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🎺 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 plain text syntax is:

• --edit URL1 URL2 URL3

Each attached image becomes a URL following --edit. Multiple image URLs are separated by spaces. But you are unlikely to ever use the plain text syntax. It is more likely that you will use the web interface to attach one more images to the prompt. (See below.)

Tutorial: attaching an image to --edit

Here is the web workflow.