Midjourney V6.1 Is Finally Here
The next version of the most popular and powerful AI image generator is finally here. Check out what's new and how it compares to the previous model.
The long wait is finally over. After months of anticipation, Midjourney announced the release of V6.1.
Seven months since the first official release of the Midjourney V6 model, the most popular AI image generator is finally back with some much awaited upgrades. The creators admit that this release has been in the works for a long time and has been guided by the priorities submitted and ranked by the community.
Contrary to usual versioning practices, Midjourney did not release the new model as V6.5. Instead, they opted to roll it out in two phases: V6.1 and V6.2.
Why?
According to David Holz, the creator of Midjourney, they need to gather as much data as possible on people using V6.1 before they release a V6.2 model in the next month or so.
What’s New in Midjourney V6.1?
Here’s a complete list of changes and improvements in V6.1:
More Coherent Images: Improvements in rendering arms, legs, hands, bodies, plants, and animals.
Enhanced Image Quality: Reduced pixel artifacts and better textures, including skin and 8-bit retro styles.
Detailed Small Features: More precise and accurate small image features like eyes, small faces, and distant hands.
New Upscalers: Improved image and texture quality with new upscalers.
Speed Improvements: Roughly 25% faster for standard image jobs.
Improved Text Accuracy: Better accuracy when drawing words via “quotations” in prompts.
New Personalization Model: Enhanced nuance, surprise, and accuracy in personalized images.
Personalization Code Versioning: Ability to use any personalization code from old jobs to utilize the personalization model and data from that job.
New “-- q 2” Mode: A mode that takes 25% longer but sometimes adds more texture at the cost of reduced image coherence.
General Aesthetic Improvements: Overall, images should look “generally more beautiful.”
Example Images of V6.1
I wont be doing an extensive test of the new model on this article. Instead, I will do some examples to see how these improvements play out, especially focusing on hands and text rendering.
Rendering Hands
Prompt: an image of crowd of people raising their hands — ar 16:9 — s 750 — v 6.1
Okay, most of the hands and limbs from this photo are looking right but a few still come out a bit off. I’ll switch back to V6 and generate an image with the same prompt.