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# Maximizing Midjourney’s /describe command for even better prompts

Reverse engineer text prompts from images—then enhance!

How many times do you look at an AI image and say “I wonder how they did that?” Or maybe you have an image you’d like to reference or mimic, perhaps in a style you’re unfamiliar with? You know exactly what you want, how it looks, but not how to express it? Now **Midjourney** can help with that.

Of course, being able to reverse engineer a text prompt for AI images isn’t new: previously I would recommend **Lexica** (the Stable Diffusion Search Engine) or the **CLIP Interrogator** on Huggingface. However, it’s nice to have one in-house at **Midjourney**, accessible in your **Discord** chat.

I’ll publish a performance comparison of these platforms soon, but my initial impression is that the **Midjourney V5 /describe command** rocks!

*You can also discover how to animate your AI images in my article below:*

[How to make your AI art move with PhotoVibranceUse Magic Motion and 3D Parallax to animate eye-catching, scroll-stopping images for use on social media, marketing…bootcamp.uxdesign.cc](https://bootcamp.uxdesign.cc/how-to-make-your-ai-art-move-with-photovibrance-288189fea4b8)

## How to use Midjourney V5 **/describe** command <a href="#id-3528" id="id-3528"></a>

If you’ve been using **Midjourney** for image-to-image generation, you’ll already know you can use images as input *(**Top Tip**: You can even assign weight to images input with the parameter “--iw” followed by a number between 0.5–2, to change how much or how little you want it to influence the outcome)*.

What we want today starts with that same first step — **uploading an image.**\
I’ll use an image from Pexels, [Great Sphinx Of Giza Under Blue Starry Sky](https://www.pexels.com/photo/great-sphinx-of-giza-under-blue-starry-sky-262780/).

Type **/describe in chat**, then drag and drop or click to upload your image.

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**Midjourney** will churn out 4 possible descriptions for you to choose from! I particularly like that it includes the aspect ratio automatically. *This method is a great way to learn better prompt engineering. Look at the detail and how it describes the subject, the style, the lighting, the background, the aesthetic, etc:*

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Once you’ve selected your option, clicking will open an **/imagine** prompt.

This is important because you can reword the prompt before processing if you have any changes (exactly like when running **Variations** of an image):

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And then you get generated output in foursquare, as per business as usual:

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### Enhancing your /describe command with ChatGPT or Jasper Chat <a href="#df85" id="df85"></a>

The great thing about having the image-to-text description is now we can manipulate and refine it to achieve even better results. This is where AI language models like **ChatGPT** and **Jasper Chat** come into play. **Jasper Chat** is [an exceptional choice for refining your descriptions](https://medium.com/@TheJasperWhisperer/chatgpt-vs-jasper-chat-which-ai-chatbot-is-right-for-your-business-60536071ca6a), thanks to its strong focus on NLP, multiple language models, and its roots as a copywriting tool.

To make the most of your image-to-text descriptions from Midjourney’s **/describe** command, you can use the “[**Narrativize Your Prompt**](https://community.jasper.ai/recipes/dae923ef-b54e-48a1-974d-56e71ee73469?fpr=thejasperwhisperer)” Jasper Recipe. This unique recipe, created by Jim Nightingale, a.k.a. **The Jasper Whisperer**, is designed to help you transform basic prompts into evocative, narrative-driven descriptions for even more visionary AI-generated images.

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While tools like **ChatGPT** can help to some extent, the “Narrativize Your Prompt” Jasper Recipe is specifically optimized for **Jasper AI**’s advanced language model.&#x20;