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Midjourney 5.2
Midjourney Just Dropped A New Killer Feature: “Panning”
Midjourney’s New Panning Feature Takes Your Designs to Another Level — Literally.
Midjourney is considered by many to be the leader of the pack when it comes to innovative Generative AI.
Whenever new features are implemented, the community gets excited and, within a few hours after release, shines with stunning new design concepts, workflows and applications.
This time, the panning feature went live and I promise you’ll have a lot of fun with it. Here’s why.
So, what’s panning?
If you’ve tried Midjourne’s Zoom Out feature, you’ve already seen the potential of what’s called “outpainting”.
While the Zoom Out feature allows you to expand the canvas on all sides at once, resulting in more of a zooming effect, Panning allows you to expand the canvas on only one of the two sides of the canvas.
How does Midjourney’s Panning function work
There are currently two ways you can use the new panning feature. Let’s start with the straightforward one:
Basic Usage: Upscaling + Panning
First, you create an upscale of an image by using the respective “U” button. So, for example, from an initial prompt like this:
1980s spy movie, Medium closeup shot from low-angle, off-center,
35 mm film still shot on Kodachrome --ar 21:9… I would get an image grid and upscale image no. 2:
