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Consistent Results with Midjourney: How to Use the Seed Command
What is the Seed Value?
Midjourney offers the ability to create complex and visually stunning images with just a few keystrokes. However, if you want more consistency in your projects, Midjourney’s default settings, which allow for quick-and-easy results, are more of a problem.
Look at the results of this prompt:
/imagine a black cat on a sofa
Pretty cool for accomplishing that with just a basic description, right? Now let’s just run the same prompt again:
/imagine a black cat on a sofa
Awesome. But completely different cats and sofas!
The reason for this: under the hood Midjourney uses randomness to generate your images. Think of it like this: by default, Midjourney selects a random seed value in each generation process that defines the type of noise pattern Midjourney uses to generate the image you want. This seed value is simply a number used to introduce a random but consistent element of “noise” into the process.
The number itself is not of particular importance, since it is used to make the results random. However, it does mean that Midjourney will use a different number at each prompt, which will produce different results unless you define a specific seed value. This is where the “seed command” comes in.
Seed Command to the Rescue
By using the seed command, we can force Midjourney to use a specific starting point for our prompt, so that if we use the same seed with the same prompt, we will get the same results.
To set the seed value, we use the “seed” parameter and add a random number:
/imagine a black cat on a sofa --seed 1234
