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MIDJOURNEY V.6

D E E P D I V E I N T O T H E N E W M O D E L
 MIDJOURNEY V.6 OVERVIEW
Welcome to our first deep dive into Midjourney v.6. This is a fairly significant update over version 5.2 in terms of aesthetics and prompt
understanding. Additionally, we have some new features such as Creative Upscaling and the ability to prompt for text.
A few features are missing at launch, which will be detailed in the PDF, but keep an eye on the main channel for a comprehensive V6
Tutorial once v.6 is fully launched.

ALL VIDEO EXAMPLES CAN BE FOUND AT YOUTUBE.COM/@THEORETICALLYMEDIA

Alternatively, you can also issue

First, you’ll want to make the command --v6 at the end of
sure you are running v.6. your prompt if you would like to
In order to do so, issue the primarily work in v.5.2 and only
command /settings and make experiment in v.6
sure V6 is selected.

While V6 is currently
available on the
Alpha.Midjourney.com site,
we will concentrate our tu-
torial on the Discord side
today, as access to the
Alpha is currently limited.
 PROMPTING IN V6
Prompting has changed in V.6. According to Midjourney:

Prompting with V6 is significantly different than V5. You will need to ‘relearn’ how to prompt.
V6 is MUCH more sensitive to your prompt. Avoid ‘junk’ like “award winning, photorealistic, 4k, 8k”
Be explicit about what you want. It may be less vibey but if you are explicit it’s now MUCH better at understanding you.
If you want something more photographic / less opinionated / more literal you should probably default to using --style raw
Lower values of --stylize (default 100) may have better prompt understanding while higher values (up to 1000) may have better aesthetics

When it comes to text prompting, there is no single right or wrong way CINEMATIC SCENE,
to do it. But generally, my prompts follow a similar structure: DRAMATIC FILM, CLOSE UP, A
YOUNG FISHERMAN ON A BOAT
(Medium) (Style) (Scene) (Action) (Modulate) (Parameters) AND A YOUNG WOMAN LOOK
LONGINGLY AT ONE
MEDIUM: Cinematic Film, 3d Animation, 2D Animation, Etc ANOTHER, IN LOVE,
STYLE/COMPOSTION: Action Film, Drama Film, Style By (filmmaker) NORTHEAST US, RAIN FALLING
SCENE: Who is your subject? Where are they located? --AR 2:1 --V 6.0 --STYLIZE 50
MODULATE: Are there external effects, rain? fog?
Dash Dash: Additional Commands

For more on this prompting style, please see the video on Prompting on
the Theoretically Media Youtube Channel

AS A NOTE: PLEASE EXPERIMENT WITH DIFFERENT PROMPT IDEAS. STELLAR RESULTS CAN OCCUR WITH BOTH MINIMAL TEXT AND LONG-FORM DE-
SCRIPTIONS. PROMPT FORMULAS ARE A GUIDE, NEVER A LAW.
V.6 VS V.5.2
V.6 V.5.2

T H E O R E T I C A L LY
PHOTOGRAPH, MAN IN A BLUE
BUSINESS SUIT, WALKING
DOWN A BUSY CITY STREET,
FACING CAMERA --AR 16:9

PHOTOGRAPH, STYLE BY CY-

BERPUNK, WOMAN WITH LONG

M E D I A
WHITE HAIR AND COMBAT AR-
MOR, CITY ALLEY, AUTUMN
COLORS, FALL DAY --AR 16:9

I HAVE INCLUDED THE RAW FILES IN THE FOLDERS SO YOU CAN VIEW AND ZOOM IN ON THESE IMAGES. THE V6 VERSIONS HAVE A REMARKABLE AMOUNT OF
DETAIL WHEN YOU DO SO.
 UPSCALING
A NOTABLE NEW ADDITION TO V6 IS THE ABILITY TO CREATIVELY UPSCALE IMAGES. WHILE A STANDARD UPSCALE SIMPLY ENLARGES YOUR IMAGE
TO 2X ITS ORIGINAL RESOLUTION, THE NEW CREATIVE UPSCALER IN MIDJOURNEY TAKES THIS A STEP FURTHER. WHEN YOU OPT FOR CREATIVE UP-
SCALING, MIDJOURNEY DOESN’T JUST ENLARGE THE IMAGE; IT INTELLIGENTLY ADDS EXTRA DETAILS

