This Midjourney tutorial focuses on the three most commonly used things after registration: how to make your generations as “for your eyes only” as possible, how to set default preferences, and how to use blocked words to reduce unwanted elements. These Midjourney settings aren’t complicated, but once you put them in the right places, your day-to-day generating will go much more smoothly. Below, we’ll go step by step following the operation path.
After registering, first confirm your account and your generation entry point
After completing Midjourney registration and logging in, first confirm the generation entry point you use most often: sending commands to the Midjourney Bot in Discord, or initiating generation on the Create page of the Midjourney website. These two entry points are essentially the same account system, and your works will be consolidated on your personal homepage for easy searching and downloading. It’s recommended to first check on your personal homepage that you can see your historical works, to make sure you didn’t log into the wrong account.
If you want “private generations,” first understand the public scope
Many people think that privately messaging the Midjourney Bot on Discord is completely private, but in fact it only avoids appearing in public channels; the works may still appear in the Midjourney website’s feed. True “private mode” depends on your subscription privileges: only plans that support private mode can use /private to switch to private generations. You can type /private or /public in Discord to see whether it’s available; if it’s not available, the safest approach is to generate only in DMs, at least avoiding exposure in channels.
Use /settings and Remix to maximize editing efficiency
Typing /settings to Midjourney in Discord will bring up common toggles and default quality options. It’s recommended to turn on Remix Mode, so when you use Vary (variants) or make local edits, you can modify the prompt directly instead of starting a new image from scratch. Midjourney’s style differences can be significant; locking in the quality and style toggles you commonly use can reduce the “up-and-down” fluctuations where the same prompt produces inconsistent results.
Set default preferences: use /prefer option to have parameters follow automatically
If you have to type parameters manually every time, Midjourney can feel very “hands-on” and tedious. You can use /prefer option set to turn commonly used parameters into shortcuts—for example, put your commonly used --ar and --stylize into an alias, and then simply reference it in prompts afterward. When you need to review or clean them up, use /prefer option list and /prefer option del to manage these preferences, so they don’t pile up into a mess.
Blocked words and how to write “don’t include”: using --no is more reliable
The most practical way to block things in Midjourney is negative constraints: add --no followed by the target element at the end of the prompt, such as “--no text --no watermark,” to reduce text and watermarks. You can also turn frequently used --no combinations into default preferences via /prefer option set, so every generation includes them automatically. If an element still keeps appearing repeatedly, it’s usually because the prompt contains an implicit related term—remember to replace related words as well, and the results will be more stable.
