Here is what I did with midjourney AI.
I typed Dark Vader smoking a cigar,
and this is what I got. Then I typed a beautiful photo taken with a Nikon D850
of the Seine River in Paris at Golden Hour.
That's what I got. Then I tap Spider Man playing chess with Bruce Lee in New York,
8k in a style of Drew Struzan.
If you don't know who Drew Struzan is, he's an amazing artist who did
most of the posters for Star Wars and Indiana Jones.
An old painter, amazing. Two lovers in Paris.
That's what I got. A beautiful photo of New York City at night with lots of snow 8k.
That's what I got. A beautiful photo taken with a Nikon D850 of Yoda at a coffee,
Paris, at golden hour, that's what I got.
A beautiful painting of Paris and in the style of Claude Monet and that's what I got.
Now, this is crazy. This is computer generated AI photography or painting,
it's not photography, but, you know, as an artist who likes to create anything,
I love to play with that.
And it's kind of cool because I'm using it a lot for mood boards or for ideas that I wanna do.
And I just wanna show you how it works because I think as a photographer,
if you use lightroom or photoshop, it's good to know how that exists and how it's been done.
So my name is Serge Ramelli. I like to teach photography,
Lightroom, photoshop, or even other plugins like this one as easy and as fun as possible.
Now if you stay until the end, I'm gonna show you a little trick in Photoshop and
Lightroom to get your creation into a very high resolution file where you will be
able to print your creation, It's unbelievable.
This technology has blown me away. I've been playing with it every day.
So let's jump in and let me show you. So first,
how do you install it. You go to midjourney.com and you click here on join the beta.
Basically, don't get confused by all these symbols you see on the screen.
Midjourney uses something called Discord. which is just a very simple
software to send comment to like a super computer up in the
cloud and it creates the image and send it to the computer back to you.
So once you register It's gonna ask you to register on discord.
I already did it. It's free to create an account on discord.
Now when you are getting started, you get to, like, to twenty five
images and then you have to pay either 10 dollars per or 30 dollars per month.
I am not being sponsored by this. In fact,
I would love to get sponsored by midjourney.
If you can contact Me midjourney, I would love to get sponsored.
But I'm just so in love. And everybody,
I show this technology to really liked it. Let me show you how it works.
Once it's installed, you come to this very confusing page.
And basically, you can just jump here into like the newbie.
It's basically called that room. So let's call let's go to newbie.
one one nine. And you can see people are typing things and they're getting like these four images.
And you can see in real time what other peoples are doing now.
Just in case you wanna know, anything you create on this actually,
especially for free, belongs to the AI, you can use it with some copyright.
There's some usage you can have on when you use a free version.
On the paid version, I have the paid version because I'm using it every day.
Thirty dollars per month, then you can actually sell you work,
but they still have some copyright
just so you know what you can do is Google copyright midjourney if you wanna get the exact term.
But the basic idea is if you don't pay, nothing belongs to you,
can’t sell it. If you pay, you can eventually sell the photos,
but I think they still belong to them. But look, it's still a really cool tool.
So let's try to create an image together. Let's try to create an image so.
The way it works is you type slash
and then imagine we can just click on that and that's what they call a prompt.
And then you can type anything that you want. For example,
let's try a beautiful photo of Paris under the snow at blue hour.
Now, I'll give you a trick that I learned. The software has a different level of updates,
and I'm using the latest update, which is four.
So to do that, you have to press dash dash v.
That's how you tell the command four. That's the only thing a bit complex you
have to learn everything else is like natural language.
So a beautiful photo of Paris under the Snow at blue hour.
When you do that, it's gonna create four images and it's gonna take about a minute.
Okay. So the first four images were created,
but where are they? It's kind of confusing because you see what everybody else is doing.
So you have to go back until you see in brown.
When you see brown here, it means it's your equation.
So you see four images and then there is like U1,
U2, U3, U4, V1, V2,
V3, V4 do not be afraid of these symbols.
