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Best Practices

Professional workflow tips, commercial use guidelines, ethical considerations, and strategies for optimizing your Midjourney usage.

Professional Workflow

  1. Explore broadly first: Use high --chaos (50-100) and low --stylize (50) to explore many different directions
  2. Narrow down: Once you find a direction you like, lower chaos and increase stylize
  3. Iterate with variations: Use V buttons and Remix mode to refine
  4. Fix details with region variation: Select specific areas to regenerate
  5. Upscale and enhance: Use the upscale buttons, then further enhance with external tools if needed
  6. Organize with folders: Use the Midjourney web gallery to organize and favorite your best generations

Prompt Optimization

  • Keep prompts concise in v6 — natural language works better than keyword stuffing
  • Put the most important elements first
  • Be specific about what you want, not what you do not want (use --no sparingly)
  • Use /describe on images you like to learn effective prompting vocabulary
  • Save successful prompts as templates for consistent results
  • Use --seed to lock in a composition, then use Remix to change details

Commercial Use

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Paid subscribers own the rights to the images they create and can use them commercially. This includes prints, merchandise, marketing materials, book covers, and more. Review Midjourney's Terms of Service for the latest details.
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Free trial users do not own commercial rights to their generated images. You must have an active paid subscription for commercial use.

Ethical Considerations

  • Disclose AI usage: Be transparent when sharing AI-generated images, especially in professional or journalistic contexts
  • Avoid deception: Do not use AI images to create fake news, misleading content, or impersonate real people
  • Respect the community: Follow Midjourney's content policy and community guidelines
  • Consider impact: Be mindful of how your images might affect others, especially when depicting sensitive topics

Saving Generations

  • Use the Midjourney web gallery at midjourney.com/app to browse and download all your images
  • React with an envelope emoji to any image to receive its details (seed, prompt, parameters) via DM
  • Create organized folders in the web gallery for different projects
  • Download full-resolution images from the web gallery rather than from Discord

Cost Optimization

  • Use --q .5 for initial exploration (uses half the compute)
  • Avoid unnecessary permutation prompts that create many jobs
  • Use Relaxed mode (Standard plan and above) for non-urgent generations
  • Use --r (repeat) strategically rather than manually re-running prompts
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Congratulations! You have completed the Midjourney course. You now know how to create stunning images, master prompting, use all parameters, and apply advanced techniques for professional-quality results.
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