How to Access Midjourney
Gaining access to Midjourney is actually a lot easier than you might initially expect. There’s no program to install or convoluted libraries to set up.
Instead, Midjourney is accessed entirely through Discord. Discord is a free online text and voice chat service that allows hundreds or even thousands of users to come together and talk.
If you’re unfamiliar with Discord, then don’t worry. You can find out how to get started with Discord in no time, and from there you’ll have no trouble understanding what follows.
Once you’re familiar with Discord, all you have to do is join the Midjourney Discord server. You can do this using this Discord invite link, or by navigating to the Join the beta button on the Midjourney website.
How to Use Midjourney
And with that, you now have access to Midjourney. But what can you actually do with it? Using Midjourney is a pretty straightforward process, but if you’re new to Discord or just visiting the server for the first time, it can be a little overwhelming.
You’ll want to start by going to one of the rooms under the Newcomer section headers. These will be named newbies followed by a number. There’s no real difference between these rooms, so feel free to use whichever you like.
Once inside the correct room, you’re ready to begin. To get Midjourney to generate an image, you need to begin your prompt with /imagine and then whatever it is you’d like Midjourney to generate. For example, typing “/imagine the night sky full of fireworks” will cause Midjourney to begin generating just that.
How to Get the Most Out of Midjourney
As far as using Midjourney to get any result, that’s really all there is to it. But generating AI art isn’t as simple as just typing in what you want and the art bot simply reading your mind. Instead, there are a number of ways to make sure that you get something you’re happy with from Midjourney.
The first and easiest thing you can do is use the buttons below your generated image to guide the AI towards what you want. The buttons labeled U are to upscale the corresponding image, with U1 upscaling the first, and so on. This simply increases the resolution of the image, which is great if you want a higher-quality image.
Beneath that, you can find the buttons labeled V which correspond the same way. These buttons create variations of the selected image. There’s also a redo button that will repeat the same prompt but generate entirely new results.
You can repeat this process as many times as you wish, and it’s a good way to narrow down what you want when you’re already close. Of course, you can always try one of the best free AI text-to-art generators to create an image from what you type as well.
The easiest way to get Midjourney to generate what you’re looking for, however, is to simply give it more information.
Midjourney seems to respond best if you separate information with commas, so if you’re looking for a certain art style, for example, you could input “/imagine the night sky full of fireworks, hyper realistic”.
The final thing that you can do to get better results out of Midjourney is to include parameters in your prompt. Midjourney includes a range of different parameter options that allow you to adjust the output of the image. You can learn more about these parameters in the official documentation here.
A pretty useful example of one of these is the aspect parameter, which allows you to adjust the size and shape of the images provided. By default, these will be squares with Midjourney, which is not so great if you want to use a Midjourney-generated image as your desktop background, for example.
AI-Generated Art Is a Game Changer
As you can see, getting started with Midjourney isn’t as difficult a process as it might initially have seemed. At the end of the day, it’s pretty easy, and a fun way to see just how far AI has developed over the years.
