Communication is hard. Adding some form of visuals in our content can help make it cohesive, convey our thoughts better to our readers, and adds that extra touch that connects and inspires our audience. Now, what if we start looking for the right images that represent what we have in mind, but don’t find any suitable ones? Here’s where I wanted to run this experiment: I provided Midjourney with 10 of my favorite quotes, and let it be creative with what it came up with to best convey the deep messages from these quotes.

Let the trusted AI assistant do the imagining, and let’s take a look at how creative our image generator is!

“I’m not here to be perfect, I’m here to be real.” — Lady Gaga

“If you can dream it, you can do it.” — Walt Disney

“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” — Steve Jobs

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” — Lao Tzu

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” — Theodore Roosevelt

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” — Abraham Lincoln

“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” — Dalai Lama

“Be yourself, everyone else is already taken” — Oscar Wilde

“Creativity is intelligence having fun” — Albert Einstein

These images are pretty impressive! AI can not only create images based on the exact requirements we specify, it also has a mind of its own — it can imagine, interpret and be creative. It can act as a perfect companion in creating captivating images that combine our words and imagination with its creativity, elevating our work to new heights!

If you’d like to explore fun ways in which you can create stunning art pieces in various mediums using Midjourney, check out my blog:

Artistic Odyssey: Exploring Diverse Art Mediums with Midjourney

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There are days when you paint an amazing acrylic painting, and you look at it and wish that charcoal sketch adaptation of the same would be great too, or maybe a watercolor style version of this piece, or maybe even a paint by numbers style version so that you could use it to teach someone to paint their copy of it too! Well, with Midjourney offering so many tools at hand to customize your art mediums, this is absolutely possible!

In this article, we will go over ways in which we can customize our prompts to create new pieces of artwork in various art mediums. Let’s get right into it!

If you’re a beginner in Midjourney, check out my article Getting Started with Midjourney, containing a step by step guide to help you get started.

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Here’s the image of one of my original artwork that I will be using as my base image to build upon:

To use a base image, make sure you have your artwork’s image uploaded and have a URL to it that you can use to replace <image url> in our prompts.

If you’d like to learn how to create new pieces of digital art based on your own artwork, check out my article on Evolve Your Art, where you can learn to customize your Midjourney prompts to generate amazing images based on your own art.

Evolve Your Art: Explore Artistic Transformations with Midjourney!

Here’s the basic prompt that we will be using:

/imagine prompt <image url> <desired art medium> style woman

Let’s look at some artistic mediums and how Midjourney uses our prompt to create amazing new digital art pieces in various mediums, using the characteristics and basic color palette from our original artwork.

1.Desired Art Medium — Watercolor

2. Desired Art Medium — Pencil Sketch

3.Desired Art Medium — Paint-by-Numbers

4.Desired Art Medium — Graffiti

5.Desired Art Medium — Pixel art

6.Desired Art Medium — Block Print

7.Desired Art Medium — Folk art

8.Desired Art Medium — Blacklight painting

9.Desired Art Medium — Charcoal sketch

10.Desired Art Medium — Ukiyo-e

11.Desired Art Medium — Color pencil

12.Desired Art Medium — Ink-pen

13.Desired Art Medium — Pastel crayons

14.Desired Art Medium — Gouache

15.Desired Art Medium — Fresco

16.Desired Art Medium — Stained glass

Try out other mediums such as acrylic resin, printmaking, wood carving and many more and explore the amazing creations Midjourney can generate based on artwork created by you!

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A step by step guide to help you get started with creating stunning art with AI

Midjourney is a generative AI tool that creates images based on text descriptions, allowing you to create high-quality images from simple text-based prompts. This article will go over all the steps you need to get started with Midjourney, learn how to use prompts, and how you can use it to turn your imaginations into stunning digital art!

Excited? Me too! Let’s go!

Getting started

Step 1 : Sign up for Midjourney

The first step to getting started with using Midjourney is to sign up for Discord, an chat-style instant messaging and VoIP application, where you can communicate using chat, voice or video calls, and share media and files.

