Month: April 2025

Boschettes

We’ve called these girls ‘Boschettes’ because we used ‘Hieronymus Bosch’ as part of the prompt…

… we aren’t very happy with the low quality of these images, all the blurring around the edges of the characters, and the slight ‘out-of-focusness’, that’s not usual with Mj, in our experience…

… but we are very pleased with the actual characters… the girls are great…

… and we love the weird little critters (:

These images, which we did a few days ago, set off a series of Bosch-like works, which we will post in the next few days.

Walkers

One of our favourite themes… the solitary ‘walker’, survivor of some future apocalypse, a person not to be taken lightly, someone very sure of her own skills and ability to keep on surviving. All these images were done in Night Cafe…

… there is not much doubt in our minds that Night Cafe does better images than Mj… they are just so much richer, and warmer, and more cohesive…

… and Night Cafe does exquisitely beautiful female bodies, with far less glitches than Mj…

… we mostly, now, use Mj to create initial ideas, then take them into Night Cafe as ‘seed’ images…

… and we just love some of the stuff we’ve produced that way (:

Cross-platform Fun

Using the ‘blend’ function in Mj, we created the above piece of cuteness. This image is the result of several iterations of blends of different images, refining down to this dreamy style…

… we really like these, the gorgeous, leggy girl, the retro-vibe. We took one of these images and used it, in Night Cafe, as a seed image…

… and got this! We love them! They are slightly out of focus, but not so much that it detracts from the overall gorgeousness, and we really love her hair and ink…

… we did a few iterations, but Night Cafe doesn’t handle iteration very consistently, or we haven’t figured out how to get it to do so, so they quickly deteriorate/change to something not what we want. Anyway, we took our favourite back to Mj, and blended it with one of the originals…

… and got a series of these! We adore her! Once again, a bit ‘soft focus’, but, hey…

… really nice, and kind of ‘painterly’. Mj has suddenly gotten a lot better with hands, so these are really expressive because of her hands (:

Version 7 of MidJourney!

We’ve developed a process of creating images in Dream Machine, or Night Cafe, then blending them in MidJourney (if Mj lets us import them without having a puritanical hissy-fit)… this seems to be the best of all three worlds. Dream Machine and Night Cafe are much cheaper than Mj but they operate on a ‘credit’ system; exhaust this months credits and that’s it (we’ve already exhausted Dream Machines monthly credits for the cheapest subscription)… Mj, however, while being much more expensive, has a ‘fast’ and ‘relaxed’ system; you get x-amount of ‘fast’ time, where your images supposedly (though not always) develop quickly, then, when your amount of fast time is up, you have to change to ‘relaxed’ which, mostly, is almost the same speed as ‘fast’, and you have no cap on how many images you can keep making, so it’s swings and slides… anyway, this morning, we were creating a series of the above cutie on her war lizard, which we’d initially created in Night Cafe…

… which has a ‘realistic manga’ mode that we like, and often use. We brought her into Mj, and had made quite a lot of iterations, when an alert appeared saying the alpha-version of V7 was now live, so we upgraded to it! It has a new system where you go and make 200 choices where you get shown two images, and have to pick one; this creates a style template for your work, which you can change whenever you want. We did that, then used one of the above babe/lizard images as a seed for iteration…

… and got this! Wow! Needless to say, we are very impressed!…

… we then wrote a word-only prompt, and got the above…

… and many more gorgeous images of our warrior woman on her battle-lizard…

… once again, Mj leads the way!