The Beginner's Guide to Midjourney: How to Start Creating Your Own AI Art in 2023

It’s all over the internet — images generated by AI. Stunning pictures that anyone with access to the internet can create and share with the world. Don’t miss the opportunity and learn how also you can start creating.

A person trying to learn to work with a computer, cinematic lighting. AI-generated image by the author via Midjourney.

In this article, I will guide you through the steps you need to take to be able to start creating your own images and give some tips for the start. If you don’t have any experience with Midjourney yet, this is just for you and might save you some troubles along the way. I will go straight to the point so that you can start creating your AI Art right after you finish this article.

The most confusing thing is that Midjourney is not an app or a dedicated website. It’s a bot on a server on the communication platform named Discord, mainly known to gamers. If you don’t play hard but just work hard so you don’t know Discord, it’s not that different from Slack or Teams.

So the first thing you need to do is:

Setup Discord

Create your account at https://discord.com/ and decide whether you want to use it in the browser or if you want to download the…