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Weddings are very private occasions, with engaged partners often paying a quite a penny to bring their tale to life. Sometimes a significant price can come in the form of the first correspondence on which the blessed couple puts their stamp of approval: save the dates and wedding invitations.
Sure, couples could find some basic e-invites or printable templates with watercolor flowers or a common theme to announce their wedding, but what if one partner is, like, a big nerd? (I am. I’m the nerd.)
What if they throw Star Trek– a themed wedding or organizing an engagement party that includes cyberpunk details and a joint bachelor event styled according to the aesthetic of Baldur’s Gate 3? Custom invitations can get expensive very quickly, so here’s how to use Midjourney’s AI text-to-image tool to make your wedding event invitations not only stand out, but also perfectly represent who you are.
(Middle) the journey begins
Dealing with something as important as a wedding requires a specialized tool that creates images of high enough quality to be used as digital or print materials. I use Halfway through the tripwhich has been used to create visuals for everything from graphic novels to images with less high-ranking merits.
Midjourney uses text prompts to generate images based on its training data, much like most AI tools built for rapid art creation. It was released in beta in 2022 and is ongoing Discord via a web browser with the attractive price of free for limited requests and a range of $10 to $120 per month for more prompts and faster results.
Since its beta release, Midjourney has added some of the most robust and customizable options of any text-to-image AI tool, including blending two images to make a new one and setting parameters around unique features, like what the developers of Midjourney call chaos or a distinct difference in the images generated by a single prompt.
I bet the flexibility and specificity available through Midjourney will produce results that will make your geeky wedding event invitations shine brighter than Crystal essence.
No chatter, just results
Midjourney has no personality, unlike chatbots ChatGPT and Co-pilot. It’s not built for back-and-forth collaboration, and it can’t develop an image by referencing pre-generated artwork in chat notes, but what it lacks in chit-chat it more than makes up for in flexibility.
Here’s how to get the best results from Midjourney’s text-to-image prompt.
1. Be specific about the end use of the images. Let Midjourney know that these images will be used as printable invitations to avoid results like the ones below (invitations that would make any vampire bride blush with delight, but don’t work as actual stationary).
Adding the phrase “print invitation” to the prompt produced more practical results, but they were a little busy, which brings us to the next tip:
2. Break down what you do and don’t want. Midjourney allows you to direct the tool to exclude certain elements in images via a specific “no” command at the end of the prompt. For example, the invitations should be fantasy-inspired, but I don’t want them to contain mythical creatures, and the results it was returning were heavy on scales and claws. This fictional wedding is an elegant event, for God’s sake, not Renfaire’s back door.
3. Refine the style of the images and add some flair to the prompt. The results seemed less romantic and more “Fus Ro Dah”, so I added “whimsical” and “delicate” to the prompt, which resulted in the following. It still doesn’t read like a Baldur’s Gate theme, but Midjourney allows for something called “different region” editing, where you can select specific items to change.
I enhanced the scene with some Baldur’s Gate easter eggs using the “vary region” command. This part took a lot longer than I expected — and by a lot longer I mean about 15 minutes of regenerating results — but the end result was worth it.
Midjourney also adds English text to images with its generate text command and provides easy creation of higher resolution images (2048 x 2048 pixels).
Now all that’s left to do is put this into a Word document, Google Doc, or a tool like Canva to add text and send it out into the world for your loved ones to RSVP too close to the event date.
If you can figure out what the added items are about, you might just get an invite to the reception. Sorry, no devils allowed.
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