-: Okay, and now let's use Midjourney.
So we have Midjourney here, this is the Discord server.
So it's kind of like Slack, if you've used that before.
And Midjourney is actually like a pretty big server, right,
like there's 1.3 million people online right now,
13 million.
When I started there was actually 800,000,
so it kinda shows how much it's grown in just a few months.
So the really cool thing about Midjourney,
I think one of its strengths is that you can just see
like what everyone is doing,
and you can get a lot of inspiration from this, right.
So you just kind of browsing through,
kind of seeing these things at random,
doing a lot of really cool stuff.
And the way that you use Midjourney is
you can kind of put it actually
in the channel here.
So, like that's what these guys are doing,
but also you can talk to it directly in the direct messages.
So here's a few examples of what I've done here,
and I recommend doing it in the direct messages.
This is when you pay for the bot, like you can do this.
I think the free trial is in the channel,
but it gets very messy,
very hard to see exactly what everyone is doing
because like you lose track of your painting in there
is what I find.
Okay, so I'm just gonna say, "Golden Gate Bridge" here,
and then just hit enter.
So all you really have to do to prompt
is hit the slash and then imagine,
and then you can type in your prompt,
and then it's gonna generate like it's doing here,
and then it will message you back when it's done.
The really cool thing it does is,
unlike a lot of diffusion models,
you actually see the image as it's diffusing,
which is kinda cool.
So here it's starting with the Golden Gate Bridge,
pretty recognizable straight away,
and then it's just kind of getting better and better.
And then I'm just gonna show
a few of the kind of interesting things you can do here.
So you can say, "Golden Gate Bridge,"
and then you can say like, I don't know, "No clouds."
So that's like a negative prompt,
and what that'll do is kind of
remove a lot of the clouds from here.
You could also just say, "Golden Gate Bridge,"
and then you say like, "By Van Gogh, by Picasso."
And then you could say in terms of weighting
you want 0.1 dash of Picasso
and mostly Vincent Van Gogh with these weights here.
So this is the double colon,
and then if you just put double colon and then nothing
the default is one.
You could also do negative here as well,
so you could say, "No clouds," and then,
or you could just say, "Clouds" and then move on,
so that's the same really as saying no clouds.
So, we'll see what that looks like.
So here, what do we have back?
We have Golden Gate Bridge with no clouds.
There we go, that's pretty cool.
And it seems to like add this other thing in here.
You could also say, "No writing," as well,
that's another thing.
So, let me just see.
And one other thing you can do here,
so you can actually upload images
and then just paste the URL in here.
So if I upload an image, so let's say, here we go,
so this is like an image.
It's just gonna take a little while to upload,
like kind of a street style.
You can basically just paste it to yourself, I think.
Just waiting for this, yeah, here we go.
So that now that's uploaded, I can just hit enter.
It's not gonna do anything.
It's not really messaging, but now I have this image,
I can click copy link,
and then I can use that in the prompt.
So I can say, "Put the image first,"
and then say, "Golden Gate Bridge,"
and then kind of see,
like maybe it'll kind of come up in this style.
That'd be kind of interesting.
What else could you do?
Okay, yeah, I think that the other thing
that's interesting about Midjourney is that you can,
if you find something that you like, you can upscale it.
So this one I really like,
this one here in the third quadrant.
So this is one, two, three, four, I like the third one.
If I click upscale,
then it's gonna generate a new version of that.
You can also click variations,
which I'll do in a second once I get this back.
So you can generate more variations
from one that looks right,
but it's like not exactly the right style.
So this is like kind of what I was hoping for more this one.
So I'm gonna say, like variations V4,
just kind of get more variations of that one.
Then the other thing, this is just refreshed,
so if you wanted some fresh variations
with exactly the same prompt,
you can do that there as well.
So here we go, here's more variations of that same prompt.
You can kind of click in, say, okay, this is the one I want,
let's upscale it.
And that is Midjourney.
The key I think is,
this is all like in your Discord,
so it's kind of nice and easy to go back
and search for different things.
They also have like a website where you can go and search,
and you sign in with Discord,
and you can see all the community stuff.
So I can show you that,
oh, sorry,
let's Midjourney,
then click in here.
And then this is like my group and you see all my history.
You can search for different things, oldest, top,
and then you can go explore and see the community feed.
So, there's a lot of really good stuff in here.
These are the stock images, and then you can click in here,
you can see the actual prompt as well.
So you could go and kind of use this,
or you can see related ones.
So like, these are quite similar.
And you can use this for your own prompting,
So I think that's like the real value of Midjourney
and why it's been able to work really well,
because so many of the community members
are producing interesting things,
and you can learn a lot just by playing around in here.
Okay, cool, so yeah, check out Midjourney.
It's a lot of fun.
Very good for these fantasy style images,
and there's a lot of flexibility here too.