Blend Images with Reverse Engineering in Midjourney
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When v4 of Midjourney was first released, the ability to blend images together with image prompts was all the rage. I honestly think this was mostly supported by the excellent default stylization in v4, which made it incredibly easy for anyone to do this. And as many people seemed to struggle with how image prompts worked, the introduction of the /blend made it so much easier.
But with v5 I sometimes feel that image blending has lost its allure. Especially because I don't find the initial results very convincing anymore. I'm not entirely sure why, but it might have to do with the lack of default stylization.
However, we now have additional tools at our disposal that allow us to use novel approaches to achieve similar things. And these are especially helpful when you're not dead set on getting something that looks exactly the same as your image references.
These novel methods are:
1. Blended Reverse Engineering
2. Multiprompt Image Blending
I'm sure some people have already tried this and are using these methods. But very few people are talking about them publicly. I think they are fantastic alternatives to classic blending because they not only produce crisper and more varied results. They also give you far more control, so you can fine-tune your images too.
I strongly urge you to check out this video. I think it will teach you to be more creative in your Midjourney workflows :)
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⏰ Timestamps ⏰
00:00 Blend is Dead
00:44 The Greenhouse Hotel Lobby
02:45 Method 1: Blended Reverse Engineering
03:59 Method 2: Multiprompt Image Blending
08:23 Santorini in New York
15:22 More Examples
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Chiming in and echoing everyone’s comments - thank you so much Christian for eloquently articulating your process and for pushing things forward. I think I know things but then you come in with a new perspective. Really appreciate the work you put into educating and wanted to give you the encouragement to continue to do so. You are incredible.
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this comment 🙏🏻🤗
Blend is pretty amazing, the fact that you have no control and the result is a surprise is just part of the fun. My favourite images ever are a result of blending.
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Yes, I partially agree. But it doesn't help when the image contains obvious flaws that aren't helpful for what I'm trying to create.
@DaLucaPaduca
8 ай бұрын
I use it with abstract portraits that I get from other platforms, and it is amazing.
Outstanding - you're a talented and empathetic presenter. The attention you pay to simplicity, brevity and details (such as how you show the prompts) is soooo worth it 🏆✔
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
I try to present how I'd enjoy learning 🙂🙏🏻
The greatest video about Midjourney I've seen for a while. Finally, someone started to make content with real tips and tricks !
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much 🙏🏻
Man, I love your channel so so much. It's helping me out a lot! Thank you so much for your time and effort to explain everything. Your explanations are so well structured it's so easy to reproduce everything in Midjourney.
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for confirming that my approach is appealing to some people 🙂
The best midjourney video I’ve seen, by far.
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
🙏🏻🤗
You're a prompt scientist! The tests, experimentations and care in your videos is absolutely insane, thank yo so much for sharing your knowledge
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Life is all about experiments 🙂
Great video, Christian, keep up the excellent work
This was the best tutorial in mid journey that I have seen. I had no idea that there was a describe prompt total game changer. Thanks.
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
When you know, you know 😉
You're channel, this video, just took my MJ fun and skills to a whole new level!
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Awesome! 🙂
This tutorial is exactly what I needed! I was stuck using /blend and couldn’t move forward. Thank you!
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Glad I could help! 🙌🏻
My stuff just increased in quality, thank you
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Great to hear! 😀
Hey Christian, I just discovered your channel recently and it's my new favourite Midjourney resource! Great in-depth info, and really well explained.Thanks for everything you do.
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much 🙏🏻
Just found your channel. Been using MJ for about two months and learned a lot just in this video. Your teaching style works for me. Just subscribed to your channel, email list, and course waiting list. I'll snag that as soon as you release it.
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Awesome and welcome! 🤗
Great stuff Christian. This kind of brainstorming and working through examples really helps me increase my Midjourney skills
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Brainstorming is key to progress 🙂
One of the best Midjourney tutorials I've watched hands down......I feel like Picasso now. Lol
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Hahaha, let's make some art!
Ohhhh myyyy! Now I’m at work screaming and cussing at my phone in excitement and I look insane and I don’t care! 😂 this video helped me sooooo much! Thank you!!!
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Hahahahaha, made my day 🤣
Great tutorial!! This opens up literally endless possibilities! Thanks!
As always BRILLIANT! So helpful. Thanks so much for taking the time to create this, and then sharing it :)
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
Here is the prompt knowledge I need to manipulate Midjourney to produce what I imagine. Finally!
