Midjourney Prompt Generator — Build Expert Image Prompts with PromptBro
PromptBro builds detailed, well-structured prompts for Midjourney V7 — covering subject description, style references, lighting, composition, and the parameters that actually move the needle on output quality.
What Makes a Great Midjourney Prompt?
Midjourney V7 weighs the first 5 words of your prompt most heavily — lead with your main subject and its most important qualities. Descriptive adjectives before nouns outperform generic descriptions: "weathered elderly fisherman" works better than "old man who is a fisherman." Style references are extremely effective — phrases like "in the style of Studio Ghibli," "hyperrealistic photography," "brutalist architecture editorial," or "35mm film grain" communicate far more than attempting to describe style through abstract language.
Lighting terms have a disproportionate impact on mood and quality: golden hour, overcast diffused light, rim lighting, volumetric god rays, neon-lit, and dramatic chiaroscuro all produce meaningfully different results. Comma-separated keywords work better than full sentences for image generation — Midjourney is not a language model, it reads prompts as a weighted tag set. Essential parameters: --ar for aspect ratio (16:9 for landscape, 9:16 for portrait, 1:1 for square), --v 7 to specify version, --s (stylize, 0–1000) to control how strongly Midjourney applies its aesthetic, and --no for negative prompts. --q 2 increases render quality at the cost of speed.
Example Midjourney Prompts
Portrait photography
close-up portrait of a weathered Mongolian nomad woman, 60s, deep-set eyes, fierce expression, traditional deel garment with silver jewelry, windswept hair, golden hour backlight, rim lighting, shallow depth of field, shot on Hasselblad medium format, bokeh background of endless steppe, hyperrealistic photography, National Geographic editorial style --ar 3:4 --v 7 --s 750 --q 2
Architectural visualization
exterior render of a modernist brutalist library, raw exposed concrete, massive geometric cantilever, floor-to-ceiling glass curtain wall, surrounded by ancient oak trees, overcast dramatic sky, twilight blue hour lighting, interior warm light visible through glass, wide establishing shot, architectural photography by Ezra Stoller, ultra-detailed, photorealistic --ar 16:9 --v 7 --s 600 --q 2 --no people, cars, watermark
Fantasy scene
ancient floating island city suspended above storm clouds, waterfalls cascading off the edges into the abyss below, gothic stone towers with glowing rune lanterns, massive chain bridges connecting platforms, warm amber and violet sunset light piercing through storm, birds circling the towers, epic fantasy concept art, in the style of Ian McQue and Studio Ghibli, cinematic wide angle, stunning detail --ar 21:9 --v 7 --s 850
Product visualization
luxury minimalist perfume bottle, matte frosted glass with gold leaf geometric details, single bloom of a black rose lying beside it, marble surface, studio product photography, three-point lighting setup, soft diffused key light, specular highlights on glass, macro lens, crystal clear liquid with faint purple tint, white seamless background, high-end fragrance editorial, commercial photography --ar 1:1 --v 7 --s 500 --q 2 --no text, label, shadow harsh
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