Exploring Style: How Midjourney’s New Tool Opens Fresh Creative Doors

Building on moodboards and personal profiles, Style Explorer is the latest personalisation tool from Midjourney.

All images created by the author with Midjourney and a range of other tools.

My relationship with AI is complicated. I first stumbled upon it through Midjourney, experimenting with images and learning how prompts could bend towards something surprising or trap you in a mundane world. I wrote tutorials, partly to teach others and partly to teach myself.

Then ChatGPT arrived and began shaping my writing process, not by writing for me but by helping me structure and sharpen each piece. Now, every article I publish has traces of both.

The title image reflects that more recently, as a therapist, I’ve been noticing how AI has crashed into the therapeutic space. Sometimes with promise, often with danger. And in all of these encounters, the same question arises:

Here is a tool; how do I use it effectively?
How do I keep my own integrity and personal control over the process?
How do I let my creativity unfold in directions I couldn’t reach alone?

Here I am just focusing on Midjourney, who seem to be creating many tools to aid creators in personalising their work as much as…