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5 Best Midjourney Prompts: April 2023

Here are a few more Midjourney prompts with accompanying visuals for your greedy eyeballs! Give them a try on your own and see what you come up with.

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Daniel Nest
Apr 20, 2023
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Mo prompts, mo problems. Amirite?

I’m not?

In that case, let’s get to it.

Welcome to yet another installment of “prompts to make pretty Midjourney pictures.”

Every month, I share a few simple-yet-impactful keywords that you can plug into Midjourney to drastically affect the resulting image.

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The joy of working in Midjourney comes from experimenting with the individual prompts, their combinations, and—most importantly—your own scene and subject descriptions. So use these as a jolt of inspiration to see what you come up with.

Note: Sample images are generated using raw Midjourney Version 5.

Prompt #1: Travel back to the 80s

Love the retro-futuristic aesthetic? This one’s for you.

Midjourney prompt: synthwave [subject]

What it does: Synthwave is a sub-genre of electronic music inspired largely by the 80s’ film and video game culture…

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