 Hello everybody, welcome back to another mid-journey version 5 tutorial. Version 5 just launched and holy smokes. You remember in the past, people were making AI avatars and cartoons and illustrations. Well, version 5 has taken it to the next level. And let me show you here. Here's some, just some images here. I've got a Ronaldo, Messi, Taylor Swift. And now here are just a few of the cartoons slash avatars that I created of them. And I want you to notice that some of them are extremely photo realistic. You can't even barely tell that it's a that it's actually AI generated. And then some of them are highly stylistic, like this messy one here. And there's another messy one, although that one's a little bit too far off. The cigarette was out. We've got Ronaldo here kind of as like, as like a Batman Joker type style, Marvel cartoon type guy. And you know, we just got all of these different styles, pin up girl. I'm going to show you how to access over 150 different cartoon avatar styles in the reference sheet. I'm also going to show you how to create these and how to refine them. So in not just, you know, it's not just like, you know, punch in a prompt and see what you get. I'm going to show you how to refine it so that you can go from highly photo realistic all the way up the highly abstract with lots of latitude on the AI side. So I'm going to show you all of that stuff. Let's get going starting from scratch. First step here is we're going to go to our finder. If you're on a PC, you'll probably you'll have Windows Explorer. Grab an image that you want to work on. I'm going to work with Taylor Swift, because for some reason she just works really, really good with this. So I'm going to drag and drop her image like I did here. I'm going to put it into prompt and I'm going to hit enter. And now I've got her into the discord bot or I've got her in the mid journey bot here. The next step is you right click on the image and you want to copy that link. This is very, very important. So I'm just going to go command V and I'm just going to go ahead and hit enter and just copy that in so that I have a second backup just in case. So this is the image. So okay, now before I start showing you all the fancy, you know, image weighting and text prompting, I want to show you the resources here first. So what I've got here is I've got two really, really, really good resources of different styles here of illustrators, cartoonist, caricatures, et cetera. The first one here is ccovalev.com. I'll put links to both of these in the description below so you can access them. And what you want to do is you want to come to this website, click on home, and then just go here to v4 styles as it loads and then go under illustrators. When you click on illustrators, you're going to see all of these different styles. For example, Aaron McGruder, he does amazing artwork. If you're in the avatar or the cartoon caricature for people, awesome artists. Go down a little further here. You'll see Alex Ross is fantastic. I mean, all of these are great, but some of them are a little better for cartoons and avatars and things like that. Becky Cloonan is fantastic. She's an amazing artist, Brian Boland, et cetera, et cetera. You'll see all of these different options. We're going to select one or two just to work with them, but keep in mind there's over 100 on this page. And then if you go to this one here, this is the mid-journey reference sheet that I've got here. This also has a, it's a spreadsheet, but it has a lot of different artists under cartoons and comics. So if I just scroll through this, you'll see all of these different artists. Peter Beggy, Ralph, Carl Barks. I mean, just John Bauer, just legends, a lot of these artists. And then of course there's the default style, which is also quite good by the way. So anyways, you're going to have access to these. I just wanted to show you this because we're going to be working in specific artist style here. So we're going to go back into mid-journey and then presto. Remember when we clicked on her face, we copied the link. Now what you need to do is you want to go forward slash imagine and then command V or control V to copy that link in. So this is, we're basically saying this is the input, this is the prompt, this is the image that we want to use as our source. Now hit space bar and then now we're going to go ahead and write character by, and then we're going to pick our artists. So in this case, I, let's go pick, let's pick a really cool artist off this guy's page. I kind of like, you know what, I like Gil Elbrun. Let's go ahead and just make sure I've got the spelling right. So I'm going to go down here to Gil and Gil is right here. Gil Elbrun. So I'm going to hit this little plus sign that copies it. So I'm going to go ahead and no character by space, Gil Everon. So let's go, oh, I got by in there twice. Pardon me. So I'm going to delete that character by Gil Elbrun. And then I'm going to hit, I'm not actually going to put in a comma here. I'm going to go colon, colon, pardon me. I just want to make sure I've got this right. I'm going to go colon, colon, and then I'm going to go one. What I'm telling it to do now is I'm