EP 002 · 60 MIN SONG LYRICS MAKE THE WILDEST AI ART
Midjourney Hacks That Are Too Good To Keep Secret
The short version
Episode 2 is a parameter-nerd deep dive into Midjourney's chaos, weird, stylize and image-weight settings, plus office-hours news of an in-progress Personalization V2, a better upscaler and a style-explorer tool. Rory and Drew argue image weight has gotten far more sensitive since it moved to a 0-3 scale, and that shorter prompts render worse hands than longer, detailed ones. For fun, Rory prompts Midjourney with Red Hot Chili Peppers lyrics and gets some of his wildest results yet.
Key takeaways
- 01
Shorter prompts tend to produce worse hands: Rory and Drew's informal testing found longer, more detailed prompts render hands more reliably.
- 02
Image weight has gotten far more sensitive since Midjourney moved it to a 0-3 scale; values that once worked now need to drop below 1.
- 03
Push chaos to only about 5-15 with a detailed prompt to break up repetitive grids without losing the prompt entirely.
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Use Midjourney's in-image search icon, not just the search bar, to pull a feed of visually similar results from your archive or the explore page.
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Don't overlook Blend: smashing two images together with no prompt at all can produce results a written prompt would take forever to describe.
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Decide shot type and aspect ratio before writing the rest of a prompt: a 3:1 ratio physically can't fit a full-body shot.
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Feed Midjourney something absurd, like a half-remembered song lyric, for the weirdest results in your feed; it broke Rory's usual process entirely.
Receipts · said on the record
“I threw in there, I think it was from Red Hot Chili Peppers, psychic spies from China, try to steal your mind's elation. And I was getting the most wild stuff I'd ever seen.”
“Shorter prompts tend to have crappier hands, that's what I've noticed. … The longer the prompt goes, the more detailed it is, the more expansive it is. For some reason, the hands end up better.”
“I don't gatekeep a whole lot, but like I gatekeep that for a while. No one knows about this sh*t, and it's really helpful.”
“It used to be anywhere between 1.1 and 1.2 was my sweet spot … now it's like, 0.5, 0.6 is where it translates.”
“Figma just did this, which I thought was freaking genius. They almost have an image reference search tool, so it's like a reverse image search in there. … Midjourney, if you're listening, I would love that feature.”
“Once you get past a certain point, it's almost like diminishing returns. You're not really getting much of a difference anymore. Same with stylize … between 750 and up, kind of feels like you're all playing in the same ballpark.”
Chapters
- 0:00:00 The AI Explosion: What's Coming Next in Midjourney?
- 0:03:00 Hands-Gate: The Truth About AI-Generated Hands
- 0:07:00 Personalization: The Secret Sauce to Better AI Images in Midjourney
- 0:23:00 Stylization Secrets: Why Less is Often More
- 0:35:00 Blend Masters: The Underrated Technique You're Not Using
- 0:44:00 Image Weight Wizardry: Unlocking Advanced AI Art Control
- 0:52:00 Hidden Gems: Midjourney Features You Didn't Know Existed
- 0:58:00 Song Lyrics to Surreal Art: Unconventional Prompting Hacks
Questions this episode answers
What's the theory Fast Hours proposes for why Midjourney hands look bad?
Rory says his informal tests found shorter prompts tend to produce worse hands, extra or fat fingers, while longer, more detailed prompts render hands more reliably; Drew agrees neither of them writes especially short prompts.
How sensitive is Midjourney's image-weight parameter, according to episode 2?
Rory and Drew agree it's become far more sensitive since it moved to a 0-to-3 scale: Rory's personal avatar sweet spot dropped from about 1.1-1.2 down to roughly 0.5-0.6.
What hidden Midjourney feature does Drew highlight in this episode?
Drew points to the search icon inside an individual image, usable from your archive or the explore page, which returns a feed of visually similar images with noticeably higher-quality results than the main search bar.
What did the hosts learn from Midjourney's office hours in this episode?
They report Midjourney is working on a Personalization V2, an improved upscaler targeting hands and skin texture for the still-unreleased V6.5, and an in-progress style-exploration tool that's running behind schedule.
What unconventional prompting trick does Rory try in this episode?
Rory pastes half-remembered song lyrics, including a Red Hot Chili Peppers line, straight into Midjourney and says it produced some of the wildest, most surreal images he'd seen, especially with the weird parameter dialed up.
Show notes
🚨 MIDJOURNEY HACK ALERT 🚨
Ever wonder how the pros make those jaw-dropping images in Midjourney?
We're exposing the tricks and techniques that'll take your AI images from 'meh' to magnificent.
We pull back the curtain on some of our favorite Midjourney tips that'll make your images EXPLODE with creativity and make you go, 'HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS?!' 🤯
From manipulating chaos to crafting the perfect prompt, we're dishing out all kinds of insider knowledge.
Don't create another image until you've heard this!
