2.11 – Personalization Lesson

Lesson Overview

The personalization feature in Midjourney offers a new way to tailor image generations to your individual taste. Instead of relying solely on prompt descriptions, you can now teach Midjourney what “good” looks like to you by ranking sample images. This helps the platform build a profile of your personal preferences—whether you’re a fan of hard shadows, soft highlights, photorealistic details, or stylized fantasy.

To get started, you’ll spend some time ranking images in the “Tasks” section of Midjourney. You need to hit at least 200 rankings before your unique aesthetic begins influencing your image generations. This process becomes a creative exercise in itself, and you’ll see more and more of your own style showing in the results as you continue.

Personalization helps streamline the creation process, making it more likely that the images you generate will match your intended mood or look without needing to tweak every prompt. This lesson is valuable whether you want more consistent project outputs, a signature visual style, or simply want Midjourney to “get” what you like. Personalization is already proving helpful for artists, marketers, educators, and anyone creating visual assets on a regular basis.

Who This Is For

If you want Midjourney to reflect your artistic taste, this lesson is for you. It’s especially suited to:

• Visual artists seeking to build a recognizable personal brand
• Marketers and content creators aiming for style consistency
• Solo creators looking for distinct results in their projects
• Educators teaching visual storytelling or AI concepts
• Designers aiming to reduce time spent on prompt fine-tuning

Where This Fits in a Workflow

Personalization is a foundational step for anyone who regularly uses Midjourney and wants consistent, appealing outputs. You’ll start with ranking images—an investment that pays off in time saved during later image creation. For example, after setting up your personalization, you might generate product mockups or social media visuals and notice they match your usual style preferences. Over time, as you refine your profile, these images will become even more aligned with what you envision, reducing manual edits and guesswork in prompt design.

Technical & Workflow Benefits

Before personalization, users often spent a lot of time tweaking prompts, running multiple generations, and selecting from mixed results to achieve a consistent style. With the personalization features in Midjourney, you can teach the system what you like up front by ranking images, which results in images much closer to your vision on the first try. This increases both speed and quality: fewer prompt revisions, faster decision-making, and style consistency across many projects.

For content creators, this means producing batches of images with a uniform look—ideal for marketing campaigns, educational materials, or branding efforts. If you collaborate with others, you can even share or adopt style shortcodes for a unified team aesthetic. In short, personalization lets you spend less time editing and more time creating.

Practice Exercise

Try building your personal style profile using Midjourney’s ranking system:

1. Open Midjourney, and go to the “Tasks” menu.
2. Select “Rank Image Aesthetics,” then spend 10–15 minutes ranking images based on your preferences. Remember, you need 200 rankings for personalization to activate.
3. Once enabled, use the same prompt both with and without the personalization setting, then compare the resulting images.

Reflection: Do you notice a meaningful difference between the two sets? Which images feel closer to your vision, and why?

Course Context Recap

This lesson is an important part of the Midjourney Mastery course, focusing on making Midjourney work for your unique style. After exploring general image generation, personalization introduces a deeper level of custom output. In upcoming lessons, you’ll see how to fine-tune prompts and use collaborative features for even more creative control. Continue learning to discover how these tools combine for powerful, personal image generation—explore the next chapter to build further on your skills.