The Best Midjourney Aspect Ratios

Today on 🥯 Bagel Bots, we’re discussing:

• 😃 You should be using the tools I send you

• 🔉 An AI app to try—Speechify

• 📰 The latest AI news

• 🤖 Cool new AI apps for you to check out

• 🖼️ The best aspect ratios for Midjourney prompts

• 💰 Making money is not a bad thing

(Read time: ten minutes - this is a big one)

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🎙️ My new favorite AI app - Speechify

I receive so many PDFs, documents, long emails, and the list goes on and on. I don’t particularly enjoy reading them. I do, however, love listening to podcasts all day. Speechify solves a big problem for me.

I can upload anything (including web links), and it will read to me in real-time (or later). It’s literally that simple.

Why is this so helpful for me? I can take all the documents, memos, emails, PDFs, and briefs I receive in a day and listen to everything while walking my dogs after work.

This is how it looks:

There is a free trial, and I recommend you sign up and test this for yourself. Such a time saver. Oh yeah, you can also have things read to you by Gwyneth Paltrow and Snoop Dogg.

🔗 You can access the website and try it for free here.

🚨 Interesting AI and tech news from the last few days

AI news is flying faster and faster. These are the most significant things you need to know:

• 🔗 What do you think? Should AI be able to win a Grammy? Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. On How The New Awards Rules And Guidelines Will Make The 2024 GRAMMYs More Fair, Transparent & Accurate. Read more here.

• 🔗 I have been waiting for this for so long. We’ll still need some sort of scanner in the home to pull this off. Virtually try on clothes with a new AI shopping feature. Read more here.

• 🔗 Someone do this for politicians, and we’ll all be rich. Poliant.com Releases Follow the Whale, the First AI Pool in the Crypto Market. Read more here.

• 🔗 The next election is going to be so fucked up. Meta's New AI Speech Tool Is Ready-Made for Deepfakes—So It's Not Being Released. Read more here.

• 🔗 Are we a year away from AI doctors? I really hope so! AI could predict pancreatic cancer early in some cases, a study shows. Read more here.

🤖 AI apps for you to check out this week

Every one of these apps can help you with your company, career, side hustle, or personal project. I recommend diving deep into them all.

• 🔗 MusicGen - The model will generate 12 seconds of audio based on the description you provided

• 🔗 CreateBookAI - Create stunning children’s books in 5 minutes using powerful AI

• 🔗 Formula God - Talk to Google Sheets with built-in artificial intelligence

• 🔗 Bardeen - Automation is now as easy as texting a friend

• 🔗 Rows - The spreadsheet where data comes to life

Check these fantastic platforms out, and let me know what you think. Reply to this email or tweet me directly.

🖼️ The best aspect ratios for your Midjourney prompts.

Whether creating a graphic, printing a photo, or shooting a video—aspect ratio is important. The aspect ratio is the relationship between a media file's height and width (shape).

In Midjourney, you can do any aspect ratio in the latest version. However, there are some better than others. Let’s use the same prompt and see how it changes based on different aspect ratios.

First, you’ll need to know how to add an aspect ratio to your prompt. At the end, you’ll type:

--ar 16:9

Of course, you can swap that for any aspect ratio you want.

• --ar 1:1 - Standard aspect ratio for square frames.

• --ar 3:2 - Typical for standard photographs.

• --ar 4:3 - Regularly seen in classic TV sets and desktop screens.

• --ar 5:4 - Usual ratio for frames and printouts.

• --ar 7:4 - Comparable to High Definition TV and mobile phone displays.

• --ar 16:9 - Regular for wide-format screens.

• --ar 9:16 - Portrait counterpart of 16:9, often used for upright visuals.

So, let’s say I wanted to have a fashion model posing prompt in different aspect ratios. Here’s what we would get:

Prompt:

/imagine A beautiful woman wearing glasses with roses on her wall, in the style of glamorous Hollywood portraits, light pink and red, 32k uhd, dressed in a Gucci suit, dramatic lighting effects, New York fashion week - inspired, big gold jewelry --ar [ratio]

Disclaimer: I have used this prompt before and gotten very diverse women. This one used the same model in each image.

1:1

3:2

4:3

5:4

7:4

16:9

9:16

💰 My big thought of the day: making money is not a bad thing.

Don’t let people fool you - money can buy happiness. More shit around your house won’t make you happy, but comfort, healthcare, and shelter make people happy.

My financial advice: spend money on experiences and things that enhance your life, not toys and stupid shit.

Disclaimer: I have more Incredible Hulk comics, toys, and art than you can even imagine.