How to Write Better Midjourney Prompts by Example


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The Art and Science of Writing Midjourney Prompts In the ever-evolving landscape of artificial intelligence and digital art, Midjourney stands as a beacon of creativity and innovation. This AI-powered tool has revolutionized the way we generate and interact with visual content, opening doors to artistic expressions that were once beyond reach. Yet, like any powerful tool, its true potential is unlocked only through mastery and understanding. This book, "How to Write Better Midjourney Prompts," is your comprehensive guide to achieving that mastery. Why This Book? The ability to communicate effectively with AI is becoming an essential skill in various fields, from digital marketing to entertainment and beyond. Midjourney, with its sophisticated algorithms, requires precise and thoughtful input to produce the best results. Writing effective prompts is both an art and a science, requiring a blend of creativity, clarity, and technical knowledge. This book aims to demystify the process, providing you with the tools and techniques needed to harness the full power of Midjourney. A Journey of Discovery When I first encountered Midjourney, I was both amazed and intrigued by its capabilities. The images it generated were stunning, yet I quickly realized that the quality of the output was directly tied to the quality of the input. Simple prompts yielded simple results, while detailed and imaginative prompts brought forth extraordinary creations. This realization sparked a journey of discovery, experimentation, and learning that I am excited to share with you. What You Will Learn This book is structured to take you from the basics of prompt writing to advanced techniques that will enable you to create sophisticated and nuanced images. Each chapter builds on the last, gradually introducing more complex concepts and strategies. You will learn how to: Craft detailed and specific prompts that guide Midjourney effectively. Utilize key parameters to fine-tune your results. Experiment with synonyms and varied vocabulary to enhance creativity. Employ positive language to avoid common pitfalls. Embrace ambiguity and randomness for unique and unexpected outcomes. Iterate and refine your prompts for continuous improvement. Break down complex images into multi-prompts for greater detail and accuracy.




The Quick Guide to Prompt Engineering


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Design and use generative AI prompts that get helpful and practical results In The Quick Guide to Prompt Engineering, renowned technology futurist, management consultant, and AI thought leader Ian Khan delivers a practical and insightful discussion on taking the first steps in understanding and learning how to use generative AI. In this concise and quick start guide, you will learn how to design and use prompts to get the most out of Large Language Model generative AI applications like ChatGPT, DALL-E, Google’s Bard, and more. In the book, you’ll explore how to understand generative artificial intelligence and how to engineer prompts in a wide variety of industry use cases. You’ll also find thoughtful and illuminating case studies and hands-on exercises, as well as step-by-step guides, to get you up to speed on prompt engineering in no time at all. The book has been written for the non-technical user to take the first steps in the world of generative AI. Along with a helpful glossary of common terms, lists of useful additional reading and resources, and other resources, you’ll get: Explanations of the basics of generative artificial intelligence that help you to learn what’s going on under the hood of ChatGPT and other LLMs Stepwise guides to creating effective, efficient, and ethical prompts that help you get the most utility possible from these exciting new tools Strategies for generating text, images, video, voice, music, and other audio from various publicly available artificial intelligence tools Perfect for anyone with an interest in one of the newest and most practical technological advancements recently released to the public, The Quick Guide to Prompt Engineering is a must-read for tech enthusiasts, marketers, content creators, technical professionals, data experts, and anyone else expected to understand and use generative AI at work or at home. No previous experience is required.




Writing AI Prompts For Dummies


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Learn the art of writing effective AI prompts and break into an exciting new career field Writing AI Prompts For Dummies gets you started on the path toward becoming an “AI psychologist” capable of getting all types of output from AI systems. This book walks you through the process of mining great results from leading platforms, so you can save time, solve problems, explore creative ideas, conduct research, and beyond. Even if you’re brand new to using AI chatbots, you’ll be able to follow the jargon-free explanations and instructions inside to learn how to ask questions and make requests in terms any AI can understand. Then, you can convert your new skill into greater productivity in your life, or even into a new career. Prompt engineering is a fast-growing career opportunity with six-figure salaries attached. Who knows? This Dummies guide could be your launchpad to a future as an AI whisperer. Explore the top AI chatbots, creativity engines, and productivity tools Learn how to write basic text prompts that generate concise, effective output Create AI-generated photos and illustrations that match your vision Save time writing code, designing websites, or conducting research When asked “Who needs to learn prompt engineering?” ChatGPT clarifies: professionals, creatives, educators, scientists, and entrepreneurs in many fields can benefit an enhanced ability to use AI productively. And for anyone working in AI, natural language processing, or related areas, Writing AI Prompts For Dummies is simply a must.




