How to use MidJourney 5 Describe Function with Digital Art
TLDRThis video showcases the 'Image to Text' feature of MidJourney 5, allowing users to transform images into text prompts with the help of AI. The creator tests various images, including photography, vector art, and abstract designs, to evaluate the AI's performance. The results are mixed, with some prompts accurately capturing the essence of the images, while others miss the mark. The video provides insights into the AI's capabilities and limitations, suggesting potential for improvement in generating prompts from digital art.
Takeaways
- 🌟 MidJourney has released a new 'image to text' feature that generates prompts from images.
- 🔄 Users can regenerate the same image to receive different prompts each time with the MidJourney bot.
- 🎨 The video showcases the feature using 15 non-AI, hand-drawn images created in Photoshop and Illustrator.
- ⏱ The creation time for these images ranged from two hours to four days.
- 📈 The video tests the feature with various image types like photography, minimal, vector, and abstract to evaluate performance.
- 📝 The script includes a detailed process of using the feature and provides feedback on the generated prompts.
- 👍 Some prompts were highly praised for their quality and artistic feel, while others were less impressive.
- 🦈 The AI struggled with certain images, like the one with sharks, failing to recognize and render elements correctly.
- 🎭 The AI showed a strong ability with abstract images, often generating creative and usable prompts.
- 🖼️ For some images, particularly vectors, the AI provided multiple excellent prompts that would have taken considerable time to create manually.
- 🔄 The video emphasizes the AI's capability to keep generating new prompts, offering a wide range of options from a single image.
- 🔮 The video concludes with a suggestion for MidJourney to review the outcomes to improve AI learning and accuracy in the future.
Q & A
What new feature did MidJourney release?
-MidJourney released a new feature called 'image to text' that allows users to take any image and use the /description command to generate four prompts for each image.
How does the 'image to text' feature benefit users?
-The feature benefits users by allowing them to generate different prompts for the same image multiple times, thereby reducing the workload of creating prompts manually.
How many images does the video creator use to demonstrate the feature?
-The video creator uses about 15 images to demonstrate the 'image to text' feature.
What variety of images is used to test the MidJourney feature?
-The images used to test the MidJourney feature include photography, minimal, vector, abstract, and more.
What is a common issue the creator encounters with the generated prompts?
-A common issue is that the AI sometimes fails to accurately recognize specific elements in the images, leading to unusable prompts.
How does the creator respond to prompts that are not satisfactory?
-The creator often regenerates new prompts for the same image and evaluates them until finding a satisfactory one.
Why does the creator emphasize the colors picked up by the AI?
-The creator emphasizes the colors because the AI seems to pick up and replicate colors more accurately than other aspects of the images.
What type of image does the AI struggle with according to the creator?
-The AI struggles with recognizing and rendering elements in images where only parts of objects are visible, such as a shark's fin.
What is one example of a successful prompt generation mentioned by the creator?
-An example of successful prompt generation is the vector lighthouse image, where the AI generated impressive and accurate prompts.
What does the creator hope to achieve by sharing this video with MidJourney?
-The creator hopes that someone from MidJourney will watch the video and use the feedback to improve the AI's learning and capabilities.
Outlines
🖼️ Testing Mid-Journey's Image to Text Feature
The video script introduces a new feature by Mid-Journey called 'image to text,' which generates four prompts for any given image using a forward slash description. The narrator demonstrates this feature on their private Discord Channel using 15 images, none of which are AI generated but are hand-drawn in Photoshop and Illustrator. The images vary in style, including photography, minimal, vector, and abstract, to test the feature's versatility. The narrator's aim is to show how well Mid-Journey performs in generating prompts from these images, which took varying lengths of time to create, from hours to days.
🎨 Evaluating AI-Generated Prompts for Artistic Images
The script continues with the narrator's experience using Mid-Journey's image to text feature on various images, including a vector image with a heart pattern and a simplistic shark-themed vector. The AI's performance is mixed; some prompts are impressive, while others are not as accurate, particularly with the shark image where the AI struggles to recognize the subject correctly. The narrator emphasizes the AI's inability to edit images but the goal is to reduce workload, not to fine-tune prompts in this test. The session includes abstract images that the AI interprets well, showing the AI's strengths and limitations.
🌌 AI Interpretations of Diverse Imagery
This section of the script discusses the AI's interpretation of a variety of images, including a plant factor, a city vector drawn on an iPad, and a cyberpunk style artwork. The AI's responses are mostly positive, with the narrator expressing amazement at the AI's ability to understand and generate prompts for complex images. The AI also handles a minimalist vector and a photograph taken with a specific lens setup, although it sometimes picks up unrelated keywords, indicating room for improvement in accuracy.
🛰️ AI's Creative but Inaccurate Prompts for Abstract and Astrophotography
The narrator tests the AI's ability to generate prompts for abstract and astrophotography images. While the AI produces creative prompts, there are inaccuracies, such as generating prompts about a jet and an apple unrelated to the original images. Despite these inaccuracies, the narrator appreciates the AI's creativity and the potential for generating usable images. The section also includes a discussion about the AI's limitations in accurately rendering an astrophotography image and the need for a separate video to address this.
🌠 Final Thoughts on AI's Image Interpretation and Prompt Generation
In the final part of the script, the narrator reflects on the AI's performance, noting its ability to pick up colors accurately and generate beautiful prompts for a lighthouse image and a drawing of hearts. However, the AI struggles with the astrophotography image, and the narrator expresses dissatisfaction with the prompts generated for it. The script concludes with a call to action for viewers to like, subscribe, and enable notifications for future videos, promising more content on astrophotography and other topics.
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Keywords
💡MidJourney
💡Image to Text
💡Prompts
💡Discord Channel
💡Photoshop
💡Illustrator
💡Vector Image
💡Abstract
💡Cyberpunk
💡Astrophotography
💡Long Exposure
Highlights
MidJourney 5 introduces a new 'image to text' feature allowing users to generate prompts from any image.
The MidJourney bot can create four unique prompts for the same image with each regeneration.
The video showcases the feature on a private Discord Channel using 15 different images.
All images are hand-drawn in Photoshop and Illustrator, taking between two hours to four days to create.
The video tests the AI's performance with a variety of image types including photography, minimal Vector, and abstract.
Some prompts generated are very good, while others may not match the user's expectations.
The AI struggles with recognizing specific elements in images, such as a shark's fin.
Abstract images seem to yield the most impressive and accurate prompts.
The AI's ability to pick up colors is noted as more accurate than other elements.
The video suggests potential for improvement in AI's understanding and rendering of complex images.
The AI's performance varies significantly across different types of images.
Some images required no editing, while others needed heavy prompt modifications.
The video emphasizes the AI's creative potential despite inaccuracies in some image interpretations.
The AI's ability to generate prompts is seen as a significant timesaver for artists.
The video concludes with a call to action for likes, subscriptions, and notification bell hits.
The video provides a comprehensive look at the capabilities and limitations of MidJourney's AI in generating prompts from images.