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Midjourney Method #3: Getting Rid of Things You Don’t Want.
The “no” command and whether, when and how to use it.
If you’ve ever thought, “MJ doesn’t understand me!” then this article should help you speak the Midjourney language and give you avenues to explore in getting very specific in your requests.
I will run some experiments on cleaning up images or getting rid of things you don’t want.
As with everything AI, there is no one simple foolproof approach. We are dealing with so many variables and randomness factors that, ultimately, you will always have to experiment to get the result you want.
Title Image example
To break this down, we have a simple prompt followed by a “ — no” command.
If you leave out the double dash, you get something like this:
Without making it a command, MJ thinks you want graffiti people and lights.
Before I added the command, I was getting these results
KEY POINT: “— — no graffiti” at the end of the prompt removes graffiti, whereas “no graffiti” in the body of the prompt adds it.
The Faceless Woman challenge
Let's face it—it's sometimes much quicker to pop an image in Photoshop than mess around with prompts, reruns, etc. Well, it is for me, but not everyone has access to a good editor or a drawing pen with a screen like I do.
So, I persevered with this one, although I used every strategy in the book to get there.
The challenge was inspired by this image I made a few weeks ago by random accident.
