Midjourney adds live style previews, sharper edits
Midjourney has added live style previews driven by fast models, more precise inpainting and outpainting, and seamless tiling for V8.1 and V8.2, making its editing and style tools easier to control.
Midjourney announced several interface and quality-of-life updates. The changelog does not mention a new model.
Live style previews. The company says it is testing fast models in the interface on alpha.midjourney.com. When users turn on "Live previews," the Styles sidebar shows thumbnails of their latest prompt rendered in their liked styles and in featured styles. Clicking a thumbnail generates an image in that style. Midjourney did not name the fast models or say when the feature will leave alpha.
Edit model changes. According to the company, inpainting and outpainting with its edit model now change only the pixels a user selects. That allows repeated targeted edits without degrading the rest of the image. Midjourney presents this as giving users more control over iterative editing.
Tiling fix. The --tile parameter now works better for V8.1 and V8.2. Midjourney says tiled images previously could show visible seams, and that tiles now blend invisibly from one to the next. That matters most for patterns and textures.
The post gives no details on pricing, GPU-time costs, or rollout timing beyond the alpha site.