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How to Craft Your Own Midjourney Style

Intro to the Midjourney Style Tuner and tips for making the most of it.

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Daniel Nest
Nov 09, 2023
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In my last 10X AI post, I mentioned Midjourney’s brand-new toy: the Style Tuner.

The Style Tuner lets anyone fine-tune their own unique aesthetic and ditch the generic “Midjourney look.”

Today, I want to show you exactly how it works and share a bunch of tips that help bend the Style Tuner to your will.

Strap in, let’s roll!

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How to use the Style Tuner

The process goes something like this:

  1. The tuner generates a grid of alternative looks for a given prompt

  2. You pick your favorites from the grid

  3. Midjourney blends them into a new aesthetic and gives you a unique code you can apply to future prompts.

Step #1: Generate the style grid

Let’s say I want to tweak the look of “blacklight”—one of my favorite Midjourney prompts.

I invoke the Style Tuner through the new /tune command and give it my prompt:

Tuning MJ with Prompt: blacklight cityscape --ar 3:2

I use “cityscape” in the above example, but you can pick any subject or sce…

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