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What exactly are you struggling with? The main challenge with Midjourney is to open up a broader style pallete, while the out of the box vanilla results are usually amazing in v4.

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Had not tried Midjourney, probably as I dont usually bother with discord. Just tried it out and while the results are probably better than anything I had before, there are a lot of weird things going on (per my usual experience) that dont seem to appear in examples other peoples use and def not in the topic post; distorted faces, extra body parts, weird 'deformities', proportions etc... Here are both variations and upscales of the same prompt (-> which is probably my issue?). This was without reading the 'tips' or looking through /r/StableDiffusion yet. It still really seems like prompting is an art form and skill that really needs to be learned, or atleast have the skills to touch-up the images.

::a happy family in the middle of a nucular wasteland:: (I just realized I spelt nuclear wrong, does that matter?)

[original] https://cdn.midjourney.com/2685df56-6e1a-4828-9bd5-2960271d2...

[upscaled] https://cdn.midjourney.com/b7363830-0a77-4362-86bb-a1bc30ff7...

[variation] https://cdn.midjourney.com/cf9d990b-0745-4ef5-b977-31cbd0efc...

[variations] https://cdn.midjourney.com/7337ed7f-041b-43d0-8626-2b3992fbd...

[upscaled] https://cdn.midjourney.com/a29c53da-e9cf-4192-88cd-d56d4e2d3...

[variations]https://cdn.midjourney.com/497b5044-605c-42f8-b285-868515211...

[upscaled] https://cdn.midjourney.com/dcdc1eb6-c5a0-4df9-9cc9-93fa8cf12...

[variations] https://cdn.midjourney.com/46822f7a-b90f-4119-9cee-4f3967dc3...

That's... not close to enough in your prompt. I suggest you go browse the v4-showcase channel and look at the prompts other people are using (users will sometimes share). Alternatively go to a site like prompthero.com and look up some examples. At a minimum, you need to use the --v 4 trigger to get it to use the new (better) model. You also generally need to tell it what style you want with some more description.

Fwiw, I've found stable diffusion outputs to be mostly crap in comparison to DALL-E and Midjourney. DALL-E seems to output results closest to what you ask for with low-specificity prompts, and Midjourney tends to give the most "stylistic" results like what you would see on a digital art site.

V4 is the default at the moment, so you shouldn’t have to specify it.

Also you can set your personal settings with “/settings”

Ah, thanks, been a couple weeks since I used it.

If you look at civitai then you'll see that the good images often have massive negative prompts that literally say things like "missing fingers:-1" or equivalent.

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