Unveiling the Secrets of Text in Midjourney V6: A Deep Dive

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He explores text in Midjourney V6, noting Ideogram did text-in-images first and Midjourney was not first despite leading on images. He advises using the Midjourney Discord general thread for inspiration, since prompts are shown publicly, and messaging the bot directly for a less cluttered workflow. Critical setup: open settings (typing the settings command) and select the V6 alpha model, otherwise text will not work — he says he struggled until he enabled it. He then demos prompts built from comma-separated phrases, e.g. an elephant mother with babies drinking at a lake with the text ‘mother’s love’, and a monkey eating a banana in a tree with the text ‘my favorite thing to do’. Results are inconsistent at first, with text small or misspelled, but improve on regenerating, especially when adding keywords ’t-shirt design’, ‘sticker’ or ‘vector’ — sticker tends to add a white outline. He shows upscaling a liked result and creating variations, notes you can fix font or wording later in Canva or Photopea (which he describes as a free web-based editor), and predicts the feature will improve as Midjourney develops it.

Key takeaways

• Enable Midjourney V6 alpha in settings before expecting text to appear in images
• Build prompts from comma-separated phrases and include the exact desired text
• Adding ’t-shirt design’, ‘sticker’ or ‘vector’ improved his text results
• Expect imperfect spelling at first; regenerate, upscale and make variations to refine
• Use the Discord general thread to see other creators’ images and prompts for inspiration

Episode details: published January 5, 2024 · 8:46 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are RJ Martinez’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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