Using Style and Stylize to Create Whole New Worlds in Midjourney V4

Testing the 1/12/22 update so you don’t have to

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In the midst of writing an article about style, and creating your own style, I Saw the announcement from Midjourney that they have updated V4 in this area. Abandoning the work around my beautiful Steampunk Mermaid above I decided to test the new commands and share my findings.

I tried to work with the image above and it’s source image but gave up because if you put in an image prompt you are already dictating a large amount of the style. The first run was: A Mermaid underwater

[A mermaid underwater 32K — q 2 — v 4] and adding [ — seed 1 — Stylize 1]

[A mermaid underwater 32K — q 2 — seed 1 — stylize 1000 — v 4] and [A mermaid underwater 32K — q 2 — stylize 1000 — v 4]

So it's clear that putting — seed 1 — stylize 1 sends you back to V3 standard I’ll roll a few more and you can make up your own mind if it is something you will use.

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