The Art of Long Prompts: A Deep Dive into Midjourney's Capabilities

As I sat down to experiment with Midjourney, a cutting-edge generative AI model, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and trepidation. The prospect of crafting a long prompt, replete with intricate details and nuances, was both daunting and alluring. My initial instinct told me to stick with a shorter, more straightforward approach, but my curiosity got the better of me. I decided to take a chance on creating a longer, more complex prompt, and see where it would lead.

The first challenge I faced was crafting a compelling prompt that would yield a stunning result. I began by generating an image of a Porsche 911 Turbo California, replete with intricate details and a blurred background. However, as the prompt length increased, so did the complexity of the resulting image. The model struggled to balance the competing elements, and the final product looked, well, ridiculous. "Damn that was long," I joked, as I copied and pasted the original prompt into the Midjourney interface.

Undeterred by this initial setback, I decided to experiment with a smaller subset of the original prompt. By condensing the input down to 135 prompts, I aimed to create a more manageable and focused image. To my surprise, the resulting artwork looked even better than its longer, more sprawling predecessor. The model had somehow managed to distill the essence of the original prompt into a more cohesive and effective whole.

As I continued to experiment with different prompts and variations, I began to notice a fascinating phenomenon. Even when the input was reduced in size, the resulting image retained much of its original character. It was as if the Midjourney model had somehow learned to extract the essential elements from the longer prompt, and adapt them to the more constrained environment.

One of my favorite experiments involved creating a range of images showcasing different cars, colors, and styles. By using a combination of words and phrases, I managed to create a diverse array of artworks that reflected my imagination and creativity. From an electric blue Tesla to a stylized Formula One car, each image was unique and captivating in its own right.

Another experiment involved exploring the intersection of art and architecture. By incorporating specific locations and cultural references into my prompts, I was able to generate images that not only looked stunning but also told a story. A black matte carbon gray Tesla, set against the backdrop of the Empire State Building, was both striking and thought-provoking.

As I delved deeper into the world of long prompts, I began to appreciate the nuances and complexities of Midjourney's capabilities. The model was not just a tool for generating images; it was an instrument for exploring the boundaries of creativity and imagination. By pushing the limits of what was possible with short prompts, I discovered new ways of thinking about art, design, and technology.

