Version 6.1

Hi everyone, we’re releasing V6.1 of our Midjourney Image Model today!

What’s new in V6.1?

• More coherent images (arms, legs, hands, bodies, plants, animals, etc)
• Much better image quality (reduced pixel artifacts, enhanced textures, skin, etc)
• More precise, detailed, and correct small image features (eyes, small faces, far away hands, etc)
• New 2x upscalers with much better image / texture quality
• Roughly 25% faster for standard image jobs
• Improved text accuracy (when drawing words via “quotations” in prompts)
• A new personalization model with improved nuance, surprise, and accuracy
• Personalization code versioning (use any personalization code from old jobs to use the personalization model and data from that job)
• A new --q 2 mode which takes 25% longer to (sometimes) add more texture at the cost of reduced image coherence
• Things should look “generally more beautiful” across the board

Other important notes

• V6.1 currently does not have a new inpainting/outpainting model so if you use zoom/reframe/repaint/vary region it will fall back to the V6.0 model
• If you want to change back to V6 just go to /settings and click V6 or type --v 6 after your job (or click the settings panel on the website)

Future plans: We will likely release a V6.2 model in the next month or so with further improvements, but first, we need to gather as much data as possible of people using V6.1. So as of today we’re making V6.1 the default model on Midjourney for all users.

This release has been a long-time in the works and has been guided by the priorities submitted and ranked by the community at midjourney.com/ideas

We thank everyone for their involvement in this process and we hope everyone enjoys the new release! Have fun! ❤️