Brief Summary
This video explores how AI tools, specifically Midjourney, can be used to create images, logos, and design elements for projects like planners or card decks. It compares Midjourney's results with those from Canva and Jasper, detailing the sign-up process for Midjourney, including creating a Discord account and subscribing to a paid plan. The video also covers how to use Midjourney commands, adjust settings, and learn effective prompting techniques, including using the /describe command to understand how AI interprets images. Additionally, it demonstrates how to vectorize AI-generated art for use in design software and introduces a prompt helper tool to improve Midjourney outputs.
- Midjourney is highlighted as a superior AI tool for generating high-quality images compared to Canva and Jasper.
- The video provides a step-by-step guide on setting up and using Midjourney, including creating a Discord server and adding the Midjourney bot.
- Effective prompting techniques and the use of a prompt helper tool are discussed to enhance AI-generated art.
The video introduces the topic of using AI tools to create images, logos, and design elements for projects such as planners or card decks. The creator mentions using Midjourney to generate images for an upcoming pet planner, which will include separate versions for new kitten and puppy owners. Lisa from Pretty Fabulous Designs introduces herself and her focus on helping online businesses create visually appealing pages using Adobe InDesign and Canva. She encourages viewers interested in AI tools to subscribe for weekly videos.
The creator discusses how to use Midjourney to create images for the upcoming pet planner, which includes separate planners for kitten and puppy owners.
The creator explains why Midjourney was chosen over other free and paid options, citing the unsatisfactory and "scary-looking" results from Canva and Jasper.
The video shows an example of AI-generated images from Canva using the prompt "people with cats." The creator points out the poor quality and unsettling appearance of the generated images, particularly the depiction of people. The process of accessing the AI tool in Canva, labeled as "text to image," is briefly explained, noting that it may not be available to all users.
The creator expresses strong dislike for Canva's AI tool for generating realistic images, especially faces, finding the results often scary and unappealing.
The video shows Canva's AI-generated cartoon cat images, created using the prompt "cute cats picture style." While acknowledging that these images are better than the people images, the creator notes that some of the cats have "crazy eyes." Overall, the cartoon images are considered somewhat acceptable, resembling clip art.
The video presents AI-generated cartoon cat images from Jasper, using the same prompt as with Canva. The creator finds Jasper's results to be even worse than Canva's, despite Jasper being a paid app with AI-generated art capabilities.
The video displays AI-generated cartoon cat images from Midjourney, which the creator considers to be much better than those from Canva and Jasper. This comparison leads to the recommendation of using Midjourney for AI art generation.
The creator recommends using Midjourney for AI art and begins to explain how to get started with it.
The initial step to using Midjourney involves signing up for a Discord account, which is free. Discord is described as a platform similar to Slack, where groups of people gather. The creator shares initial confusion about needing a Discord account, comparing the current state of AI to the early days of Commodore 64.
The video suggests downloading the Discord app for desktop.
After creating a Discord account, the next step is to sign up for a Midjourney account.
The video explains that while Midjourney is advertised as free, it often requires a paid plan to use effectively. The basic plan is $10 per month, and the creator advises starting with the monthly plan before committing to an annual subscription.
Once signed up, the video instructs viewers to sign in to Midjourney.
Upon signing in, Midjourney will prompt users to authorize the connection with Discord, which only needs to be done once.
The video guides users to navigate to Discord by clicking the three dots in the bottom left corner.
The video suggests creating a personal Discord server to avoid confusion from public channels. This is done by clicking the plus sign on the left side of the Discord interface.
The video instructs users to create their own server for personal use.
The video explains how to add the Midjourney bot to a personal Discord server.
The video instructs viewers to click the "Check it out" button to add apps to their server.
The video guides users to search for the Midjourney app to add to their Discord server.
The video details the process of adding the Midjourney app to a Discord server, including granting the necessary permissions.
The video explains how to use the /imagine command in Midjourney to generate images. An example prompt is provided: "three kittens playing or sleeping in a bassinet in Central Park in summer Pixar Style." The video then shows how to generate variations of a preferred image and upscale it for higher resolution.
