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Moodboards.

Episodes
24
First seen
023 DEC 22 2024
Last seen
OT AUG 31 2026
Spoken mentions
826

The Fast Hours take

Rory and Drew rate moodboards as one of Midjourney's best updates — a 10/10 for Rory and 'better than style reference' for a guest, quickly becoming Rory's most-used feature (Ep. 24, 48). The friction was quality control: mixing boards together was buggy (Ep. 26), one bad reference image could 'screw up the entire mood board' (Ep. 33), and V7 looked rough without a personalization profile alongside it (Ep. 37) — though both hosts say quality quietly improved after launch (Ep. 43).

Into it 16Mixed 4 Not sold 2Discussed 2 oldest → newest

Receipts about Moodboards

“The hard part is when I was trying to build my perfect fashion mood board stuff, I got pretty nice results, but the skin is somehow not there from the mood boards yet.”
Allar Haltsonen Ep. 34 Moodboards add depth but skin texture still falls short for fashion work Play from 3:33
“One image can screw up the entire mood board. I learned that by adding a couple extra ones … and then the generations I started getting were crap. So I removed two to three of them and it was 10 times better.”
Rory Flynn Ep. 33 Why a single bad reference photo can wreck a whole moodboard Play from 6:42
“You gotta think if it's a hundred images, that each image would have a 1% take. If it's 20%, they each have what, 5% take? So you remove two images, you're changing the whole thing by 10%, right?”
Drew Brucker Ep. 33 The math behind why removing a couple moodboard images shifts the output Play from 52:52
“But when I do it without it, I get that softer … smush face. It's very similar to C-Ref: when C-Ref transfers a face and it's not perfect, it gets a little bit more fuzzy or less clear.”
Rory Flynn Ep. 33 Comparing moodboard-only skin softness to Midjourney's C-Ref face transfer Play from 54:08
“I was multi-prompting in the prompt: I had about six mood boards, four profile codes, two SREF images, and then I'd use style version on top of that to try and figure out if there would be a significant difference.”
Rory Flynn Ep. 30 Stress-testing how many moodboards and codes can be stacked in one prompt Play from 8:02
“It's like legitimately you just created an SRF code. Like that's it, but it's one image.”
Rory Flynn Ep. 28 Why a one-image mood board behaves like an SREF code Play from 24:49