The Midjourney Expedition


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Harness the power of Midjourney to create impactful and memorable artistic outputs and gain a distinctive edge in your professional endeavors Key Features Master Midjourney prompting with the help of practical examples from an experienced communication and web design specialist Explore Midjourney's capabilities to create visually stunning art without prior design knowledge Gain practical insights into how to strategically apply AI-generated art in your work Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Book DescriptionLike various other fields, AI offers boundless possibilities when it comes to art. Midjourney is one of the leading AI art creation tools that can assist you in your artistic ideas, regardless of your technical skill level. Written by an accomplished communication and web design specialist, The Midjourney Expedition is your guide to harnessing the power of AI in your creative journey. With this guide, you’ll explore the extensive features of Midjourney and start creating compelling AI-generated art with ease. The first set of chapters will teach you how to set up and use Discord for personalized and seamless art creation, with a dedicated section that will help you understand the different versions of Midjourney and their capabilities. As you progress, you’ll hone your prompt engineering skills, and eventually learn how to leverage the power of complex prompts. You’ll also learn how Midjourney-generated images can be integrated into a multitude of workflows and domains through real-life case studies. In the last set of chapters, you’ll get to grips with real-world applications of Midjourney for storytelling, creating moodboards, and more. By the end of this book, you’ll not only be proficient in using Midjourney, but also understand how to strategically apply AI-generated art in your projects.What you will learn Navigate and master Midjourney's extensive features for AI art creation Apply practical techniques to create visually stunning AI-generated artwork Accelerate your creative process to produce captivating visual content Understand and master essential parameters to enhance your creations Create consistent characters for storytelling Incorporate AI-generated art into various work contexts Who this book is for The Midjourney Expedition is for creative individuals who are looking to visually express their ideas through the power of AI. While this book will certainly benefit designers, it's equally valuable for marketing professionals, brand strategists, content creators, media managers, and entrepreneurs. Those responsible for creating compelling visual content to represent a brand, product, or concept will also find this book useful. Basic knowledge of web user interfaces will be helpful, but not required.




AI Revolution


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""The AI Revolution"" is a practical guide to using new AI tools, such as ChatGPT, DALLE and Midjourney. Learn how to multiply your productivity by guiding or prompting AI in various ways. The book also introduces Microsoft Copilot, Google Bard, and Adobe Photoshop Generative Fill, among other new applications. ChatGPT reached a hundred million users in just two months after its release, faster than any other application before. This marked the advent of the generative AI era. Generative AI models generate text, images, music, videos, and even 3D models in ways previously thought impossible for machines. The book explains in an understandable manner how these AI models work. The book provides examples of how AI increases productivity, which professions are changing or disappearing, and how job markets will evolve in the coming years. With this book, you'll learn to recognize the opportunities and risks AI offers. Understand what this change demands from individuals and companies and what strategic skills are required. The book also covers legal questions caused by generative AI, like copyrights, data protection, and AI regulation. It also ponders societal impacts. AI produces content, thus influencing language, culture, and even worldviews. Therefore, it's crucial to understand by whom and how AI is trained. The AI revolution started by ChatGPT is just the beginning. This handbook is for you if you want to keep up with the rapid development of AI.




The Art of Prompts 2


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The Art of Prompts 2 has hundreds of examples and prompt tips to help you create beautiful illustrations, comics, greeting cards, stories, articles and so much more with generative AI! You don't need to be an expert: the book comes with easy-to-use tools to help you save, experiment and share your prompts with Livebook, and instantly publish your creations online with the visual Prompt Maker, Story Maker, Comics Maker, Image Maker and more! This book is a great resource for anyone interested in digital art, creativity, writing and artificial intelligence. Includes hundreds of illustrations and tips on making beautiful digital art with all modern AI models: Google Gemini, OpenAI, Midjourney and more. Enjoy browsing through a gallery of hundreds of illustrations made with prompts, try them yourself and have fun! Make beautiful art and content easily! Includes easy-to-use online tools and 200+ beautiful illustrations and tested prompts you can copy-and-paste to jump start creating artwork instantly, or experiment live with Livebook. Learn to instantly create professional digital art for your projects, books, documentation, research, or business: Illustrations Stories Comics Greeting Cards Articles What’s so special about this book? It explains how to make prompts to generate art and creative content - a very useful skill for any artist or hobbyist making art with powerful artificial intelligence tools. Enjoy browsing through a gallery of hundreds of illustrations made with prompts and have fun! Easy-to-follow and well structured The book is well structured, so you can quickly find your genres or styles of illustrations or artwork and use hints, guidance and copy-paste prompts that I tested while working on this book, or use Livebook (included) to create prompts, notebooks and more. Save time and start with best practices Creating a great artwork with artificial intelligence takes time. The book provides best practices and tested prompts to get started quickly. What is a prompt? A prompt is a loosely defined input, like a phrase or instruction that tells A.I. what to do. The art of creating prompts is just like the art of talking to people: if you’re skilled in this art you’ll get fantastic results! More creative AI resources: What’s new in this book: besides lots of new prompt tips, each prompt in this book is available online on Livebook, a new resource where you can keep and share your prompts, play, experiment, make articles, posts, illustrations, books, websites, and more. Livebook helps you creating content based on just your ideas (no special skills necessary), and provides a content management platform for generative AI, with lots of easy-to-use generative AI tools built-in: the visual Prompt Maker, Comics Maker, Greeting Card Maker, Story makers, and tons of templates as part of the Prompt Mania prompt garden. Ta-Da! Meet the Prompt Maker: one of the new tools included in Livebook simplifies prompt engineering, shortening the path from your ideas to content: the tool will automatically make awesome visual and text prompts for you, saving you typing and time from a single idea. Prompts made by Livebook Prompt Maker fit any transformer, and significantly improve the output quality for Google, OpenAI, Midjourney, and other models. Also in the book: multi-modal prompts - for video, images, text and more! While the first Art of Prompts book focused purely on imaging and art, I decided to include more tips in this book that also cover text and videos. So, in addition to vision and images, in this book you’ll find entirely new comics, text and conversation sections, including Google tools and new models like multi-modal Gemini, that explains the art of getting what you want from machines and artificial intelligence. This book is to make anyone productive with AI, you don’t need to be a data scientist to use methods and tools I share here. I recommend checking books in this series for the background of many methods explained here. Livebook for Business brings a comprehensive generative AI solution for businesses, teams and organizations. For example, at the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee, Livebook powers AI Coaching that teams and coaches as part of long-term Team USA readiness program for LA Olympics 2028! It is the first ever content management system (CMS) designed from the ground up to work with generative AI. Livebook generative AI kiosk had been installed at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, next to the first computers and processors, entertaining visitors with generative stories. Hope you enjoy this book, learn, and have fun!




