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The website content provides insights into creating AI-generated images with Midjourney's AI, focusing on techniques for producing images of items on fire, and encourages reader interaction through likes and comments.

Abstract

The article is an exploration of AI-generated imagery, specifically using Midjourney's V5 AI, to create visually striking images of items and characters with flames. It details the process of refining prompts to achieve desired effects, such as a woman in a flaming dress or a baby monster on fire. The author shares personal experiences with the AI's evolution, from earlier versions to the latest Niji Version 5, and offers tips on how to direct the AI for optimal results. The piece also highlights the importance of camera angles, lighting, and artistic references to enhance image quality. Engaging with the audience, the author invites readers to like, comment, and participate in challenges, while also promoting their Medium publications and referral links for subscription.

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The author expresses satisfaction with the improvements in Midjourney's AI, noting the stunning images now possible compared to earlier versions.
There is a sense of playfulness and experimentation in the author's approach to prompt engineering, as seen in the attempts to create images of flaming Doritos and Cheetos.
The author shows a preference for certain aesthetic outcomes, such as the inclusion of tormented souls in the Hades image or the dynamic pose of the baby monster.
The author acknowledges the AI's limitations, such as not understanding what Cheetos are, and the need for specific wording in prompts to achieve the desired imagery.
There is an evident enthusiasm for the AI's potential, with the author encouraging readers to use the revealed techniques to create their own awesome images.
The author values the work of food photographers like Davide Luciano and nature photographers like Franz Lanting and Cristina Mittermeier, incorporating their styles into the AI-generated images.
The author is keen on reader engagement and community building, requesting likes, comments, and suggesting readers subscribe to their content through referral links.

AI-GENERATED IMAGES|ART|FICTION|NON-FICTION

AI Image How-To — #29

Items on fire! — secrets revealed!

Woman with a flaming gown — Midjourney and me

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The stunning image above of a flaming dress was created with Midjourney’s V5. It took a small handful of generations to get the flames how I wanted them.

However, I did not expect Hades to look like this. A version I created many months ago with V4 (and did not publish or keep) had a flaming dress and tormented souls in her wake. I wish this had those tormented souls!

How do you achieve the camera angle of this vixen looking down on you with power and authority? By prefixing the prompt with low angle shot.

For the flaming dress, I had tried different wording before AI put the fire on the dress instead of in the background. I even tried fire+dress and dress made of fire while AI stubbornly refused to cooperate.

What finally worked?

I changed the wording to dress made of flames. Then the images got better and better (meaning more and more fire!)

Prompt for image above:

low angle shot of gorgeous woman with black hair wearing a dress made of flames, walking in hades, alluring, Canon EOS R5, Vogue --v 5

The prompt originally was supposed to be a play on Flaming Hot Cheetos but Midjourney didn’t understand what Cheetos were. (See the image at the end that didn’t make the cut! LOL)

Yes, the Doritos seem to be filled with a molten, hot substance — but look at those flames!

To amp up the beauty of the image, I searched for food photographers and very much liked Davide Luciano. This portion goes at the end of your prompts to bring the image to a whole different level of awesomeness.

To achieve that flaming hot goodness you’d feel for days, I used Doritos on fire.

How do you get that epic, close, mouth-watering shot? Put close up view of at the beginning of your prompt!

Prompt for image above:

close up view of Doritos on fire, Canon EOS R5, by Davide Luciano --v 5

I wanted an anime feel for this image so we are testing out Midjourney’s newest release — Niji Version 5!! 🎉😍❤️‍🔥

This is a super simple prompt. I took cute adorable baby monster and added on fire.

Some of the images had fire on the arms, some on the head, others down the back and running like a freaked bat out of hell (or V4 Hades with tormented souls.)

I thought this one was just adorable. Plus, it was actually in the first set of four images generated! All other variations (though amazing) paled in light of this.

Prompt for image above:

cute adorable baby monster on fire, dynamic pose, grassy field, by Pokémon --v 5

This gorgeous image only took as many generations as it did because silly me forgot to take MJ off of Niji 5 and put it back to V5! 🤣

As with the previous image, this was one of the first generated and a relatively simple prompt using a white tiger leaping through a ring of fire.

To bring out the flavor in the image above, I used by Franze Lanting and by Cristina Mittermeier. (Franz Lanting had stunning photos that were a perfect reflection of the one above. MJ nailed it!!)

Prompt for image above:

a white tiger leaping through a ring of fire, cinematic still shot, cinematic lighting, Canon EOS R5, by Franz Lanting, by Cristina Mittermeier --v 5

AI is learning fast!

Now that you know how — make something AWESOME!

Didn’t make the cut…

Cheetos on fire?? — Midjourney — **not me**

This was supposed to be Cheetos on fire! 🤣🤣🤣 The other attempts looked like spiral macaroni on fire! This was all MJ — I claim no part in this.

Now that you know how — make something AWESOME!

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