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mid Journey has a brand new update that
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lets you upload your own images and use
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its generative engine to edit them as
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well as restyle them it's a fantastic
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upgrade and levels up the kinds of
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things you can do in mid Journey so in
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this video not only will I show you how
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to use each of the features on this new
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editor interface but I will also show
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you how to combine them with existing
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features and completely transform even
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the most basic images into astonishing
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results before we start I do want to
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give a quick disclaimer the feature set
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I'm talking about today is obviously
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brand new anything I show you is subject
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to change also it's not available to
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everyone yet I have access because I've
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generated more than 10,000 images what
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have I become but if you're not as crazy
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as I am you'll either need to have been
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a subscriber for the past year or be
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paying for a yearly membership my
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feeling is if you don't have it already
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it's probably not worth making a full
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year payment just to access it but
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that's your call I'll show you
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everything it can do and you get to make
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that decision depending on your budget
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my guess based on Mid Journey's typical
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release schedule is you'll probably get
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access to it in the next few weeks and I
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wouldn't worry about spending money just
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to get it for all the rest of you if you
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do have it you'll see a new tab here on
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your mid Journey Alpha homepage the tab
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will be called edit if you're zoomed in
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too far you might only see this little
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pen edit icon that's where you'll access
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this feature click into it and you
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should see something like this screen
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here or if you're on this screen you can
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click the edit new image button and this
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will show up at this point you have two
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options you can click edit from URL and
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this lets you enter the image URL of any
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image on the internet to use in the mid
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Journey editor just paste it in right
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here and you can do that otherwise be
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using edit uploaded image you can either
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click here to open your Windows Explorer
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or you can drag an image from anywhere
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else onto the screen the two new
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features and the whole reason behind
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this interface are for the edit feature
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and the retexture feature you can see
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these two tabs right here edit is
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essentially what everyone has been
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asking mid journey to add for ages What
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it lets you do is upload an embarrassing
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image of yourself as an adult man
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pretending to be a wizard this feature
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then lets you ask mid journey to make it
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look like you're doing real magic that
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way you can trickle your friends into
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thinking you're an actual wizard so dumb
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let's reset this image and show you in
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the interface how you can actually go
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about doing this so the first thing I
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would always suggest doing is setting
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the aspect ratio right when you start
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you're stuck at an image scale right at
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100% but if you click any of these
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aspect ratios here you actually un lock
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that aspect ratio so you can go to any
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range you want which is really handy
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when you do indeed have more pixels to
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work with so now we can play around with
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move and resize clicking this button is
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basically equipping a cursor that gives
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you motion control within this canvas
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this way you can drag around the image
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you can adjust the scale with these
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handles and you can change the shape of
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the canvas with these ones and now we're
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on the erase button this is a different
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cursor that instead of letting you drag
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the image around you're actually erasing
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parts of the image what you're really
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doing here is selecting the part of the
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image that you want mid journey to
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generate on top of maybe they want me to
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say the part you want mid journey to
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edit for you anyway left click to draw a
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region right like this you can zoom in
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and out to change the size of your brush
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of course you can also use this brush
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size option here and then obviously this
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is the restore brush which works exactly
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the same except it's telling mid Journey
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what you don't want it to change and you
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can restore anything you've erased undo
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and redo work like normal you also have
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shortcuts so you can use controll or
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command Z to undo and control or command
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y to redo these sliders are again an
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alternative way to control your brush
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size and canvas size then the last
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button here is the same as slash
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describe in mid Journey all it does is
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it writes a prompt describing the image
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that you uploaded so here it says a
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photo of a man with short dark brown
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hair hair and a blue fanel short
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performing Tai Chi with his hands open
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to the sky outdoors in the California
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Mountains on a summer day it's not
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exactly accurate nor is it what we need
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because what's actually more important
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is that you describe the way you want
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the image to change not just the way it
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currently is so if instead of a plasma
