Midjourney Style Reference

You can use a style reference in Midjourney by typing '--sref' followed by the URL of your reference image at the end of your prompt. This tells the AI to analyze the aesthetics, color palette, and mood of that specific image rather than just the content. It is a powerful tool for ensuring visual consistency across a series of different prompts.

Yes, Midjourney allows you to input multiple style reference URLs in a single prompt to blend different aesthetics. You can also adjust the weighting of each reference by using the '--sw' (style weight) parameter to determine how strongly the AI applies the look. This allows you to blend the lighting of one image with the color palette of another.

No, the '--sref' parameter is specifically designed to extract the artistic style, lighting, and textures from an image, not the specific subjects or characters. Midjourney filters out the content of the reference and focuses purely on the visual aesthetic. If you want to replicate a specific person or object, you would need to use a character reference ('--cref') instead.

Traditional image prompting (where the image URL is at the very beginning of the prompt) blends the actual content and composition of the image with your text. A Style Reference ('--sref') isolates the aesthetic mood and applies it to the new composition described in your text. Using Style Reference gives you much cleaner, more predictable results when you only care about the 'look' of the image.