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Retexturing Comments

Using 'oil painting' in a prompt can add or replace the original with new subjects. Avoid by using an approximate subject. - Use oil paint of [approximate subject] with style words. Deviate from the source image to create radical deviations From other research use no more than 5 style words as more can have Midjourney 'drift way ' from oil painting style Using 'with using the image palette' to retain the original colours

Original Image fro Artmatic preset

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Initial reference from The Rundown AI on X/Twitter

I have done something similar bore but an article on Medium reminded me :

Turn Any Image into a Perfect Midjourney Prompt (Using Google Gemini

Using a Rothko image on Tumblr :

ChatCPT Analysis

Here is a technical reading of the painting, translated into Midjourney-friendly language.

This image is in the color field / abstract expressionist tradition: a vertically oriented canvas built from two dominant chromatic zones, with a large, floating deep blue-violet rectangle suspended over a glowing orange-gold ground. The effect comes less from line or drawing and more from atmospheric color mass, edge diffusion, and luminous staining.

Design notes : Trying out Chinese characters in Midjourney taken from the Book of Changes (IChing). Chinese characters only were used as prompts. The resulting images relate to the text. 

One issue is that Midjourney will often add Chinese characters writing on the image. The text has been run through online translators but to very limited effect. Since the actual meaning of the characters could well be nonsense it is best to erase it out. An alternative which works occasionally in version 7 is using :  --no text, character, letters in the prompt.

1.0 Begin with an offering; beneficial to divine. 元亨利貞.

1.1 Hidden dragon, do not act. 初九潛龍勿用.

Prompt : realistic acrylic painting an Bangkok urban landscape with detailed brushstrokes

Midjourney's inexact rendering of a Bangkok street scene. The buildings in the fore ground and the vehicles do not look correct.

The art style favour by the Jovians is generally unknown. As an alternative major art styles favoured by the four main races is use to represent the observatory. The terms are not used by the races themselves but contemporary English equivalents.

Gallente : conceptual

Caldari : abstract expressionist

Amarr : impressionist

Minmatar : constructivist

Prompt : mickey mouse to the terminator, texture transfer --ar 4:3 --profile cdyqjk4 ag9j5bz --stylize 200

The Amarr generally favour a more conservative figurative style of artist representation. A crucial complex at the start of New Eden.

The work of Kat Rae

--iw < 0.25 has no effect --iw .5 to 1.5 the image will balance between text prompt and image -- iw 2. to 2.75 has the image having a major impact

Reference : midlibrary.io

Prompt : A contemporary Australian suburban landscape --ar 79:59 -- --iw 2.5 --v 8.1 with an Eve Online space base as the Image Reference

Notes :

The editing, erasing some elements, was done in version 7

Prompt : a detailed Australian landscape with kangaroos in the foreground

An experiment with Midjourney 8.1 with one moodboard, four images as "image Prompts" and two abstract images as "Style References"

Midjourney Version 8.1 generates image faster than Version 7 and it also creates more accurate kangaroos.

There is more variety in versions in simple landscape prompts. The standard landscape in later versions is less of a desert.

If your credits can stand it using --v {8.1, 7, 6.1, 5.2, 4} for comparison is useful especially as the older versions can still create interesting variations.