Midjourney - back to basics • 13 • Seeing Multiple
Beginner’s Guide • Exploring the Multi-Prompt & Permutations
Multi-Prompt Basics
Adding a double colon ::
to a prompt indicates to the Midjourney Bot that it
should consider each part of the prompt individually. - docs.Midjourney.com
Let’s start simply.
Take the notion of an idea that you hear and think of as a single idea, even if it is made up of 2 or more words: hot dog, birthday cake, police car, space ship, iced tea. When the intent is that unified thought - great. But what if you needed to show a dog that it hot (hot dog), not a glizzie. (I finally got to use that term in a sentence… my kids would be proud - or roll their eyes.)
As noted above, when Midjourney sees a double colon ::
it considers this a hard stop in the idea being expressed. So, the term - hot:: dog is viewed by Midjourney as talking about 2 ideas - hot and dog - which Midjourney considers separately, then blends together. If you do not enter a number following the double colon, Midjourney assumes a value of 1. Though I prompted - hot:: dog - you will notice that Midjourney made some assumptions:
hot has a value of 1
dog also has a value of 1
a double colon
::
was added to dog
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