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Medium to Substack and the Weird-Button in Midjourney

Why I switched from Medium to Substack and how I managed to finally not only produce glossy and perfect images in Midjourney

Marius Jopen

Marius Jopen

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Medium to Substack and the Weird-Button in Midjourney

Dear friends,

Today I switched from the blogging platform Medium to Substack.

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I heard that Substack is better to build a community and publishing podcasts.

Also they don’t hide the emails of your subscribers, so it is possible to use Substack as a newsletter tool as well. And once you turn on the payment option, you get money for each subscriber.

In total Substack feels a bit more geeky, but also offers some more precise features. Let’s see where this goes.

Yesterday I spent some more hours on creating images for the Spells publication with Midjourney.

I had trouble of getting a more rough and glitchy aesthetic because Midjourney always produces photos which look glossy and great. Almost impossible to add strong grain or a 16mm film feeling.

Just at the end of my session I saw in the Midjourney documentation that it is possible to add the prompt: —weird 400

That takes away some of the perfect quality which normally gets produced and additionally pushes the image into a pretty weird and more edgy direction.

Here I created images the normal way:

portrait of a woman with white translucent jelly facemask which leaves the eyes, nose and mouth free on white background, flowers in the foreground, light from the top, fine ultra-detailed realistic, rim lighting --ar 4:5

Same promt with extra:  —weird 400

portrait of a woman with white translucent jelly facemask which leaves the eyes, nose and mouth free on white background, flowers in the foreground, light from the top, fine ultra-detailed realistic, rim lighting --ar 4:5 --weird 400

I like that the results move away from the fashion beauty standards and become a bit more edgy and interesting.

Also it is possible to change the strength weirdness. You can use 100, 200, or maybe even 1000.

Here some some more examples. First image normal, the following images weird.

a close up of a person's legs and feet, a surrealist sculpture , cgsociety, interactive art, polished, made of liquid metal, made of rubber, lomography, fuji film, grainy film, fast shutter speed, shot on film canon camera, 28mm lens, F2.0, --ar 4:5

And one more:

A silver gliitering statue of a man holding a cell phone, a hologram, green flooe of sparkles, fireflies , featured on tumblr, holography, made of liquid metal, holographic, shiny, lomography, fuji film, grainy film, fast shutter speed, shot on film canon camera, 28mm lens, F2.0 --ar 4:5

I am feeling very happy that I found the weird button. Otherwise Midjourney would have stayed a bit boring.

I don’t like images which are too perfect and all glossy. For me things become interesting when they are aesthetic but also on the edge to ugly.

Much love,

Marius

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