The video explains how to use the /settings command to adjust the default settings in Midjourney, such as the AI model version (e.g., V5, V4) and style preferences.
The video addresses the challenge of learning effective AI prompting and introduces the /describe command as a tool to understand how AI interprets images.
The video demonstrates how to use the /describe command by uploading an image and having Midjourney provide a textual description of it. This helps users understand the AI's perception and learn relevant keywords for better prompts.
The creator shares experiments with photo prompts, generating images of Abyssinians cooking spaghetti and a woman with cats.
The video demonstrates the process of creating a logo using Midjourney, specifically for a kitten owner planner. It shows the results of the prompt "logo for a kitten owner planner" and the upscaling of a chosen image. The creator also experiments with adding specific colors like pink and navy to the prompt.
The video explains how to convert AI-generated images into vector graphics. The first step is to save the image to the desktop.
The video guides users to use vectorizer.ai to upload and vectorize the saved image, enabling further editing in programs like Adobe Illustrator.
The creator shares an accidental discovery of creating cute sticker images due to a typo ("PR" instead of "Pixar"). The creator looked up what PR is and it says it's a Gothic style. The video explores generating design elements and sticker images, noting that some results resemble items one might find on Etsy or Design Cuts.
The video introduces a Midjourney prompt helper tool to assist users in creating more effective prompts. The creator demonstrates how to input a basic prompt ("cute cats frolicking in a pond together") and use the tool to add various styles, lighting, colors, and other parameters. The tool then generates a complete prompt that can be copied and pasted into Midjourney. The video concludes by emphasizing the recommendation of Midjourney over other AI tools due to its superior quality and encourages viewers to explore the prompt creator tool. A tutorial on creating stickers using Midjourney will be released next week.
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0:00 can AI tools help you create the images logos and Design Elements you need for your next planner or card deck I don't know how to use midterm and I'm going to actually create the images for the next planner pop-up shop that's coming out later this month month which is the pet planner so there are two actually separate planners in there there's one for new kitten owners and one for new puppy owners and the reason they're separate is because they're I mean it's basically kind of the same but different so I just wanted to make sure I had kitten specific versus puppy specific things inside of there hi everyone I'm Lisa from pretty fabulous and I help online businesses create pretty Pages using Adobe InDesign and canva and today AI tools like mid Journey but if this sounds like you are
0:47 something you might be interested in make sure to hit the Subscribe button below I post new videos every Tuesday all right so why did I pick mid journey I looked around there were a ton of other options free and paid and this one seemed to be the best and as you know canva and Jasper were just hideously horrible and kind of scary looking so I will share those with you right now inside of canva and as you can see um The Prompt was people with cats and if you don't want to wear this is is just start a new design and you should see at the very bottom text to image now not everyone has the AI tool in canva they're slowly rolling it out but I think if you're a pro it shows up don't quote me on that but anyways this woman is obviously I think probably the scariest photo ever and a prime example of why I just really don't like this
1:33 tool for AI art um now to be fair I did put in cute cats picture style because obviously we already know canva is just terrible at making people but maybe it can make cartoon images which are a little bit more like clip art and quite honestly these aren't too bad they have crazy eyes I don't know why on a few of them but otherwise I actually don't think this looks too bad now I went ahead and tried Jasper that same exact prompt and these are I want to say not as good even as the canva which is hilarious because Jasper is a paid app I think I paid extra too just to have like the AI generated art um but when you go to mid-journey mid-journey actually did a much better job uh with their art that you can see
2:21 right here so because of that um I think we should all be using mid-journey so I'm going to show you how to get started so first step to using mid journey is to sign up for a Discord count which I know you're like what wait huh it's Discord is like slack it's just a bunch of people together I know the concept for me I don't know why no one talked about this I was like what the why do I have to sign up for Discord this is how it works it's like the Dark Ages remember when Commodore 64 first came out and you had to like type stuff in why I was connected to like a tape player to get it to work that's kind of like what AI is right now so mid Journey that's how it works you sign up for a Discord account it is free I would highly suggest downloading the Discord app uh and then after you do that then
