Midjourney V5 rolls out with new features promising accessibility

 Midjourney permits the user to upload an image upon encountering the “/describe” prompt and then presents the user with four descriptions its AI engine generates based on the image provided. 

These descriptions are followed by buttons numbered one to four- representing each generated description. These buttons remix the image based on its corresponding description, should the user click on it. 

DelSignore further shares his experience of remixing the official crew portrait of NASA Astronauts for the Artemis II space program.

Midjourney described the crew portrait as “NASA astronauts group pose for a photo, in the style of photorealistic portraits, dark cyan, and orange, uniformly staged images, romantic depictions of historical events, celebrity portraits, Hasselblad h6d-400c, non-representational — ar 117:77 — v 5”

The star of the show, however, was the remixed image Midjourney generated based on this description.

However, not all images get accurate descriptions. While testing the feature with a portrait of a woman in a polka dot dress, PetaPixel observed Midjourney come up with descriptions of varying quality. 

From misidentifying the lens used to capture the picture to mislabelling the dress to be black and white checkered, these descriptions fluctuate from interesting to puzzling, sprinkled with differing levels of accuracy. Images of landscapes resulted in generally useful descriptions but wrong location information.

Although in an early stage, and far from the finished product, Midjourney’s "/describe" tool is intriguing and shows promise, concluded PetaPixel. 

Equally promising is the new “permutations” feature that allows pro subscribers to create up to 40 combinations in a single query, by listing options within curly brackets {} along with the “/imagine” prompt.

Permutations, along with “repeat”, another new feature that runs the query many times specified with the “--repeat” parameter, provide improvements that, although seemingly small, will be embraced by power users.