In August 2022, a painting called "Space Opera" won the championship in the "Digital Art/Digital Photography" category in an art competition at the Colorado State Fair in the United States.
The author Jason Allen is not a painter, but a game company owner.
After winning the award, he posted on the Discord forum that the painting was not drawn by himself, but was generated using the AI painting tool Midjourney.
What? ? ? Can AI create such artistic paintings?
This caused quite a stir at the time, and also made many American digital creators feel particularly bitter. After all, the works they had worked hard and carefully created were defeated by AI.
What exactly is AI painting? In fact, users describe the images they want through text, and AI can realize it for you. For example, if you enter the keywords "Pixar style, astronaut, camera, waving, solid color background", you can get a cute astronaut!
Even people with no painting background can produce works that are close to professional standards. The resulting painting is ready to use with minor tweaks.
Not limited by subject matter or form. Users can use traditional painting forms such as sketches, oil paintings, Chinese paintings, and watercolors, or non-traditional painting forms such as comics, 3D renderings, photos, posters, paper cuts, and house designs. This not only greatly increases the output speed of designers, but also allows more novices to realize their wild ideas.
The Midjourney used by Jason Allen was still in beta at the time, but now the model version has been upgraded to V5, which has made Midjourney a god all the way, not only realistic and lifelike, but also more artistic.
Here are some pictures drawn by Midjourney for you to get a feel for.
But what is even more unexpected is that Midjourney is such an excellent company, and its founding team only has 11 people. The founder, David Holz, is a doctoral student majoring in mathematics. He has studied lidar, atmospheric science and Mars missions during college, and has a wide range of interests. He is also a serial entrepreneur. In 2010, he founded Leap Motion, a company focusing on hand tracking systems. Later, after selling to Ultrahaptics, I made a new attempt and created Midjourney.
He loves ancient Chinese culture. At the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, David Holz said that the origin of the name Midjourney is related to his favorite Taoist classic "Zhuangzi". He hopes Midjourney can broaden the boundaries of creativity for everyone.
Many professionals are currently trying to use Midjourney, hoping to improve their work efficiency by embracing new technologies. For ordinary people, Midjourney helps them realize their fantastic ideas and start thinking about what beauty is and how it can be more beautiful. For professionals, Midjourney will be a creativity amplifier, making their profession stronger.
Regardless of whether you have painting experience or not, if you want to try to understand Midjourney, this book "Playing Midjourney with Zero Basics - Creating an AI Painting Assistant" will definitely help you.
"Playing Midjourney with Zero Basics - Creating an AI Painting Assistant"
Little Turtle, by Yuan Chunliang |
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The experience is personally taught by a celebrity favored by 1 million fans. There are nearly 20 real cases, including cartoon IP images, emoticons, logos, wallpapers, posters, story picture books, movie storyboards and other fields. Easily unlock the exquisite gameplay of nearly 20 parameters and 20 commands in Midjourney.
Why Midjourney?
There are currently three popular AI painting tools: DALL·E (under OpenAI), Midjourney and the open source Stable Diffusion.
Generally speaking, AI painting tools can be divided into two types.
Represented by Stable Diffusion, it uses an interface where the user selects models and parameters, such as WebUI, ComfyUI, etc.
Represented by Midjourney, AI painting platforms provided by third parties are used, such as Adobe, Discord, etc.
The former supports customization and has a high degree of freedom; the latter is maintained and optimized by a third party and is very convenient.
If you want to train your own model, such as mapping physical items to AI, so that AI can fully draw a work with a specified style based on this item, then please choose the first tool.
If you want to quickly get started with AI painting and create a large number of your own exclusive works, then please choose the second tool.
They allow us to create at a lower cost of time and money, and Midjourney is undoubtedly the most convenient choice at present, because it does not have its own independent application. By running on the game application community Discord, Midjourney around the world can Enthusiasts can communicate and learn together online to create better AI paintings.
Contents of this book
This book is based on Midjourney and explains how to make AI serve us. The book has a total of 5 chapters :
The first part teaches you step by step how to register a Discord account; the second part introduces the parameters and instructions in Midjourney in detail; the third part is some advanced operations; the fourth part introduces actual application scenarios, such as designing cartoon IP images and expressions Bags, logos, posters, story picture books, etc. Part 5 will introduce some convenient tools.
Different from other books on the market, this book has concise content and covers practical and commonly used skills. It also comes with more than 1,000 frequently used Midjourney keywords and nearly 40 commonly used Midjourney parameters/commands . Make it easier for you to learn.
About the Author
Xiao Turtle, whose real name is Li Jiayu, is the founder of Yu C Studio. A well-known figure in the field of computer education and an online educator. The "Fish C Forum" he founded currently has 1.5 million registered users, with a cumulative number of posts reaching 13 million. He is a household name in the field of online programming, a well-known programming popularizer, and has more than 1 million fans on Station B. Author of best-selling books such as "Learning Python from Zero Basics" (cumulative sales of 220,000 copies) and "Learning C Language from Zero Basics: Taking You to Learn C and Flying (Micro Course Video Version)" (cumulative sales of 50,000 copies). The "Zero Basic Introduction Series" learning courses are launched for free, with a cumulative number of students exceeding 10 million. It is widely praised by netizens for its easy-to-understand and "down-to-earth" teaching methods on websites such as Bilibili and NetEase Cloud Classroom. From primary school students to 80-year-olds, they can easily and successfully learn programming on their own with Mr. Little Turtle.
Yuan Chunliang, director of the Web Business Department and Operations Department of Yuxi Technology, is a member of the YuC Forum management team and has rich experience in community operations. Proficient in various AIGC design techniques and related software, and continues to delve into AIGC-related fields. The free sharing of various AI software tutorials such as Midjourney and Stable Diffusion are widely praised by fans.
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This is an introductory guide that is very suitable for beginners. It uses simple and easy-to-understand language and practical cases to help readers quickly master the basic knowledge and application skills of Midjourney, laying a solid foundation for future study and work. If you want to quickly master the basic knowledge of Midjourney, then this is definitely a good book that cannot be missed.
——Bai Sisi (Bai Maomao), selected into Forbes 30 Under 30 Elite List, Hurun U30 Entrepreneurial Leader
Every unique stone is pregnant with thousands of possibilities, one of which will be discovered and carved by a sculptor. Eventually it became a sculpture. The basic principle of Midjourney's image generation is very similar to this metaphor: prompt is similar to the sculptor's creative intention; parameters such as --chaos and --stylize are somewhat similar to the number and strength of hitting a hammer; seed is a random number, which is the original piece Stone. Humans often think about issues about the future, and the development of AI technology has undoubtedly made me more convinced that the future is a great and crazy era. If you also want to quickly learn Midjourney in the AI era, this book is definitely your best companion.
——Li Genji, manager of the "GenJi I Really Want to Teach You" account on Bilibili, Douyin and other platforms.
This is a very practical AI painting learning guide that provides valuable information for beginners who want to use AI for artistic creation. resources and guidance. Although Midjourney is a relatively new tool, the author uses concise explanations and examples to transform complex concepts into easy-to-understand content. This book helps readers consolidate their knowledge through specific cases, practical projects, and problems in real scenarios. Through this practical learning method, readers can better understand the core concepts of Midjourney and apply them in real situations.
——Zhang Shaobin, General Manager of Zhishu Culture
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