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Midjourney v8

Generate 4 photorealistic images per run with Midjourney V8. Improved coherence and detail over V7. Supports text-to-image and reference image guidance.

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Midjourney guideVerified

The aesthetic king. v7 is the current flagship. Stronger on artistic / painterly / cinematic looks than any photoreal-first model.

Strengths

Best aesthetic instincts — painterly, cinematic, editorial looks come out clean.
Art-house references ("Caravaggio lighting", "Wes Anderson palette") actually work.
Composition: rule of thirds, leading lines, balance — Midjourney handles intuitively.

Weaknesses

Prompt adherence is looser than Flux — Midjourney interprets rather than follows.
Text rendering is hit-or-miss.
Hands and fingers can still distort.

Best for

Aesthetic work where style > literal accuracy
Art direction / mood boards / concept frames
Editorial photography looks

Prompting tips

Use mood adjectives and art-house references generously.
Trailing camera/style tags work ("cinematic still, anamorphic, 35mm vibe").
Iterate — Midjourney rewards 3-4 variants over getting one perfect prompt.

Parameters

image_url
string
Optional reference image URL. Influences the style and content of the generation.
aspect_ratio
string
Output image aspect ratio.
1:116:99:163:44:321:9
default: 1:1
stylize
int
Controls how artistic the result is. Range: 0–1000. Lower = more literal, higher = more stylized.
default: 100
range: 0 … 1000
chaos
int
Controls variation between the 4 images. Range: 0–100. Higher = more diverse.
default: 0
range: 0 … 100
weird
int
Adds unconventional aesthetics. Range: 0–3000.
default: 0
range: 0 … 3000
negative_prompt
string
Things to exclude from the image, e.g. "text, watermark".
seed
int
Reproducibility seed. Range: 0–4294967295. Same seed + same prompt ≈ similar result.
default: 0
range: 0 … 4294967295

You'll need

A text prompt
Source image

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