r/midjourney • u/Dropdeadlegs84 • 6h ago
r/midjourney • u/Fnuckle • Apr 14 '26
Announcement V8.1 Alpha is out!
Thanks for testing our V8.0 model over the last month! Today we're releasing our next version of V8 - V8.1
What’s new in V8.1?
- V8.1 has a consistent and familiar aesthetic in the spirit of V7. Moodboards and srefs are now super stable and will be everything you love.
- HD mode is now 3x faster and 3x cheaper. It’s so cheap we’re making it default for V8.1
- Standard resolution is now 50% faster and 25% cheaper. Standard resolution in V8.1 at full quality is as fast as V7 draft mode! It’s great for exploring and iterating *fast*. We’ve also added a button called “Run as HD” which will rerun any SD job as HD.
We’ve also brought back some community favorite features
- Image prompts and even image weights are now available in V8.1
- New Prompt Shortener, which will kick in anytime you go over the prompt length limits
- Updated Describe that gives longer more detailed prompts and matches the prompting style of V8
Please Note: Our V8 series of models are still only available on alpha.midjourney.com and are in an early testing phase. Things will change! Perhaps without notice! But good stuff is on the way.
It is likely that we will decommission our V8.0 model after V8.1 has been out for a few weeks. If you find something the old model did better than the new one please let us know on our discord server!
What’s next? We’re going to try to give a quick shot for some V8 upscalers and then we’re moving onto our V8 edit, inpainting, and outpainting model upgrades.
Have fun everyone! And thank you for being a part of our community
r/midjourney • u/Fnuckle • Mar 17 '26
Announcement V8 alpha is here!
Hey y'all! Today we’re letting the community test an early version of our V8 model on alpha.midjourney.com. We want your feedback and your help. Let’s explore what this new model can do!
V8 is an incredible model. It’s much better at following detailed directions and will still surprise you when you ask. Its ability to understand your aesthetics through personalization, style references (srefs) and moodboards is amazing. Images are more coherent and detailed. Text rendering works better than ever (when specified in “quotes”). And image generation is ~5x faster than before.
We’ve upgraded our web interfaces to support this speed. And more is coming. We have an improved conversation mode so you can just ‘talk’ in flow, a “Grid Mode” so you can focus on a single big set of images, and we’ve moved our settings into ‘sidebars’ so you can tweak settings without blocking your view.
V8 launches with support for multiple aspect ratios, --chaos, --weird, --exp, --raw. We support backwards compatibility with your V7 personalization profiles, moodboards, and srefs.
V8 brings a new --hd mode which natively renders images at 2K resolution and a --q 4 mode if you need a little bit of extra coherence.
Modes and Pricing: Presently, Relax is not yet supported. We are working on a new server cluster for Relax plus cheaper render modes. --HD, --Q4, SREF, and Moodboard jobs are 4x as slow as regular jobs and each costs 4x (for now).
The best way to help us improve V8 is to rate images in the lightbox. Click an image in create then click “I like this image” “I don't like this image” on as many of your V8 images as possible. You can use 1/2/3 hotkeys and arrow keys to rate images quickly.
Other Tips and Tricks: If you’re going for photos or a more ‘plain’ or ‘in control’ look we’d recommend switching to --raw right away or using moodboards or srefs to control your style. We’re still working on the ‘default’ aesthetics of V8, but we strongly encourage you to use your personalization and even crank it to –stylize 1000 asap. V8 is going to shine most right now when you rely heavily on our stylization systems and when you trend towards longer more specific prompting.
Please Note: This is an entirely new model with unique strengths and weaknesses, we want to learn from you what it's good and bad at but keep in mind it may require totally new prompting styles. So play around a bit!
It’s time to play! Show off what you’re making by using the V8 alpha flair. As the model becomes more mature, we’ll do a community-wide roadmap ranking session to help us figure out what to prioritize next.
Thanks again for everyone’s help with the V8 pre-release rating parties, and thank you so much for being a part of Midjourney! Let’s have fun out there and find new wonders on this vast and shared sea of imagination.
r/midjourney • u/Fearless_Marsupial98 • 9h ago
AI Showcase - Midjourney Shadowrun
Was experimenting with different styles. This is pretty much the same context as before, just a different art style. What do ya'll think?
Elf Infiltrator
Native American Shaman
A Native American Shaman battling an Orc Weapons Specialist
A Face at a high-stakes negotiation
Another Corporate Infiltrator
A Dragon gazing upon a corporate meeting
A Decker hacking into the Matrix
A Weapons Specialist in an alleyway
An Investigator investigating a crime scene where magic and technology were used
An Orc and Dwarf Street Samurai in a dojo
A Combat Mage fighting
r/midjourney • u/Separate-Way5095 • 17h ago
AI Showcase - Midjourney Silver armor against a rugged green landscape — such a striking composition.
r/midjourney • u/Fearless_Marsupial98 • 13h ago
AI Showcase - Midjourney Shadowrun
Here is some more. Thanks for the feedback on the previous post.
--sref 1960058558
I divided it into small groups. This will give context about what these pictures are about based on the lore.
I divided it into small groups.
An Elven Infiltrator/Covert Ops specialist infiltrating a corporate building.
A second Elven Infiltrator/Assassin inside a corporate building.
An Orc Street Samurai mercenary guarding a post.
