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00:00 – Intro
00:10 – 30 second version
00:38 – Title
00:43 – Uploading from phone and desktop
02:49 – Using image weighting
05:20 – Why it may not give you what you want
07:20 – Outro
07:45 – The End
Over the last few weeks I’ve had a few questions about using your own images in Midjourney and how that works, this will hopefully answer that. Both a 30 second version, and then more details should you want to stick around 😁
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use '–iw' to adjust the image weight
Full user manual here: https://midjourney.gitbook.io/docs/user-manual
how many pictures are you allowed to make
Hey Dan. I'm having a lot of fun with Midjourney so far. Solid info. Keep up the great work with the videos.
Usefull info. Thanks. Have been playing around a lot with MidJournes. Great fun
Another great video. Thanks, Dan! I highly recommend people read through Midjourney's guide before using up all their free tries. And don't bother trying to do people.
thanks so much Dan, this helps a lot of how to refer a image, it is really great tutorial.
Thank you for the video. very helpful.
You are glorious, this is exactly what I was trying to figure out! thank you!
Good thing you pointed out the fact that MJ shouldn't be considered as something like StyleGAN and especially "why". It might not be obvious for newcomers when they see they can use images in their prompts. Clearly fell for it too when I first started 😅
Great guide for sure :]
omg
Thanks Dan!
I feel so dumb. The examples I saw all used square brackets around the references, so I did, and kept getting 404s from the bot.
What is the symbol for – – ? minus doesn’t work
excellent
Thanks Dan! Super helpful video!
really enjoying your journey with mid journey!
i cant get this to work to save my life 🙁
GOOOOD LORD!!! THANK YOU!!! YES IM YELLING!!!😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Good one, Dan. Thank you, I did not know about these options. Quite useful.
Fantastic content
How many images can be create in trial period?
When I upload an image from computer (desktop) to Discord Midjourney Bot. It will upload that image there with 3 symbols: eye, pencil and bin (trash). There is not an option to get the url (original image). I wonder what´s wrong?
Hi Dan, you are a very good teacher thank you so much for sharing your knowledges. Last week i saw the work of a designer on Midjourney and i wonder how he did to be able to control effects in midjourney only on the faces of the people in the photography without retouching anything in Photoshop. Do you have an idea how the magic is done?
Great video my guy, im just getting started and this helps a lot.
Great piece of tech but let's face it, this commoditises artwork to the value of a paper plate.
this finally helped me understand this. Could you speak to how to weight multiple images?
Wow I didn’t know you could create this insanity via your phone! Curious shouldn’t your laptop discord show what your phone from the same
Account?
Very nice video, sir. Keep it up!
Thank you for this helpful content. 😁
Is there a software that specializes in color replacement? Maybe you'll say "photo shop." But I would love something more sophisticated that can dis regard the lighting, shadows, dirt, and corrosion and almost literally re paint something. Then I could give it a picture of my car a ask, "How would this look with a cobalt blue paint job?"
I think the key insight for me with image prompts was realizing that when you give it an image it is first breaking the image down in to a text prompt by reversing its standard process, and then feedback that in… which means you can use it quite successfully to replicate characters for example by adding some anchoring words your new text prompt like "lady with red hair".
Informative, and nice beard ❤
This is very helpful, thanks !
im new to this and Im wondering if I can use a picture of myself and then make it draw me as something else
Many, many thanks for making this video. It is very helpful. May your channel continue to grow.
Thank you for explaining seed and image weight. Those were codes that I was failing to use.
I've been using the other descriptors such as lighting, artists, image size, etc.
Is this for an iphone? I am on an android and I can't get it to copy the url for the image
This was really helpful! Thanks
I've followed this to the letter….but, it just isn't working for me, perhaps in MJ Version 3.
No matter what I do, change the order of the image URL, the prompt, the seed value (which does do what it's supposed to do), the "–iw" weight value makes no significant difference to the resulting image as illustrated in your video or in the MJ user-manual.
Any suggestions as to what I might be doing wrong ?
thank you!! super helpful!
Hey Dan. Cool video!
Thank you! I had been trying to get images to look a certain way and it never worked in Midjourney. I just gave up thinking I was doing something wrong. Your video is the first to explain this all out in perfect detail. Great job and thank you.
