Advanced Midjourney Prompt Guide for Architecture and Landscape Design | Part 1 #midjourney
TLDRThis video provides advanced tips for creating high-quality architecture and landscape design renderings using Midjourney's AI. It advises avoiding common mistakes like ambiguity, bias, and overly long prompts. The presenter suggests using a formula that includes project type, architectural style, architect's name, facade, rendering style, view, environment, and lighting. The video demonstrates how mentioning a renowned architect's name can significantly influence the AI's output. It also covers how to generate interior spaces, combine two architects' styles, and articulate different architectural rendering styles. The guidebook mentioned offers a list of factors and sample prompts for testing. The video further explores creating prompts for architecture models and landscape design, emphasizing the impact of lighting on landscape renderings. Finally, it touches on generating master plans with a top view and distinct rendering styles. The content aims to help users leverage AI technology for innovative visual content creation.
Takeaways
- 📝 Avoid common mistakes in creating prompts such as being too ambiguous, specific, biased, or providing incomplete information.
- 🚀 For advanced users, consider using mid-journey V5 instead of V4 for higher quality outputs.
- 🏡 Keep prompts simple and clear by using a formula that includes project type, architecture style, architect's name, and other relevant details.
- 🔍 Leverage the distinctive styles of renowned architects by mentioning their names for more precise and quicker prompts.
- 🌟 The architecture mid-journey prompts guidebook offers a collection of 28 well-known architect styles with corresponding test images.
- 👀 Switching the architect's style in prompts results in a significant contrast in the generated architecture's facade and materials.
- 🌆 For added creativity, include specific features like lighting or architectural styles to the prompts.
- 🏢 Generate corresponding interior spaces by adding the word 'interior' to the prompt.
- 🎨 Combine the names of two architects in one prompt to merge their styles and create unique designs.
- 📐 Explore different architectural rendering styles and articulate them in prompts for various design outcomes.
- ⛲️ Landscape design follows a similar formula to architecture, allowing for details like paving options and outdoor furniture to be included in prompts.
- 🌃 When rendering landscapes, the specified lighting in prompts greatly impacts the final outcome compared to architecture.
Q & A
What are the common mistakes to avoid when creating prompts for architecture renderings on Midjourney?
-Common mistakes to avoid include being too ambiguous or specific, using biased language or assumptions, providing incomplete information, and using very long prompts.
Why is it recommended to use Midjourney V5 instead of V4 for advanced users?
-Midjourney V5 offers improved features and capabilities that can enhance the quality of outputs for advanced users, making it a better choice for those who are familiar with the platform.
What is the suggested formula for creating simple and clear prompts in architecture rendering?
-The suggested formula is 'Project type plus architecture style plus architect's name plus facade plus rendering style plus view plus environment plus light'.
How does mentioning the name of a renowned architect in a prompt benefit the AI-generated image?
-Renowned architects are known for their distinctive styles. By mentioning their name, the AI can leverage the vast collection of famous architectural images available online to replicate specific shapes and materials used in those iconic designs, making it easier to describe the desired architecture.
What is the purpose of the Midjourney Prompts Guidebook?
-The Midjourney Prompts Guidebook features a collection of 28 well-known architect styles along with their corresponding test images, which is continually updated. It helps users choose an architecture style that appeals to them and provides the corresponding prompt to use in Midjourney.
How can changing the architect's style in a prompt affect the outcome of the generated architecture?
-Changing the architect's style, for example, from Bjarka Ingalls to Peter Zumthor, results in a significant contrast in the outcome. The architecture generated by Midjourney shares similar facade and materials as the chosen architect's designs.
What is a creative way to enhance your prompts for architecture rendering?
-You can add extra details to your prompts, such as specific features like 'red light inside' or 'metal structure inside', and adopt a particular architectural style, like the OME style, to enhance the generated architecture.
How can combining the names of two architects in one prompt influence the generated design?
-Combining the names of two architects in one prompt can merge their styles together, often resulting in a quite impressive and unique design.
What is the role of the view parameter in architectural rendering prompts?
-While the view parameter is not included in the formula, it is evident that the output renderings are from different perspectives. The use of 'rendering' in the prompt results in highly visualized outputs akin to those created for design competitions.
