I love it. My husband and i started writing a dragon book to play with a story he's always wanted to tell. We made illustrations in midjourney and printed it out on our printer with photo paper. Once we bound the pages at kinkos, we brought it to read to our goddaughter, only her grandfather absconded with it (and read it to her multiple times). Im working on the main story to get it to the quality i want, but i thought it would be great to give her a more standard story.
This is so cool! Thank you for allowing us to look vicariously over your shoulder and see this process come together. Learning about the prompts in mid-journey was helpful. I would love to give this a try just for the sake of creating. I used to write almost every day, but I became burned out after COVID. It can feel like a slog doing everything on my own. These tools are like having a small team in my corner. For the first time in years, I'm excited about writing again. What you're dong, sharing these videos is a real gift. Thank you!
Jason, as a token of appreciation for the wonderful work you are doing for us by developing this wonderful channel, a little tip while working in Photoshop with text over the image. You can, definetly, use more sufficient part of the image as a basis for your text by makng a new layer on top of the layer with a picture in it, and by choosing Rectanguar Marquee tool with entering certain amount of the Feather on the Property bar, and my guess is for the size of the picture you've choose it should be something like 30-50 px of the Feather. And now when you'll make a certain selection starting not with the white space under the picture but with the edge of the picture included. Done? Fill it with white color, and choose certain amount of Opacity in the Layer palette to make sure you'll have smooth disappearing of the edge of your image - the one that was included into selection. Now the stripe to put your text upon is not only become wider, and that is mean able to provide you with better solution for placing your text (either way, based on a fontsize or on an ability to include more words into the same unit) but by making the transition of the picture to the white space incomparably more smooth.
This is really helpful thank you! Trying to figure out if I missed a step, how do you duplicate the character each time? The sand piper seems slightly different each time. How do you keep the “characters” consistent throughout the book?
This is super helpful. The best tutorial i've come across so far. I haven't watched your others yet, but I did have a question. Is it possible to feed your page 1 image back into midjourney to get the same sandpiper generated for every page? Otherwise, wouldn't the birds have a slightly different look/color each page?
I think there’s a really complicated way of doing something like that but it’s actually easier to just keep generating new images until you get something similar. If your styles are all the same they often come out similar enough. Especially with animals.
This was INCREDIBLY helpful!! My only issue is that my children's book involves a merry band of mice interacting with various objects in a garage. Asking MJ for multiple animals and tools in a scene is very difficult so far, so unless I want to paste many different images together for each page, I think I might be stuck waiting for the technology to improve. I'm hoping I'll be able to put the whole thing together in 6 months to a year. Otherwise I'm stuck trying to query or pay an illustrator. :/
If you can afford Adobe Photoshop I would look at using a combination of Midjourney and the generative fill features to splice multiple images together. I did that for some of my illustrations.
That’s kind of what I did in this tutorial by selecting the style and saving it for future use in all images. The style usually comes out more of less the same every time.
I love it. My husband and i started writing a dragon book to play with a story he's always wanted to tell. We made illustrations in midjourney and printed it out on our printer with photo paper. Once we bound the pages at kinkos, we brought it to read to our goddaughter, only her grandfather absconded with it (and read it to her multiple times). Im working on the main story to get it to the quality i want, but i thought it would be great to give her a more standard story.
This is so cool! Thank you for allowing us to look vicariously over your shoulder and see this process come together. Learning about the prompts in mid-journey was helpful. I would love to give this a try just for the sake of creating. I used to write almost every day, but I became burned out after COVID. It can feel like a slog doing everything on my own. These tools are like having a small team in my corner. For the first time in years, I'm excited about writing again. What you're dong, sharing these videos is a real gift. Thank you!
That’s amazing, thank you for the kind words!
Jason, as a token of appreciation for the wonderful work you are doing for us by developing this wonderful channel, a little tip while working in Photoshop with text over the image. You can, definetly, use more sufficient part of the image as a basis for your text by makng a new layer on top of the layer with a picture in it, and by choosing Rectanguar Marquee tool with entering certain amount of the Feather on the Property bar, and my guess is for the size of the picture you've choose it should be something like 30-50 px of the Feather. And now when you'll make a certain selection starting not with the white space under the picture but with the edge of the picture included. Done? Fill it with white color, and choose certain amount of Opacity in the Layer palette to make sure you'll have smooth disappearing of the edge of your image - the one that was included into selection.
Now the stripe to put your text upon is not only become wider, and that is mean able to provide you with better solution for placing your text (either way, based on a fontsize or on an ability to include more words into the same unit) but by making the transition of the picture to the white space incomparably more smooth.
Thanks!
This is really helpful thank you!
Trying to figure out if I missed a step, how do you duplicate the character each time? The sand piper seems slightly different each time. How do you keep the “characters” consistent throughout the book?
This is super helpful. The best tutorial i've come across so far. I haven't watched your others yet, but I did have a question. Is it possible to feed your page 1 image back into midjourney to get the same sandpiper generated for every page? Otherwise, wouldn't the birds have a slightly different look/color each page?
I think there’s a really complicated way of doing something like that but it’s actually easier to just keep generating new images until you get something similar. If your styles are all the same they often come out similar enough. Especially with animals.
Great description 😊
This was INCREDIBLY helpful!! My only issue is that my children's book involves a merry band of mice interacting with various objects in a garage. Asking MJ for multiple animals and tools in a scene is very difficult so far, so unless I want to paste many different images together for each page, I think I might be stuck waiting for the technology to improve. I'm hoping I'll be able to put the whole thing together in 6 months to a year. Otherwise I'm stuck trying to query or pay an illustrator. :/
If you can afford Adobe Photoshop I would look at using a combination of Midjourney and the generative fill features to splice multiple images together. I did that for some of my illustrations.
How can I make consistent characters?
are you going to show how you got the same image style and theme for all pictures in the book?
That’s kind of what I did in this tutorial by selecting the style and saving it for future use in all images. The style usually comes out more of less the same every time.
Is the Canva portion where you put your book together the free or paid version of Canva? Thx! Great tut!
Free. I already pay for photoshop so yeah I’m not paying for Canva too.
@@TheNerdyNovelist Thanks much!! Awesome --
Despite what some people say the idea of stealing an style is bonkers. You can't even trademark, patent or copyright a style.
Not yet.
Awesome, I wrote a children's book!
Cool!
re: red crab? - perhaps the Mid J knows that a red crab is a cooked crab? ha, ??
Aren't all your Midjourney images public because it works through Discord?
Nope because it’s a private chat