Tip 3: Make Good Use of the Image2Image Function

In the stock photo scene, there is a very powerful technique called Image2Image.

At first, I thought this method was not suitable for teaching because it has too much impact on the stock photo library 😂

However, in keeping with the principle of tool neutrality and because this technique can actually be used in many scenarios (such as generating avatars), I still think it's necessary to teach everyone.

When using a stock photo library, you will generally encounter several problems:

1. The image is copyrighted and cannot be used for commercial purposes or requires payment.
2. Some images have been used by many people and others can easily recognize them as stock photos.
3. The content of the image roughly meets your requirements but details do not match, such as two Asian men shaking hands in an image that could be improved by changing one person to a woman or adding a black person.

To solve these three problems, the best way is to let AI modify the original image using Image2Image (or Blend) function. The operation steps are as follows:

1. Send a nice stock photo you see to Midjourney Bot (I'll use the previous handshake photo as an example)
2. Right click to copy the link to the photo and paste it into the input box
3. Add a space after the link
4. Then type in what you want, for example, replace one of the hands with a black man and one with a woman:

one Afican-American hand and one Asian woman hand

The generated result is this, I didn't mention any suit in the prompt, and the scene background information, and just said I want an African-American hand, an Asian woman's hand:

Putting aside the 6 fingers issue, isn't this technique very efficient?

However, it should be noted that the blend function (which will be covered in the subsequent tutorials) I found is more suitable for the fusion of two pictures, the picture + text is not very stable, you have to be patient and test it more.