Midjourney v5.2: the only new feature you need to know about

Hello, there! Yes, it's been a few days since Midjourney announced it's newest version, v5.2. Truly sorry about being “late”, but bear with me as I also don't want to spam your inbox, my dear reader. With that being said, the biggest new feature is simple:

Zoom out

aka, what other tools have been calling “outpainting”. Here's how you trigger it:

1. Use /settings to make sure you are in v5.2 (you probably already are)

2. Upscale any generation.

The prompt we will be using is every millennial teenager action dream:

a samurai fighting a ninja

The idea here is a prompt that will probably have relevant additions as we zoom out. Hence why we are moving away from our regular outer-space-themed prompts.

Original generation:

Let's upscale the third image, as it looks like it has a lot of potential for outp… cahem, zooming out 🙂.

What happens after we press “1” (zoom out 2x):

What happens after we press “2” (zoom out 1.5x):

What happens after we press “3”:

1. Here we can adjust the --ar (see this post to master it)

2. Here we can adjust the amount of zoom (I honestly don't know how far it goes)

Let's make two usefuls --ar: 16:9 and 9:16:

16:9:

9:16:

That's it, dear reader. If you want a more complete tutorial on all new things on v5.2 (although me, myself, wasn't as impressed with other features as this one), I truly recommend this beautiful article.