Hi y'all! This week we’re gonna start letting everyone test our first V8.2 image edit model! 

This model supports:

1. Editing images with instructions 
2. Generating images with other images (replacing omni-reference) with up to 4 image references at once.
3. Changing specific areas of your images (inpainting) or expand your canvas (outpainting) 
4. Using personalization, moodboards and srefs (moodboards/srefs may work best with some extra prompt direction in this version)

Ways to use the model:
a) Drag images into the prompt bar under "attach to prompt”
b) Click ‘edit’ in the lower right in the lightbox
c) Click the ‘edit’ tab on the left and upload an image
d) Type `--edit url` on Discord

We’ve updated UIs on both the main midjourney.com website and alpha.midjourney.com , alpha will be changing rapidly with lots of experiments on how to remake the interfaces for this model. 

There’s gonna be a lot of edge cases here so we’ll need your help finding situations that don’t work as expected. If an image doesn’t work well try clicking the sad face emoji on the right side of the lightbox or give us the jobid/url for the image while it's opened in the lightbox

We’d also love your thoughts on how we can improve our user interfaces for this model from here. Drop your thoughts in response to this thread or in the ideas and feedback channel on our discord.

There will be a lot of fast-follow updates from here, but we’re ready to start testing as a larger community and hope you have fun! <3

Thanks for testing our V8.0 model over the last month! Today we're releasing our next version of V8 - V8.1

What’s new in V8.1?

• V8.1 has a consistent and familiar aesthetic in the spirit of V7. Moodboards and srefs are now super stable and will be everything you love.
• HD mode is now 3x faster and 3x cheaper. It’s so cheap we’re making it default for V8.1
• Standard resolution is now 50% faster and 25% cheaper. Standard resolution in V8.1 at full quality is as fast as V7 draft mode! It’s great for exploring and iterating *fast*. We’ve also added a button called “Run as HD” which will rerun any SD job as HD.

We’ve also brought back some community favorite features

• Image prompts and even image weights are now available in V8.1
• New Prompt Shortener, which will kick in anytime you go over the prompt length limits
• Updated Describe that gives longer more detailed prompts and matches the prompting style of V8

Please Note: Our V8 series of models are still only available on alpha.midjourney.com and are in an early testing phase. Things will change! Perhaps without notice! But good stuff is on the way.

It is likely that we will decommission our V8.0 model after V8.1 has been out for a few weeks. If you find something the old model did better than the new one please let us know on our discord server!

What’s next? We’re going to try to give a quick shot for some V8 upscalers and then we’re moving onto our V8 edit, inpainting, and outpainting model upgrades.

Have fun everyone! And thank you for being a part of our community