When you create images with Midjourney, the platform applies its own “default styling” to produce significantly better images with simple prompts. This default setting ensures that the AI tool creates images with an emphasis on artistic color, composition, and shapes.
How to use the style parameter in Midjourney
The Stylize parameter affects how strongly this "default styling" is applied. You can set different values between 0 and 1000 for the Stylize parameter to control the strength of the stylization of your images. Based on the level of artistic process you want Midjourney to apply, you can change the value of the stylization using the Stylize prompt.
When you specify low values for the stylize parameter, Midjourney produces images that are more consistent with the prompt you entered; this can sometimes result in less artistic images. High values for the parameter can produce very artistic images, but these images may no longer be relevant to the input prompt.
Midjourney first introduced the Stylize parameter with the version 3 update and this model allowed you to set high stylization values up to 60000. Since the update to version 4, the platform has limited the range of values you can add; you can now only specify values between 0 and 1000 when using the Stylize parameter. The latest model (v5.2) is more sensitive to the stylize parameter compared to older models and you will see changes in your generated images with lower stylize strengths.
