Consistent Results with Midjourney: How to Use the Seed Command

What is the Seed Value?

Midjourney offers the ability to create complex and visually stunning images with just a few keystrokes. However, if you want more consistency in your projects, Midjourney’s default settings, which allow for quick-and-easy results, are more of a problem.

Look at the results of this prompt:

/imagine a black cat on a sofa

Pretty cool for accomplishing that with just a basic description, right? Now let’s just run the same prompt again:

/imagine a black cat on a sofa

Awesome. But completely different cats and sofas!

The reason for this: under the hood Midjourney uses randomness to generate your images. Think of it like this: by default, Midjourney selects a random seed value in each generation process that defines the type of noise pattern Midjourney uses to generate the image you want. This seed value is simply a number used to introduce a random but consistent element of “noise” into the process.