Yeah, so specifically for Midjourney, but the others should have something similar:
0. Read the manual thoroughly, don’t speed read or skim.
1. Set the seed so that it’s only your prompt that changes while iterating on it “——seed **”
2. Set stylize to a low number “—-stylize 200”
3. Build the scene up by adding one part at a time (use a thesaurus to try out different words)
4. Weight the different prompt segments “SOME WORDS::10”, try to make the weights add up to 100% for easy math
5. Use negative weights to remove things you don’t want “BAD THING::-1”
6. Once you have zeroed in on a good prompt then increase the quality “—-quality 2”, try out different stylize values, and start rolling the seed many times.
7. Expect it to take 40+ iterations to get a good prompt and maybe another 20+ rolls to get a good seed. This can be less once you get good, or more if go for more advanced scenes. Your first few good images should take a few hours to get.
Thank you for this; and setting proper expectations is also very helpful. It honestly should be in the marketing material for these things, they make it sound like anyone is able to load it up for the first time and type a few words in to get world class art at the ready.
Reminds me of trying to get people into programming. They are shown a hello world, think that looks easy and fun then try to make something useful shortly before rage quitting
0. Read the manual thoroughly, don’t speed read or skim.
1. Set the seed so that it’s only your prompt that changes while iterating on it “——seed **”
2. Set stylize to a low number “—-stylize 200”
3. Build the scene up by adding one part at a time (use a thesaurus to try out different words)
4. Weight the different prompt segments “SOME WORDS::10”, try to make the weights add up to 100% for easy math
5. Use negative weights to remove things you don’t want “BAD THING::-1”
6. Once you have zeroed in on a good prompt then increase the quality “—-quality 2”, try out different stylize values, and start rolling the seed many times.
7. Expect it to take 40+ iterations to get a good prompt and maybe another 20+ rolls to get a good seed. This can be less once you get good, or more if go for more advanced scenes. Your first few good images should take a few hours to get.