To sign up for Discord, check out this Getting Started guide which guides you with a step by step process of signing up and getting set up. Now that you have your Discord account set up and verified, you can use this account to sign up for Midjourney. To do that, visit Midjourney.com/account and sign in with your Discord account.

To join the Midjourney server, click on the + at the bottom of the server list and select Join a Server button and type http://discord.gg/midjourney.

This will add the server for you and you are now all set to use Midjourney to create your first image!

Step 2 : Generate your first image(s)

Once you’re in Discord and your Midjourney server has been set up, go ahead and choose any of the general-# or newbie-#channels from the left sidebar. Here you will find a vast community of creators just like you generating their creations, and this is a very helpful resource when getting started. You can learn from other creators, learn how to improve your creations and ask for help.

You can interact with the Midjourney bot using commands. These commands allow you to create images, change settings, and many other helpful tasks. The command that we will use to generate our image is the /imagine command, with a text description describing what our image should look like. This text description is called a Prompt.

Let’s create our first image by typing /imagine an abstract painting of an old man with dark colors and in the style of a water color painting as shown below, and click Send.

Midjourney provides a grid of four images that it thinks describes your prompt’s requirements best and you can choose the ones you like. Below are the results we got. It’s incredible how it perfectly created these images following the description in our prompt!

Step 3 : Upscale the image you like

Once the images are created, you’ll notice that there are two rows of buttons below the images as shown below.

The U options allow you to choose and upscale an image you like from your results, thereby generating a larger version of the image with finer details by using the U1, U2, U3 or U4 options respectively.

The V options allow you to generate variations of the selected image. Choosing this will create a new image grid using the chosen image’s overall style and composition.

The 🔄 option will rerun the generation using the same prompt, generating a new grid of images.

Say I like the 4th image the most and it resonates with what I had in mind. I can go ahead and upscale it by clicking on U4.

Step 4 : Explore how you can expand or vary your image
Now that our image has been upscaled, we see some options that show up along with this upscaled generated image as shown. Let’s discuss some of these options and see how we can use them.

Vary (Strong): Creates a strong variation, might result in changes in some of the features and characteristics of the image and generates a new grid to choose from. We can notice that the background varies a bit, the cap might look different, his eyes might look a bit different, etc.

Vary (Subtle): Creates a variation with only a few changes, keeping most of the features intact and generates a new grid to choose from. In this variation, we notice that the image only changes slightly, the background colors are very similar, his eyes look quite the same, his cap is almost the same, etc.

Image extension: Extend the image in the chosen directions ⬅️ ➡️ ⬆️ ⬇️

Zoom Out (2x and 1.5x): Gives users the ability to broaden the perspective of any image. In this example, we see how Midjourney generated the upper body of the old man just based on the image of the face we originally had.

Custom Zoom: Say I wanted this painting of the old man to be on a wall in a museum with someone looking at it, with aspect ratio 1:1 and zooming out 2x. This is where Custom Zoom comes in! It lets you set a scene for the generated image. For example, here’s the prompt I provided:

and this is what Midjourney created — just as I described! It’s amazing how it can convert all these imaginations into reality!

Step 5 : Save your image

To save your image, click on the image you like, right-click and choose Save Image.

Congratulations! You’ve learnt how to set up Midjourney and how to create your first generated art piece! 🖼️

If you’d like to learn how to create new pieces of digital art based on your own artwork, check out my article on Evolve Your Art: Explore Artistic Transformations with Midjourney, where you can learn to how to customize your Midjourney prompts to generate amazing images based on your own artwork.

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If you have been using Midjourney to experiment with what you can create using your artistic skills, you’ve probably created a variety of stunning artwork and are amazed at what can be achieved with this tool. However, if you’re like me, sometimes you look at the images, and although they are amazing, you feel that there is something missing! After some thought, I realized that the thing I was missing in the generated piece was the identity — it did not depict my art. I needed to change that.

In this article, we will take a look at some of the ways in which we can create artwork that can take our custom art-style as an input, one that can use our color palette — one which can evolve our art into new pieces of art.

