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title: '**image weight**'
description: >-
  **image weight** — in the channel's captured material, a Midjourney steering
  control used during the refinement stage of an image-generation workflow:
  after prompting simply and iterating widely, the practitioner applies image
  weighting (together with vary-subtle) to push results closer to a chosen
  visual direction.
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# \*\*image weight\*\*

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Parent: [Channel index](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/llms.txt)

## Definition

**image weight** — in the channel's captured material, a Midjourney steering control used during the refinement stage of an image-generation workflow: after prompting simply and iterating widely, the practitioner applies image weighting (together with vary-subtle) to push results closer to a chosen visual direction.

In the channel's material on design and creative work with AI, **image weight** shows up as a *Midjourney steering control* used inside the creative lead's actual iteration workflow. The context is a broader argument: because generating images and UIs is becoming trivial, the scarce skill is **art direction** — knowing what you want and steering image models toward it. Image weighting is one of the concrete levers for that steering.It comes up in the description of a **Midjourney workflow** that favors simple prompts for composition, wide iteration, and then targeted refinement. The recorded usage pairs *vary-subtle* with **image weighting** as the refinement step after broad exploration, before final compositing in Photoshop (where white backgrounds and black-and-white assets make isolation trivial). In other words, in this channel's captured usage, image weight is not a standalone concept to memorize — it is one move in a repeatable pipeline: explore widely, then use image weighting to push the model closer to a chosen direction.The surrounding conversation frames tools like image weight in service of *taste* and *direction*. As the guest puts it:> “If you have a direction, it becomes the map for every decision. If you're prompting without a vision, everything works — and nothing stands out.”- **Image weight** is used here as a Midjourney refinement control, alongside *vary-subtle*, in a wide-iteration-then-refine workflow. - It serves **art direction**: a way to steer generated images toward a visual direction rather than accept default output. - It sits in a pipeline that ends in **Photoshop compositing**, so generated results are treated as raw material, not finished work.