3:08 you go to Mid journey and you sign up for a mid-journey account the third step is you sign up for a mid-journey paid plan now they say mid-journey is free however every time I've tried to use it as a free person it doesn't work for me you have to I believe you have to pay for it right now it'll say the service too busy to accommodate free users or beta users or whatever they call it um it's ten dollars a month I would say sign up for the 10 don't sign up for the annual plan until you actually figure out if you like it if you want to keep using it and learn all the problems and quite honestly I am still not totally sold that this is the way to go for anything um but that's how you can get started on using mid-journey once you are signed up go go to Mid Journey go to sign in and
3:54 then it's going to ask you it's going to tell you need to use an external application which is Discord go ahead and say authorize and then once you authorized it those two apps will be kind of clicked together I guess is the right way to say it so down here at the bottom left you're going to hit those three dots and you're just going to say go to Discord now I actually have the app so this is the web-based server so over here in Discord it's really confusing because you'll put a prompt in someone else will put a prompt in and then all of a sudden it's like Twitter and like there's so much stuff going on you have no idea what was being talked about where your prompt was where anything is so what I would suggest is creating your own Discord server so over here on the left these are all the different servers that I am a member of all you have to do is scroll all the way here to the bottom see that plus sign
4:40 click add a server and click create my own again this is free for you just say for me and my friends um and then we're going to call it uh my I don't know uh the Seaford personal mid-journey uh server whatever you want you can add a picture so then you know it's you I actually put a little picture of Lucky for my secret personal mid-journey server so I'm going to click over here on this server and it's going to say welcome to your server and you're gonna say okay what do I do now now you have to add the bot to your server again don't worry about the words I'm saying that's what happens with Discord if you're a Discord expert you probably are like it's not that hardly said but over here at the bottom click add your first app um and then just say uh check it out and
5:28 then there's going to be a lot of things that you can you add to your Bots um so our Bots you can add to your server so we're just going to put in mid Journey right over here it's going to find the mid Journey app we're gonna go ahead and say add to server and it's going to ask you permission just say yes authorize it I am a human and then you should be good to go so now that it's authorized what does that mean I don't know it just means that you can use a mid Journey inside of Discord so we're going to escape out of this and we're going to go back to our mid Journey so all you have to do to get something to happen is you cut hit slash forward slash imagine and then you can put whatever you want so let's say we want a um uh three kittens
6:15 um playing or sleeping sleeping in a bassinet and then we're gonna say uh in Central Park in summer and then we're gonna put the style we're gonna say this is Pixar Style and then we're gonna wait all right so we got four different variations let's say I really like this upper left one so I can just go ahead and say variation one um and submit it say I want to upscale it I can just put in U1 and then I can also ask it to make variations was made using V5 so if we do slash
7:01 settings over here it's going to bring up some prompts for us to change the actual defaults of how it is making these see it says V5 I actually didn't put that in it decided that all on its own but you can actually adjust these as well so version 5.1 is like the official default or the one that they think is the best version four actually does different things as well and then over here you can do remix mode on or off style you can do high it just takes a little longer to um I guess uh render the images all right so I was pretty happy with the cute kittens playing with string in Central Park and then I hit the upgrade one on this first image and it came out just a little brighter and a little clearer then I tried cute kittens wearing Chef hats in a commercial kitchen cooking spaghetti together Pixar
7:47 style um and I got these again I really think these are kind of cute I probably like this uh second one the best so if I go ahead and upscale that one I get a close-up of that now if you're one wondering like everyone says how to learn AI you might be thinking the words you're using are not the ones that they think so if you go over here and you put slash describe it's going to prompt you to put an image in there so let's put an image of me and lucky over here and it's going to tell me what it thinks of my image like in actual words so then I can learn kind of how it defines stuff so um Asian cat model so clearly it knows I'm Asian feminine body contemporary for a young woman holding an orange tabby cat so it's not Lucky's an Abyssinian it thinks it's a tabby for some reason it
