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5 Best Midjourney Prompts: August 2023

Another monthly dose of modifiers to use in your Midjourney prompts.

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Daniel Nest
Aug 31, 2023
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It sure has been a Midjourney kind of month.

But I can’t leave you without the regular round-up of the best Midjourney prompts.

So let’s wrap August up with the last MJ-focused article, and I’ll try to dive into another topic next week.

Off we go!

Note: All sample images are generated using Midjourney Version 5.2.

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Prompt #1: Faces. Faces everywhere.

This is one of the not-so-practical-but-fun prompts.

Midjourney prompt:

[subject], pareidolia

What it does:

You know how you might sometimes look at the bubbles in your Tuesday morning glass of beer and be 100% sure you see a face in there, telling you to make healthier life choices?

That’s pareidolia, the human mind’s tendency to see faces in all sorts of inanimate objects. Using it in your Midjourney prompt will end up anthropomorphizing your subject and giving it a face. Some results are way too wacky, but some can…

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