Midjourney Tests New Feature to Add Consistent Characters in AI Images

Midjourey, the favored generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered picture era device, has introduced a brand new characteristic that may enable customers to take a reference character and use it throughout a number of totally different photographs. The characteristic, known as Character Reference, is at present in testing and solely out there on the Midjourney 6 (MJ6) and Niji 6 fashions. The characteristic is comparable to the AI device’s current Style Reference command however as an alternative of the fashion of the picture, it retains the character of the picture constant.

The announcement was made by the official account of Midjourney on X (previously often known as Twitter), the place it highlighted that the under-testing characteristic is just out there to the MJ6 and Niji (for anime and illustrative kinds) fashions. The characteristic can now be examined by customers on Discord, the place Midjourney formally operates. Interested individuals will want a subscription to the platform in order to generate AI photographs.

Explaining the Character Reference characteristic, Midjourney highlighted that it may be used in prompts utilizing the cref command. The command ought to be adopted with a URL to a picture of a personality. Characters designed utilizing Midjourney will provide the most effective outcomes. The firm additionally mentions that the characteristic won’t work for actual individuals or pictures and the AI is probably going to distort them. Further, the precision of the characteristic is at present restricted and it’ll not copy minor particulars corresponding to dimples, freckles, or t-shirt logos.

For extra management over the character, customers can use the cw command for Character Weight. Adding a price between 0 to 100 will enhance the consistency of the character. While at 0, the main focus will simply be on the face, 100 will maintain the face, hair, and garments constant. Notably, Midjourney is a really prompt-sensitive mannequin, and with the introduction of MJ6, the significance of grammar and together with the precise prompts has elevated.

Everything about a picture will be managed utilizing particular instructions and the language of the immediate. So, to guarantee character consistency, the cw command ought to be used, and the immediate shouldn’t be stored imprecise. Some of the use circumstances of this characteristic could possibly be for illustrations in a narrative, making a storyboard for digital comics, or creating movies with background music and audio.