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-: Hey, gonna teach you about prompt reverse-engineering.

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So this is a new feature in Midjourney called 'Describe'.

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The way it works is you just type in `/describe`

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and then you can put in an existing picture, hit 'Enter',

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and it's gonna reverse-engineer what the prompt is

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for that picture.

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So this isn't actually an AI generated image, right?

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You can see here I uploaded a picture of Batman, the movie,

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and it gives you four examples of what it might be.

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So, this is really useful because

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you can click one of these and say,

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'okay, I like this one, I think sounds the most similar',

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so I'm just gonna hit 'Submit'.

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And now it's generating a new image

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based off that that style.

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So, that's really useful;

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like if you have an image that you want to replicate,

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or at least as a good starting point you can use that.

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But I think where it's most useful in understanding

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what are the different art styles

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or similar art styles being used.

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So you can see here it's linking to David LaChapelle

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or Caras Ionut or Dusan Djukaric.

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It's showing the aspect ratio,

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it's giving you different ideas

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like in the style of snapshots of iconic Hollywood stars.

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`burned/charred`, right?

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So these are different keywords or memes

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that you could basically replicate

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when you're generating new images.

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So it doesn't have to be of Batman;

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you could just take this and you could change it

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and say: instead of, Batman, you can actually have ...

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Now you can put it in, `/imagine`,

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and you could say "a spiderman" and put that in.

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Now you can get a sense of

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what would Spider-Man look like

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if he was more dark and gritty, right?

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You can also,

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if this art style is one you don't really know about

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or what types of illustrations are being used,

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you can use this,

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which is I think, pretty helpful.

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So, that's, Midjourney 'Describe'.

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There's also the 'CLIP Interrogator',

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which does something similar.

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It takes a long time to run,

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but it's basically, I think,

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using the same sort of thing underneath.

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Midjourney is much faster, is much more useful,

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and it gives you four different examples,

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so I highly recommend you do that.

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But I just wanted to kind of let you know

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that that's possible.

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So here we go. Let's see what this Spider-Man looks like.

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It's shaping up now, which I think is pretty cool.

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So actually while we're doing this,

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this is a replication, right?

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So we just took the prompt here,

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"dark knight rises wallpapers",

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in the style of Djukaric,

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which is the third one that we had here.

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And we have a very similar style, right?

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So it's replicated it

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even though it's not the same image, right?

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Like it's kind of learning from the style.

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So this is really, really powerful.

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It's a really good way to take images that you like,

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especially if you don't know much about art,

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and find similar images

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and give you a really good starting point.

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So here we go: This is Christopher Nolan's Spider-Man!

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Looks really cool.

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All right, hopefully that was useful.
