MIDJOURNEY EXPLORATIONS SREFS

Transforming Imagery — Advanced SREF Blending Techniques in MidJourney

PromptDervish
12 min readMay 22, 2024

Learn to blend styles and character references in MidJourney to create unique, captivating images. Includes over 70 romantic SREF IDs!

I've gathered numerous captivating romantic SREF styles while writing the article "Creating Captivating Historical Romance Covers with MidJourney." However, I had too many to include in a single article. In the subsequent piece, "Mastering MidJourney: Advanced Style Manipulation with SREF IDs," I shared 30 additional IDs for romantic images and demonstrated how to modify the style's weight to impact your prompt. Today, I've compiled more painterly, romantic SREF styles for you. You can find them below. But before that, let's discuss how to blend and mix styles to create completely unique image reference styles of your own.

The random SREF IDs can be very polarized and overbearing on their own. In the previous article, I showed how to drop the style weight to reduce the impact. Now, let’s mix some of the variations together to create something new. Below, I have done three simple mixes. The left image is one I did without any style references. I used raw and very low stylization to give our prince and princess the most “realistic photographic” style.

professional studio portrait photograph. a prince in a doublet and a red-headed princess in a satin gown stand facing each other, looking lovingly into each others eyes. rembrandt lighting…

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PromptDervish

Generative Art and AI enthusiast, including but not limited to Midjourney and ChatGPT.