You have become my go to person for all things Midjourney. Never would have thought of this method of blending on my own.
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Thank you. I appreciate comments like these so much 🙏🏻🙂
Yoor content never dissapoints. Thank you!
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Thank you 🤗
Amazing stuff! Thank you for sharing and teaching all these creative workflows. Kudos and keep the videos coming!
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, will do!
Thank you so much! It's mind expanding.
And people still say that it's "oh so easy to use Ai, and it's going to replace us". Look at how many steps this guy just had to do to get to the result he wanted. This is the "human" side, mixing and matching a bunch of techniques and methods to one or more AI tools. Really great video with lots of tricks and tips to achieve incredibly precise results. Thank you.
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, creating art with AI is super easy. Just like you can get a randomly awesome photo by accident. But doing it with intent is a different story.
Another great and inspiring video. Thank you so much! ❤
these were great methods, that I started playing around with! thank you!
Best MJ trick I've learned in a long time. Thank you, you're a genius 😊
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Pleasure
such a great video to understand how prompts work in midjourney! thank you for detailed and step by step explanation.
This was packed with useful information. Thanks!
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
Great video! Appreciate the process driven design.
Very well explained, thanks
Yo that Mr. Clean reference was everything! 😂your videos are 🔥🔥
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Haha, glad someone noticed 😂
Thank you! professionalism and perfection!
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Thank you 🙏🏻
Super helpful. Thanks
Some great tips there. I tried Blend when it first was introduced. Wasn’t overly thrilled with it, but now will have to have a try using these methods.
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Hope you enjoy it!
Thanks for the tips!
Thank you for all this information. Definitely going to add these to my workflow in MidJourney. 🤘🏼
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Go for it!
The rabbit hole gets deeper and deeper. 🙂 Taking the art of synthography to higher levels. Great stuff 👍
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Rabbit holes are fun and dangerous
learned so much and took notes, thank you
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Glad you learned something 🙂
Very Dope Alternative to just Blend. Your strategy is cool while allowing you to think outside of the box. Rhanks!
@TokenizedAI
11 ай бұрын
Glad you like it!
Incredible, thank you for the ideas
Very interesting! Thank you, Christian!
WHOA! I have like 3 more tools in my toolbelt! Thank you!
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
You're welcome! 🙂
i adore your way of explaining things
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Thank you 🤗
This was really helpful!! This is going to help make some interesting art in midjourney! Thanks so much!!
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for helping us to become better creators! Your amazing! Bravo!😊
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
You are so welcome!
Amazing yet again Christian, thanks again for sharing your understanding of Midjourney...
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
My pleasure!
Great work. Real cutting edge application combined with creative problem solving. Impressive. TY.
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Thank you very much! 🙂
Thanks for the great tips! Love your work.
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Thanks 🙂
Wonderful sharing, thank you!
Thanks, great vid. Very clear explainations and great examples.
You are the best of the best! Thanks a lot for sharing
Really excellent! Thanks for the brilliantly delivered, useful info!
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
this is an amazing tutorial. thank you!
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
This is absolute Gold.
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Thanks
great insights, thank you 🙏
Great content, Chris! Thanx so much
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Pleasure 🙏🏻
This is a rather interesting approach that you have come up with love the permutations that you were doing to create tiny refinements
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Thank you! I thought so too, which is why I shared it 😁
Amazing stuff! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
My pleasure!
And this thing let's say to me... "we have not enough imagination to describe an actual our world image" and we need a machine. But the result... remain FANTASTIC, SPLENDID.
This was really cool. Took a break from the consistent character series to watch this one! I will have to try that photobashing technique sometime!
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
I haven't even thought about how this might impact character creation 🙂
Great idea. Thanks for the insights in this video
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
My pleasure!
Thanks Christian - excellent content! 😀👍🏽
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Thanks 🙂
eres el mejor,, graciasssss por tu generosidad al enseñarnos
It was great! thanks for the video!
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
one of the best videos I've seen about mid journey, prompt engineering and everything in between you teach to think, not in ctrl c ctrl v
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Thinking is such an underrated skill nowadays. ngl! 🤣
very informative. thanks
Christian!! I really apreciate the effort you put in all this videos!! thank you very much!! i havent found a video teaching how to correct images (like misplaced hands in a dragon or three legged horse) do you have any video related to that!? thank you again for everything!!!!
