Example of a workflow with Moodboards
Did you already experiment with the new function ‘Moodboards’ in Midjourney? If not, this is a very fast video to get you up to speed: Midjourney Moodboards.
You can see, add or edit mood boards under ‘Personalize’ at the upper left side of the website.
Last week I digitally attended ‘Prompcraft live’ and they showed a workflow focussed on how to push Midjourney to do what you are aiming for. That is the workflow I will share here. The video above is about other workflows (my advice, check it before you dive in ;-))
Step 1:
Create a moodpboard with the series images. The tip given during Promptcraft live was to use only 5 images for best results (or 100).
Step 2:
Start prompting for a woman watering the cactus, combined with the code of the mood board plus add the images of the moodboard to the prompt, as ‘Image references’. Leave the –iw on default. FYI: It is not possible to combine ‘Style References’ with a mood board.
The Prompt:
https://s.mj.run/y1e0AiZGmHg https://s.mj.run/4nPWmnK5FZg https://s.mj.run/j9KZ4T-h5VY https://s.mj.run/vaFsJdsKa9c https://s.mj.run/W950NUbIEUw Close up of A friendly woman watering a cactus with a watering can. Water is pouring from the watering can onto the cactus. She looks in the camera. In the background is an empty desk in an office --ar 4:5 --style raw --profile hy8d26h --stylize 50 --v 6.1
Step 3:
Select the images that come as close as possible to the action and create a new moodboard with those images, with a maximum of 5 images. Every time you create a better image of the action, you replace a worse image with a better one. Don’t forget to copy the code again, when you make changes to the moodboard, you will get a new code with every swap of an image.
Below you can see how I started with some weird actions and slowly the action got better.
Step 4:
Keep on going until you have reached your goal. Which meant for me, it was close, but it still needed some local tweaking, the hands, the water pouring on the cactus, the watering can, etc. All those changes were made in the editor.
Before local adjustments:
After local adjustments:
Step 5:
When you use images references in Midjourney, the photographic look and feel is always less photographic than when you prompt without image references. A little trick: because my ‘My Global profile’ is really focussed on photography only, I could do a Remix Subtle, take out the image references and the mood board, leave the prompt as it is, but add the Global profile as a –p code. The image only changes slightly, but did get a more photographic look.
Step 6:
Magnific for the upscale. Then generative fill in photoshop. Change colours, contrast and whatever is necessary to fit the look and feel of the series. This image is still not perfect, it is a workflow that needs quite some patience for optimal results.
TIPS:
Every Friday there is a new podcast called ‘Midjourney Fast hours’ by Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn.
At Krea.ai you can now easily train a model (object, character, style) with only three images. I didn’t test it yet, but it might be interesting to check out.
Happy Prompting!
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