Midjourney released its External Editor on Thursday, “a powerful new tool for unleashing your imagination.” Available to select users, the AI tool will enable users to upload their own images, then adjust, modify and retexture them in a wide variety of artistic styles.
Previously, users could upload a reference image to Midjourney, either through the alpha web app or its discord server, then have the generation model use that as a reference to create a new image. You could not, however, make any edits to the source image itself. That’s changing with the new External Editor. With it, you’ll be able to add, modify, move, resize, remove, and restore specific assets within the image, as well as reskin it as a whole in an entirely new style — shifting it from, say, a photograph to pointillism to impressionist to anime. The system reportedly works on doodles and line drawings as well.
The new tool is not rolling out to everybody just yet. “To maintain the same moderation standards we’ve set across Midjourney,” the company wrote in its announcement blog, it is only making it available to users who have subscribed to its service for a year or more, or who have generated 10,000 or more images through the Midjourney platform — essentially, its most loyal customers.
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