UX Writing


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This flexible textbook provides an integrated approach to user experience (UX) writing and equips students and practitioners with the essential principles and methods to succeed in writing for UX. The fundamental goal of UX writing is to produce usable and attractive content that boosts user engagement and business growth. This book teaches writers how to create content that helps users perform desired tasks while serving business needs. It is informed by user-centered design, content strategy, artificial intelligence (AI), and digital marketing communication methodologies, along with UX-related practices. By combining writing-as-design and design-as-writing, the book offers a new perspective for technical communication education where UX design and writing are merged to achieve effective and desirable outcomes. Outlining the key principles and theories for writing user-centered content design, this core textbook is fundamental reading for students and early career practitioners in UX, technical communication, digital marketing, and other areas of professional writing.




Make: Volume 84


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What's new in digital fabrication? So much! In Make: Vol. 84 we show you how adding dedicated SBCs, like a Raspberry Pi, make 3D printers vastly smarter and up to five times faster. New laser engravers can cut metal for under $2,000, and cheap workhorse diode lasers are everywhere. Pro-level 3D scanning is on your phone, and 3D design software has a flavor for every style of maker. Now's the time to level up! Plus, we dive into how makers can (ethically) use generative A.I. to create audio, images, text, code, and 3D models for your next project! Plus, 23 Projects & Skills, including: Build a $30 Vertical Wind Turbine Create Wearable Soft Speakers Wow your friends with a DIY Ambient TV Backlight Sew decorative Light-Up Zodiac Embroidery Get involved with Amateur Radio and Software Defined Radio (SDR) And much more!




The Journalist’s Toolbox


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Focusing on the "how" and "why" of digital reporting, this interactive textbook equips readers with all the skills they need to succeed in today’s multimedia reporting landscape. The Journalist’s Toolbox is an extension of the JournalistsToolbox.ai website, which provides links to tools, organized by beats and topics, as well as social channels, a newsletter, and more than 95 training videos relevant to journalists. This handbook offers a deep dive into these digital resources, explaining how they can be manipulated to build multimedia stories online and in broadcast. It covers all the basics of data journalism, fact-checking, using social media, editing and ethics, as well as video, photo, and audio production and storytelling. The book considers digital journalism from a global perspective, including examples and interviews with journalists from around the world. Packed full of hands-on exercises and insider tips, The Journalist’s Toolbox is an essential companion for students of online/digital journalism, multimedia storytelling and advanced reporting. This book will also make an ideal reference for practicing journalists looking to hone their craft. This book is supported by training videos, interactive charts and a pop-up glossary of key terms which are available as part of an interactive e-book+ or online for those using the print book.




Invocational Media


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Invocational Media critiques the sociotechnical power of digital technologies by introducing the concept of invocational media. What is an invocation? Ask your voice assistant and it will define it for you. It is a media artefact that responds to many invocations such as seeking the weather forecast, requesting any song you can name, or turning on the lights, almost magically. This contemporary manifestation of the ancient practice of invocation gives an immediate response to your call in a way that Chris Chesher argues is the characteristic power of all computers, which he redefines as invocational media. This book challenges the foundations of computer science by offering invocation as a powerful new way of conceptualising digital technologies. Drawing on media philosophy, Deleuze, Guattari, Heidegger, Latour, Austin, Innis and McLuhan, it critiques the representationalism of data processing, artificial intelligence and virtual reality. Invocational media seem to empower individuals, but necessarily subject users to corporate and government monopolies of invocation. They offer many 'solutions', but only by reducing everything to the same kind of act. They complicate agency in their indifference as to whether invokers are human or non-human. With robotics they invoke material form to act physically and autonomously. People willingly make themselves invocable to surveillance and control by creating their own profiles and marking themselves with biometrics. This ground-breaking book will change how you think about digital media by showing they are, in fact, invocational media.