Make Precise Edits in Midjourney with Retexture and Smart Select

Change Looks with Retexture

The Retexture feature lets you change the surface appearance or style of an existing image. Think of it like swapping materials or applying different artistic styles. It’s different from basic editing tools.

Imagine you have a photo or generated image of a wooden chair. With Retexture, you can make that same chair look like it’s made of metal, plastic, or leather. You keep the chair’s shape and design, but the material changes.

This is especially useful if you’re designing objects. Instead of creating many different versions of a design in various materials, you can generate one design and then quickly preview it with different textures. This saves a lot of time and effort.

Retexture isn’t just for materials. You can also use it to apply different artistic styles. For example, you can take a photo or even a simple line sketch and make it look like a pencil drawing, a cartoon illustration, or even a 3D rendered image. The original composition and pose stay the same, but the visual style changes completely.

Using reference images with Retexture can help get more specific styles, like the work of certain artists. While text prompts work, adding a style reference image often helps Midjourney better capture the desired look.

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Precise Selection with Smart Select

Before Smart Select, if you wanted to change only one object in an image, like a perfume bottle, you had to erase the area around it manually with an eraser brush. That often made it hard to select complex shapes accurately. You risked accidentally erasing parts of the object or surrounding elements.

Smart Select solves this problem. It uses AI to automatically select specific objects within your image with just one click. You simply point the cursor at the object you want to select, click, and Midjourney identifies and highlights it.

Once an object is selected, you can easily erase just that selected area to replace it using a new prompt. This is much faster and more accurate than manual erasing. For example, if you have a photo of a hand holding a perfume bottle and you want to change only the bottle, Smart Select ensures only the bottle is selected and changed, not the hand.

Refining Selections: Include and Exclude

Smart Select also offers tools to adjust its automatic selection:

Include: Adds areas to your current selection.

Exclude: Removes areas from your current selection. For example, if Smart Select selects an entire shoe but you only want to change the upper part, you can use Exclude to remove the sole from the selection.

These tools give you more control for precise editing. You can select almost any object, refine the selection, and then edit just that specific part.

Changing the Background

Another great use of Smart Select is changing the background. Instead of selecting an object to erase it, you can select an object and then choose to “erase background.” This selects everything *except* your chosen object. Then, you can use a prompt to generate a new background for that object, like changing a product photo background to a rainy scene.

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Why These Features Matter

Retexture and Smart Select make Midjourney’s editor much more useful. Retexture lets you explore different styles and materials while keeping your original design intact. Smart Select makes selecting and modifying specific parts of your image easy and accurate. These features help you make more refined and intentional edits.

These updates are available to Midjourney users. Taking advantage of them can save you time and help you create better images by giving you more control over the editing process.

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Understanding how to use Retexture and Smart Select can greatly improve your results when editing images in Midjourney. Give them a try and see how they can help you achieve your creative goals.