It's very easy. U stands for upgrade,
so you like the photo, so first you do is you click on it,
you can see, look at this, how beautiful that is. So it's Paris,
under the snow at the blue hour. It doesn't really look like photo more like a painting,
but it's beautiful. I love to create anything.
So for example, I'm like, oh, I like the first one and the third one,
so it's one, two, three, four.
I want to see if they can do some variation of number one.
So what you can do is you can click here
and you can click on V1 and that's gonna create four variations from this one.
And then I really like the number three, which is this one here,
upgrade number three. And now that's gonna take another minute.
And so what it's gonna do is gonna create 4 variations of my first photo and then one upgrade.
What's annoying is that your creation is getting mixed up in everybody else,
but just remember the brown thing. Now at the end of this video,
I'll show you if you have the subscription, how you could put it on your own Discord server,
which is really cool. It's super easy. That way you only see your creation
and nobody else's creation.
That's how I use a software So for now, let's see what it's gonna come up with.
Okay. So this one you can see is brown, so I know this one is mine.
And let's go to the upgrade version.
So this is your upgrade version. So I'm gonna click on it.
And if I'm not mistaken, the resolution is like 1024
by 1024,
which is really not enough to print. And again,
the end of this video, I'll show you how to upscale that.
A couple of really cool tricks in Lightroom
and Photoshop to be able to make huge print if you need to.
But I really like it. So here's the trick.
And now only works if you use a dash dash v four is I'm gonna click on the beta upscale redo.
All that's gonna do is make the photo go from 1024 to 2048 and it's gonna give it a lot more detail.
Okay. So while that's doing that, let's look at the variation that we did.
So where is my variation? Here is the variation,
and you see they're very similar, but I kind of like different cars in the street.
I think the one I like the most is this one. No.
I think the first one is the one I like the most. So the first one,
I'm gonna upscale the first one. I'm gonna click on U1,
and that's gonna upscale scale, the first photo out of four.
Alright. So you see that's the version 1024 by 1024,
which has not been upscale, and let's look at the upscale version.
And look at that, it's got a lot more detail
And if I right click and I I can now right click and save the image.
Another resolution is 2048 pixel by 2048 pixel.
It's pretty good and I'm gonna show you how to boost that even more crazy crazy.
So let's go back really quick to the other image that we had is this one,
that's the one I picked. And same thing I'm gonna click on beta upscale redo.
And again, you only have this option if that dash dash v space four dash dash v space four.
Alright. Once you have a photo that you really like this one I really like.
What I advise you to do is click on this little icon to say that you love that image
because it will help you later to find it faster.
So now let's see if the other photo has been upscaled in beta with a lot more details.
And here we are. Here's the full quality. It's got a lot more detail.
Same thing I'm gonna save that image. Alright.
If at any point you want some help on this software,
you can just click here dash help.
It's gonna give you like a whole bunch of resources that you can get help on.
You have like a full manual. Don't get overwhelmed.
It's actually really simple. Really, really, really simple.
Also, if you want to subscribe
and pay, so you're not limited to twenty five image and you want to have your own server,
you can do slash subscribe. Again,
I'm not being sponsored and you press enter and you will see the different option you have,
open subscription page. So you can see here ten dollars per month or thirty dollars per month,
which is I have it thirty dollars per month
because I'm only limited to two hundred image a month and I'm crazy.
I'm doing like four, five hundred image per month is crazy.
So don't forget. Once you have any image you like,
click here Okay. So now I wanna show you two things.
So now let's say you paid for the software and you wanna have it in your own server.
So first of all, you have to go to discord and you have to create a new server.
By clicking here on the plus, you call it whatever you create my own server.
So click here and follow the instruction. It's really fast.
Once you've done that, you click here, on the right side,
you have to find the midjourney bot, you click on it,
and you click it add to server, And you choose a server that you just created.
I had created one for my wife and one for me.
I'm actually using one for my wife. Once you have your own server,
It should appear on the left. You can click here
and what's amazing is you only see your own creations.
So let's do something crazy. A photo taken with the Sony a7rIV,
of a beautiful horse running on the beach in Iceland and then dash dash v space four.
