✅ Verified up-to-date [Last edited: 8/28/2026]

🎺 Midjourney’s New Editing Workflows: --edit and the Editor

Midjourney now has two editing workflows whose names are close enough to make perfectly reasonable humans wonder whether somebody hid the labels during a meeting.

They are not the same thing:

• "eref" (--edit) = attach one or more images directly to a prompt, then tell Midjourney what to change, combine, or transform.
• "region editor" (Editor) = open an image in Midjourney’s editing interface and work with selected/masked areas, inpainting, outpainting, or layers.

That distinction matters. If you mix --edit with explicit Editor/masking intent, you should stop and choose which interface you actually mean. And --video cannot share a prompt with --edit; Midjourney will error.

PART ONE — "eref" (--edit)

What is --edit?

"eref" (--edit) is Midjourney’s attached-image instruction and image-combination workflow.

You give Midjourney an image—or several images—and then write instructions explaining what you want done with them. Unlike ordinary new-image prompting, direct instructions are welcome here. You can say things like “make,” “change,” “turn,” or “put.” That is intentional.

The underlying syntax is:

• --edit URL1 URL2 URL3

Each attached image becomes a URL following --edit. Multiple image URLs are separated by spaces.

• --edit itself is currently a validated Midjourney parameter.

Tutorial: attaching an image to --edit

Here is the web workflow.