Midjourney: Consistent Characters with Character Reference (CREF)

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Demo summary

The video demonstrates the --cref parameter to maintain a character's face and features across different environments and styles.

Step-by-step

Drag a character image into the prompt bar
Switch the image setting to a character reference
Enter your prompt describing the new scene or style
Add the --cw parameter followed by a number from 0 to 100 to adjust character weight
Use the Vary Region (repaint) tool to select a specific character in an existing generation
Right-click and copy the image URL of your reference character
Paste the URL into the repaint prompt using the --cref parameter

Options

Use non-Midjourney images as references
Set --cw to 100 to match face, clothing, and accessories
Set --cw to 0 to match only the face
Apply character references across different emotions, styles, and camera angles
Use multiple character references in one image via inpainting

Watch out for

Character references work best with images originally generated within Midjourney
Real photos of people will not result in an exact match
To use character references within the repaint tool, you must manually provide a URL

Tips

Set character weight (--cw) to 0 frequently since clothing matches are rarely perfect
Perform multiple rerolls when using real photos to get a closer likeness
Use the repaint method if you need to fix a face that looks 'off' in a generation

Highlights

“these look great we can see her across all these different scenes”

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