My journey into the world of long prompts has been both exhilarating and humbling. It has reminded me that, even in the age of artificial intelligence, there is still room for creativity, experimentation, and innovation. As I continue to explore the possibilities of Midjourney, I am excited to see where this journey will take me – and what new wonders I will discover along the way.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: entoday I wanted to test if longer prompts give better outputs in mid-journey V4 or are these long prompts just a waste of time so I did create some prompts that had over 330 descriptions and compare them to a more minimalistic approach did I see any difference let's find out okay so how we're gonna test this is I have created two different script one script that creates just a normal length prompt and one that creates like a 300 plus length prompt but we're gonna use the same user input here we're gonna use for the car color we're gonna use matte black slate carbon the car type is going to be a Porsche and a location is going to be California so let's just start off by doing like a normal prompt so let's head over to the terminal run our first script here so what color is the car it's matte black a slate carbon uh type of cars it's a Porsche 911 Turbo where's the car located uh California so let's run that and here we get the prompt uh a mattress lead carbon Jillian Jones edges yeah okay let's copy that head over to Mid journey and paste The Prompt uh and let's bring up the other script okay so now let's uh run our other script this is gonna be I've set this to around 40 50 prompts now so the color is going to be matte black uh slate carbon and it's in California so let's run that okay so I think this is around for the prompts so let us copy that add ultimate Journey paste and let's see what we can get from this okay so what we actually are testing now is just we'll adding more prompts make a better image descriptions we get are just random here we can't really expect that but let's just test it anyway this image was the short pump or like the normal Chrome looks very good it's it's not a realistic image it's more of like a drawing here's the long prompt also quite cool it's a bit of a different style it's more colors and I can't really tell what kind of prompt that made it like this but I guess yeah so let's try to add more prompts here now and see what happens okay so that's what we AIM now for around uh maybe around 100 prompts California and let's hit enter okay so I don't know how many this is let's copy and check so let's copy that add over here paste and do some word counts so words 117 imagine face that and let's see what we can get from this okay so this is what we got back from around 100 was it 117 prompts and wow it looks stunning but is it uh is it because of the long prompt it's very hard to tell my instinct says no but look at this it's very realistic and I like the like the blurry background so this was stunning so I think we gotta try maybe we can use this prompt to remove like half of it later and see if we get the same okay now let's just go for the big one straight away let's try to aim for around it's gonna be between 300 and 350 prompts I think so matte back slate carbon it's a Porsche 911 Turbo California and yeah let's see what we can get here okay so here's the problem damn that was long uh okay so let's copy all of this let's check how many words this is uh so I'm also gonna try to check for a censored words 360 eight prompts so I'm just gonna check for some banned words and then we're gonna put this in okay so after removing some words uh we ended up with around 315 prompts so let's take those over to Mid journey and see what this can produce okay let's face yeah that's a lot of prompts okay so here we got the image back look at this long promes looks ridiculous right uh okay so let's have a look at the results it looks stunning but I can't say can I tell difference from this was around 100 and this is 315 it's basically the same so there's no difference uh in my opinion it looks great though looks very realistic I think now we're just gonna remove the like the half of it and run it again and see if we get something different okay so I script this uh prompt now down to uh it's 135 prompts so let's copy that and try to run this and see if we can tell any difference okay so here we can see uh we only did half of the prompt we just move the back end and wow as expected uh there is there's no difference to be honest it this one even looks better so here was the one with 315 prompts just remove the I guess the 150 last inputs and we basically got the same image it looks awesome there's no difference like in the last 150 prompts at least that's my conclusion so far but at least that's my takeaway for now okay so at the end of this video I thought I would just run this uh the more simpler script a few more times it's quite fun and you can get some awesome results from it so this is a card base and let's just run a few different kinds of cars and colors and see if we can make something cool let's do electric carbon blue what type of car is it off-road Eevee where's the car located Sahara copied the prom are you happy with the prompt uh no and then let's create the restarts and we can do another one okay so we got this one back this was a car silver and gold carbon Mario Seth edges tractor Norway sporty illustrative and that this is just awesome I love they put in the mountain behind that that's typical Norway if I look outside here and look at the tractor it's so cool like a lot of gold and carbon and yeah awesome okay so the next one is this uh Formula One car uh it's black and red neon Damien Hurst edges and cartoonish so I I guess this is very inspired by the maybe it's Damon Hurst I don't know him and cartoonish uh but I really like it this would be an awesome poster like if you were like a probably a Ferrari fan or just a formula one fan uh I guess so I think this one was actually my favorite so the prompt is like an electric carbon blue Trenton Osborne edges off-road Eevee Sahara sporty glowing so yeah I think this was my favorite not just because of the car but also like the aesthetic from the Sahara and how the the wheels go down into the sand and and you can see the shape of the sand here now in the foreground so this was very impressive so I think this was my favorite let's have a look at the last one so the final one was this uh black matte carbon gray Ashley Longshore edges futuristic Tesla Evie New York Regal and stylized so this was very dark though but there's some Shades of gray and white in behind there you can see like the Empire State Building so we are in New York but the weird thing here was all those box in front of the uh you can still see it's a Tesla I think so yeah right uh with the the rims and the hood and logo but these Stones there were very strange I don't know why but I kind of like it anyway uh a bit gray maybe but