End of the first week

The first week was mostly experimenting with prompts and using the same words in a different order. I tried using different artists as a reference and several different art styles. 

Things do not always go as planned and getting a scene exactly the way I want it, is sometimes beyond me. I expect this to change over time. 

I have spent a lot of time watching videos and reading about other people’s experience of writing prompts. Much of that was pointless because things are changing so very quickly. What worked well in version 4 will not produce anything similar in version 5. 

Midjourney is at V5.1 now and the prompts need to be written in a different way. Another thing is that most people do not want to make images that look the way I want them to look. I spend time looking at the images and reading the prompts that are being created on the server while I am waiting for mine to render. The majority are happy to accept any image that a basic prompt produces. 

Some folk are using Midjourney for book covers. The prompts are simple and look like this: A book cover for many beautiful children’s stories. That is all they write, and they get some lovely images. 

There are requests for images that will clearly be used as an advert, some for shoes, others for credit cards. They are simple prompts and the results are good, but they will never be great. 

There are also some very detailed prompts and some awesome images. Some of these images are created using specific words or terms and I tried them myself to see the results. One of them is divine light this lights the object, or person in a unique way and I used it for the image of a golden cup (chalice) which I may use for the Ace of Cups. 

I also used it for a dragon image, which I made just to amuse myself;

What I have mainly been doing is trying to produce a set of images in the same style, which will go together in a deck of Tarot cards, and I feel that I am doing quite well at this. 

I am using a prompt with the same characteristics to create all the images and then, I blend each of them with an image that has the style I want them all to have. 

My first week of learning to AI Whisper ends with this set of images: 

The Emperor:

Becomes this, when blended;

The Empress

Becomes this:

The Magician;

Becomes:

The Lovers:

Become:

The High Priestess:

Becomes:

As with the learning of all new skills, perseverance is key. As the late, great, sainted mother used to say; nothing worth having comes easy. Or something like that.

That’s all for now, see you in the next one.

Cheers,

Old Man