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Joel's Reference to MidJourney v4 Prompts

: Joel Lipman; Graphic Design; 11 February 2023; Hits: 8195

What?
So this is an article for me to store prompts for the MidJourney AI text-2-image discord tool.

Why?
The results from the MidJourney bot are beyond unpredictable however with the correct prompts you can direct it to focus on the elements you want from a brief.

How?
A "prompt" is a text-to-image expression using words and phrases to instruct the Midjourney Bot (or any other AI text-2-image generator) which the bot can break down into "tokens" and then match with its training data to generate the image.

Calculate Aspect Ratio

: Joel Lipman; Graphic Design; 17 January 2019; Hits: 2381

What?
So this is a quick article on how to maintain an aspect ratio when resizing an image.

How?
These are the calculations to work out the new height given the width or the new width given the height:

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(original height / original width) x new width = new height

(original width / original height) x new height = new width

(original height / original width) x new width = new height
(original width / original height) x new height = new width

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The Sandpit

: Joel Lipman; Graphic Design; 26 September 2010; Hits: 12761

I saw this on BBC News Click and was really impressed. It's an effect called "time-lapse tilt shift photography" where everything is made to look smaller than it actually is.

As an update Mar 2011, I just watched Gulliver's Travels (2010) and it looks like the same effect for the intro credits :c)

This is "a day in the life of New York City".

More Information can be found at http://aerofilm.blogspot.com/2010/02/sandpit-short-film-by-aero-director-sam.html

Personally I can sit there watching it without sound.

: Joel Lipman; Graphic Design; 30 September 2009; Hits: 7537

What?

I saw this article and rather than bookmark it I thought I could just have it here for easy reference. It was written for Photoshop but I use Paint Shop Pro and felt I could do the same. It's just so complicated in Photoshop when web-developers need to be able to run several programs at the same time and simplicity is king.

In PaintShop Pro you would simply:

How?