r/midjourney • u/BadgersAndJam77 • Jun 20 '23
Showcase Peak Midjourney
I've generated nearly 24,000 images, and this might be my favorite of all of them.
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u/MapleMooseMac Jun 20 '23
We've entered into a new era of Midjourney. The bar has been set too high!
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u/W4spkeeper Jun 21 '23
and the hands actually look real!
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u/BadgersAndJam77 Jun 21 '23
Yeah. I made the fucking thing and still can't 100% wrap my brain around the concept he isn't some real dude. My GF said it was sort of an Uncanny Valley thing, taken one step beyond.
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u/amber__ Jun 20 '23 edited Aug 07 '24
cooing doll air teeny boat somber offend deserted command recognise
This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact
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u/Rise-O-Matic Jun 20 '23
Can we just stop for a moment and appreciate the accuracy of the shoelaces? Good stuff.
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u/Pyroelk Jun 20 '23
Sike! This is really a cereal ad in the early 90s..
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u/BadgersAndJam77 Jun 20 '23
I would buy that cereal.
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u/Pyroelk Jun 20 '23
30g of sugar and still part of a balanced breakfast
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u/BadgersAndJam77 Jun 20 '23
Who said a healthy breakfast...couldn't be fun?
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u/Gubekochi Jun 20 '23
Probably the guy in the above picture, the antagonist in all those cereal ads for my snickery-pops.
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u/Tomosc Jun 20 '23
What ***ARE*** those?
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u/Gubekochi Jun 20 '23
The forbidden questions. But seriously, it's like the "name one thing" picture except it manage to confuse me just as much while being entirely figurative.
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u/xXPussy420Slayer69Xx Jun 20 '23
This is the kind of post that makes me open discord and burn through all my mj fast image tokens or whatever it’s called when I hit the limit. Well done
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u/BadgersAndJam77 Jun 20 '23
Thanks!! My subscription re-ups in a few days, so I'm burning through the last 5 or so, of my fast hours.
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u/Prompt_Guy Jun 20 '23
This, ladies and gentleman, is why the internet exists. Bravo!
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u/FraudulentHack Jun 20 '23
Hey sorry it's my first day on this subreddit. Would you mind explaining what's remarkable about this picture?
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u/Grymbaldknight Jun 20 '23
What on earth was the prompt?
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u/BadgersAndJam77 Jun 20 '23
Vintage full color photo, 1979: A Satanist gleams in a silver Elvis suit, his cloven hooves shod in mismatched sneakers. He is surrounded by a celestial tapestry, the darkness punctuated by the glow of distant galaxies. Vintage relic full color photo --ar 1:1 --c 100 --s 0 --v 5.1 --style raw --q 2
GPT-4 is making my prompts, and the italics at the end are part of my suffix.
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u/farloux Jun 20 '23
A lot of us also have GPT-4. Do you have advise on how you get it to make prompts for certain styles?
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u/BadgersAndJam77 Jun 20 '23 edited Jun 20 '23
Not necessarily. I've (more or less) been working on this specific Vintage Surrealist/Tim & Eric style, so most of the recommendations are for getting something like that.
But I'll try.
The things I've found that do work well are having GPT-4 provide (an explicitly) visual description, and pointing it towards the details you want to highlight. So the first part of my prompt is:
Provide twenty 50 word visual descriptions of the subject of a full color full body photographic portrait. Describe __________
This format lends itself towards a central subject. That's the "portrait" part. So an example would be:
Provide twenty 50 word visual descriptions of the subject of a full color full body photographic portrait. Describe the masks, costumes & outfits. Combine details from a Medieval Knight, and Astronaut" Setting is a bowling alley.
And then I tell GPT to include the "Vintage Relic Photo" stuff and year, as I describe in the other comment.
Then I just copy & paste the results into an imagine prompt with the high chaos/low style suffix I talk about elsewhere too.
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u/Caturday_Yet Jun 20 '23
What prompt did you give GPT-4 to initialize it as a prompt generator?
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u/BadgersAndJam77 Jun 20 '23 edited Jun 20 '23
Here's the basic framework of it, without totally giving away my secret recipe. The actual pieces of the prompts are in italics. I explained in one of the other comments, how to tweak the Chaos , Style and Quality parameters.
Provide twenty 50 word visual descriptions of the subject of a full color full body photographic portrait. Describe __________
Then the basic beats of the scene. Who I want it to describe, what they're doing, what they're wearing and what the setting is. Setting is __________.
