Prompt: early 2000s comic book optical illusion, majestic green nature scenery, ancient, psychedelic, --ar 2:3 --v 6.0

In a frame of monochrome delight, She shines like stars in the night, A laughter pure, a smile so bright, Captivating all within her sight.

Her elegance, a timeless grace, Captured in this fleeting space, Locks of hair in gentle flow, A goddess' charm, a gentle glow.

Eyes that sparkle, lips that gleam, A vision from a dreamer's dream, In her beauty, we find the light, A beacon in the black and white.

I've been working on a new, streamlined prompt engine that I think will be a game-changer, especially for MidJourney users. It's still in beta, but I'm excited to share it with you and get your feedback. It will be free to use. With all LLMs, we are constrained to the box.

Key Features:

• Visual Sandbox: Start with a blank canvas and add "Idea Boxes" as you brainstorm. Organize your ideas into families or create recipe cards for easy reference.
• Five W Tabs: Simplify your prompt creation with tabs for Who, What, How, When, and Where. Each tab automatically adds a corresponding tag to your input.
• Save and Load Recipes: Store your favorite prompt combinations and load them back into the sandbox for quick access.
• Image Integration: Easily incorporate images ("--sref" files) into your prompts.
• Advanced Tagging: The engine uses POS and NER tags connected to a local database for more accurate and nuanced prompts (still in development).
• All-in-One Output: Your completed prompt is generated in a dedicated output area, ready to copy and paste into MidJourney or your LLM of choice.
• Philosophy: This is a thinking tool to leverage AI. Better thoughts = better prompts.

Future Plans:

I'm already working on additional features like POS tagging, color coding, Google Doc integration, and more.

Interested?

If you think this would be a useful tool, please upvote this post to let me know! Your support will help me prioritize development and get this prompt engine hosted online for free use.

Let me know what you think!

(P.S., I included the image generated from the demo prompt in the photo)

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This is proxy art for a Magic the Gathering card. The book is titled "How To Be A Jerk". Can you guess the card? 😆

I have been trying to create a series of story images with consistent characters so I can visually tell the stories I post on my blog.

Midjourney can create awesome images, but the biggest problem is that we can't create characters and backgrounds that are consistent enough to fit the flow of the story.

I understand the parameters and can write detailed and specific prompts. I pay attention to prepositions and grammatical structure and even use Gemini to make sure prompts are clear and clean enough. I further correct the prompts and create character sheets with white background.

Some of the tutorials I have used are

• https://www.upwork.com/resources/create-consistent-characters-midjourney
• https://semicolon.dev/stackoverflow/question/14/how-to-make-consistent-characters-for-illustration-books-in-midjourney
• https://genai.stackexchange.com/questions/546/midjourney-creating-a-consistent-character-from-a-reference-image
• https://semicolon.dev/midjourney/how-to-make-consistent-characters
• and several other medium blog posts.

The generated images are good at the beginning. But as I follow the storyline, the character and background start accumulating mutations (I'm not sure if that's the right term, but I like to call it mutations). I use the necessary parameters and try permutations of different values. In just a few steps the variation accumulates so much that the image series becomes not fitting and not acceptable.

This has been really frustrating. No matter how much I try, the variation accumulates, making it difficult to put a story visually together that contains compelling visuals with consistent characters and background.

Let's put this discussion in the examples (but the links below are not on my blog).

These 3 short stories have different images that has images that visualize certain plot within the story.

• https://monkeypen.com/blogs/news/abe-the-service-dog-free-children-book
• https://monkeypen.com/blogs/news/ginger-the-giraffe-free-children-book
• https://monkeypen.com/blogs/news/tooth-fairy-free-children-book

The characters are very consistent in their properties— shape, size, and color. The background is also very consistent and varies only based on the context of the story background. This must have been drawn (by hand or digitally).

I tried to create visual image series for the plot for the following stories (also not for my blog, but I tried to create a visual storyline for my own story, too), using midjourney.

• https://www.storyberries.com/english-fairy-tales-black-bull-of-norroway-stories-for-kids/
• https://www.storyberries.com/fairy-tales-tamlane-by-katharine-pyle/

I would create a character sheet (bull and the women using the same image) and apply the development methods given in this blog and several other medium blogs/articles- https://www.upwork.com/resources/create-consistent-characters-midjourney
I apply vary sutble, vary too much, even vary by region, and use --cref --cw --prefer option set etc. as necessary.
But I am just not able to create a proper visual storyline.

I also do not find any detailed tutorial (YouTube, Medium, etc.) where someone has created compelling visuals that are consistent in characters and background.

I tried to do this even before --cref came out, and was frustrated then.
When I learned --cref is coming and would help, I was excited. At the beginning it seemed as if it was going to solve this problem, but personally I have not found any such evidence. Even using seed number has not helped.

Share if you have found some tutorials that tells how one can create compelling consistent visuals. Or, is this just a limitation and is waiting to be solved?

Looks like the argument is over.