Level 1 exam — Midjourney & Visual AI

Exam — fresh questions

12 questions to validate Beginner: first Midjourney prompts — account, prompt structure, iteration and free alternatives.
Answer everything, then click Check: your score and explanations will appear.

1.1 · Recall

1. By default on standard Midjourney plans, your images are…

Public in the community gallery (with the prompt) Deleted after 24h End-to-end encrypted Private

Everything is public by default: confidentiality = stealth plan or local — and neutral prompts.

1.1 · Application

2. Sonia creates her account for the Hydra café. What approach?

Create her account via the web, compare the current plans, take the lowest, generate neutral Put the client name and its strategy in her first prompts Take the biggest plan without comparing Look for a permanent free Midjourney offer

Web for beginners, current offer checked, minimal plan to learn, nothing sensitive in public.

1.1 · Arbitration

3. Sonia's project becomes confidential (NDA). What trade-off?

Ask other users not to look Keep going public, hiding behind abbreviations Switch to a plan with stealth mode (or local) and neutral prompts — the only reliable option Delete the images after generating, that is enough

Public by default is incompatible with an NDA: verified stealth or local Stable Diffusion.

1.2 · Recall

4. How do you cleanly exclude an element in Midjourney?

Write “no…” in the prompt Put the word in capitals Use the --no parameter (text negation fails) Repeat the word three times

Models handle text negation badly: describe in the positive + --no to exclude.

1.2 · Application

5. Sonia wants: steaming cup, terrace in Algiers, watercolor, golden hour, close-up. Which prompt?

Twenty contradictory adjectives in one line “a café” “nice mood, no car, SAD” /imagine a steaming cup of coffee on a wooden table, sunny terrace of a cafe in Algiers, watercolor illustration, golden hour, close-up, 85mm --no car --ar 4:5

Full template (subject, action, setting, style, light, framing) + --no exclusion + format.

1.2 · Arbitration

6. Sonia's very detailed prompt gives a confused result. What trade-off?

Go back to a short prompt that works, hunt contradictions, rebuild one block at a time Put everything in capitals Change tool without changing the prompt Add even more details

Dilution, contradictions and saturation: cut to 5 precise elements then iterate.

1.3 · Application

7. Sonia's grid: no. 2 has the right composition but an approximate cup. What to do?

Upscale all 4 images Drop the idea Rewrite everything Click V2 (variations) then Vary (Subtle) then U2 (upscale)

Execution problem = vary on the good lead, finish with subtle, upscale the keeper.

1.3 · Application

8. All 4 of Sonia's images miss (wrong framing, wrong mood). What to do?

Upscale anyway Fix the prompt (add the missing block: light, framing, medium) Re-roll 20 times without changing anything Vary the same lead 10 times

Intent problem = the prompt is at fault: fix the description, do not vary into the void.

1.3 · Arbitration

9. After upscale, hands are deformed and text is unreadable. What trade-off?

Re-upscale bigger, it will fix it Move to targeted retouching (Vary Region / inpainting 4.1) or Photoshop (4.4), do not insist on upscale Deliver as-is to the client Rewrite the prompt without looking at the image

Upscale adds details but does not fix structural issues — dedicated retouching required.

1.4 · Recall

10. Why learn on free tools before paying for Midjourney?

Because Midjourney needs no skill Because quotas do not exist Because free forbids any learning Because skills (prompt, light, framing) transfer from one tool to another

Structure, light and iteration learned for free apply as-is on Midjourney.

1.4 · Application

11. Sonia wants to train without paying. Which method?

Subscribe first, learn second Test free DALL·E 3 then remake the same prompt on Firefly/SD and compare the fundamentals Use only one tool without comparing Copy random prompts without observing

Same prompt on two free tools: obedience, light and text compared, fundamentals trained.

1.4 · Application

12. Sonia wants to use a free-offer image for a client. What to check?

Nothing, free allows everything Only the beauty of the image The up-to-date commercial T&Cs (and the model licence) + the depicted content (0.4) before any pro use The number of likes of the tool

Free is often more restrictive: T&Cs + licence + content (people, brands) before invoicing.

What's next?

Score ≥ 80%: move to V3 Level 2 (parameters & image references — format, --no, stylize, seed, versions).
Score between 50% and 80%: revisit the missed sections (public by default in 1.1, template and --no in 1.2, execution/intent funnel in 1.3, quotas and T&Cs in 1.4), reread the explanations above, then retake the test.
Score < 50%: restart the level by running each template (/imagine 1.1-1.2, V/U cycle 1.3, free comparison 1.4) — the 1.3 V/U grid is the judge: iterate without rewriting before moving on.