The effect of Midjourney’s pictures is always not what I want

The effect of Midjourney’s pictures is always not what I want (why is this? See the solution below)

Is there anyone like me? At the beginning, they just copied it directly. Paste other people's keywords, then change it and the picture will be published. The final effect was unsatisfactory! Putting aside the randomness of Midjourney's pictures, another reason is that we don't have enough control over keywords. In fact, many keywords and grammar are of little use to Midiourney's generation logic (invalid keywords, grammar ), so some images that do not meet expectations are often generated

In fact, the official has given a standardized grammatical structure, so in this note today I will explain the official grammatical structure of Midjourney in depth.

#01. What is Prompt?

"Prompt" refers to a short text phrase used to generate images. Midjourney Bot breaks the words and phrases in the prompt into smaller units called tokens, which can be compared to its training data and then used to generate an image. This means that no matter what the sentence pattern is, MJ will first decompose the long sentence, and then generate the final picture through the "black box algorithm" of multiple tokens. Therefore, the meaning of language order is not significant.

#02.MJ doesn’t understand grammar at all

Midjourney does not understand grammar, sentence structure, or words like humans do. In many cases, more specific synonyms are more effective. For example, you can use words such as "huge" and "huge" to replace "big". Use fewer words where possible. Using fewer words means each word has a more powerful impact. Use commas, parentheses, and hyphens to help organize your ideas, but be aware that Midiourney will not reliably interpret them. Midjourney Bot is not case sensitive.

#O3.MJ Official Prompt Recommendation

A simple Prompt may be just a word (or even an emoticon), which can generate a picture. A very short prompt will rely heavily on Midiourney's default styling, so a more descriptive prompt will produce a more unique effect. However, overly long prompts are not good to use. Please try to clearly describe any context or details that are important to you. Consider the following factors: theme, style, environment, lighting, color, mood, composition

#04.MJ official prompt recommendation

Theme +

Characters, Animals, characters, objects, etc.

Style+

Photos, paintings, illustrations, sculptures, graffiti, tapestries, etc.

Environment+

Indoor, outdoor, lunar, Underwater, Emerald City, etc.

Lighting+

Soft, ambient, cloudy, neon lights, studio lights, etc.

Color+

Vivid, soft, bright, monochrome, colorful, black and white, etc.

Mood+

Calm, peaceful, noisy, energetic, etc.

Composition

Portraits, avatars, close-ups, bird's-eye views, etc.

#05.MJ official prompt recommendation

Plural forms of words may bring a lot of randomness.

Please try to use specific numbers. For example, "three cats" is more specific than "cat"

Finally, I would like to share with you a Midjourney dictionary produced by [Tai Kelang]. All keywords have been tested by the team. ***Calculate thousands of common vocabulary, and carefully screened 50 practical keywords, including style, lighting effects, material performance and other elements