yeah quite cool okay so I hope this gave you some answers if you were wondering about long prompts uh anyways check out some of my other videos here about generative AI thank you for watching and I'll see you again soontoday I wanted to test if longer prompts give better outputs in mid-journey V4 or are these long prompts just a waste of time so I did create some prompts that had over 330 descriptions and compare them to a more minimalistic approach did I see any difference let's find out okay so how we're gonna test this is I have created two different script one script that creates just a normal length prompt and one that creates like a 300 plus length prompt but we're gonna use the same user input here we're gonna use for the car color we're gonna use matte black slate carbon the car type is going to be a Porsche and a location is going to be California so let's just start off by doing like a normal prompt so let's head over to the terminal run our first script here so what color is the car it's matte black a slate carbon uh type of cars it's a Porsche 911 Turbo where's the car located uh California so let's run that and here we get the prompt uh a mattress lead carbon Jillian Jones edges yeah okay let's copy that head over to Mid journey and paste The Prompt uh and let's bring up the other script okay so now let's uh run our other script this is gonna be I've set this to around 40 50 prompts now so the color is going to be matte black uh slate carbon and it's in California so let's run that okay so I think this is around for the prompts so let us copy that add ultimate Journey paste and let's see what we can get from this okay so what we actually are testing now is just we'll adding more prompts make a better image descriptions we get are just random here we can't really expect that but let's just test it anyway this image was the short pump or like the normal Chrome looks very good it's it's not a realistic image it's more of like a drawing here's the long prompt also quite cool it's a bit of a different style it's more colors and I can't really tell what kind of prompt that made it like this but I guess yeah so let's try to add more prompts here now and see what happens okay so that's what we AIM now for around uh maybe around 100 prompts California and let's hit enter okay so I don't know how many this is let's copy and check so let's copy that add over here paste and do some word counts so words 117 imagine face that and let's see what we can get from this okay so this is what we got back from around 100 was it 117 prompts and wow it looks stunning but is it uh is it because of the long prompt it's very hard to tell my instinct says no but look at this it's very realistic and I like the like the blurry background so this was stunning so I think we gotta try maybe we can use this prompt to remove like half of it later and see if we get the same okay now let's just go for the big one straight away let's try to aim for around it's gonna be between 300 and 350 prompts I think so matte back slate carbon it's a Porsche 911 Turbo California and yeah let's see what we can get here okay so here's the problem damn that was long uh okay so let's copy all of this let's check how many words this is uh so I'm also gonna try to check for a censored words 360 eight prompts so I'm just gonna check for some banned words and then we're gonna put this in okay so after removing some words uh we ended up with around 315 prompts so let's take those over to Mid journey and see what this can produce okay let's face yeah that's a lot of prompts okay so here we got the image back look at this long promes looks ridiculous right uh okay so let's have a look at the results it looks stunning but I can't say can I tell difference from this was around 100 and this is 315 it's basically the same so there's no difference uh in my opinion it looks great though looks very realistic I think now we're just gonna remove the like the half of it and run it again and see if we get something different okay so I script this uh prompt now down to uh it's 135 prompts so let's copy that and try to run this and see if we can tell any difference okay so here we can see uh we only did half of the prompt we just move the back end and wow as expected uh there is there's no difference to be honest it this one even looks better so here was the one with 315 prompts just remove the I guess the 150 last inputs and we basically got the same image it looks awesome there's no difference like in the last 150 prompts at least that's my conclusion so far but at least that's my takeaway for now okay so at the end of this video I thought I would just run this uh the more simpler script a few more times it's quite fun and you can get some awesome results from it so this is a card base and let's just run a few different kinds of cars and colors and see if we can make something cool let's do electric carbon blue what type of car is it off-road Eevee where's the car located Sahara copied the prom are you happy with the prompt uh no and then let's create the restarts and we can do another one okay so we got this one back this was a car silver and gold carbon Mario Seth edges tractor Norway sporty illustrative and that this is just awesome I love they put in the mountain behind that that's typical Norway if I look outside here and look at the tractor it's so cool like a lot of gold and carbon and yeah awesome okay so the next one is this uh Formula One car uh it's black and red neon Damien Hurst edges and cartoonish so I I guess this is very inspired by the maybe it's Damon Hurst I don't know him and cartoonish uh but I really like it this would be an awesome poster like if you were like a probably a Ferrari fan or just a formula one fan uh I guess so I think this one was actually my favorite so the prompt is like an electric carbon blue Trenton Osborne edges off-road Eevee Sahara sporty glowing so yeah I think this was my favorite not just because of the car but also like the aesthetic from the Sahara and how the the wheels go down into the sand and and you can see the shape of the sand here now in the foreground so this was very impressive so I think this was my favorite let's have a look at the last one so the final one was this uh black matte carbon gray Ashley Longshore edges futuristic Tesla Evie New York Regal and stylized so this was very dark though but there's some Shades of gray and white in behind there you can see like the Empire State Building so we are in New York but the weird thing here was all those box in front of the uh you can still see it's a Tesla I think so yeah right uh with the the rims and the hood and logo but these Stones there were very strange I don't know why but I kind of like it anyway uh a bit gray maybe but yeah quite cool okay so I hope this gave you some answers if you were wondering about long prompts uh anyways check out some of my other videos here about generative AI thank you for watching and I'll see you again soon\n"