Table of Contents for What is an AI Midjourney Prompt Engineer?:
- Prompt Engineering for Midjourney AI
- What is AI Midjourney?
- AI tools for CGI in the professional sector?
- What Is An AI Midjourney Prompt Engineer?
- The Prompt Engineer - Artist or Computer Nerd?
- Are AI tools creative?
- The most useful AI Midjourney Prompts
- FAQ
Prompt Engineering for Midjourney AI
Art comes from skill, of course. And a programmer programs. If you combine coding and creativity, you end up as a prompt engineer. And if you create the whole thing via Midjourney, you are an AI Midjourney prompt engineer. But is this really still a creative profession and does it have a future?
Where exactly the statement "Is this art or can it go?" comes from is no longer comprehensible today. The question is generally raised when it comes to contemporary art.
What does it look like when image material is created on the computer? Does the prompt engineer have a right to exist?
What is AI Midjourney?
AI Midjourney is one of the many programs that enable the creation of computer-generated images (CGI for short) using artificial intelligence.
To put it simply: you enter a short instruction in a chat window about what kind of image you want. The AI then generates the image. You can use AI Midjourney via the Discord chat tool or simply via the web version on the official Midjourney AI website.
The AI spits out four suggestions within a short time. You select an image and then continue working on it. As a rule, the results come close to your ideas at the beginning, but are not really what you want. So far, so good. We admit it: It's quite fun to see what the tools craft from simple instructions.
But: You are a human being and are used to communicating with people. People understand language not only through your words, but also through pitch and tone of voice, speaking speed and melody, pauses, facial expressions and gestures.
The AI does not do this, which is why a large part of your instructions are lost. That's not a problem for now, you can always go into more detail and make improvements.
Are AI tools suitable for CGI in the professional sector?
If you are looking for that special expression, if you want to find the language of your own design in the 3D visualizations and computer-generated images, you will quickly reach the limits of communication with the tools.
Don't get the wrong idea: Of course, our 3D artists at Danthree Studio don't work (exclusively) with pen and paper. CGI is created on the computer, that's clear. You can't do it without the right 3D software. And today, this is often equipped with at least a rudimentary AI.
The tools are not the problem - AI-supported image generation is not only possible, it's now pretty good. But how do you get the tools to produce exactly what you want?
Programs cannot achieve true creativity, that is a genuinely human talent. Creating something new, making a visual expression with a specific message - only people can do that. Programs like AI Midjourney are what a camera is to a photographer.
Do I have the copyright for AI-generated content?
Furthermore, in the professional sector, there is also the question of whether prompt engineers really own the rights to AI-generated images.
To be on the safe side, it's best to edit the AI-generated results manually before publishing. This is where CGI comes into play, which requires a little more experience and expertise. For more information, feel free to contact out our 3D agency!
What Is An AI Midjourney Prompt Engineer?
The profession of prompt engineer has been around for some time. A prompt engineer creates the prompts, i.e. the voice commands that make working with an AI possible in the first place.
If you've already worked a little with Midjourney, ChatGPT or similar tools, you'll know: It's not easy. The tools don't quite speak your language. To get useful results from the programs, basic knowledge of programming is an advantage. Because, strictly speaking, prompts are programming.
An AI Midjourney Prompt Engineer works with the AI tool Midjourney and generates images using prompts. Prompt engineers often work with marketing teams to create images for marketing materials.
Broken down into individual steps or stations, the Prompt Engineer's work looks something like this:
- Have a creative idea of how a statement can be conveyed visually
- Translate the idea into human language and discuss it in a team with creative specialists
- Translate the result into AI-understandable prompts
- Discuss what the program has created in the team and improve it via further prompts so that it fits at some point
Sounds complicated? Of course - it IS art!
Input From A Prompt In AI Midjourney:
AI Midjourney Prompt Engineering
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The AI Prompt Engineer - artist or computer nerd?
As a 3D agency, we can say from our own experience that our specialists for creating prompts are both.
Of course, enormous creativity is required to create high-quality 3D visualizations or 3D animations. Without creativity, nothing works, even if the AI ultimately converts the text instructions into a 3D image.
But without special knowledge of the programs and the usual affinity for programming among the clichéd computer nerds, it's just not possible.
Are AI tools creative?
Tools such as ChatGPT from Open AI or Midjourney create the illusion of actually being creative. However, this is only partially the case. In fact, these programs only access gigantic databases and recombine the information stored in them.
In extremely simplified terms: the tool can put together a face from a set of existing eyes, a nose, a mouth and two ears.
It can replace the eyes with another pair of eyes in a different color, put hair on the head or change the color of the lips according to predefined criteria.
The AI cannot create a completely new face. The tool is also unable to assess whether the composite image ultimately looks credible to humans or conveys the intended message.
Artificial intelligence is stupid and not creative.
ChatGPT can write code. And AI can of course create prompts for other AI tools. After all, a prompt is just something like a small program. But here too, AI is stupid and not creative. The prompts are put together from existing commands in the database.
Such an AI-generated prompt may be sufficient for a roughly suitable result, but the fine-tuning work requires people to check and adjust the respective result.
In the coming years and perhaps even decades, there will always be a need for a creative person who can create CGI using such tools.
Whether 3D or 2D - the Prompt Engineer is needed! Prompt engineers are currently not only in demand, but also extremely well paid.
The most useful AI Midjourney Prompts
Admittedly: If you play around with AI Midjourney or similar tools for long enough, you'll automatically figure out which prompts are particularly useful.
We want to save you the work and tell you the most helpful commands to become a prompt engineer for Midjourney in the shortest possible time:
- /image: generates an image based on your prompt
- /private: sets your prompts to private so that other users cannot see or remix them (for a fee)
- /show: calls up older prompts
- -no: parameters for elements that should be removed from the image
- -stylize: lower value to evaluate prompts more strictly, higher value for freer interpretation of your prompt
- /describe: Upload image, use prompt, and the tool creates suitable prompt suggestion with sometimes quite complex parameters
- -aspect (alternatively -ar): defines the aspect ratio of the image
- -chaos XX: exact value of the degree of abstraction (use numbers from 0 to 100 for XX)
- ::X: defines the weight of the components of the image (X determines the weighting)
- -video: saves progress as a time-lapse video
- -q and -hd: defines the resolution, you also use terms such as "photorealistic", "ultra detailed" or "8K"
- /image prompt: (image URL) (text description): Image is created according to the linked image and based on the text
This is exactly what you specify for certain styles or design types. "Japanese Anime Style" is one option, "Steam Punk Style" another. For moods and lighting effects, you describe exactly these, for example "Christmas Lighting" or "Cinematic Lighting".
