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As many of you know, Midjourney has recently released a new web editor that combines reframe, repaint, vary region, pan, and zoom into a unified interface.
This makes editing images much more seamless and is a huge step forward! Did you know that you can use image references in the editor too? Let me show you how to level up your Midjourney skills even further
Today’s content will be broken down into three parts:
Part One: What is Midjourney Web Image Editor
Part Two: Three Types of Image Reference
Part Three: How to use Image Reference with Midjourney Website Editor
Part One: What is Midjourney Web Image Editor
The new web editor is a unified editor view that combines features including reframe/repaint/vary region/pan/zoom with a simplified interface
🎨 Usage: Users can simultaneously drag borders, utilize a brush tool, and change the image's aspect ratio on the canvas.
🚀 Improve Workflow: The editor streamlines the process by enabling users to perform several editing tasks at once, enhancing their workflow.
🖼️ Supported Images: Initially, the editor will only support editing images generated by Midjourney
Features of Midjourney Web Image Editor
With the Editor, you can
🎨 Repaint ( Erase/ Restore): Select and unselect the parts you want to edit and regenerate. This allows users to remove unwanted objects or fill in missing parts, which works similarly to inpainting.
🎨Return Action and Reset: Undo the action and reset to the original image
📐 Scale: Scale is for zooming out images
📐 Aspect Ratio: Select the aspect ratio for your new image.
💬 Edit Prompt: Remix and edit your prompt to generate a new image
Besides the above features, you can also use image for style/character/composition references.
In the following part, I will briefly talk about the three reference types and show you how to use them in the editor
Part Two: Three Types of Image Reference
To use the images with the editor, you will need the image URL. There are THREE ways to use images as a reference with Midjourney.
1. Image Prompt (URL in prompt)
Image prompt roughly transfer composition, subject, and some style to your canvas.
Style Reference (--sref)
Style references transfer aesthetic style only to your canvas. The visual style is carried over to your canvas, reinforced by the prompt.
Character Refernece (--cref)
Character references roughly transfer key character attributes to your canvas by mapping them to a figure already on the canvas if introduced late in your workflow, or by creating a brand new one.
Part Three: How to use Image Reference with Midjourney Website Editor
Step 1: Generate an image on the Midjourney Website
First, you will need to create an image. Go to the “ Imagine” textbox. Type in words that describe the image you want to create.
Press “Enter” and your images will be generated
You can now easily create images on the website using the Imagine textbox located at the top.
Step 2: Select the image you want to edit
Midjourney will return 4 images to you. Pick the one you wish to edit
Step 3: Open the Editor
Select the image and select “Editor” on the sidebar to open the editor
Step 4: Copy and paste the image link
Copy and paste and the image link and the image will appear in the editor in the prompt textbox.
It will be “Image Prompt” as default. You can hover over the image and select “Style Reference” or “Character Reference”.
📌 Tip 1: Multiple reference type for the same image
To use the same image for more than one reference type, hold down the shift button and select other options
📌 Tip 2: Multiple Image Reference
You can add more than one image reference just paste another URL and select the reference type
Sample Usage: Face Swap
With image reference, you can repaint and erase part of the image and swap faces easily with the image as a character reference
Here is the result
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