T H E O R E T I C A L LY
CINEMATIC STILL, ULTRA WIDE ANGLE, GODZILLA RAMPAGING THROUGH A MODERN
CITY, BUILDING DESTRUCTION, PEOPLE RUNNING, KAIJU CHAOS --AR 16:9

NON-CREATIVE UPSCALE

M E D I A
CREATIVE UPSCALE NOTE: WHILE SOME
DETAILS HAVE IMPROVED, SUCH AS
GODZILLA’S FACE, OTHER ASPECTS,
SUCH AS THE CITY DESTRUCTION, HAVE
BEEN REDUCED. IT MAY BE A GOOD
IDEA TO BLEND OR MASK THESE IMAG-
ES IN POST-PRODUCTION.
 TEXT IN V.6
MIDJOURNEY NOW ALLOWS FOR PROMPTING TEXT WITHIN AN IMAGE. HOWEVER, LIKE MOST AI IMAGE GENERATORS, YOUR RESULTS MAY VARY. TO PROMPT FOR
TEXT, USE QUOTATION MARKS IN YOUR PROMPT.

MOVIE POSTER, 80S SCI-

FI HORROR, SPACE, RIDLEY
SCOTT,”THE INHUMAN” --AR

T H E O R E T I C A L LY
2:3

A COPY OF STEPHEN KING’S “THE GUN- A COPY OF STEPHEN KING’S “THE GUN-

M E D I A
SLINGER”, SITS ON A TABLE. SLINGER”, SITS ON A TABLE.

BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, GRAPHIC DESIGN,

“LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE”::4 --AR 2:1

IF YOU ARE HAVING DIFFICULTY WITH YOUR TEXTS, YOU CAN TRY EITHER
WEIGHTING THEM “TEXT”::3 OR TRY WRITING IN ALL CAPS. THAT SAID, THERE
IS SOME TEXT YOU WILL JUST NOT HAVE ANY LUCK WITH CURRENTLY.
V6 COMMANDS
CURRENTLY V.6 DOES NOT SUPPORT ALL MIDJOURNEY COMMANDS, BUT THESE WILL BE COMING SHORTLY. FOR A DETAILED LIST OF ALL MIDJOURNEY
COMMANDS AVAIABLE, I INVITE YOU TO VIEW MY VIDEO AND ACCOMPANYING PDF ON THE SUBJECT

CURRENTLY SUPPORTED: CURRENTLY UNSUPPORTED:

--AR, --CHAOS, --WEIRD, --TILE ,--STYLIZE, --STYLE PAN, ZOOM, VARY (REGION), /TUNE, /DESCRIBE (A
RAW , VARY (SUBTLE) ,VARY (STRONG), REMIX, / NEW V6 VERSION)

T H E O R E T I C A L LY
BLEND ,/DESCRIBE (JUST THE V5 VERSION)

M E D I A
TO NOTE: ALTHOUGH WE DO NOT CURRENTLY HAVE FEATURES SUCH AS INPAINTING (VARY REGION), THE ‘VARY SUBTLE’ AND ‘VARY STRONG’ FEATURES
ARE TREMENDOUSLY MORE COHERENT IN V6. ON THE RIGHT, IS:

“ILLUSTRATION, STYLE BY BLUE AND YELLOW, A MOTORCYCLE IN THE FOREST --AR 16:9”

AND ON THE LEFT IS THE RESULT OF A ‘VARY SUBTLE’, SIMPLY CHANGING ‘MOTORCYCLE’ TO “VAN.”
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