Midjourney is turning heads with its new image editor, which lets users upload images and then make adjustments. The company’s models — most recently Midjourney 6.1 — accept uploaded images as a reference to use for generative results. Now the Midjourney image editor allows precise adjustments to aspects of the frame. An “image retexturing mode” is also being introduced, as is v2 of its “AI moderator.” The new features are only available to users with yearly memberships, monthly memberships for the past 12 months, or those who have generated at least 10,000 Midjourney images.

“With Midjourney’s new ‘Edit’ feature, users can upload any image of their choosing and actually edit sections of it with AI, or change the style and texture of it from the source to something totally different, such as turning a vintage photograph into anime — while preserving most of the image’s subjects and objects and spatial relationships,” VentureBeat explains, adding that “it even works on doodles and hand drawings, turning scribbles into full art pieces in seconds.”

In August, Midjourney launched a Web interface after allowing access only through a Discord server for two years, but VentureBeat says these new tools are available only at alpha.midjourney.com.

There, qualifying users can log in and, following the step-by-step instructions provided by VentureBeat, Midjourney and others, let their imaginations run wild, choosing to “Edit from URL” or “Edit Uploaded Image.”

The first option “can accept a wide range of images hosted on various websites such as Wikimedia Commons, if the user simply pastes in the correct link to the web-hosted image,” VentureBeat reports.

ZDNet notes that the second choice lets users upload images from their computers, accommodating “a wide variety of graphic file formats, including JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIF, PSD, RAW and WEBP.”

Either option offers various creative options. “Moving the image shifts its spot on the canvas while cropping scales it down in size. Erasing removes any part of the image you choose, so you can then fill the deleted areas with new content,” writes ZDNet. “You can manually resize the image by dragging the Image Scale slider and changing the aspect ratio to 1:1, 4:3, 16:9, and other formats.”

“The singer Grimes is one of the lucky ones with access to Midjourney’s new tool and shared a series of fantastical pictures of her in different outfits she’d created,” reports PetaPixel, sharing some of those images.

Midjourney describes its new V2 AI moderator as “the most intelligent AI moderator ever,” acting as a sort of generative concierge, interfacing between user prompts and the model.

Company founder and CEO David Holz “says that he is deploying extra human moderation over the output as well as ‘more advanced AI moderators which we feel will do a great job,” in an effort to rein in deepfakes and false positives, according to PetaPixel.