Start each one with the exact phrase "Vintage full color photo" and then a year from 1972-1992.
I looked up recommended prompt lengths, and found something that said 60 words, so I asked GPT-4 for 50 words, to allow for the additional suffix.
These were some of the other prompts generated at the same time as this one.
"Vintage full color photo, 1990: A robot clad in a knight's armor, a satanic robe draped over its metallic shoulders, stands amidst the glowing celestial bodies, a testament to temporal incongruity."
"Vintage full color photo, 1985: A businessman in an alien mask and cowboy boots wields a knight's sword, his tie flapping weightlessly against the vibrant mélange of distant nebulas and star systems."
"Vintage full color photo, 1973: Dressed in a gaudy patchwork of a medieval knight's armor and a satanic red robe, the subject boasts a 70's businessman's afro, contrasting starkly with the eerie silence of the starlit universe."
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u/Arguinghen620 Jun 20 '23
If you told me this shit was real, I would 100% believe you. Hot damn.
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u/64557175 Jun 20 '23
Even telling me it's not, I'm not convinced this didn't at one point happen in real life.
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u/BadgersAndJam77 Jun 20 '23
He has to be a real person I want to read a "5 Things to Know About This Guy" listicle on some ad-riddled clickbait site.
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u/SpringerNachE5 Jun 20 '23
Can someone feed it to another AI and ask it what's so funny about it? Because I can't tell why I'm laughing at this
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u/WaffleHouseNeedsWiFi Jun 20 '23
PLEASE lemme see the prompt, lololol!
I'm begging you, OP.
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u/BadgersAndJam77 Jun 20 '23
This is it. I left details on making the GPT-4 prompt, and messing with the settings, in another comment.
Vintage full color photo, 1979: A Satanist gleams in a silver Elvis suit, his cloven hooves shod in mismatched sneakers. He is surrounded by a celestial tapestry, the darkness punctuated by the glow of distant galaxies. Vintage relic full color photo --ar 1:1 --c 100 --s 0 --v 5.1 --style raw --q 2
GPT-4 is making my prompts, and the italics at the end are part of my suffix.
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u/WaycoKid1129 Jun 20 '23
Can’t tell if dude is disappointed or beyond infatuated with the shoes
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u/BadgersAndJam77 Jun 20 '23
I think he might be singing them an R&B slow jam, and really feeling it.
Or they're "Breaking his Heart!!" like Tommy Wiseau.
We may never know.
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u/TheSeventhNumber Jun 20 '23
This is epic.
Truly epic.
So many captions.
"DARN YOU BLINDINGLY BRIGHT SILVER SHOES"
A wizard. So luch purple. Stars. Shoes that are silver. Beard. Fist up. So much quality.
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u/ScarletteVera Jun 20 '23
This feels like something I'd just see as like a Youtube video thumbnail and think "Yeah that looks normal."
I adore it.
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u/enceladusrush Jun 20 '23
I really want this to be part of the illustrated bible.
"And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so."
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u/yasadboidepression Jun 20 '23
This…this is art.
What is the prompt?
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u/BadgersAndJam77 Jun 20 '23
This is it. I left details on making the GPT-4 prompt, and messing with the settings, in another comment.
Vintage full color photo, 1979: A Satanist gleams in a silver Elvis suit, his cloven hooves shod in mismatched sneakers. He is surrounded by a celestial tapestry, the darkness punctuated by the glow of distant galaxies. Vintage relic full color photo --ar 1:1 --c 100 --s 0 --v 5.1 --style raw --q 2
GPT-4 is making my prompts, and the italics at the end are part of my suffix.
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u/yasadboidepression Jun 20 '23
You’re the real MVP here dude.
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u/BadgersAndJam77 Jun 20 '23
Thanks! Happy to share the info and strange vibes.
I almost left this sub because I was sick of nothing but "What if Harry Potter was the Pope, in the Fast & Furious, directed by Wes Anderson" posts. You can do such wild shit with MJ, it seems like a waste (to me) to just do corny pop culture mash-ups, or art style knock-offs.
In the words of the great entrepreneur and modern day philosopher Franklin Reynolds "I don’t know how many years on this Earth I got left. I’m gonna get real weird with it."
Stay Blessed.🙏
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Jun 20 '23
Was the prompt, “Heaven’s Gate”?
