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Getting Started with Midjourney: Your First Complete Generation Guide

A beginner Midjourney tutorial: enter the workspace, write your first prompt, understand basic parameters, and export your first V8.1 image.

This tutorial walks you through your first Midjourney image generation. Even without a design background, you can get a shareable final image in about 15 minutes.

What You Need

  • Access to a Midjourney workspace account (enter via this site’s “Try Midjourney” entry point)
  • A simple subject to generate (for example: a coffee cup, a mountain, a product bottle)
  • About 10–15 minutes

Step 1: Enter the Workspace

  1. Open midjourney.ing
  2. Click Try Midjourney in the nav or on the homepage
  3. Sign in / register, then enter the generation interface

After you click, you are routed to the product by the current page language—for example Simplified Chinese: https://app.midjourney.ing/zh-cn/generate/image-tools/mjpro/.

Step 2: Write Your First Prompt

Start with a short sentence—do not write a novel on the first try. For example:

a ceramic coffee cup on a wooden table, morning window light, soft shadows, photorealistic --v 8.1

Remember the structure: subject + scene + light + style.

Step 3: Choose a Resolution Strategy

  • First exploration: use standard resolution (SD)
  • When you like a result: turn on HD or use Run as HD

You will learn which words work faster this way—without spending the session waiting on high resolution.

Step 4: Make One Meaningful Iteration

Change only one variable, for example:

  • Swap morning window light for neon rim light
  • Or append --raw
  • Or adjust --stylize

Compare the two results and you will quickly build intuition for Midjourney parameters.

Step 5: Export and Save

Download the final image and keep:

  • The final prompt
  • The parameters you used
  • A screenshot of the composition you liked

That becomes the starting point of your personal prompt library.

FAQ

The image looks too “glossy” or cinematic—what now?

Try adding --raw so results stay closer to the literal description.

Want more surprise?

Raise --chaos, but start with a small step.

What should you learn next?

Read the blog post Midjourney V8.1 Feature Breakdown, then study the prompt structure method.

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