{"id":48133,"date":"2023-04-12T16:20:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T16:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arimetrics.com\/glosario-digital\/midjourney"},"modified":"2026-09-14T21:31:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T21:31:22","slug":"midjourney","status":"publish","type":"encyclopedia","link":"https:\/\/www.arimetrics.com\/en\/digital-glossary\/midjourney","title":{"rendered":"Midjourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arimetrics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/midjourney-square.jpg\" alt=\"Midjourney\" class=\"boxpad alignright wp-image-79611\" style=\"margin-top:0;\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.arimetrics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/midjourney-square.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.arimetrics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/midjourney-square-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><strong>Definition:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Midjourney is a generative artificial intelligence service<\/strong> developed by the independent research lab of the same name. It creates images from text instructions, visual references, and parameters, and it can also animate images to produce short videos.<\/p>\n<p>The system generates new results through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arimetrics.com\/en\/digital-glossary\/ai-artificial-intelligence\">artificial intelligence<\/a> models trained to relate language and images. <strong>It does not work like an image search engine or a traditional editor<\/strong>: it interprets the request and produces different variations, so the same idea can lead to different results.<\/p>\n<p>Midjourney opened its beta to the public in 2022 under the direction of David Holz. <strong>Its use initially became popular through Discord<\/strong>, although it now also provides a web interface for creating, organizing, and editing content.<\/p>\n\n<h2>How Midjourney works<\/h2>\n<p>The starting point is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arimetrics.com\/en\/digital-glossary\/prompt\">prompt<\/a>, a description of what the user wants to generate. <strong>Text, reference images, and settings can be combined<\/strong> to guide the composition, format, degree of stylization, or relationship with a visual style.<\/p>\n<p>A common <strong>workflow<\/strong> includes these stages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Planning:<\/strong> define the purpose of the image, its intended context, and the elements it needs to represent.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Instruction:<\/strong> write the prompt and add visual references or parameters when they provide useful guidance.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Generation:<\/strong> obtain several proposals produced by the model and review which one best matches the objective.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Iteration:<\/strong> create variations, change the framing, modify regions, or adjust the instructions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Export:<\/strong> download the selected result and check its size, format, and suitability for the intended use.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Generation is probabilistic<\/strong>, not an exact reproduction of the words entered. The model may prioritize some elements over others, and the result also depends on the version, settings, and references used.<\/p>\n<h2>Main Midjourney features<\/h2>\n<p>Midjourney has expanded beyond its initial text-based generation workflow. Its <strong>main features<\/strong> include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Text to image:<\/strong> creating visual proposals from written descriptions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Visual references:<\/strong> using images to guide content, composition, characters, or style.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Variations and upscaling:<\/strong> generating alternatives and preparing versions with greater size or detail.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Editing and reframing:<\/strong> modifying regions, extending the canvas, and changing proportions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Personalization:<\/strong> profiles and reference collections that help guide a recurring aesthetic.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Image to video:<\/strong> animating a still image to create a short sequence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Users can access the service through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.midjourney.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official Midjourney website<\/a> and use certain features through Discord. <strong>Plans, processing limits, and privacy options may change<\/strong>, so they should be checked before starting a project.<\/p>\n<h2>Limitations and responsible use<\/h2>\n<p>Midjourney can produce artifacts, illegible text, incorrect spatial relationships, or unwanted variations between images. <strong>A convincing image is not evidence that the event it depicts is real<\/strong>, nor does it guarantee technical, historical, or documentary accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Prompts, references, and results need to be managed with the service&#8217;s privacy settings and terms in mind. <strong>Confidential information should not be entered, and users should not assume that every result will be private<\/strong>. Copyright, trademarks, image rights, and the rules applicable to the final use also need to be reviewed.<\/p>\n<p>In marketing and design, Midjourney can help explore concepts, create moodboards, or produce visual variants. <strong>Selection and publication require human review<\/strong> to check brand suitability, accessibility, potential biases, and consistency with the message. As with other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arimetrics.com\/en\/digital-glossary\/generative-ai\">generative AI<\/a> applications, quality depends on both the model and the judgment applied when using it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Midjourney is, how it generates and edits images with AI, its main features, and the limitations to review before publishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":79613,"template":"","encyclopedia-tag":[1381],"class_list":["post-48133","encyclopedia","type-encyclopedia","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","encyclopedia-tag-ai-fundamentals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arimetrics.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia\/48133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arimetrics.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arimetrics.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/encyclopedia"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arimetrics.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arimetrics.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arimetrics.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"encyclopedia-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arimetrics.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia-tag?post=48133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}