Don't forget that. When you press enter, if you see it becomes brown,
you're good. And you can see here, this is only my creation.
There's nobody else's creation. So that's really cool.
And you just have to wait, you know, that's why I like that the ten dollars
or the thirty dollars version.
Again, I'm not being sponsored. Again, midjourney if you're watching is,
please call me. We'd love to get sponsored. By the way,
guys, while this is being done, I have a new coaching program that I'm
doing that cost forty seven dollars per month.
It's a new membership, which is really cool where we go on Zoom together with a few photographers
and I give you some of my best raw files
and we retouch them together really really cool plus I give you something which is called the success path,
which is basically I made one path to become a world class photographer.
It's pretty long, but there's only one path and you just have to follow at it.
And it's a lot of live session. It's cool.
If you wanna take your photography to the next level,
you can become a member of that group. You can test it for free for two weeks.
Clicking the link under the video. And if you do that,
you can also get four free my latest Lightroom Book,
a really cool t shirt called passionate photographer and three cheat sheet,
one on how to use your camera, one how to compose better as a photo ever.
And the last one, the thirteen best shortcuts in Lightroom.
All of that is free. You just have to pay shipping and handling,
and then you can test my membership for two weeks if you like it.
So video is not sponsored by midjourney, but by myself.
For my own training, it's a cool way of teaching.
I can only take a few people. Check out the coaching if you want me to coach you.
Okay. So this is what I got, a photo of a horse in Iceland.
I like it, but I want like something more sunset.
So what I can do is I can just take that,
command C, and then go again, imagine,
I can say at sunset. I think it would be better.
And let's try that again. Also, huge favorite to ask you if you can slam that like button,
really helps me to make more videos. Take just one second.
If you can like it, I would love it. Merci beaucoup. Thank you very much.
Okay. So we're back. Let's see with sunset.
Oh. I love this one. Look at this one.
So let's upscale this one. I'm gonna upscale photo number four.
Okay. So the first upscaling has been done.
Look at that beautiful, so now it's time to beta upscale redo,
which is what's gonna make it to 2048 pixel.
And next, I'm gonna show you how to boost that to even crazy crazy numbers in lightroom
or Photoshop.
Alright. So here's the final result with all the details.
Look at that. It's beautiful. I'm gonna right click save image,
and then what I usually do is I I'm just gonna test that photo.
So I've got a whole bunch of photo that I want actually print,
so I'm gonna drag and drop it on my Lightroom Classic logo.
I'm gonna say add. And remember right now,
this photo is if you press i, you can see it's 2048 by 2048.
Now here is the super mega trick. If you right click and you go to enhance,
you have a new option called super resolution,
create enhance and that's gonna multiply by two the resolution.
So that's how you do it in Lightroom if you're a Lightroom user,
so you'll see there's two version now. There's a version which is a 28 by 48
and the other version which is the 4000 by 4000,
which is pretty cool. I would personally go in Lightroom and maybe,
you know, open the shadows, add more contrast,
touch the black, maybe add a bit of clarity and texture to make it pop even more.
And boom, I would send it to a lab, you know, I would just export it.
Right click export as a JPEG,
you know, JPEG, make sure you don't resize to fit.
I always when I print, I I export quality 94 export and you can just send that to a lab.
and you're gonna get an amazing, amazing print.
Now, even more crazy in Photoshop, what you can do,
I'm gonna go to Photoshop I'm gonna go to file open.
This is the same image. And if you want to do an photoshop,
just go to image, image size,
make sure you are in Pixel and you can literally go times two.
Boom. And voila and then you can just go to file export export as JPEG,
save for the web. It's it's a good profile.
The quality, you put it at at like 99%.
I always put it at like 99% quality
and then you just decide where you save it and that's ready to be printed.
Alright. I hope you enjoyed this. I know it's not photography,
but it's so fun. Give it a try or not.
Whatever I just want to share that passion with you. Like,
I just love trying all that stuff. Make sure you try my membership.
If you get a chance, it's totally free.
You can work with me for two weeks, see if you like it or not.
And I'll see you in another video. Mesdames et Messieurs.
Aurevoir.