How to add this smooth nostalgic retro effect and colours to your Midjourney generations?
We will focus on my favourite retro style! How purposeful can the style of your work with Midjourney be? However you want 🙂
Midjourney, as a model, understands human speech, its fragments, i.e. words, and associates them with their meaning / styles – > archetypes, so to guide the algorithm we must use keywords commonly referring to the archetype of the desired style. Why keywords and not descriptive definitions? Because the Midjourney algorithm is based on single words – tokens, and not necessarily grammar (the Midjourney model versions are also based on things related to the weight of words and their order – more about this in our ebook)
Therefore, in your prompts you must use words defining a given style. And what keywords should we use if we want to play with generating retro photos?
Example keywords that will help you achieve the desired effect, related to styles that give your generation a retro photo effect.
- Film photography
- polaroid photography
- Grunge photography
- Low fi photography
- Cross-processing
- Retro aesthetics
- polaroid photography
You can connect them to specify your style even more
- Muted tones
- Faded colors
- Grainy film
- Distressed textures
- Golden light
Try also some really specific names of the film types like for e.g.
- Kodak portra
- Fujifilm provia
- Agfa vista
- Kodak gold 200
Just add the keywords related with styles to your new prompts
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