From Code to Canvas: A Guide for Prompting Stunning AI Art with MidJourney (2/3)

Welcome to the second part of guided prompting for Midjourney to unlock your artistic potential and create jaw-dropping AI art with exclusive cheat codes. These expert hacks will take your art to new heights, no coding skills required!

Prerequisites

Cheat Codes

Here are more good example prompts!

Note: In some prompts I used multi-prompts as well as weighting to achieve better results.

32 Bit Isometric

Old Photograph

Neon

Oil Painting

Cyberpunk

Retrowave

Retro

Blueprint Drawing

Pixelart

Synthwave

Retro-Futurism

LSD

Ukiyo-e Art

Duotone

Diagramatic Drwaing

Phantasmal Iridescent

Luminescent

Fluorescence

Carnival Glass

Abstract

Artists

Note: Aspect ratio was set to 3:2 (Landscape).

Keyword Cheat Sheet

These keywords are good to control and finetune

Keyword	Description
Fine ultra-detailed realistic	may have some graininess and roughness, but it enhances the level of detail.
Ultra photorealistic	is similar to fine ultra-detailed realistic in terms of its level of realism.
Hasselblad H6D	produces a sharper focus on the subject, but it deepens shadows.
High definition	lighting tends to be brighter and more colorful, with increased saturation.
8k	technology often produces even more saturated and computer-generated colors than high definition, with extreme lighting effects.
Cinematic	lighting features more dramatic shadows and slightly thicker objects, giving a poster-like appearance.
Color grading	involves extreme variations in hue and vibrant but not overly saturated colors.
Depth of field	creates a sharp focus on the subject while blurring the foreground and background.
Film lighting	features limited light sources, common backlighting, and deep shadows cast by light sources.
Rim lighting	produces slightly stronger lighting effects than film lighting, but with very similar results.
Volumetric lighting
Softbox lighting
Long exposure
Fairy Lights
Intricate details	designs tend to feature non-realistic crafts and pattern elements.
Realism	tends to focus on artistic realism, with more uniform backgrounds and subject matter that looks like a painting.
Photography	typically includes a small area of objects surrounding the subject, with little else in the background.
Rendered for IMAX	involves more complex subjects with highly directional lighting and subdued saturation.
Tilt-shift	creates a similar effect to depth of field, but from a high angle or from above.
Motion-blur	adds speed lines to the image, creating the impression of motion or wind.
35mm film	produces vibrant colors but muted saturation, with additional foreground and/or background elements for added detail.
Soft focus	creates a slightly blurry focus with a thinner subject and potentially grainy details, with colors tending towards pastels.
Harsh lighting	creates extreme contrast with deep shadows.
Minimalist line art	features a simplified pen-on-paper type line sketch of the subject with few or no additional elements.
Hasselblad full frame	produces a similar effect to 35mm film, with a stronger emphasis on contrast.
Sony Alpha α7, ISO1900, Leica M	to specify any lens type or camera type
Unreal	to specify an unreal engine feel

glass vases on top of a table, microscopic photo, inspired by Brunce Munro, intricate, ultra-detailed, 8k, LSD, symmetric, refracted sparkles, ray tracing

ChatGPT + Midjourney and Prompt Generators

Just let ChatGPT do the job and generate Midjourney prompts for you:

Here are the formulas:

• Formula 1: image to prompt:: 5 descriptive keywords:: camera type:: camera lens type:: time of day:: style of photograph:: type of film
• Formula 2: image to prompt:: 5 descriptive keywords:: type of photography:: lens:: distance:: subject:: direction:: type of film

Another really helpful tool is the MidJourney Prompt Helper which gives you amazing good style approaches.

Image2Prompt

Want to know what a prompt sits behind a generated image? The CLIP Interrogator 2.1 is your friend!