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ball you wanted an epic jet of fire you
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would have to describe that jet of fire
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in your prompt notice we've erased the
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sort of area between his hands and then
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we can extend the jeta fire to a 16x9
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aspect ratio by going out like this here
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let me I meant to erase that and
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hopefully we can see a jeda fire
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continuing from this image when we click
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this button submit edit you can also
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click enter to submit a generation also
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as you can see over here on the right
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all of the edits you've made for this
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image will show up so you can see the
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plasma images and now that these are
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done generating you can also see the
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fire that I conjured and then actually
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use these as the starting point for any
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of the future edits you want to make
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right you can erase in this image or you
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can erase in this image and change
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anything you could possibly want if you
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click between them again your change is
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reset but yeah clicking on these four
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Images obviously they're not not perfect
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but they're pretty cool if you want to
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directly edit your image you could erase
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a bit here and give yourself a bow tie
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or add anything you want into your image
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what's disappointing about it is
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whenever you do it this way your results
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have this kind of edited look right you
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could take a picture and add a monster
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into it and it looks cool but it doesn't
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turn the image into the horror scene
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that it should be because in order to
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change the lighting mood or Style of an
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image within the editor you would need
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to erase way too much think about it
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when the lighting in an image changes so
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does every single Pixel so the moment
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you try to take yourself from a plain
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white wall into a complex cyber scene it
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looks less like an epic cityscape and
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more like an underwhelming Zoom
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background and so that is the reason for
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this second feature in theory retexture
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is supposed to anal your scene and
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understand the objects and shapes
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including hopefully what they represent
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mid Journey will lock your image into a
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depth map which if everything goes well
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lets it change the lighting and
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materials within your image without
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disrupting any of the content this is
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really cool and there are a ton of
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awesome use cases for it mid Journey's
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announcement actually shows you how you
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can transform a statue into reimagined
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versions of that same statue in any sty
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style or they also show you redecorating
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a room so it seems like it's from far
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into the future but my channel has
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recently been focused on character and
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that's because I think the most exciting
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things you can create in mid Journey are
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people so in my opinion I think it's
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natural to wish that when I start with
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an image of myself casting a fireball
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and then retexture it so that the
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Vibrance and power of the fireball is
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more visible in the image I would want
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the result to continue to be of me and
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unfortunately when I try it that simply
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isn't the case retexture turns each of
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its generated images into entirely
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different people it's cool the lighting
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of my image changes and the pose stays
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the same but that's not really what I'm
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after luckily there is hope for us mid
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Journey says these new features are are
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compatible with personalization srf CF
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and image prompts and what that means is
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that we have a few more Tools in our
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Arsenal to overcome this problem I'm
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running into when working with character
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focused images you can think of
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retexture kind of like a prre or pose
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reference and even for complex poses in
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my experience 50 to 75% of the images I
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generate transfer the pose pretty well
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so it's not perfect but it is pretty
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good what's exciting is that on top of
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pose you can also bring in other kinds
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of references to layer into your
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generation request so even if we click
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new and start working on a new image in
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the editor even if it's actually a
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pretty boring image of me making a bit
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of a silly face like this one we can use
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the editor to control the aspect ratio
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and really change anything to our liking
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then when we like the pose and the
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content of the image we can go into this
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retexture interface if we click this
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image icon we can use any of the
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references we've uploaded into mid
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Journey before so if I like this face
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I've generated but I want it to be of
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this medieval farmer girl with a messy
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bun I can just click on all four of
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these images set them as character
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references right like that and just
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write a short prompt describing her
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making the same silly face then I can
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click this button submit retexture and
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wait for it to generate and hopefully
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the image will turn into my uploaded
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character starts looking something like
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me the messy bun starts to come in and
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look at that I have four images with my
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evil smirk head tilted forward keeping
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the same pose but obviously my