How does the landscape design formula compare to the architecture design formula in Midjourney?
-Landscape design follows a similar formula to architecture design, allowing you to use prompts to add details like paving options, outdoor furniture, or sculptures depending on the project needs.
What is the significance of the lighting parameter in landscape design prompts?
-In landscape design, the lighting specified in the prompts has a greater impact on the final outcome compared to architecture. Different lighting parameters can significantly change the look and feel of the rendered landscape.
What is the purpose of a master plan in Midjourney, and how does it differ from architectural renderings?
-A master plan in Midjourney is a top view that may involve identifying major landmarks and incorporating distinct rendering styles associated with the architect's name. It differs from architectural renderings by focusing on an overall layout and design rather than individual structures.
Outlines
🎨 Enhancing Architectural Renderings with Mid-Journey Prompts
This paragraph introduces the topic of improving architectural renderings using advanced mid-journey prompts and formulas. It emphasizes avoiding common mistakes in creating prompts, such as ambiguity, bias, and incomplete information. The video outlines the benefits of using Mid-Journey V5 for advanced users and presents a formula for constructing effective prompts, which includes project type, architectural style, architect's name, facade, rendering style, view, environment, and light. The paragraph also discusses leveraging the work of renowned architects to inform AI-generated designs and provides a guidebook with 28 architect styles for reference. It concludes with examples of how changing the architect's style in the prompt can significantly alter the output, and suggests adding extra details or combining two architects' styles for unique designs.
🏞️ Mastering Landscape and Master Plan Design with AI
The second paragraph shifts the focus to landscape design, drawing parallels with architectural design and suggesting a similar approach to using prompts for detailing elements like paving and outdoor furniture. It also touches on the impact of lighting in landscape renderings compared to architecture. The paragraph provides a guidebook with a list of test elements for landscape design and presents a test comparing different lighting parameters across various design disciplines. It then moves on to discuss master plan creation, noting the importance of a top view and the incorporation of landmarks and distinct rendering styles. The paragraph warns against overly long and complex prompts that may lead to distorted outcomes and suggests using the 'niji' version for a lighter, clearer look in master plan style art. The video concludes by celebrating the potential of AI image generation to revolutionize visual content creation.
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Keywords
💡Midjourney Prompts
💡Rendering Styles
💡Architecture Style
💡Landscape Design
💡Master Plan
💡Axonometric
💡Ambiguous or Specific
💡Biased Language
💡Incomplete Information
💡Long Prompts
💡Midjourney V5
Highlights
Avoid common mistakes in creating prompts, such as being too ambiguous or specific, using biased language, providing incomplete information, or using very long prompts.
For advanced users, consider using Midjourney V5 instead of V4 for higher quality outputs.
Keep prompts simple and clear by using a formula that includes project type, architecture style, architect's name, facade, rendering style, view, environment, and light.
Leverage the distinctive styles of renowned architects by mentioning their names in your prompts for more precise and quicker results.
The architecture Midjourney prompts guidebook features 28 well-known architect styles with corresponding test images for easy selection and use.
Switching the architect's style in your prompt, for example from Bjarke Ingels to Peter Zumthor, results in a significant contrast in the architectural output.
Adding extra details to your prompts, like specific features or architectural styles, can enhance the creativity and uniqueness of the generated design.
Using dim lighting in your prompts can create a beautiful effect for night renderings of buildings.
Combining the names of two architects in one prompt can merge their styles together, often resulting in a unique and impressive design.
The architecture Midjourney prompts guidebook provides a comprehensive list of factors and sample prompts for articulating different architectural rendering styles.
The view parameter, although not included in the formula, affects the perspective of the output renderings.
Experimenting with various materials in your prompts can result in more lifelike and detailed renderings.
Landscape design follows a similar formula to architecture design, allowing for the addition of details like paving options, outdoor furniture, or sculptures.
The lighting specified in landscape design prompts has a greater impact on the final outcome compared to architecture.
Midjourney is capable of generating master plans with a top view, identifying major landmarks, and incorporating distinct rendering styles.
Creating a masterful prompt for master plans may involve using the niji version for a lighter and clearer look, similar to a rendering in Photoshop.
AI image generation is a rapidly advancing field with the potential to revolutionize visual content creation.