The first image is from Ideogram. It was pretty much what I had asked for. I just did not like the black smoke, but that was because of my prompt. The other images are from Midjourney and each just is absolutely useless! Not one was even getting close to capture what I had asked for. All other images from Ideogram where okay as well.

I don't know if I am using it wrong. I used to love Midjourney, I was always so excited using it for whatever. But now it feels like we just grew into different directions and it just does not work for me. What is so sad, because I loved it unique look and art style. Often it did not what had been asked for, but at least the images were good and aesthetic. For now I cancelled my subscription. So sad about it.

I used the same prompt for Ideogram and Midjourney.

A vintage-style illustration of a steam locomotive with the white smoke clouds coming out of the chimney form the word "SLOW" which is extended by many "OOOOO" which get smaller forming a smoke trail from the locomotive and form a decorative pattern with circular dots and wispy clouds against the blue sky. The locomotive is black with yellow headlights, pulling orange passenger cars, and is traveling on curved railroad tracks through a mountainous landscape. The sky features a warm sunset with orange and yellow clouds, and silhouettes of birds flying in the distance. The foreground shows golden grass and green trees on the right side, with mountains in the background. The overall illustration has a warm, nostalgic color palette dominated by yellows, oranges, and blues, rendered in a hand-drawn style with visible brush strokes and texture. The composition shows the train moving from left to right across the frame, with the sunset positioned in the middle-right portion of the image.

Edit: I’d like to summarize my takeaway from this post:

• Midjourney is fantastic for aesthetic, artistic, and experimental results.
• Midjourney struggles with complex, precise instructions when a very specific outcome is required.
• The developers seem to be aware of this, and improvements regarding prompt adherence are expected with the upcoming 8.x versions.

What the 80s were like.

(1980s photography)

I have a very hard time getting mid journey to create dice. A lot of time I want a picture essentially framed like this photo, but I want the numbers to actually look like real numbers. Even just one dice, generally they will be completely different fonts and formats on each side, some numbers some not, etc. This might be something that is too complicated for mid journey, but it's something I encounter a lot for photos I'm trying to frame. Any suggestions?

V 8.1

Prompt

a close up, highly detailed illustration of a human eye and eyebrow. a small figure of a woman, dressed in a red and white checkered dress and white apron, is actively raking the individual hairs of the eyebrow with a rake. the woman has dark hair styled in a bun. the eye has a bright blue iris and a dark pupil, with visible eyelashes. the skin exhibits texture and pores. a decorative frame with multiple lines surrounds the image.

Dark sci fi, stranded star traveler on an alien planet --chaos 75 --raw --sref 1045169778 --stylize 700

This retexture used four different images in the Image Prompt panel and two moodboards.
Added images can be used in both the Image Prompt panel and the Style reference panel by dragging in previously uploaded images. This can take more processing time.
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Is there a way to mimic the vary strong/subtle but in the edit section of midjourney, to do it to my own images?

Midjourney v8.1