Matt Wolfe’s YouTube tutorial (Aug 21, 2023) introduces MidJourney’s new inpainting feature called “Vary Region,” which lets you edit parts of an image directly in Discord. He demonstrates how to enable Remix mode, upscale an image, select regions (rectangle or freehand), and prompt local changes (examples: adding a rocket to an astronaut scene, inserting birds into a landscape, placing sunglasses on a painted wolf). Wolfe reports best results when editing moderate-to-large regions (about 20–50% for some use cases) or making small, style-consistent tweaks; the tool can struggle when asked to make dramatically different changes across half an image. He also notes a Discord restart can be necessary to see the option.
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August 21, 2023.
Vary Region.
Remix mode (enable in MidJourney Discord settings).
Approximately 20–50% of the image (best on large regions).
Completely close Discord and re-open it (restart Discord).
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Today, Midjourney just got a big upgrade. They just added the ability to inpaint inside of your images directly inside of Discord. And they're calling the feature Vary Region. In their Discord announcement, they did give some tips and tricks on how to use it. This feature works best on large regions of the image, 20 to 50% of the image. Changing the prompt will work best if it's a change that's more matched to the image. For example, adding a hat on top of a character. And they do say it's not a magic fix. And it often may be best to just use the very subtle instead. But let's take a look at it. So the first thing you want to do is when you're inside of your Mid Journey Discord, go to your settings and make sure you have Remix mode turned on. This will actually give you the ability to add additional information into your prompt when you're doing inpainting. Now, if you're not currently familiar with Mid Journey, make sure you watch one of my past videos like the Ultimate Guide to Mid Journey. And that will break down exactly how to use it. In this video, I'm just going to focus on this brand new inpainting feature and keep it a real nice, tight and short video for you. So let's go ahead and enter a prompt like an astronaut floating in deep space. And then I'm going to add aspect ratio 69 to the end. Now here are the four images that it created for us. I really like all of these, but I especially like this top right one. So I'm going to go ahead and upscale number two. And once we do the upscale, we will then see the vary options. You can see. Now we have a third option that says Vary Region. Now if you don't see this option, what you need to do is you need to completely close down Discord and then open Discord up again and then you will see the option. When I first heard that this inpainting feature was available, I upscaled an image. I didn't see the option. And when I completely reset Discord and came back, the option was available. Now if I go ahead and click on this very region here, it actually opens up this whole new editor. Now see down here how we have this prompt. That's because we turned the Remix option on. So make sure that Remix option is on. So I can select an area of my image using a square or using a sort of freehand drawing option here. So we'll go ahead and use the rectangle tool and we'll select a large area of the image like this, this, and we'll add a rocket ship in deep space. And then I'll click this little arrow down here to submit the job and it will look like it's generating an image just like it normally does. However, it should only generate in the area that we selected and not change the entire image. Now you can see in most of the images that it generated, it actually ignored my prompt. But on this bottom right one, it sort of kind of tried to generate a rocket ship. Reading the announcement once again, you can see here it says in a best case scenario, you can use the prompt remixing feature as a general purpose inpainting system. We would warn you that this sometimes can be quite frustrating as the system may fight your intent. Sorry. Which, as you can see in my astronaut images, it seems to be fighting against my intent in most of them, but sort of kind of generated a rocket ship in this one. All right, so we've got some new images here of a forest landscape. These are really, really cool. I'm gonna go ahead and upscale this top right one. And this is where I've gotten the best results out of this new very feature is by making small tweaks. Like if I click very region and then let's select a small area of the sky up here and then a colorful landscape with birds and then generate this. Ideally it generates some birds in that selected area, or at least a bird. Now if we take a peek at these generations, you can see it added a bird. Now this one just seems to be sort of floating in the sky. So does this one. But this one, it added it to a branch of the tree and so did this one. So this was a pretty successful inpaint in my opinion here. Now here's another prompt. I did a colorful painting of a wolf and these are the images that I got. Let's go ahead and upscale number two here. I'm going to click vary region and then and I'm just going to select this area across the eyes here. And I'm going to say wearing sunglasses. And here's what it generated on the first try. So this is really, really good for creating an image and then adding to the image and making sure it maintains the same style. But you want to add little elements to the image without having to create an entirely new prompt to try to get what you're looking for. Now if I come to our settings real quick just to show you what happens, and I turn remix mode off. Now if I upscale one of These wolf images. Let's upscale number one here. If I click on very region, you can see I don't have the option. Enter an additional prompt here. What I can do is just select a certain area. Let's just go ahead and select where the nose and mouth is, for instance here and click Submit. And it's just going to give me four variations of this same image. But just that little area of the image is going to change and give me a handful of variations. But I didn't get to prompt any extra information into it. Now if I take a look at what it just generated, it's pretty much four of the same images, but there's some slight variations around the nose and the mouth. Now, where this doesn't work well is let's go ahead and use this astronaut image again. I'm going to click vary region. And let's say I want it to be dramatically different from my original image. Let's say I want to select like 50% of the image and I want it to be a scuba diver in the ocean and I want half the image to be my original astronaut and the other half to be a scuba diver in the ocean. It doesn't really do that well because they're too dramatically different. Here's what I got out of that. Although this top one is kind of a cool effect effect, you can see it just kind of broke the images for the most part. Although I do like this number one here. So even if it's not designed to do stuff like this, it's still fun to experiment because we got right half of space and left half of ocean. So despite it not being intended to do this kind of looks cool anyway. So anyway, that's the new inpainting feature or the very region feature inside of Mid Journey. I know that when I make Mid Journey videos these days, they're not quite as popular as my like AI News videos, especially ever since Midjourney became paid only. But I still love playing around with Mid Journey. It seems to be shipping new features constantly. Like every other week there's some sort of new feature rolled into Mid Journey and I'm here for it. I love playing around with this stuff again. You can play with the very region. It's great for just adding stuff into an image and maintaining the style. Like these wolves with sunglasses here or adding a bird into an existing scene. Even when you do stuff that it's not really designed to do, sometimes you still get some really, really cool results. I hope you enjoyed this video. I know it's quick and short. I'm going to be making a handful more videos when I come across cool tools or cool new updates. They're just short to the point. Hey, here's what I got for you. I'm going to continue to make the news videos and I'm definitely up in my production schedule. I got a whole bunch of cool more in depth videos in the works for you, so look out for those. And if you didn't already know about this new feature, make sure you like this video. 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