Midjourney Release Notes

ICYMI – last week, we launched a few features on alpha.midjourney.com that we're really excited about: style previews in the sidebar so you can see what you’ll get before you generate, larger images in create, and setting default parameters in a folder. Mostly focused on bugs and cleanup this week, as we get ready to launch some new collaborative tools next week. As always, the goal is making the site easier to use without taking control away. A lot this week came from #alpha-ideas-and-bugs and office hours, so keep your thoughts coming!

WHAT YOU SAID Now, sending a previewed style keeps your prompt-bar settings. Prompt parameters are saved per folder, within a tab's session. If you have 100K+ images, opening one deep in your history used to crash the site. Not anymore! We made scrolling/using arrow keys to scroll through images on the lightbox a lot clearer and easier. Filters clear when you switch between Organize and Create. Mac right click on create feed images works the old way. You can do sidebar style previews with profiles too – images coming next. …

Hi everyone! A few updates to share with you today

We're experimenting with fast models in the interface on alpha.midjourney.com. The Styles sidebar can now preview what your latest prompt looks like across styles. Turn on "Live previews" and see a preview of your prompt using liked and featured styles. Click on the thumbnail to generate with that style.

We've also improved inpainting and outpainting with the edit model. Making targeted edits to the image will change only the pixels that you've selected. This gives you more control, and allows you to make repeated edits without degrading the quality of the image.

Here's a bit more info about how you can use the edit model.

We've also made tile --tile work better for V8.1/8.2. Previously, you might have seen seams between your tiled images. Now, they blend invisibly from one tile to the next.

We hope you have fun!

Hi everyone, here are the latest round of changes on alpha.midjourney.com. Many of these came directly from your feedback in #alpha-ideas-and-bugs. Please keep it coming!

STYLE PREVIEWS We're experimenting with fast models in the interface. The Styles sidebar can now preview your current prompt across styles as you browse: flip on "Live previews" under the Styles tabs and scroll. Previews use your prompt text on its own, and clicking a style sends your prompt with that style.

DEFAULT PARAMETERS This one has been on the "up next" list twice, and it's finally here! Go to Settings → Advanced → Your defaults, or just click "Set current pills as default" to save what's in your prompt bar. Tell us how it feels.

CREATE FEED A big visual refresh. The feed is now full-width masonry, and prompts and buttons appear on hover instead of taking up space under every image. Videos play on hover again. There's a view menu on project feeds (select Grid or List), an in-place Organize mode, and Archive now opens your full library across all projects. If you generate images while on another page, a floating "Images ready" pill appears next to Create.

SEARCH & ARCHIVE Opening an image from Create or Archive and going back now keeps your search, results, and scroll position instead of dumping you at the top. …

Hi everyone, lots more changes on alpha.midjourney.com! Same goal as before: make the site easier and more intuitive without taking away any of the control you have today. Some things will still be broken, but we're shipping often, so tell us if you find bugs.

KOREAN! Speak/read Korean? This is the update for you. Interested in helping bring Midjourney to more languages? Sign up here.

EDITING Lots of fixes on the v8.2 editor. The prompt bar now asks "What would you like to change?" when you attach an image. Draft batches show their source images in a grid with a hover preview, and offer Enhance, replacing a previously useless Upscale button.. The “Add to Folder" option now works from the editor even if you have no folders yet.

MOBILE/TABLET A starter pass here. Pages use the full width, nothing hides behind the bottom bar, and rotating your phone or Safari's toolbar no longer leaves a blank strip. Menus and sheets stay on screen. Uploads get a 3-dot menu so you can finally delete them. Search opens the keyboard right away. More to come, but we still recommend using prod instead of Alpha on mobile. …

Thank you for all of your dedicated testing, feedback, and bug reports over the last two weeks! We pushed a huge update to alpha.midjourney.com, stacked on a lot of other changes in the past couple of weeks. Reminder: what we’re trying to do on alpha is to make the magic of Midjourney accessible to more people, by making it feel easier and more intuitive to control the model, without sacrificing any of the control people have now. Some things are going to be broken, but we’re shipping frequently enough that most things shouldn’t remain broken for long (especially if you tell us about it).

EDIT-LIGHTBOX The biggest change is that the new v8.2 edit model is on alpha, with a new editor built directly into the lightbox. Open any image in the lightbox, edit with plain instructions, attach up to 4 reference images, and see all your session edits in one place. If the last time you looked was when we launched last week, we’ve fixed a bunch of bugs and glitches.

STYLE EXPLORATION We’re experimenting with a new Change Style feature on the lightbox, which is part of a broader push towards easier ways of exploring style space. I think this is gonna be a hit once we nail it, this is just an early version of it.

DRAG AND DROP We’re still working through drag and drop UX. We’re starting to feel better about the current version, but we want it to feel a bit more… jazzy. …

Hey everyone! Today we’re gonna start letting everyone test our first V8.2 image edit model! 

This model supports:

1. Editing images with instructions
2. Generating images with other images (replacing omni-reference) with up to 4 image references at once
3. Changing specific areas of your images (inpainting) or expand your canvas (outpainting)
4. Using personalization, moodboards and srefs (moodboards/srefs may work best with some extra prompt direction in this version)

Ways to use the model:

• Drag images into the prompt bar under "attach to prompt”
• Click ‘edit’ in the lower right in the lightbox
• Click the ‘edit’ tab on the left and upload an image
• Type --edit url... on Discord

We’ve updated UIs on both the main midjourney.com website and alpha.midjourney.com, alpha will be changing rapidly with lots of experiments on how to remake the interfaces for this model.

There’s gonna be a lot of edge cases here so we’ll need your help finding situations that don’t work as expected. If an image doesn’t work well try clicking the sad face emoji on the right side of the lightbox or give us the jobid/url for the image while it's opened in the lightbox. …

Two weeks ago, we launched a very rough draft of some big changes to alpha.midjourney.com. Since then, thousands of you have been testing and hundreds have given us thoughtful feedback, both positive and negative (Thank you! Yes, even the brutal stuff.). That's the deal with alpha: you see it early, we get to pressure test it together. We've spent the past two weeks shipping UX improvements and bug fixes, and we'll keep updating the changelog as the site gets better or you can visit #alpha-news for the latest updates.

Folders and organizing

• You can now organize your projects into groups in the sidebar: a collapsible tree where you can rename a group with a double-click and file new folders straight into it
• The sidebar got a big cleanup: one folders tree with your recent folders up top and a “Show all” toggle, a New Project button, Styles grouped into a dropdown, and the nav stays open on large screens
• Fixed folder grouping and Scratchpad behavior, and folder controls stay hidden until you have folders
• Saved Searches are back in the search drawer on Organize
• Fixed a crash when creating a project or workspace

Upscale, Zoom, and Vary

• Upscale, Zoom, and Vary are back, and Vary now respects your settings instead of quietly running in HD
• Older V8.2 images got their Upscale buttons back too …

Hi everyone!

We are launching our V8.2 image model today. This update focuses on aesthetics and image quality and personalization.

• Images should be more creative, bold, sophisticated, edgy and fresh
• Random situations where you'd get a low quality image should be dramatically reduced
• Personalization will "understand" your personal taste much better. Especially if you have a ton of ratings under your profiles
• Creating personalization profiles for V8.2 now has a much larger and improved pool of images to choose from

Thanks for your help rating images to make this possible!

We hope you all have fun and we strongly encourage you to try both new and old personalization profiles with the latest release.