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Apr 19th - 2 Min Read

Creating Art Masterpieces with AI Midjourney

By: Herish Badal

Midjourney is an artificial intelligence (AI) program created by a research lab called Midjourny, Inc. Its release was on July 12, 2022, based in San Francisco, in the United States. Midjourney generates images from "prompts", natural language descriptions. A prompt is a set of instructions or guidelines that the Midjourney interprets to produce an image; it is basically text descriptions for users. This AI model, and many others such as Open AI's Chat-GPT and Being, are becoming increasingly popular very rapidly due to their capabilities to provide answers to whatever comes to human beings' minds. However, Midjourny is very popular among artistic, digital graphic designers, and architects.


Currently, this tool is still in beta version, but users use Midjourney Discord bot to create art masterpieces. To start creating designs or images with AI Midjourney, you need to join Discord chat rooms for Midjourney with a Mac or PC computer. You can request any design you wish. If you can put it in words, it can put it in designs. It will produce the most beautiful visual with little-to-none effort. This helps designers and engineers to come up with outstanding design concepts, plans, and inspiration.


Midjourney can be useful in many industries and is now used to produce sophisticated architectural designs, "work arts", art styles, illustrations, photography, product design, etc. It can actually design anything you can imagine.


In the first example, this tool was asked: "Midjourney prompts: a cover photography, body and face photo, a beautiful young woman covered in water and liquid, clothes old and ragged, half buried on trash and garbage, hyper-realistic, model photography, 500px poses, detailed, intricate." In the second example, it was asked: "Midjourney prompts: curve roof, parametric architecture design, architecture, futuristic art performing center –v".





One of the main challenges of AI Midjourney is that it is not yet possible to edit AI designs it produces, and it has limited image resolutions. In conclusion, AI is dominating our lives in all areas, and we would have to adapt to it sooner or later. Tools like Midjourney will not be the last AI products that will impact the way we learn, and the way we look at knowledge and creativity will completely change. People now use Chat-GPT and Midjourney to develop business ideas from scratch and run their social media and blog posts completely dependent on them. The biggest question is: will these AI-powered tools negatively impact future generations? I think we would have to wait longer to figure it out.