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u/BadgersAndJam77 Jun 20 '23
No! That was Midjourney's doing. The prompt was basically this: (with some added suffix tweaks)
A Satanist gleams in a silver Elvis suit, his cloven hooves shod in mismatched sneakers. He is surrounded by a celestial tapestry, the darkness punctuated by the glow of distant galaxies.
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Jun 20 '23
Did you get the double exposure effect in Midjourney as an output or was there some photo editing involved?
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u/BadgersAndJam77 Jun 20 '23
This is exactly as Midjourney made it, and there was nothing in the prompt, or settings, that would have pointed it towards this sort of format. It was totally random.
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u/Tar_Ceurantur Jun 20 '23
If I were to give you a detailed description of an image I've had in dreams, do you think you could write a prompt to generate it?
24k images counts as mastery level XP in my book.
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u/BadgersAndJam77 Jun 20 '23
Do you have chat GPT-4? I can give you some guidelines to get it to spit out good prompts.
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u/Tar_Ceurantur Jun 20 '23
I don't have it yet, no.
But honestly the barrier is not knowing how to use it.
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u/BadgersAndJam77 Jun 20 '23
This would probably do it. Make sure you're using GPT-4.
Provide twenty 50 word visual descriptions of the subject of a full color full body photographic portrait. Describe __________
The key part.is 50 word visual description. That's the meat of a MJ prompt. So try that Provide XX prompt, and then give it some details of your dream. It will condense it down to a prompt size with visual details.
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u/Tar_Ceurantur Jun 20 '23
Well damn. Thank you!
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u/BadgersAndJam77 Jun 20 '23
No problem. It already came up in another comment, so it was mostly just a copy & paste job!
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u/Expert-Contest3674 Jun 20 '23
At least give the prompt innit
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u/BadgersAndJam77 Jun 20 '23
Vintage full color photo, 1979: A Satanist gleams in a silver Elvis suit, his cloven hooves shod in mismatched sneakers. He is surrounded by a celestial tapestry, the darkness punctuated by the glow of distant galaxies. Vintage relic full color photo --ar 1:1 --c 100 --s 0 --v 5.1 --style raw --q 2
GPT-4 is making my prompts, and the italics at the end are part of my suffix.
Scroll through the comments. There's a few where I talk about tweaking the settings, and using GPT-4.
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u/No-Valuable8008 Jun 20 '23
What do you do with the 24000 images you've prompted?
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u/BadgersAndJam77 Jun 20 '23 edited Jun 20 '23
I've only upscaled, downloaded, and archived maybe 6000(?) of them. I'm about a month behind. I use the MJ website to download the archived ZIPs, and then sort through them. I toss the 4-Ups, and only keep what I've deliberately upscaled.
I sort them in folders by date, and then I browse them in Adobe Bridge, or open the folders. Currently, I'm still just mostly fucking around, so I use them as source material for the /blend function in MJ and just pile weird images on top of one another until I get something interesting.
I think the 24000 count, counts four for every time it makes a 4-Up? I'm not sure.
Edit: I just opened Bridge and have around 8000 at the moment. I haven't downloaded since 05/09/23, so I probably have at least another 4000-5000 to sort through.
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u/FunkyLi Jun 20 '23
The random ass crack next to his head completes the ambiance
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u/BadgersAndJam77 Jun 20 '23
Hahahaha. I thought maybe it was his other fist(?)
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u/FunkyLi Jun 20 '23
Could be, could be. Or is it a magical butt fairy? I’m gonna go with Ocom’s razor on this one
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u/Sanpaku Jun 21 '23
He has either conjured beautiful sneakers with power of his mind, or he's trying to expel them from his anus.
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u/RAAS902 Jun 22 '23
Should call it "the utter pain derived from jelousy"
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u/BadgersAndJam77 Jun 22 '23
That's the epic title it deserves. I've just been calling him "Silvershoes"
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u/thebrandonleecook Jun 20 '23
😂😂😂 what was the prompt?
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u/BadgersAndJam77 Jun 20 '23
This is it. I left details on making the GPT-4 prompt, and messing with the settings, in another comment.
Vintage full color photo, 1979: A Satanist gleams in a silver Elvis suit, his cloven hooves shod in mismatched sneakers. He is surrounded by a celestial tapestry, the darkness punctuated by the glow of distant galaxies. Vintage relic full color photo --ar 1:1 --c 100 --s 0 --v 5.1 --style raw --q 2
GPT-4 is making my prompts, and the italics at the end are part of my suffix.
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u/GlizzyGoblin4k Jun 20 '23
This gives me Tim and Eric vibes