How I’m using AI for images

'Wine' Roland Mucciarelli
6 min readMay 28, 2023

For the past month or so I have been enjoying using Midjourney, a platform that creates images following user-supplied directions. You reach Midjourney through Discord, and so I used my account to add the server. It wasn’t easy at first, so I did the thing that pretty much everyone does, which is to copy what other users were writing. The questions you give to an AI are called ‘prompts,’ and it is the request that the user makes to the AI to build an image or have a text answer. Gradually I began to realize that building a prompt is not really that simple, because it depends on how you write the prompts first of all, then you have to add other information, such as the background you want in the image, whether it should be realistic or cartoon-like, or indicate the type of lights to be used.

Create a realistic image of a woman sitting on a wineyard table in autumn drinking a glass of a red wine. Use a Hasselblad camera with a 85mm lens at F 1. 2 aperture setting to blur the background and isolate the subject. On the table should be a bottle of wine and a plate of chees.The wineyard should have colorful autumn leaves and vines in the background, with soft sunlight falling on the subject’s face. Use a warm and inviting lighting effect to create a cozy and inviting image. Use the Midjourney v5 with photorealism mode turned on to capture the woman’s natural beauty and grace. (Prompt of the post’s…

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'Wine' Roland Mucciarelli

Blogger+Podcaster about wine and technology driving Wine Business at the next level