You will learn how you can evolve your existing original art pieces into stunning new digital artwork. As an example, we’ll be looking at something that transforms this acrylic canvas art made by me…

…to something like this!

To get started, let’s see how a typical Midjourney prompt looks:

<prompt> is where you describe the requirements of your creation. These could be comma-separated words, sentences or data that is represented in a more structured manner with labels. For this example, we’ll use comma separated prompts.

You can even have more advanced prompts that can include image URLs, multiple sentences that describe the requirements and several parameters that could describe aspect ratios, models, upscalers and more.

In our example, we will be using our image as a part of the prompt to influence the composition, style, and colors that Midjourney uses to create our artwork. This will allow us to customize the prompt so that Midjourney has information about our art style, our color choices — and basically knows how we paint!

We will use this method to customize our prompt to use our original artwork to help guide it. To add images to our prompt, we need to make sure that we have this image stored somewhere where it can be linked through a direct URL. You can generate the direct URL by first sending the image from your computer or phone as a message to the Midjourney Bot to allow it to generate a link.

Then right-click or long-press an image and select Copy Link to copy the URL.

Once we have the URL, here’s the prompt we will use to make sure Midjourney uses our image to create new images. Make sure to replace <Image URL> with the link you copied from the Midjourney Bot as shown above.

/imagine <Image URL> A girl with a flower, positive, revolution, palette knife style, deep, abstract, oil painting

Here are the results I got when pointing the image URL to my original acrylic art. Aren’t they stunning!

Let’s look at another variation of this prompt. I would like the created artwork to be even closer to my original painted art — black and white monochrome style, and having that oil painting look. To achieve that, I’ve changed the prompt to incorporate these new requirements:

/imagine <Image URL> A man looking at you, palette knife style, deep, abstract, oil painting, black-and-wwhitewhite

Below are the results with this new prompt- they are closer to the original artwork, have the black and white palette, and they look absolutely amazing!

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About me

Hello everyone! I’m Navyata and I am a Developer Advocate for Facebook on the Open Source team. Now let’s rewind time — how did I end up here?

I was a keen kid — wondering how toys moved and talked, tinkering with machines, trying out my first PC, I wanted to know it all! And not just know it, I wanted everyone else to know it as well! Maybe that was an early signal that I wasn’t aware of then, who knows?!

I studied Electronics and Communications engineering during my undergraduate years but I was also very interested in art. I started my career with my first job as a software engineer and I absolutely enjoyed it. I knew technology was the right path to take, but was there a way I could add a dash of art in my work? This is what led to my next phase in life — graduate school. I graduated with a Masters in Entertainment technology from Carnegie Mellon University, where I was able to get the best of technology as well as art — perfect! Since then, I have been a software engineer, a gameplay engineer, a partner engineer and now a developer advocate. Along the way, one thing that has stuck with me is the desire to never stop learning and never stop sharing. Being a developer advocate just makes this so much more exciting!

What is a developer advocate?

A developer advocate has many names, and the truth is, most are accurate — a developer advocate is an evangelist, an engineer, a technical expert, a content creator, an inclusive community builder, and much more. The main thing a developer advocate does is advocate for, and to, developers. Their aim is to help you use products better, make it easy for you to understand a technology, and take your feedback and improve the product. Developer advocates are indeed facilitators who empower you to engineer products with ease.

What makes a great developer advocate?

Developer advocates wear many hats and there isn’t just one thing that can make a developer advocate successful, but here I have listed a few things that I believe all great developer advocates have in common:

They enjoy learning

Developer advocates never stop learning. They tend to seek knowledge everywhere and they are always looking out for new technologies and ways to solve problems.

They embrace change

Developer advocates are engineers, too and they are aware of how fast technology moves. They are ready to embrace change and are enthusiastic about quickly ramping up each time a new technology is released.

They like building

Developer advocates know that they are advocating for developers who will use their products and they are always trying to find ways to improve the developer experience.

They find success in other’s success

Developer advocates find their success in your success — in empowering developers to create great products.

They are creative

Developer advocates are never satisfied with just the “what”. They always look for creative ways in which they can challenge a product or make it better. They try to find ways to break things, deep-dive into how it works and learn the underlying technology so that they can answer the “why”.

