Another massive release just happened: Midjourney V5 just came out

And I already found some tricks to get better results. But why would you even want to use this? And once you use it, what do you need to look out for? We’re going to be discussing all that, plus how to use GPT-4 to get superior, majority V5 results today. So let’s get into it!

Accessing Midjourney V5

First up, I need to tell you that only paying Midjourney members have access to V5. However, if you’re a paying subscriber starting at $10 a month, it’s quite easy. You just go into Discord, say “settings,” and now you can change your model. This is the most comfortable way to interact with it. Otherwise, you need to include “–V Space 5” at the end of your prompts.

Reasons to Use Midjourney V5

The biggest reason to use V5 against V4 right now is a desire for more realistic images, especially of humans. The hand situation has been fixed, and the photorealistic qualities have been significantly improved. These pictures look as if they were taken with a camera, like they’re 95% there, with great skin texture and proper hands, and even details like teeth now being properly represented because they train this new model to do exactly that. You can start using this thing to replace models right now.

Midjourney V5’s Superior Features

The more realistic settings that are baked into the system are not everything here. Overall, you can view V5 as more of a professional model than V4 was. You need to go more into detail to get better results. So as opposed to GPT-4, where it got smarter and it got a little easier to prompt, this moved in the other direction. You can get better results, but your prompts need to be better.

Using GPT-4 with Midjourney V5

One of the biggest changes with V5 is that no more prompting with keywords only. At least, they don’t recommend it. You should use natural language, just like I’m speaking to you right now. Natural language includes so much detail and direction that it’s going to be able to craft better results from it than language with only keywords.

Another change that has been made with V5 is that it’s now upskilled already, so no more waiting for upscaling. The upscaling is super fast, and the photorealistic capabilities are baked in. Using GPT-4 to create detailed prompts can be incredibly useful in getting superior results with Midjourney V5.

Getting Better Results with GPT-4

Creating detailed prompts with GPT-4 can help you get the most out of Midjourney V5. Including a variety of photography-related terminology, a specific lens, and a detailed description of the volumetric lighting can lead to better and more realistic outputs. GPT-4 acts as a stable diffusion photography prompt generator, and once you specify the input and output, you can generate detailed descriptions of scenes that you’d like to recreate inside Midjourney V5.

Further Learning

If you want to get even better at Midjourney, you should consider learning more about photography and lenses. Understanding lenses and how they influence the look of an image can be beneficial in crafting better prompts for Midjourney V5. Resources are provided in the description of this article for further learning.

Creating Amazing Images

If you create some amazing images with Midjourney V5, join our Discord server and share them with the community. Me and many others in there are posting their creations and discussing what is going on in the AI space on a daily basis. And if you want to get even better at Midjourney, you should check out this video because it will teach you the ultimate hack on how to get the most out of it with just one keyword. See you there!