Midjourney's New Style Tuner Let's You Personalize Your AI Images

Midjourney seems to have no shortage of new features up its sleeve. It’s only been two weeks since they released the 4X image upscaling feature, and now they are back with another impressive tool called Style Tuner.

Yesterday, Midjourney announced the new style tuner feature on Twitter and on Discord.

What is Style Tuner?

Style Tuner is a tool that allows users to personalize the visual style of their Midjourney images. This tool allows users to create their own custom styles for Midjourney to use, making it easier to achieve specific looks and feels in their AI art.

How to use the Style Tuner

To get started, head over to the Midjourney Discord bot and create a style tuner page using the /tune command

Next, select your preferred style direction and default mode.

• Style Directions: Choose the number of image pairs you want to see in your Style Tuner (16, 32, 64, or 128 pairs).
• Default Mode: Choose which style mode you prefer. (Default or Raw)

The style tuner will generate image pairs for each style direction. So with 32 directions, it will generate 64 images.

Note: Generating these images uses your subscription’s Fast GPU time.

Click “submit” and wait a couple minutes for the tuner to be generated.

You will be notified once the style tuner is ready.

Click the https://tuner.midjourney.com/ link to view the pairs.

Here’s what to do next:

1. Each row shows two image sets; pick your favorites
2. If neither resonates, leave the middle selected

At the end of the page, you’ll see the final style code you can add to your prompts with the --style <code> parameter.

Here’s an example:

Movie still, the sun rising over the mountains in Hawaii, street scenes, flickr, ragnar kjartansson — style aQSbprqCB0Hi8tEa

Generate an Image with the Style Code

With the code, go back to Discord and paste it into a prompt to see sample images.

The prompt will generate these sample images:

Awesome! The visual style matches exactly what I wanted.

A few things to keep in mind

• You can generate random style codes via --style random
• You can combine multiple codes via --style code1-code2
• You can use --stylize to control the strength of your style code
• /tuneis compatible with prompts that include --aspect --chaos and --tile
• You can take any style code you see and get the style tuner page for it by putting it at the end of this URL. This will not consume any fast hours.

Here’s an example using --style random:

Prompt 1: close-up portrait of a asian girl, snowfall bokeh — style random — ar 21:9

I’m not a fan of random styles, so I suggest tuning as much as possible.

Final Thoughts

Overall, I am very happy and excited about the release of this new tool from Midjourney. It is still in its early stages of development, but I have already seen many incredible examples all over Twitter.

Here are a few suggestions I can think of that could greatly improve the user experience:

• Ability to upload images for style transfer functionality
• Integration into the new Midjourney website
• “A publicly accessible list of styles with sample images for reference

That’s about it. Let me know if you have any issues with the style feature. I hope you find this article helpful!