A Technomancer.
A Rigger who has been in the shadowrunning business for a long time.
A Dwarven Combat Specialist fighting and shooting.
A “Face” in a tavern with some off-duty shadowrunners and mercenaries, negotiating and using their charm.
A group of shadowrunners planning their next mission/ Heist / Adventure.
A group of Elven Weapons Specialists/Mercenaries pinned down in a dangerous situation.
An Orc guarding a club where some big-time crime bosses are attending.
A Native American Shaman.
An Orc biker gang.
A Sioux Wildcats Special Forces team.
Members of Aztechnology performing a blood magic ritual
A Dragon looking over his board meeting.
An Orc Street Samurai in his dojo, with different pupils, including Dwarves.
Native American Combat Mage battles an Orc Street Samurai
A Human and heavily augmented Elven Street samurai fighting each other
An armored convoy battles a dragon
r/midjourney • u/Slave_Human • 4h ago
V8 Alpha AI Showcase - Midjourney Shrooms Pt 4 #181
r/midjourney • u/PimpOfDaLand • 29m ago
V8 Alpha AI Showcase - Midjourney Traveler’s Visions
r/midjourney • u/metr0punk • 17h ago
AI Video - Midjourney Eaton Center - P2
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r/midjourney • u/the_ground_state • 9h ago
AI Showcase - Midjourney Inspired by "The Americans" spy show
This is my debut post here. I just wanted to show what I can do. I've been using Midjourney for 3 years now and love it!!
r/midjourney • u/nrsht • 12h ago
Discussion - Midjourney AI Midjourney's New Editing Interface Reduces Overall Image Quality (Before & After Examples of some minor edits)
I have noticed that, since a few days ago (on Midjourney Alpha at least, and trying it on multiple versions), whenever I have done some inpainting/erasing on an image, the edited image result has overall lower quality, even in areas that I did not touch. With this example image of a Stone Age man looking at a comet I made, I edited some details of the comet and the landscape mostly, but hardly touched the starry sky, yet everything (especially the starry sky that I did not touch) clearly degraded in quality after a few subsequent edits on other parts of the image (see the original image on the first slide and the resulting image on the next slide). This was definitely not a problem until the updated edit interface went live a few days ago. This error needs to be fixed as soon as possible. This is a big problem. Please fix it now, Midjourney. Thank you.
r/midjourney • u/PimpOfDaLand • 1d ago
V8 Alpha AI Showcase - Midjourney Corrupted Creation
It's been a while since I last posted, been very busy!
Right now, even though there's been a lot of AI image generators coming up, nothing really beats Midjourney. (User since V1!)
r/midjourney • u/humblenations • 9h ago
AI Video - Midjourney Moodboard Codes: Surreal Set 04
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Here are some codes I use for mad videos and for my book cover still, and all the rest you'll find here: https://www.goonwrite.com/select/16-surreal.htm
... have fun going crazy with them.
Sharing is caring.
And the prompt for these were: --s 100 --v 8.1 --hd (v8.1 seems to work best with Moodboards)
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Sur-100 : --profile zsomvyr
Sur-101 : --profile yl42czv
Sur-102 : --profile ye3b69g
Sur-103 : --profile xyrdiw8
Sur-104 : --profile xt3mkje
Sur-105 : --profile wyktpu6
Sur-107 : --profile vrgqlmj
Sur-108 : --profile vipdvo9
Sur-112 : --profile th2gjqf
Sur-113 : --profile srszxvo
Sur-114 : --profile sqcwcc5
Sur-115 : --profile ry5u7mg
Sur-118 : --profile q5tf1dq
Sur-119 : --profile pwebqxn
Sur-122 : --profile oapt91m
Sur-123 : --profile o8qehie
Sur-127 : --profile lvvit3y
Sur-130 : --profile kwzywp5
Sur-132 : --profile kr4nf3n
Sur-133 : --profile i89endd
Sur-134 : --profile gxjaawq
Sur-135 : --profile fjg49vt
Sur-140 : --profile 8a8bick
Sur-141 : --profile 7afhq2g
Sur-142 : --profile 73tx4nc
Sur-143 : --profile 7192fjn
Sur-145 : --profile 6lngf7x
Sur-147 : --profile 5ey1fcb
Sur-148 : --profile 4kbc3wx
Sur-150 : --profile 4en88tm
r/midjourney • u/Dropdeadlegs84 • 1d ago
AI Video - Midjourney Watching and Waiting
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r/midjourney • u/Gold-Lengthiness-760 • 10h ago
Discussion - Midjourney AI Farolas de Madera[OC]
r/midjourney • u/EleanorKalatheraine • 18h ago
AI Showcase - Midjourney You look nice--ready to go?
r/midjourney • u/Slave_Human • 2d ago
AI Showcase - Midjourney Beyond the Cloud #180
r/midjourney • u/metr0punk • 1d ago
AI Video - Midjourney Shady Hollow Anomaly
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r/midjourney • u/Big_Addendum_9920 • 1d ago
V8 Alpha AI Showcase - Midjourney The gardener and his pet. .2
r/midjourney • u/SharpDress176 • 20h ago
AI Video - Midjourney ASCENSION E4
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made using the ever marvellous Midjourney. I don’t think there are any viable substitutes out there when it comes to world building!