🔎 How to Zoom Out in Midjourney

In this article, I am going to show you step-by-step how to use the zoom-out function in Midjourney.

What is "Zoom-out"?

Zoom out allows you to take an upscaled image in Midjourney and extend the edges of the image whilst keeping the original image intact in the centre.

Use the /imagine prompt to create your initial round of images
Upscale the image you like the best
Under the upscaled image you can choose "🔎 Zoom Out 2x" or "🔎 Zoom Out 1.5x" or "🔎 Custom Zoom"
You can then choose a new version of the image that is zoomed out

Let me show you exactly how this works.

First, I prompt Midjourney with "magnifying glass cactus hybrid".

I used quite a high number for the chaos parameter to make sure the 4 images were quite different.

I then choose my favourite image to upscale.

I LOVE this image, it could be a great album cover!

I can then zoom out 2x.

I should note that I had the weird parameter up pretty high for this zoom-out.

Or zoom out 1.5x.

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If you don't want a square image then you simply adjust the aspect ratio parameter.

Theoretically, you can take the zoom-out feature and keep zooming out to produce something akin to an infinite zoom-out.

You could keep on zooming out...

There is also the custom zoom feature in this version of Midjourney that only allows a zoom-out value of between a factor of 1-2.

The great thing about custom Zoom, however, is that it allows you to change the initial prompt.

You can get really creative with it.

If we take our initial prompt and change it when we use the custom zoom "to a huge mural on the side of a building" or "photo on a coffee mug"

With the zoom function in Midjourney, you can not only use it to adjust the size of the canvas but you can also get some really creative results.