“Stunning”—Midjourney update wows AI artists with camera-like feature (arstechnica.com)

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Midjourney v5.2 features camera-like zoom control over framing, more realism.

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[-] u_tamtam@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

How's that different from outpainting, which has been a thing for a very long time?

https://openai.com/blog/dall-e-introducing-outpainting

https://stable-diffusion-art.com/outpainting/

[-] Chariotwheel@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Psst. Don't tell anybody, but the answer to your question is in the second paragraph in the article:

Similar to outpainting—an AI imagery technique introduced by OpenAI's DALL-E 2 in August 2022—Midjourney's zoom-out feature can take an existing AI-generated image and expand its borders while keeping its original subject centered in the new image. But unlike DALL-E and Photoshop's Generative Fill feature, you can't select a custom image to expand. At the moment, v5.2's zoom-out only works on images generated within Midjourney, a subscription AI image-generator service.