The Ultimate Midjourney Prompt Guide to Help You Unlock Creativity
Ultimate Midjourney Prompt Guide
Welcome to the Midjourney Prompt Guide! Midjourney is an incredible image-generating tool that can bring your ideas to life in stunning detail. Using prompts, you can easily create custom images that fit your exact specifications. With Midjourney, you can unleash your creativity and explore endless possibilities.
A prompt is a short text phrase that the Midjourney Bot interprets to produce an image. The Bot breaks down the words and phrases in a prompt into smaller pieces, called tokens, that can be compared to its training data and then used to generate an image. This means that the more specific and detailed your prompt is, the better the resulting image will be.
Whether you’re a designer, artist, or just someone who loves to create, Midjourney is the perfect tool to help you bring your ideas to life. So, let’s dive into the world of Midjourney and start creating amazing images today!
Basic Prompts
A basic prompt can be as simple as a single word, phrase or emoji
Advanced Prompts
More advanced prompts can include one or more image URLs, multiple text phrases, and one or more parameters
Even short single-word prompts will produce beautiful images in Midjourney’s default style, but you can create more interesting personalized results by combining concepts like artistic medium, historical periods, location, and more.
Pick A Medium
Break out the paint, crayons, scratchboard, printing presses, glitter, ink, and colored paper. One of the best ways to generate a stylish image is by specifying an artistic medium.
prompt example: /imagine prompt
<any art style> style cat
Block Print
Paint-by-Numbers
Watercolor
Folk Art
Risograph
Pixel Art
Cyanotype
Ukiyo-e
Blacklight Painting
Graffiti
Pencil Sketch
Cross Stitch
Get Specific
More precise words and phrases will help create an image with exactly the right look and feel.
prompt example: /imagine prompt
<style> sketch of a cat
Life Drawing
Value Study
Continuous Line
Charcoal Sketch
Loose Gestural
Blind Contour
Time Travel
Different eras have distinct visual styles.
prompt example: /imagine prompt
<decade> cat illustration
1700s
1800s
1900s
1910s
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
Emote
Use emotion words to give characters personality.
prompt example: /imagine prompt
<emotion> cat
Determined
Shy
Happy
Embarassed
Sleepy
Angry
Get Colorful
A full spectrum of possibilities.
prompt example: /imagine prompt
<color word> colored cat
Millennial Pink
Acid Green
Desaturated
Canary Yellow
Peach
Two Toned
Pastel
Mauve
Ebony
Neutral
Day Glo
Green Tinted
Enviromental Exploration
Different environments can set unique moods.
prompt example: /imagine prompt
<location> cat
Tundra
Mountain
Salt Flat
Cloud Forest
Jungle
Desert
(Source: Midjourney)