How to Make Midjourney Your Bitch: Creating Shorthand

As I attempt to start a new mid-life career as an “AI artist” or “prompt crafter,” I’m learning tips and tricks for making Midjourney AI easier to use for both beginners and experts who hadn’t considered making their prompts less tedious with shortcuts.

[After you read this inaugural article in this series, why not check out the next one? How to Make Midjourney Your Bitch: Deleting Images]

Take a closer look at /imagine parameters.

Midjourney’s own User Manual has a section about the various parameters you can use with the /imagine command. It’s very helpful to know which parameters exist, but even more helpful to know how to make them work best for you.

You already have a few shortcuts set up for you by default, including--wallpaper. If you use --wallpaper in a prompt, it’s the same thing as adding -- w 1920 --h 1024 --hd.

But you can create your own shortcuts, too!

How to Create Shortcuts in Midjourney AI on Discord

There are instructions for how to do this in Midjourney’s own documentation, but they leave out a few important details that non-native Discord users will not find intuitive. I do use Discord a lot, but I still only stumbled…