guides — what the data says
Midjourney parameters, measured.
Most prompt advice is asserted. These are written against the 85 prompts in this collection — every claim counted from the same rows the gallery serves, every figure a real image you can open and check.
craft — prompt anatomy · 6 min
Half of these prompts are under 40 characters
The internet says write long, detailed prompts. This collection says the opposite, and the reason is that description is only one of the two things a prompt is made of.
parameters — --sref · 7 min
What --sref actually does, measured across 55 images
Fifty-five of the eighty-five images here carry a style code. Eleven codes appear more than once — enough to see what a code actually holds constant, and what it does not.
parameters — --stylize · 6 min
Reading --stylize from 50 to 1000 in real prompts
Twenty-six images here set a stylize value. The distribution is not smooth — it clusters at 50 and 250, and each cluster comes with its own companion parameters.
parameters — --sw and --sv · 5 min
Style weight is a volume knob, and 24 of 24 prove it
--sw without --sref does nothing at all. Twenty-four prompts here use it and every one of them carries a style code, which tells you exactly what kind of parameter it is.
parameters — --raw · 6 min
What --raw turns off, and who never needs it
--raw is not a realism switch. It removes an opinion — and whether you want that removed depends entirely on whether you brought an opinion of your own.
parameters — --ar · 6 min
Choosing --ar: what 85 images say about frame and subject
Fifty of the eighty-five images set --ar explicitly. Which ratio they reach for turns out to be almost entirely predicted by what is in the picture.
parameters — --v and --niji · 6 min
More than half these prompts never say which model made them
A prompt without a version is not a recipe, it is a snapshot of a default that has since moved. Forty-eight of eighty-five are in that state — including some of the best ones.
craft — putting it together · 8 min
Nobody tunes one parameter. They build a rig.
The useful unit is not a parameter, it is a set of them that agree. Here are four in this collection, each reused across several images, written out in full.