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consistent character has been applied to
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this scene so now the solution for
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getting the character to keep looking
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like you is obvious and we'll go back
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and do it with the actual Fireball
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example we've been working with what
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you'll need is a bunch of images of
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yourself to use as a reference so you
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can copy them from anywhere or even just
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drag them into the editor directly or if
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you've used them in mid Journey before
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you can pick them out from by clicking
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this image icon however you go ahead and
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do it you now have a consistent
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character reference that mid Journey can
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apply to an image of yourself and it's
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feeling a lot better until you generate
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it once it comes up you realize there is
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one more problem we're going to have to
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deal with the CF you get here is looking
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pretty close to how you look I think
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both of these two images could possibly
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be me but it's just not quite there I've
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seen mid Journey generate much better
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faces before and I really wish we could
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have a higher quality result and if
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you've watched a few of my recent videos
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you might have a clue to what the
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problem here is this comes down to what
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I've been calling prominence the face in
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this image is just too small to do a
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good job surviving the style transfer if
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we want a highquality CF like we got
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when we generated our farmer with mess
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with a messy bun we need our face to
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begin just as close up as from when we
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generated that image if you want the
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highest quality result you're going to
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need to start from a place where your
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face takes up about half of the image
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and to do that we're going to Begin
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Again from our original image here I'll
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go ahead and click reset now and and
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actually we'll be using the very first
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thing I taught you about this editor
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remember how you can't zoom out any more
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than the edge here well unless you click
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this button and then mid Journey lets
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you break the lock we're going to zoom
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in to are scen so our face takes up a
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little more of the image here what I'm
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having you do is zoom in just far enough
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so that mid Journey can see all the
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details of your face but not so far that
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you lose the pose completely see my arm
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is still coming out from the top here
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and it really looks like I'm looking off
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in this far off Direction that's going
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perfect now we can erase anything we
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need to for me I'm just going to give
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myself a little bit more of a Wizardry
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type robe here and we're going to
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generate that image the next thing to do
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is to retexture this image so that it
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makes sense that I would be staring at a
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fireball so here on the retexture tab
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I'm going to place my prompt back in and
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even though my Fireball wouldn't be on
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the screen yet I want my face to be
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glowing with mystical fire and so I'm
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going to write that into the prompt with
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these CS in place and so now you can see
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here I have four generated images that
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look much closer to an image of me where
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I might be casting a fireball and so
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only now am I actually able to pick one
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of these images go back to the editor
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and zoom out creating a scene where I'm
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casting a fireball I'm going to erase a
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little bit more see if I can get some of
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my arm pose back into this image and I
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write that prompt and generate again you
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can see how I'm much closer to the
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result I was after
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and looking at these four Images it
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looks like I didn't get that balance
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quite right it seems like mid Journey
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totally lost my pose and having one hand
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going up over my head was just beyond
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mid Journey's capability so instead I'd
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probably want to generate me with my
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hand in place and generate an image more
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like these so that the pose is a little
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bit more fixed and then I can paste a
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prompt back in and then generate again
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to see my face glowing with fire we can
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submit this edit whoops I 100% meant for
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that to be a retexture please stop my
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God I misclicking all over the place all
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right submit
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retexture and hopefully this time our
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pose is a little bit better defined
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allowing us finally to return to the
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editor erase out our character
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references and generate our image one
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more time I have a lot of Hope for this
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one look at that finally I found myself
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on the Epic side of embarrassment that
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is way way cool um I'm tempted now to
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zoom out a little bit one more time and
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just finish this off as an extremely
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powerful wizard casting a truly awesome
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spell hopefully you can see that this is
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both finicky and yet extremely powerful
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if you liked this deep dive into a cool
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mid Journey feature I have a ton more on
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my channel the YouTube algorithm thinks
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you'll like this one over here and come
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on it's the YouTube algorithm it's all
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knowing might as well give it a shot all
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right thanks for watching and I'll see
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you in the next one
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