Turn ChatGPT Into A Midjourney Prompt Generator: A Step-By-Step Guide

Learn how to use ChatGPT to create and explore Midjourney prompts

Images by the author & Midjourney

There already are dozens of prompts that let ChatGPT produce amazing templates for Midjourney imagery. However, in this article, I want to show you how to create these prompts yourself, tailored to your personal use case, keeping full control while turning ChatGPT into a Midjourney Prompt Generator.

Step 1: Choose a prompt template

There are endless ways to structure a Midjourney prompt. Depending on your use case, you can modify the templates I published here on Medium to your liking or create your own ones.

One way or another, you need to find a structure that ChatGPT can work with. For this tutorial, we will use:

Basic Midjourney Prompt Anatomy (Source: https://tristwolff.medium.com/the-midjourney-cheat-sheet-v5-2-34b65cb90ea3)

If you want to check out other prompting techniques and their prompt anatomies, check out this article.

Step 2: Creating a ChatGPT prompt

(if you don’t feel familiar with ChatGPT prompting, no worries, you can catch up here, here and maybe here)

First, we’ll create a prompt that allows ChatGPT to iterate over our ideas and create image prompts that relate to it. Note that this is a very basic way to do it. Once you get the idea, please do explore your own creative ways to apply this to your use cases and image ideas.

We know that a solid and effective ChatGPT prompt has two main ingredients:

• an instruction
• and context

Let’s start with the context part. For starters, we simply describe the prefix, scene, and suffix from the above prompt anatomy:

This is the basic prompt anatomy for image generation with Midjourney:

/imagine prompt: PREFIX, SCENE, SUFFIX

PREFIX defines the image's medium and style
SCENE defines the content
SUFFIX modulates PREFIX and SCENE

In the next step, we combine the context with an instruction on what ChatGPT should actually do…