8:34 also thinks I'm in a bedroom with red curtains I'm not sure where these are coming from um Oriental so clearly it can pick out a couple key things but all these words too kind of tell you that AI still is like super early and it's not perfect so let's go ahead some photo prompts so over here on another server what I did is I asked it to choose some more abyssinians cooking spaghetti a woman with some cats uh and then I just tried to zoom in on that as well all right so I tried logo for a kitten owner planner and this is what it came up with I kind of like this first one so if we decided to upgrade that first one or even possibly this third one over here wasn't so bad um we could see what it does when it
9:20 tries to upskill it that's good pretty cute it's not bad um I actually really like this upscale one a little better and then I put some actual colors in there pink and navy and I'm not really like this second one the best um the first one's not too bad uh and so this is what we have now I know what you're thinking well how am I supposed to actually take this and you know turn it into a vector image you can go ahead and save this image to your desktop and then go to vectorizer.ai and then over here inside a vectorizer we're going to actually just go ahead and upload that Kitty logo over here and it's going to vectorize it for us so that we can open it then in
10:06 illustrator and make any changes that we want I asked it for some Design Elements over here and actually I put in PR instead of Pixar was a total typo but I found that these are actually really cute stickers um I think PR I looked up what PR is and it says it's a Gothic style not really sure what that means but I kind of like these four stickers so if I wanted to make maybe the third one I could upscale that one um I also asked for a sheet of cute kitten stickers uh and I got actual like sticker sheets I I didn't want that I wanted right just the images so uh that prompt didn't work and then cat Design Elements again I got some more sticker items I think uh that you could buy and
10:51 I feel like these images are things that I would probably buy on Etsy or design Cuts or something else so very excited about uh this fun find right here if you're like me and you're like I need some help coming up with like how to make a better prompt um you might want to go to this mid-journey prompt Helper and over here we can say cute cats uh frolicking in a pond together and so now this is my prompt it you can either copy it or you can add some things so there's different styles uh and they show some of the different kind of images that would show up so maybe I want to try anime um and maybe over here for lighting I
11:41 might want to try electric art and um over here for colors I might want to say pink and over here for Style I might want to say higher uh and for size I might want to say I want two one for film and video I think that's the right one I'm not really sure uh and then depth of field this might be for uh I don't really need a blurry Focus um Quality again the higher quality I think the longer it takes to render so it's just you waiting on your time seed is uh I believe seed was like a five
12:28 digit code or something like that where you put there were other images you could get the seed number and then it will do a variation or something within that same style uh chaos I don't know let's go ahead and try it it goes from zero to a hundred uh materials and this is just you know if you're like me and you're like I'm really just not sure what all the options are and how to like add them in um you could do this now it's put together this prompt for me all you have to do is copy prompt I can head right back over to my uh mid-journey Discord I could say and I can just paste this in hit return and now it's going to go ahead and work on that and I think that is how you get that cool looking surrealist futuristic uh art I don't
13:15 know that any of these fit the style for my cute kitty planner but I really like it so if you are thinking of using an AI tool to generate images 100 I recommend going with mid-journey don't bother with all the free ones or the other ones uh and again like you saw the different levels of quality and the free tools and even the paid ones like Jasper um you're better off just going with mid-journey and learning how to use Discord I will leave a link to that prompt Creator over here in case you find that helpful and also I will be back next week I'm super excited about this find with the stickers I will be doing a tutorial on how to create stickers using mid Journey um because as you know I can't draw and
14:01 I'm so excited that I never wasted time learning how to draw because now we can use AI tools so I'm excited um about AI tools for this purpose and we're going to go explore that more in depth next week all right I hope everyone's having a fabulous and wonderful day and keep an eye out I will I will be releasing the kitty cat and puppy planner later this month it's going to be a pop-up shop so it's going to come with all the social media all the different logos and everything else and I will let you know how much of it was AI generated versus what I purchased um from stock images all right hi everyone [Music]