@TokenizedAI
11 ай бұрын
Wait for Inpainting
I really like the last confirmation of the methods otherwise I was going to take the video to the beginning then watch again which is most of the time making me feel that I have a long learning curve 😢 and feel stressed...But you are really good at teaching and showing the new ways...This detail is my reason to subscribe and thumbs up to you 🎉 thanks
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for your feedback. I just try to explain it the way I would want to learn it 🙂
Thank you, I’ve learned a lot!
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Excellent!
this was genius. Thanks :)
Midjourney turns us all into frustrated magazine feature editors.
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
lol, why?
Super creative and way to think outside the box!
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Thank you 🤗
Great method ! Great learning ! Thanx !
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
You are welcome!
Wow, you rock man!! This is very useful to me as a web designer, thanks for sharing!! You deserve five stars ⭐️
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful! And thank you for the tip. Gonna try this on web designs too 🙂
Thnx!
Thank you 🙏 Such good tips and pedagogically put forward too. You're a 🌟
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
I appreciate that!
@chatgptstories-cq1cq
Жыл бұрын
check out my stories with chat GPT www.youtube.com/@chatgptstories-cq1cq
I Love this channel!! I gave a comment, liked it, and Subbed!
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for subbing!
Thisis a big help. Thank You
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
Ottimo, è una modalità che stavo già sperimentando anch'io appena MJ ha proposto /describe, ciao e grazie
Very nice pro tips! 🎉
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Glad you think so!
U rock. Thank u so much!!
Great content as always, Christian!! Another interesting thing is that we can also use the link of some of the images you got the description for and feed it into the merged prompts! There are really infinite ways to keep on producing images until we are satisfied with the results!
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Yup, I agree 🙂
@ThePallidor
Жыл бұрын
Soon this will all be considered part of a possibility space you can scroll through with sliders in real time.
useful methods, thanks a lot!
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
Hey I just wanted to say I can see the effort you've put into your set and your look. All freshly shaven etc. It's noticeable and I've noticed the effort you've put in. Well done. It's looking great and more professional. 🎉 Keep up the great work!
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Ironically, I've not really done anything in particular regarding the "set". I'm just in a different location right now and need to work with what I have 😅 But if it looks good, then that's great. Thanks 😁
Excellent video. Lost of info without fluff. Saved for later. Subscribed and liked. Cheers
@mono_onamoto
Жыл бұрын
Lots of ***
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Thank you 🙏🏻
Great job thanks
this is an amazing video, thank you :)
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
You're so welcome!
... gr8 video! much appreciated!!
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Pleasure!
thank you so much for this
@TokenizedAI
10 ай бұрын
You're very welcome!
Thanks Christian ! Great Video ! Even Carla Caruso would be proud of it ! 😀
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Haha 😅
Love the video. Not sure David Hasselhoff would appreciate the Midjourney image of him as an old Spidy man, LOL! Still very cool!
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
David needs all the attention he can get 🤣
As always, an excellent video. Of course, you're getting the hang of it! . Thanks Christian.
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
🤗
This is great in not only showing the strengths but the weaknesses of ai art. In the loft architecture case I notice how frustrating it was for you to actually get what you wanted and how you ultimately had to give up and compromise. This could be for a number of reasons but is most likely because the two architecture styles are so contrasting; diffusion is bringing things into focus from a blur and so contrast gets lost.
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, indeed. My frustrations aren't even adequately conveyed through the video 🤣
Very helpful bro.
Thank you 😊
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
You're welcome 😊
You are a hero::2 Thank you::1
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Thanks 😁
So simple but never even crossed my mind! Brilliant. Question though, is you’re on V5 in /settings do you still need to use -v5 in the prompts?
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
I do it intentionally, so that viewers know what version I'm using. This is quite important because the videos keep being watched, even when a new version of MJ has been released and it cam get confusing for people.
thx, really good tutorials! I would like to add some tipps from my experience: for the describe feature I can recommend trying all four prompts and check the results instead of just picking what you expect to fit best. Often its not the prompt that I think matches well that in the end gives me the closest results. And in your second method for the white staircase you could try to mention it twice in the prompt with the higher weight. Sometimes it helps to get closer to the result you had in mind, but not always ✌
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Yes, I've done this too. I actually mention this. But it takes too much time for this type of video format.