NFTs, AI Art, Midjourney

Configuring Midjourney Settings: A Look at the Remix Mode for Refining your AI Prompting

Remix is a powerful tool that can be both frustrating and delightful.

Somehow this whole article is about the picture shown here. I didn’t intend this, but I like how if you read this whole thing, you can see how a simple exercise can yield interesting and unexpected results.

Following up on my “Midjourney basics” post from yesterday, I wanted to have a look at one of the “advanced” prompting techniques available — the “remix” setting. What does Remix do? Well…

This sounds pretty amazing because, sometimes when you’re prompting, trying to translate an idea from your brain to actual art, the AI gets some aspects close to what you want, but not quite. But, if you completely “reroll” the same prompt, you often can’t get back to what you were getting close to.

With remix, that seems more doable. But it’s also not as simple as it sounds. In fact, remixing can be downright tricky. Indeed, Midjourney’s own tutorial samples show these types of changes using remixing:

I think this shows the “evolve a subject” aspect, as the documentation mentions. I think this is one of the tougher applications to envision because, if you wanted to make a “pile of owls,” and were having difficulty getting the AI to generate it, you’d have to put some serious thought into what to begin with instead that would help. So, “evolving the subject” is perhaps something that one would more typically do when you’re actively ideating versus trying to plan out an envisioned result.