Overtime: Midjourney Repaint Tutorial: Pro Tips Revealed

0:00Midjourney Repaint 101: The AI Artist's Secret Weapon

Play from 0:00 8:88 0:00 All right, we are here to talk about one thing and one thing only and that is repaint, the artist formerly known as vary region. Now, in my opinion, this is one of the most powerful tools inside of mid-journey that exists. I want to share a couple key things with you. One, I want to show you how I use it as part of my workflow. Two, I want to talk about some of the best practices when it comes to getting the most out of repaint in your images and how to effectively maneuver it. And then third, I want to get into talking about some of the tips and tricks that exist within using this feature, some of which you probably know, some of which you probably don't know. So, with that said, let's dive in.

Play from 0:41 8:88 0:41 First things first, I have an image up here and we're going to go ahead and jump right in and click repaint. Now, the way that I typically use repaint in my workflow is I use it as the final piece to getting this to a final image. And what I mean by that is I typically go through the creative process with a prompt. I will subtle vary, subtle strong, things of that nature, pan, zoom out, whatever it may be, and then I get into repaint as the very last step. And what I'm looking for here is really the 80 to 90% of the final image. And I use this as a way to think about the cleanup of the image. So, think about eliminating distractions, think about adding other elements, think about fixing things that just don't quite look right to salvage an image. So, let's talk about the image that I have up on the screen. You know, let's just say I want to select this vein in this

0:55Workflow Mastery: Repaint as Your Final Touch

Play from 1:28 8:88 1:28 forehead as sort of a distraction. And maybe we'll go even a little bit smaller than that. I hit submit and it's going to tell me for best results you need to select more of the image to replace. Now, I'm going to show you a little trick that I've learned along the way. If you run into this problem and you don't really want to select other pixels within the image, I can actually select a little bit outside of this and then just drag this down and now it's going to let me run it. So, like I said here, this may be a vein, maybe I've got an issue with the fire, not necessarily this is the case, but let's just say I wanted to make this filled in and have this all be a flame instead of this hole here. That's an option, too. And so I can select that and run that and hit submit and I'll likely get a fix in that first row. Now, it's important to remember what you're selecting as much

1:45The Art of Selection: What to Fix vs. What to Keep

Play from 2:14 8:88 2:14 as what you're not selecting. So, what I mean by that is simple. If I were to just drag this like this and I want this to fill in with fire, I may not get that result because I've also left a little bit of room here where there's not fire. And so what that is probably going to tell Midjourney is, "Hey, like this part of it is not filled in." and it's going to read those pixels around it and probably fill that in with another hole. So, I'll just run that and while we're waiting we can go back and see what that pulls back. But that's usually what's going to happen with that. So, I always stress that it's as important to think about what you're selecting to fix versus what you're not selecting to fix, especially when you're thinking about things like hands, legs, eyes, anything that's sort of like a very objective feature that you don't want to look wonky. So, now that we've run that example, let's go in and let's find an

Play from 2:59 8:88 2:59 example with a hand because hands and legs are obviously such a big part of this as well. The longer the prompt is, the less likely you are to receive a hand or a leg that's got the wrong number of appendages with it. So, if you leave the prompt very vague and open for interpretation for whatever reason, you're going to see more errors. So, that's one thing to remember. The other thing to remember is empty space here. I can probably just select the space here and it's going to most likely give me that fifth finger. So, it's important to think about the composition of the hand and the leg to really understand if it's going to give you the right return when you do submit it for an update. Now, the other thing to think about, too, is let's just say, you know, all four of these fingers had something that were a

3:00Handy Hacks: Perfecting Hands & Legs

Play from 3:46 8:88 3:46 little bit wonky about them at the top. You know, rather than maybe selecting this where I'm hoping to get four new fingers entirely, I might just select half. That way I'm I'm saying to Midjourney, "Hey, I want this to be four fingers still. I just want you to fill in the gap." And I'm going to see better success that way versus changing the entire hand. Now, there might be times where you you might have to change the entire hand, and that's okay, too. So, in that case, you know, what you would just do is go in here. Let's just remove this selection and do this. And so, again, like I'm thinking about what I'm selecting as well as what I'm not selecting. I might go all the way up to a point where I say, "Okay, this looks like a pretty good shaped hand, so I'm going to stop here." And so, that's going to be a pretty good space. I can stop the palm here, and it's going to likely fill that in in the correct way.

Play from 4:31 8:88 4:31 The last thing I'll do is if I really want to salvage it, is I'll just take it all the way down to maybe like the wrist or something like that and just have it fill it in. So, I mean, there's no right or wrong. It's just a faster way to get there. That's been my experience in trying to fix those things. So, I think that's important to remember as you're going about and changing appendages specifically. One other really cool trick within here that not a lot of people know about, which is the upscale trick. Why? Because I don't have a creative and better name for it. So, anytime you want to upscale an image in V6, you have two options. A subtle upscale and a creative upscale. Now, there's actually a way to access an even better upscaler using repaint, and I'm going to show you how to do that right now. All you need to do is go back into repaint, and let's just make a very inconsequential selection here. Okay.

