We’ve been using the /imagine prompt command for months, so much so that some of us have it almost tattooed on our retinas after so many tests and projects.
This time, Midjourney has wanted to make our work a little easier with the output of the /describe command. I can tell you right now that it won’t do the work for us. Do you want to know how to use it?
How do you use the /describe command?
When we execute it, it asks us to upload an image that we want to describe. In this case, I’m going to use “The Scream” by Munch as an example. What does this command do?
We upload the image to Midjourney:
Once launched, it shows us 4 possible descriptions that its vision algorithm believes can generate the given image.
If we just want to see what it shows us without touching anything else, we can click on any of the four options and it will generate another four options (this time with the images) based on that prompt. During this process, it can also be modified before being launched.
In this case, to test the function, I launched it without modifying anything and this was the result:
Considerations about /describe to keep in mind
It should be noted that the image I used as an example is copyright-free and the program recognizes it perfectly. Other images may not be recognized and the results may be disjointed and inaccurate.
However, we can see that it has “reimagined” it and it is not 100% faithful to the image we provided, although it does come close.
Will the /describe command replicate the image exactly?
Obviously not, it won’t do the work for you. First of all, because it doesn’t always show the same images and it’s not capable of knowing everything. It will bring us closer and we will be able to use some of the words from its description that we may not have thought of when creating our prompts.
But it is not capable (as of today) of converting the supplied image into text and then replicating it perfectly in prompt mode, and on the other hand, it cannot extract what we visualize in our minds, which is what we really want to obtain.
It’s just another tool, like Midjourney itself, that will help us generate our own prompts, improve them, and get combinations that lead us to truly achieve what we’re looking for; that’s why our creativity is as important as Prompt Engineers.
