📘Midjourney guide for Cozmos
Midjourney is an independent research lab exploring new mediums of thought and expanding the imaginative powers of the human species.
To find out more about Midjourney, you can visit their site at https://www.midjourney.com/
Midjourney Get Started guide: https://docs.midjourney.com/
Midjourney Showcase: https://www.midjourney.com/showcase/recent/
Creating sphere backgrounds with Midjourney
There are two important factors to remember when creating a background for sphere in any platform:
4:1 Aspect ratio. A sphere background must be 4x as wide as it is tall - Take a look at our Backgrounds guide for more information and to download our template. Backgrounds can be any width from 32768-131072px and the height should be set to a quarter of the width. Max file upload size is 5GB.
Stitching/Tiling. To achieve a seamless background, you must ensure that your background tiles horizontally. You can of course use other graphics or design elements in Curator to cover a seam which is not perfectly aligned, but for best results it's always good to aim for a continuous loop. Use the 'Tile' parameter in Midjourney to help with creating a seamless image
Ai resolution limits and upscaling
Cozmos support extremely high resolutions because of the 32x zoom available within our platform and creating images to support all levels of zoom can be tricky, especially with Ai. If possible we suggest using upscaling tools to help improve image resolution before importing to your Cozmos Space.
Two products which we find give good results are:
Topaz Labs Gigapixel: https://www.topazlabs.com/gigapixel-ai
Gigapixel is a paid platform which does provide a free trial if you want to try it out. Current cost for a full license is $99.99. This is a one-off cost which entitles you to 1 year of updates for the version you purchase.
Big JPG: https://bigjpg.com/
Bigjpg offers both a free and paid version with limits on upload size. Using the latest Deep Convolutional Neural Networks, bigjpg intelligently reduces noise and serration in images. This allows the images to be enlarged without losing quality.
An alternative to this would be to generate multiple images and then use a design tool like photoshop or illustrator to composite your background and use our illustrator template to export a multi-page PDF file. You can find a guide on this flow on our Backgrounds page.
Example prompts
We've been doing some experimenting of our own and as a guide to get you started, why not try some of these example prompts.
The key things to note which we've included are:
360 panoramic or just Panoramic This gives a great base level distortion to the image, which when place in our sphere environment adds great depth.
Scene This helps in visualising an environment rather than just a single subject
--ar 4:1 This sets the aspect ratio
--stylize <value> or --s <value> controls how artistically Midjourney interprets your prompts. The value range spans from 0-1000 with the default set at 100
So using the above inputs, why not try:
A snowboarding panoramic scene with mountain ski runs. The scene should be viewed from above, a helicopter view of the ski resort. The level of detail should be high. --q 2 --ar 128:32 --s 250
This is the result we achieved:
And then after some overpainting/editing in photoshop to improve the stitching and upscale processing with Gigapixel we loaded it in to a sphere which you can see here: https://spheredemo.cozmos.com/en/snowboarding
Although more refinement would most likely be needed for a professional experience, this workflow is a great way to quickly produce proof of concepts or just some fun environment designs for your projects.
Learn more about Midjourney
For a full guide on how to use Midjourney and to learn more about parameters, visit https://docs.midjourney.com/docs/quick-start
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