Midjourney Launches New AI Image Editor: A Game-Changer for Digital Artists

How to use Midjourney's new AI image editor

Unleash your creative potential with Midjourney's image editor The world of AI-generated imagery continues to evolve at a rapid pace, pushing the boundaries of digital creativity. Recently, Midjourney got a huge update and now the AI giant has added a new feature to its toolset: photo editing. This addition expands Midjourney's already impressive capabilities, offering users even more control over their AI-generated and real-world images. With Midjourney the possibilities are endless, from creating photorealistic images, to stickers and visualizing home decor. The introduction of its AI image editor marks a significant step forward in digital image manipulation. This new feature provides users with the tools to enhance, modify, and reimagine their visual content. In this guide, we'll explore how to access and effectively use Midjourney's AI image editor, helping you make the most of this innovative tool. Let's get started! As AI technology continues to advance, new tools and features emerge regularly. While Grok can make images using Flux, other platforms offer unique capabilities, such as the ability to create realistic AI videos in seconds with Runway Gen-3 Turbo. And if you're curious about Gemini, the free model is superior to Advanced in many aspects.

Midjourney releases new unified AI image editor on the web

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Amid intensifying competition in the AI image generation space from the likes of Elon Musk's permissive Grok-2 (powered by Black Forest Labs' open source Flux.1 model), one of the leaders is stepping up its game. Midjourney, which is hailed by many AI artists and designers as the preeminent and highest quality AI image generator, last night unveiled a new, updated version of its website containing a new editor interface that unifies various existing features such as inpainting (repainting parts of an image with new AI generated visuals using text prompts), outpaining/canvas extension (stretching the boundaries of the image in different directions and filling the new space with new AI visuals), and more into a single view. Watch a video of how to use the new menu from Midjourney below: Furthermore, the new web editor contains a new virtual "brush"-like tool for inpainting, replacing the previous square selector and lasso tools and allowing for more precision when it comes to using AI to edit parts of a prior generated image. The new web editor is now live and available to all users who have created at least 10 images on the platform. Users can access this tool by visiting midjourney.com/imagine. Previously, these features were accessible to Midjourney users on the web nested under more disparate menus. The goal, according to a Discord message sent from Midjourney CEO David Holz, is to make editing AI generations easier and more seamless. As Holz stated: "We think this makes editing your MJ images way more seamless than before and is a huge step forward." Indeed, early reactions from users are largely positive: More platform updates In addition to the web editor, Midjourney has introduced another feature aimed at improving communication between its web and Discord communities. Messages sent in certain Web Rooms are now mirrored in corresponding Discord channels and vice versa. This integration ensures that users across both platforms can stay in sync, regardless of where they choose to interact. The rooms with message mirroring include prompt-craft, general-1, and a special superuser room for those who have created more than 1,000 images. Coming at a contentious time for Midjourney and AI art generally The release of the new web editor and the message mirroring feature highlights Midjourney's commitment to continually enhancing the tools and community experiences it offers to its users, even as it faces down a class-action lawsuit from a group of artists accusing the startup of copyright violations for allegedly training en masse on their (and many other) copyrighted images without permission. Last week, the judge in that case denied Midjourney and other AI generator company defendants' bids to have the case dismissed and it is now proceeding toward discovery, which should allow lawyers for the artist plaintiffs who are suing to be able to peer through internal documents of the AI companies and reveal more about their training practices and datasets to the public. Holz also expressed gratitude for the community's patience during the development process and encouraged users to explore the new capabilities provided by the editor. As Midjourney continues to innovate and expand its platform, users can expect more updates and features aimed at improving the overall creative process and fostering a more connected community.

AI image generation just took a huge step forward | Digital Trends

We've been living with AI-generated images for a while now, but this week, some of the major players took some big steps forward. In particular, I'm talking about significant updates to Midjourney, Google's new model, and Grok. Contents Midjourney hits the webGrok-2 unleashes the monsterGoogle gets competitive with Imagen 3 Each company shows the technology evolving at different paces and in different directions. It's still very much an open playing field, and each company demonstrates just how far the advances have come. Recommended Videos Midjourney hits the web Let's start with Midjourney, which quietly rolled out a new web editor late Thursday that assembles a number of useful image manipulation tools into a single user interface. Previously, functions like reframing, repainting (adding AI-generated assets to or modifying an existing image), panning, canvas extension (expanding the boundaries of the image and generating content to fill), and zooming all required their own specific tool to use and were located across multiple menus, requiring creators to constantly switch back and forth. This new UI offers a more coherent and streamlined editing process, a marked departure from the program's start on Discord. Midjourney just released their web editor!! It's actually one of the coolest features they've dropped in a while essentially lets you do inpainting, panning, zooming and more all in a single step really really powerful pic.twitter.com/Wgyi9ElE5N — Nick St. Pierre (@nickfloats) August 16, 2024 The new web editor is designed to make editing AI generated images easier and more seamless, per Midjourney CEO David Holz on Discord recently. "We think this makes editing your MJ images way more seamless than before and is a huge step forward," he wrote. Though Midjourney continues to migrate away from Discord toward being a web-based application, the company also announced that it will mirror messages from popular channels like "daily-theme," "prompt-craft," and "general-1" between its web rooms and Discord channels so that people can follow those threads from whichever platform they prefer. The company also introduced a new selection tool that works like a digital brush, and which has replaced both the square selection and lasso tools. The new editor is available to all Midjourney users who have already generated more than 10 images on the platform. Initial reactions from the creator community have been largely positive. The editor comes two weeks after the release of Midjourney 6.1, which improved image quality and coherence (such as the correct number of fingers), as well as significantly improved processing times and understanding text accuracy in its image prompts. Grok-2 unleashes the monster The Midjourney update also comes just two days after the release of Grok-2 by Elon Musk's xAI startup, which is the next big thing that happened this week. Grok's image generation capabilities are powered by the Flux.1 model from Black Forrest Lab, which has been quickly growing in popularity due to its impressive image quality and free use. 24 hours since the launch of Grok 2.0 and its image creation capabilities! I've prepared these 9 examples for you to make the most of it + access to an enless prompt library! (Bookmark this for later) pic.twitter.com/7EDYSogfV2 — TechHalla (@techhalla) August 15, 2024 The biggest controversy with Grok-2 is not just its quality, which is quite good, but its seemingly undefined guidelines. Unlike many of the other AI image generators, Grok-2 appears to have very little in terms of guidelines around intellectual property, violence, and other explicit content. The isn't the first time an AI image generator has seen this type of blunder, but with Grok, it feels intentional, with Musk calling it "the most fun AI in the world." People have already tested its limits and created all kinds of awful and bizarre imagery, evoking the early days of AI image generation. But if you believe Musk's rhetoric, Grok-2's lack of guidelines seem purposeful and could end up shaping how this technology evolves in the future. Google gets competitive with Imagen 3 Lastly, Google announced its new Imagen 3 AI model, which was released to all U.S. users on Thursday. Google calls it its "highest quality text-to-image model," now able to produce "better detail, richer lighting and few distracting artifacts than our previous models." Google also says that Imagen-3 is better at rendering text and now comes in different versions, built for the task at hand, such something light like a quick sketch or something much more detailed and high-resolution. For now, Imagen 3 is only available through Google's AI Test Kitchen, as part of ImageFX. This currently is in closed beta, meaning you'll have to join the waitlist if you aren't already a participant.