Hi, I dont have a subscription yet. Does that mean I cant use image prompt? I have been facing this problem for dew days. lot of people saying that i dont need to be on a subscription to do an image prompt and i just tried it with the process that you showed above. Its just not working for me. I keep getting error message 🙁 🙁
Works well!! DANKEEE
You are amazing! Really really thank you! Fast and clear.Perfect!
Dall-e is so much better
Thanks for the quote!
Hey man, great video! I do have a issue though, when I paste the url of a photo, I can’t use a aspect ratio of 9:16. It pulls up an error. Is there a way around that? Thank you!
If I wanted to put my face to a character in an image created in midjourney what would you guys recommend? Prompt an image url with the desired look of my face next to descriptive prompt of the scene?
can I add several links for each element I want MJ to draw or only an image link that includes all the contents and features? I found it a little bit confusing please reply to me
What happens if the copy button doesnt appear?
I didn't even think of the image weight property, that help me a ton, thank you!
Nice video, thanks for the content, i love it.
the new test beta is insane! the anatomy has gotten 10x better. Im truly amazed
While im not a huge proponent of this tech yet. ( TBD) I certainly love your whole vibe and beard of course my brother in arts!!!
Well explained "the right tool for the right job". Liked and subscribed just for that as you are the first person to clearly explain that. Excellent!
I tried adding a photo, but it doesn't say open original on it, I saved it as a .jpg instead of a PNG an that didn't work either. Any ideas anyone please?
Something wrong: I always receive a code 404 error message, what's the matter? I'm sure I do all you say. Moreover, if I click on an uploaded imagine it does not open!
Do you have any StyleGAN services you recommend?
midjourney will actually paint in any style I used a picture of my friend and had it make a leonardo da vinci painting with her in it and it looked exactly like her it took some time to do it but can be done
I am quite sad with my results using the AI. I thought it'd be possible to create artworks of my own characters but the AI don't understand that my uploads are humans and when write "male character" along with the image for example, it creates a male character that has almost no similarity with the character that I've uploaded.
And it is always just a face portrait even when I upload a full body image.
As an artist I'm still way ahead of the ai when it comes to creating NON-Abstract humans in specific poses like "fighting".
Honestly I am not sure if I am happy or sad about it, if anything, I'm sad for losing $30 on a sub that I'll never use 🤣
so if I take a picture of myself and want to do an illustration with angels, can I do it?
Awesome explanation thanks!
thanks for your tips!it is really useful!
If I add an URL, nothing happens but me getting an error message telling me it's an invalid link, or invalid command. 🙁
Hmmm, I’m a newbie, so it took me a while to follow this successfully. First of all, I thought that the image had to be on the internet somewhere with its own URL. But you uploaded yours from the downloads folder on your HD. That’s good, because I wanted to use an image that I had just created in another AI art program. Originally, you had lost me at 2:09 when you said “sending them up”. I managed to get to the point with the eye, pencil and trash can icons, just like you showed. But did not understand what you had done to “send them up.” I eventually figured it out, just put the curser in the text box and hit return. Okay. Now I have the URL. So I entered the URL at the prompt with dash dash iw 5. I got images that were a lot different than the original, with only one identifiable feature carrying over. I tried adding the original text prompt after the URL. It looked like it ignored the sample image and just used my prompt. You can’t put the dash dash iw 5 after the URL and then follow it with a prompts, can you, it has to be at the very end. And did you just make up a seed number? I thought you had to DM the bot to get a seed number (another thing I have not managed to do successfully yet). What would have happened if I had entered the seed number from the other AI program that made my sample image? Would MidJourney understand that and be more accurate to my image? Pretty complicated.
Do you know how to take a video ofa person moving and replace seeing the human form with seeing a background image like a forrest or a waerfall etc.? I have cyberlink power director 19.
Is there a way to add two reference images? please
Great video!
Thanks so much, this really helped me!
Thank you! This was very helpful and well explained
keep getting 404
Why does it always return this?
Invalid link!
Could not fetch image prompt! Received http status code 403
Thank you so much for pairing this down into something palatable.. much appreciated & overall educational (THANKS!!)
Thanks for the tutorial, prompts like "-
iw " or "-seed 1234" works with other ias like stable diffusión ???Thanks for this tutorial . It was needed