Every episode with Moodboards

  1. Overtime AUG 31 2026 We Tested Midjourney’s New Editor Live. Here's How to Use It. Also tested as an edit input; showed no visible effect on Edit model results Not sold
  2. Episode 50 SEP 07 2025 Unpacking Midjourney's Style Explorer + Slipping Deeper Into Nano Banana 🍌 Rory layers a camera-angle moodboard with an unrelated style code to force shots like aerial views a style code alone won't produce Into it
  3. Episode 48 AUG 16 2025 Midjourney Video Update: HD for All & Batch Size Changes + Our Style Explorer Wishlist Finally gets its own sidebar tab; still Rory's most-used Midjourney feature Into it
  4. Episode 47 AUG 03 2025 Midjourney TV (MJTV) + Personalized Explore Pages Office Hours teases weighting (2:1 blending) for mood boards; Rory isn't sure it's live yet Discussed
  5. Episode 46 JUL 25 2025 Using Midjourney Video Loops & End Frames: Live Teardown Rory now uses 'micro mood boards' as single tokens (camera angle, lens type) rather than full styles Into it
  6. Episode 45 JUL 06 2025 Midjourney Video Breakdown Part 2 An accidentally-left-on mood board skews a live style-code test; an update is also teased Discussed
  7. Episode 44 JUN 20 2025 Midjourney Video is Here! Nerds React + New --SRef System Chop-Up Briefly revisited; Rory says moodboards have quietly gotten more consistent and less glitchy in recent updates Into it
  8. Episode 43 JUN 15 2025 Midjourney Lawsuit, Video Leaks, and New --SRef System Both hosts say moodboard quality and usability have quietly improved a lot since the V7 launch Into it
  9. Episode 41 JUN 01 2025 Midjourney Deep Hours: Existential Dread But Make It Funny Sref update confirms moodboard compatibility; Rory builds a 'style booth' board from liked images Into it
  10. Episode 39 MAY 09 2025 Midjourney Omni-Reference and --exp: Showing You How They Actually Work Office-hours gripe: users with 200+ saved moodboards can't reorder, rename or sort them in the picker dropdown Not sold
  11. Episode 38 APR 22 2025 Midjourney v7: Secret Playground of Chaos & Weird + Overhauled Editor Re-applying a saved moodboard during Retexture restyled a background-removed shoe shot without needing the moodboard used to create it Into it
  12. Episode 37 APR 13 2025 Midjourney V7 Showed Up in Crocs and Cooked Rough on V7 without an active personalization profile; pairing the two together produced noticeably better results Mixed
  13. Episode 36 APR 05 2025 Midjourney V7 is (Finally) Here! Draft Mode, Hot Takes, And A Mild Identity Crisis Redesigned management UI praised for being cleaner, though Drew still calls the spacing and padding too tight Mixed
  14. Episode 34 MAR 17 2025 Letting AI Cook & The Final Countdown for v7 Feat. Allar Haltsonen Allar mixes two SREF-based moodboards with his personal profile code to build his signature transparent look Into it
  15. Episode 33 MAR 09 2025 Midjourney After Dark—Organized Chaos & Wabi-Sabi Deep dive on ideal size (15-25 images), how one bad image skews results, and weak fidelity on people Mixed
  16. Episode 32 MAR 07 2025 Midjourney Questions Answered Framed as a flexible, controllable version of SREF; stacked live with personalization on camera Into it
  17. Episode 30 FEB 09 2025 Midjourney Moodboards The Deeper You Go, the Crazier It Gets Core technique: building tiny single-trait boards and stacking several together for novel blends Into it
  18. Episode 29 FEB 02 2025 Midjourney: New Describe Feature, Mood Boards & The Future Tease an upcoming premium mood board bundle; discuss stacking boards with personalization and motion for compounding effects Into it
  19. Episode 28 JAN 26 2025 Midjourney Mood Boards: (Literally) Everything You Need to Know Full-episode deep dive on image count, consistency vs. versatility, stacking and bashing boards together Into it
  20. Episode 27 JAN 19 2025 Midjourney From Dall E 2 creative freedom Julie Wieland Julie notes Midjourney's own mood-board feature now covers some of what she used Describe for Into it
  21. Episode 26 JAN 12 2025 To Midjourney v7 and Beyond: Personalization, Moodboards, Roadmap & More Mixing mood boards together is discussed as buggy and inconsistent; only briefly worked for Drew Mixed
  22. Episode 25 JAN 05 2025 Micro-Decisions in Midjourney: Small Choices, Big Impact Rory's hack for reviving the discontinued Style Tuner look by collecting its old images into a new board Into it
  23. Episode 24 DEC 29 2024 Midjourney Moodboards, Mayhem, and Magic New feature Rory rates 10/10; can run tight for SREF-like consistency or broad for a global look Into it
  24. Episode 23 DEC 22 2024 Early Sora Tester Shares Everything Guest calls it better than style reference and his favorite Midjourney update of the year Into it

Quick answers

When did Fast Hours first talk about Moodboards?

Moodboards first came up in Episode 23, “Early Sora Tester Shares Everything”, published December 22, 2024.

What is the latest Fast Hours episode about Moodboards?

The most recent is an Overtime video, “We Tested Midjourney’s New Editor Live. Here's How to Use It.” (August 31, 2026).

How many Fast Hours episodes discuss Moodboards?

24 episodes so far. In the 24 we have logged in detail, Rory and Drew were into it 16 times, mixed 4, not sold 2, and simply discussed it 2.

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