Midjourney’s Crazy New Describe Feature

Helping You Write Better Prompts

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Midjourney released a new ‘describe’ feature that lets you transform images-into-words.

“We think this tool will transform your liguistic-visual process both in terms of creative power and discovery.”
- Midjourney team

The Importance Of Image-To-Text Descriptions

Image descriptions have important broader implications that are worth mentioning:

1. Improved accessibility: Image descriptions make digital content more accessible for people with visual impairments or reading difficulties. This is done via the ALT text element for web displays.
2. Enhanced searchability: Descriptions can enable better search functionality and indexing via search engines.
3. Use for captions: Captions can incorporate descriptions to provide additional clarity to images.
4. Detailed Prompts: Descriptions can be used to create more detailed prompts for crafting new variations. They can provide inspiration for prompt engineering.

Midjourney will generate four different descriptions based on an image you upload and makes it easy to generate new variations.

How It Works

The way it works is you simply start by writing /describe and Midjourney provides a way to upload an image.

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After you upload the image, you click enter

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Midjourney then returns four descriptions based on the image

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The four numbers on the bottom are active remix buttons — each number matching the corresponding description. Clicking on the number will remix the image based on the new description.