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Overview (TL;DR)

Prompting in V8 is mostly about the number of subjects and details that “cause rendering” and less about how many literal words you've used in the prompt.

That said, rumor has it that there is a cap of about 250 tokens, after which Midjourney will “stop paying attention.” Inside the black box might be: https://novelai.net/tokenizer

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What’s the best prompt order / length?

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We can think of V8 as handling any number of words until it runs out of memory. That moment, where your image starts to look muddy or unclear or details go missing, may be telling you that you've reached the cap in your prompt. It will likely be about 250 words, but experiments reveal it could be more about the number of subjects, details, and aesthetic terms in the prompt (tokens that “cause rendering”) and less about how many literal words you've used.

There is also a gradual “slope of influence” that is higher for words at the beginning of the prompt and gradually lower toward the end of the prompt. It’s tough to observe this unless you intentionally max out your tokens to 250-and-beyond, but it’s there.

All this means that you can address issues of coherency and missing details by changing how the prompt is written.

✅  Explore writing prompts that are rich in visual terms:

• Visually Relevant Prepositions: above, below, beside, against, within, throughout, beneath, across, behind, alongside, etc.
• Visually Descriptive Adjectives: crowded, green, empty, textured, intricate, busy, serene, atmospheric, weathered, glossy, etc.
• Visually Descriptive Adverbs: vividly, sharply, dimly, brightly, subtly, boldly, hazily, seamlessly, delicately, dramatically, etc.
• Nouns: mountain, river, skyscraper, bridge, forest, child, cat, etc.
• References to Art, Design, and Culture: references to artists, art movements, design movements, schools of art, craft techniques, historical periods, genres, architectural styles, photographers, styles of photography, cultures, ethnicities, etc.

❌  Try removing words that are weaker contributors:

• extra, ultra, super, hyper, insanely, extremely, quite, rather, somewhat, notably, especially, significantly, remarkably
• indeed, forthwith, moreover, henceforth, furthermore, nevertheless, nonetheless, thereby, heretofore, thusly