They like to share

Developer advocates love to share information. They are always ready to tell people about the latest technology, latest gadget, or news. They are strong communicators — always ready to help and have a natural tendency to share and care.

They embrace diversity

Developer advocates work with a large developer audience, which includes people from diverse backgrounds. We genuinely believe in diversity and inclusion and appreciate developers from a wide range of cultural backgrounds, languages, origin, programming language expertise, genders, ethnicities. They always value diverse perspectives.

They can work cross-functionally

Developer advocates are able to work successfully in cross-functional teams, are able to communicate the needs of different teams in a clear manner and work in close liaison with product teams as well as the community.

What does a typical day look like?

The typical day for a developer advocate looks very different in every case. What excites one person may not excite someone else. In my case, learning new technologies, producing creative content and sharing this content with the intended audience motivates me. Thus, on a typical day, I tend to focus on these two main categories:

Community

A very important part of any developer advocate’s role is community. Without a community, there is no product. But what is a community? A community is not just a group of customers interested in your products, they are a group of like-minded individuals who believe in the product and its success. Building a community is all about what a group of people with a common passion can achieve together.

A developer advocate is a part of the community. By being a part of the community, we are able to identify who makes up the community, what their passions are, how they collaborate and what energizes them. The key to strong community-building is to trust your community and facilitate their process of collaboration.

As developer advocates, we need to make sure that we are constantly engaging with our community and providing them with the content, support and feedback channels. We need to be leaders in the community that we are looking to grow. Community engagement is a crucial part of a product’s success and is also the part that needs continuous work. For example, one of the things we’ve been doing is creating short, easy-to-understand videos which provide developers across domains a quick overview of our open source projects and what they are capable of. These videos are a part of our “Explain Like I’m Five” series. If you’d like to learn more about these videos, check out our Facebook Open Source Youtube channel.

Content

My current focus has been on the programming languages that fall under our developer tools pillar in our open source portfolio, with my immediate focus being on Rust. Facebook has been using Rust to build a variety of products that depend on critical issues such as memory safety, performance and reliability. As a part of the content creation for Rust, we launched the “Meet the Rustaceans” series where we hear from Facebook Rust developers about the amazing products they are building using Rust, the challenges that they face and the various contributions that they have made to Open Source. If you’d like to read more about this, check out the series on our Facebook for Developers page.

A lot of my typical day goes in deciding what content should be provided with a particular product. A large portion of a product’s success boils down to the content that goes with it. Without the right content, it is difficult for developers to know what the product does, how does one get started with it, what can one build with it, and so on. So the first thing to determine is — What content to make? For example, should it be a technical blog, an interview blog, a video tutorial, a live session, etc.

Apart from that, it is very important to determine what type of content to make- what is the technical expertise that we expect as prerequisites, who are the users for our product, what are their thoughts? The next most important thing is — Who is this content for? For example, is this targeted to a specific audience, or regular users of the product, etc.

The next thing that affects content creation is to determine what success means for that content. So the thing to keep in mind is — What do we want to achieve with this content? For example, is success defined by getting more customers, or spreading awareness, or some other metric?

Now that we have all these major questions answered, we have a good basis on what content we’d like to create. Awesome! The next thing to help us determine what the content should contain is the story behind why this product is beneficial to you and how it works with the other products that are available in our suite of open source products. Answering this will not only give an overview of the capabilities of this particular product, it will also give us a good idea of whether this product can enhance another product in a certain way to improve the overall developer flow. So the final thing to keep in mind is- Why is this product beneficial and how does it work with other products?

So what does it take to become a developer advocate?

The short answer is — always seek to learn and explore new things. As a developer advocate, I get this unique opportunity that lets me discover my passion, and grow holistically. It not only helps me learn new technologies and sharpen my technical skills but also helps me build skills that are invaluable such as community building, communication skills, building trust and most importantly, a genuine passion for empathy towards others.

Thank you for taking time to read this article. Please let me know your thoughts in the comments below. Feel free to follow me on Twitter.

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