[Midjourney Guide] How to Use a Seed in Midjourney to Generate Consistent Images?

Have you ever encountered a situation like this? You input a prompt in Midjourney, and it generates 4 images. You review the 4 images and find one that's great, but the others are not quite what you had in mind. So you modify the prompt a little. This time, Midjourney generates some more images but are totally different, which frustrates you. Then you wonder why you cannot just modify the images from the first batch instead.

The inconsistency is down to the random elements used by Midjourney during image generation. Luckily, Midjourney seed comes to the rescue, a feature that allows to lock the core elements of the existing image. This ensures that the content generated from the base image doesn't change too much. In this section, you will know what is Midjourney seed, how to use a seed in Midjourney to craft consistent characters as below.

Part 1. What Is Seed in Midjourney? Why It Is Important?

Midjourney employs a seed number to generate a field of visual noise, like television static. This serves as the starting point of the image generation process. Seed numbers are randomly generated for each image creation instance. The seed values in Midjourney can be any whole number between 0 and 4294967295. You can specify them using the --seed parameter from previous versions. By specifying a seed number, you can ensure that Midjourney like V4, V5, or V6 generates nearly identical images when you use the same prompt multiple times. Midjourney Seed is important for several reasons:

• Consistency: Midjourney Seed allows to achieve consistent results when using the same prompt multiple times. This is crucial for creating cohesive image sets like branded campaigns or character development.
• Control: By specifying a seed, Midjourney gives you more control over the desired style and composition. You can therefore create a specific artistic vision for your project.
• Exploration: Seed enables you to explore variations of a prompt by making small adjustments to the seed value. This can lead to unexpected and creative results.

Part 2. How to Get Seed Number in Midjourney?

Step 1. Use the prompts to generate an initial image of the character you have in mind.

Here are the original prompts I used:

Step 2. Choose the image (U3) you generated in step 1 as the base image for further modifications, and copy the URL.

Step 3. Click on the emoji icon in the top right corner of the generated four-grid interface.

Step 4. Enter: envelope, and find the envelope icon, click on it.

Step 5. Then you will receive a message from the Midjourney Bot in your direct message. Open the message and you will receive the seed value. Copy the seed value of the image.

Part 3. How to Use a Seed in Midjourney

Midjourney's --seed parameter lets you control image similarity across prompts. If you want to generate similar images between prompts, simply add "-- seed value" to the end of your prompt. To control the consistency of the character, here is the universal formula: replace keywords + seed value.

Step 1. Get the seed value following the above-mentioned steps. Or you can pick any number between 0 and 4294967295. Please do use whole numbers instead of any decimal value, which will make your seed number invalid.

Step 2. Modify your prompts, and add the seed value at the end.

In this section, we change the portion of the prompts from “rabbit ears hat”to “cat ears hat”, and add --seed 3476978698 at the end. Here is the revamped prompts with seed value:

Step 3. Finally, we got the similar images. Here is the case：

Original prompts:

New prompts 1:

New prompts 2:

The results:

Below are the generated images (the left one is the original image, and the right ones are the images generated using the seed with minor change of prompts). As you can see, the ears have changed, but the character remains almost the same. You can do more tests and adjustments of the prompts to get a series of images.