4:55Unlocking a 3rd Upscaler Using Repaint

Play from 5:14 8:88 5:14 Now, what we need to do in order to access this new upscaler is we need to eliminate any of the features that came from V6 or later. So, we need to remove style weight, personalize, and S refs because those were all features that came out in V6. And what we're going to do here is we're going to add V5.2. Now, why are we doing this? Well, if if you recall, version 5.2 had two different upscalers that existed. They were 2x and 4x upscalers. Well, specifically for this, I want to access the 4x upscaler because it's going to give me the largest file size possible and the highest quality possible. So, I'm going to go ahead and submit this.

Play from 5:53 8:88 5:53 Now, we've got the image up. Let's go ahead and click in here and as you can see, we now have access to the 4x upscaler. This is a beautiful, beautiful way to access V6 images and use the 4x upscaler. Otherwise, you're not going to be able to use it. You have to simply use the subtle or the creative upscaler. So, now what I'm going to do is I'm going to hit 4x and this is going to upscale my image to a 4x which is going to be the largest file size possible. Now that our four upscale is done, you can see that we have that and boom, how beautiful is that? We've got the larger file size. This is a particularly useful if you want to get your image sizes up to a certain quality in order to print them out or use them in some sort of collateral, something for a larger client project. This is the way that I would go about that without even leaving the tool. So, hopefully that piece was helpful. Now, the last thing I want to

Play from 6:39 8:88 6:39 cover is getting back into an individual image. I want to stress one important piece of free paint and that is the ability to change everything. You can salvage any part of an image. So, if I really like this guy's eyes, nose, and mouth, but I didn't like what was below his chin, I could change that and get entirely different results. So, I can go in here, we can just select this. I can go all the way up here and here. Right? And I can go ahead and run this and now I'm going to get brand new results from the chin down. Now, what if I want to change something else? If I want to remove the chain, I could do that. I could basically take this like this, select it.

7:00Transforming Portraits with Repaint

Play from 7:21 8:88 7:21 And then what I'm going to do is I'm going to remove that piece from my prompt. That way I'm telling Midjourney this is not a part of the prompt anymore. So, it's more likely to remove that. And as you can see, I missed a little piece there, so we'll see if that actually happens. Now, let's just pretend I don't like his his eyes for whatever reason. Now, this happens a lot because I'm when I do a lot of portraits, I'm thinking about the emotion that's coming through with the image. And if the eyes aren't right or the mouth's not right or there's nothing that really screams anything emotional, then I need to go ahead and change it.

Play from 7:53 8:88 7:53 But, the reason I do that is because there are other pieces of the image that I really, really like. I like the color grading, I like the composition, I like the chain, I like his mouth. I do like his eyes here, but let's just go ahead and change them just to kind of show you what I'm talking about. I don't think like it's perfect to do it this way in terms of like changing individual facial features like eyes or nose or mouth. They can give you sometimes inconsistent results, but at the same time, they can give you good results. So, here was the chain idea where we just changed below his chin to see what else we were going to get. We have different options there.

8:15Crafting Emotion Through Repaint

Play from 8:29 8:88 8:29 Then we removed the gold chain. As you can see, that's no longer there. Now, here you see a little bit of the gun. So, that was another thing that I might want to think about is I've got golden pistol in my prompt. remove that as well to remove this all together. So, I could go back repaint that out. And then lastly, let's look at the eyes. So, if I want to change out the eyes, I could do that. Now, these images all give me different sort of emotions and looks and feels. And depending on how picky I am and what I'm using this for, I could spend a lot of time here. So, let's rerun this twice and see what kind of results we get back.

Play from 9:05 8:88 9:05 Perfect. So, now we've run this twice. We've rerun that same very region or repaint. So, we're going to get a different results with the just the eyes here. Now, this is super important because all these photos tell completely different stories. So, I'm going to be very, very picky about the one I want to select. So, like this is a case right where it just maybe doesn't quite look right, but at the same time you're going to get, you know, things like this where it's just like, "Ooh." You know, like that's got some emotion to it. Same with something down here. That's pretty cool. Same with something like this. So, eyes really tell a great story when you're utilizing Midjourney for portraits. And so, this is another way that I like to use repaint. I like to change things out like eyes and mouths if I'm not completely satisfied with those, but I do really, really like the rest of the image. As we wrap up, hopefully those

9:45Wrap-up: Refining Your Midjourney Masterpiece

Play from 9:51 8:88 9:51 tips, tricks, advice on the workflow gives you something to think about for the next time that you're creating images in Midjourney, especially when you're trying to refine that image to a final product. Catch you next time.