Midjourney Beginner Tutorial: From Discord Authorization Login to Your First Image and Parameter Settings

This Midjourney tutorial focuses on just one thing: from signing up and linking Discord, to completing your first image and learning the basic parameters. Follow the steps and you can get Midjourney running within 10 minutes, with less chance of mixing up your accounts. The actions below are suitable for people who want to generate images normally with Midjourney, view their works, and switch accounts.

1) Registration & linking: connect your Midjourney account via Discord

First, prepare a usable Discord account and make sure you can receive email verification codes normally. Open the Midjourney official website and choose to log in with Discord. The browser will pop up an authorization page; after you click “Authorize,” Midjourney will automatically link to the current Discord account. It’s recommended that you confirm your email and Discord nickname at the first linking, which makes billing checks or account recovery easier later.

After linking is complete, you can see your personal gallery and generation history on the Midjourney web app. Once this step is done properly, whether you generate images in Discord or on the web, the records will all be attributed to the same Midjourney account.

2) First image in Discord: from /imagine to upscaling and variations

After joining Midjourney’s Discord server, the most worry-free approach is to DM the “Midjourney Bot” directly to avoid spamming public channels. Type “/imagine,” and in the prompt field describe the scene in one sentence (subject + style + lighting + camera feel). Send it and wait for a 4-image grid to be generated.

After the images are generated, the most commonly used options are the Upscale and Vary/Variation buttons: Upscale is for getting a clearer single image, and Variation is for iterating further on the same idea. You can also add parameters at the end of the prompt, such as “--ar 16:9” to control aspect ratio and “--stylize 200” to control stylization strength; these are the most commonly used Midjourney basics and the least likely to cause problems.

3) How to use the web app: finding images, downloading, and reusing prompts

The Midjourney web app is better for organizing your work: in Gallery you can view results by time, and you can download directly by opening an individual image. Many people can’t find the “same style”; in fact, the most reliable method is to open that image’s detail page, copy the original prompt, and then fine-tune the keywords.

If you’re used to generating in Discord, it’s also recommended to occasionally go back to the Midjourney web app to check whether you’ve “mixed accounts”: if unfamiliar works appear in your gallery, it basically means you logged into a different Discord account and need to handle account switching immediately.

4) Switching accounts & common issues: don’t let Midjourney “mistake who you are”

Midjourney “accounts” are essentially tied to your Discord login state, so the key to switching accounts is switching Discord. The process is: first log out on the Midjourney web app, then log out of the current account on Discord web, and finally log back into Midjourney with the target Discord account and authorize again.

If you clearly switched Discord but Midjourney still shows the old account, it’s usually caused by browser cache: log in again in an incognito window, or clear site data related to midjourney.com and try again. As long as you remember “Midjourney follows Discord,” your account linking, generation history, and gallery won’t get messed up.