basically saying I'm using text weight or prompt weight of one. So I'm not going to make it too strong or too weak. We could change this in the next step. But I'm going to go one and then I'm going to go space. And I'm going to go dash, dash, IW, which means image weight. So how much emphasis are we going to give the image? And for this one, this ranges between 0.5 and 2.0. So for this first brand, for the first run, I'm going to go 2.0. So it's dash, dash, IW, space 2.0. I'm going to hit enter. And I'll tell you what this basically means. It basically means is we've done forward slash imagine, and then we copied in the link of the image that we're going to use. Then we hit space, character by, and then we select the artist that we're going to use. So it was Gil Elbrun in this situation. Then we did colon, colon, one, which means we're giving it a weight of one. So we're not making it strong or weak. We're just giving it a regular one. And then we did space. And then it was dash, dash, IW, which means image weight, and then space 2.0. Now 2.0 is currently the strongest weight you can give an image. So we want it to look as close as possible to the original image. In the next version, once this is done, I'm going to show you how to give the AI a little more latitude so mid-journey can make some more artistic decisions. But we're going to go with photorealistic style based on this artist. First, when this is done, I'm going to come back and then I'm going to show you the remixing options. Okay, welcome back. So it has done it and let's take a click on what we got here. So a quick eyeballing of this, the second one is quite good. The third one is fantastic. And the fourth one is also very good, but it could use a variation. So in this case, just to keep this moving, let's select a third one. So what am I going to do? You could technically, you could just click upscale on the third one and use it as is. So you can just right click now and just save that image and save it to wherever you want to. Or we can do variations of these and that's what I want to show you now. So I'm going to click on V3 and when you click on this, you'll see that the remix prompt comes up. And this is why this technique is so useful because look at this, we have character by Gil Elfgren and we've got an image, we've got a prompt weight of one. But what happens if we set that prompt weight to 1.5? Now we're going to say we want it to be more stylized like that artist. And if we took the image weight and we took it from 2 to 1.0, do you see what's happening here? Now I'm going to click submit and what we're saying is like, look, we want the artist to be more prominent and we're going to give you a little bit more leeway. So it doesn't have to look quite like Taylor Swift. Click submit and we're going to, I'm going to come back when this is done and just keep in mind that this can be infinitely iterated upon. So you can change them to 1.5, 1.25, 2.0 until you get the image and the style you want. You can also swap out the various characters. So this right now it's by Gil Elfgren, but if you get a look that you like, swap in a different artist's name, hit the button and presto off you go again. So I'm going to come back when it's done and I'm going to show you one last thing. All right, welcome back. So now we've gone ahead and we swapped around some of the settings here. And if we click on it, we've got a different, a little bit of a different look. This is more stylized. You can see that it's more cartoony and it doesn't look quite as much like Taylor Swift. So again, if you want to like, for example, I kind of like the, well, the second one looks more like her than the other one. So if I didn't like that, I would just go and click on V2. I would up, you know, I'd upscale it to keep it if I like it. But then if I want to change it up, click on V2 again and adjust it. So instead of 1.5, maybe we would make it 0.5. I mean, you can go ahead and go nuts, right? And then we want the image weight to be 2 and then, oh, 2.0. And then presto, I would click on submit again. Oh, I hit the wrong button. But that's the gist of it. I'm going to show you one more thing here. If I click on this one here and I click on make variations, watch this. It says here character by Gil Elfgren. But what if I just go over here and I say, you know, I don't really like Gil's style. I like this guy, Glen Keane. I'm just going to click on that little plus there. I'm going to go back into mid journey. And I'm just going to go ahead and then instead of, I'm going to delete instead of by Gil Elfgren, I'm just going to copy and paste in this one by Glen Keane. That's it. Now I've swapped out the artist, click submit, and we're going to get another version. I'll come back when this is done and then that should wrap it up. All right, welcome back. So this is what it looks like for Glen Keane. We click on this completely different look. It's still got some of the pink and some of the look. But again, we've got another style here. It was that simple. That's all you need to know to create amazing AI avatars, cartoons, illustrations using mid journey version five. It's incredible. Thanks for watching.