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5 Best Midjourney Prompts: June 2023 (The "Cores")

In this month's edition, I explore the "-core" styles and their impact on your images.

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Daniel Nest
Jun 29, 2023
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Happy Thursday, friends!

June is almost over, so I’m juuuuust making the cut for this month’s edition of the best prompts for Midjourney.

Today I’ll be looking at descriptors that end with “-core.” These prompts tend to have a strong impact because they encompass entire style movements and aesthetics.

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

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Prompt #1: Create a dreamy, surrealist look

Let’s dream together, shall we?

Midjourney prompt: Dreamcore [subject]

What it does: Dreamcore explores the surreal by trying to capture the feeling of dreaming using vibrant colors, weird shapes, and out-of-place objects. Midjourney also likes to add glowing sources of light when you use this term.

Sample images:

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Lamp, panda, tractor

Prompt #2: Join the modern anti-minimalists

If you like your stuff clean and neat…this is probably not for you.

Midjourney prompt: Cluttercore [sub…

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