a big boom in photoshop training because now you have thousands more people who are not trained artists using MidJourney to create images that need to be adjusted and refined to get the desired end result – like facial symmetry >> it will be interesting to see how the industry changes over the next couple of years… 🖌🌈⏳👌😎💫
A couple of my art buds turned me on to Midjourney, and it's just too cool! I'm pretty much in the same space as you, Colin, as far as creative use is concerned. Last night I typed "/imagine glass insulator steampunk" and what came out was just so cool! It's another fun tool in my creative toolbox.
I've worked with all kinds of mediums both traditional and digital. Right now, my toybox includes Photoshop (of course ), Poser, DAZ, hopefully Blender soon, and I love all of it. I'll create renders, and composite them into photos, or creations made in other apps. I'm honestly just enjoying all of it. I'm retired, so I'm doing it mainly for the sheer pleasure of creating. I certainly wouldn't mind if someone wanted to pay for my art, but the creative energy and enjoyment is what keeps me excited and enthused.
Great information and thoughts, Colin!
I just see this as a tool for people that already have creative minds and enough knowledge of art mediums and styles to give intelligent prompts a way to gather elements for their own composite work.
People who ultimately have no actual art,compositing, photography, or even marketing skills will not be a competitive threat for those that do.
The "Ai" isnt actually a sentient intelligence…its just a database gathering and sering media based on human queries..
Ah, the tears of bitterness. I'm hearing the echoes all around the internet. Much gnashing of teeth, not as bad as the 'cartoon' artist who excoriated or attempted to excoriate the person who took their Midjourney activity and tried to put a comic book together. That cartoon 'artist' told the person that they were bad and that they should feel bad. Absurd. As you mentioned the luddites and the reaction to change, it can get ugly. Ugly but that isn't going to change the change.
Great job of introducing AI prompt art! Your discussion at the end of the presentation is very insightful. I feel that you`ve defined almost exactly about how I feel about what computers can do with photo manipulation and whether the products can be considered as "art". I started out with a product known as Scitex before switching over to Photoshop around the time of version 4, before that I was a "dot etcher" so I go way back in the field of photo manipulation. I really enjoy photoshopcafe!!
Really helpful and neat video!!
Yeees! The Concept Artist is dead, the IA Killed
wow this guy looks like Tommy Lee Jones
I am an artist, have been for years, until recently I worked in chalk pastels, I'm also a calligrapher (a working one), and I think it's wrong to say that people who are using this (Midjourney, or any other AI) are not artists. I love this way of creating and no, the AI doesn't create it, it can't create anything unless I've given it prompts, and it can and does take a lot of work to create a piece of art in Midjourney. For me, it's just another tool, like a pastel stick, to create art.
Fuckers made the privete messages to the bot paid, now everybody in the server can see the stupid shit i try.
I definitely love the idea of AI-generated art. Back in the days, had you needed a new pair of shoes, the sole option was ordering a custom made ones from a craftsman, which obviously was not a cheap endeavor.
Nowadays, you still are able to obtain a custom pair, yet mass-produced, decent-quality shoes are a new, common possibility. Seems to me art will share the same road in the next ~30 years.
A tardis!! 3:38