Quick Midjourney Update: 5 key highlights to know (27th September 2023)
Keeping up with the rapid changes and developments
Here’s a quick rundown of the most recent Midjourney Weekly Office Hours:
(1) Free edition of Midjourney Magazine
- If you haven’t already subscribed to the magazine, use the coupon code O5ZQN1KP for a free edition (the code is limited to a certain number of issues and expires on October 5th).
- Website for magazine subscriptions: https://mag.midjourney.com/
- The new magazine (Issue 7) is shipping to magazine subscribers.
(2) Midjourney V5.3
- V5.3 might be released in October.
- It will include an aesthetic personality test to help with aesthetic customization for image creation.
- It could have an upscaler for higher resolution. The resolution could be 2K x 2K, and the widescreen version could be 4K. A version of upscaler with only minor changes to the original image is being considered.
(3) Midjourney V6
- The release date is unknown. It could take 4 to 8 weeks, therefore unlikely in October.
- The features include improved image quality, prompt understanding, better blends, higher resolutions, and potential text drawing capability.
- A lengthy feature list may cause delays.
(4) Ongoing and future projects
- Website update: the same as the previous update. The main objective is to roll out a stable version before adding more features.
- The color customization feature using hex codes is in development with an unknown release date.
- The image description initiative will ask users to provide detailed descriptions of images to train V6. Users may be rewarded with “fast hours” in exchange for participating.
- The 3D feature will likely be introduced before the video.
(5) Other updates
(5A) Flat Lay and Knolling
- Do you want to put together a collection of digital assets or items? Try the keywords mentioned in a Wei Mao story: “flat lay” and “knolling.” I used the keywords to create some vegetables, which worked as expected with satisfactory results. What do you think? Give it a try.
- Based on my testing (>4 repeated prompting), Knolling is more likely to generate labels/numbers/captions/descriptions next to the images than Flat Lay. If you do not want the text, use Flat Lay instead.
- Both keywords automatically isolate the items/assets on a blank background, which is a helpful feature.
- The prompts:
/imagine prompt: 10 vintage botanical illustration of vegetables in the style of knolling --ar 3:2
/imagine prompt: 10 vintage botanical illustration of vegetables in the style of flat lay --ar 3:2
(5B) Measuring Prompt Efficiency
- Recently (14th Sep 2023), Clarinet published an article on measuring prompt efficiency to minimize the GPU minutes required to achieve desired results. The article was posted in the Prompt-faqs channel on Discord.
- An efficient prompt will consume fewer GPU minutes to generate usable images.
- The following steps are required to test a prompt’s efficiency:
(1) Define the specific objective (a desirable outcome) or what you want to achieve. An image that fulfills this requirement means it is usable.
(2) Roll the exact prompt four times to generate four image grids of 16 images.
(3) Do not alter the parameters or
/settingsof the prompt. (4) Do not use the--seedparameter. - There are four types of prompt efficiency: (1) Robust (2) Reliable (3) Marginal (4) Inert
- Robust — at least two or more images in every grid meet the objective. Your rolls consistently produce multiple usable images.
- Reliable — Each grid contains at least one image that meets the objective. Your rolls always produce at least one usable image per roll.
- Marginal — Only 1–2 of the sixteen images meet your requirements and are usable.
- Inert — None of the images are usable.
- Inert and marginal prompts are frequently the starting points for editing, enhancing, exploring, and experimenting to make them more reliable and robust.
- Look for reasons why the prompts are unreliable — a spelling error? Incorrect punctuation mark placement? Did you accidentally copy-paste the wrong prompt?
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