If you regularly generate a large number of photographs using AI Midjourney, you probably often face increased monthly fees or the need to purchase additional GPU time. In more complex projects, it is necessary to generate many variations, not to mention working with the style tuner or generating enlarged images.
However, if you are interested in saving time and money, don't forget about the `--quality` parameter. The default value of this parameter is one, `--quality 1`. I used to think that reducing this parameter would result in lower quality outputs, which might only be suitable as previews and not for final images.
However, it was a big misconception!
Try adding the `--quality 0.5` or `--quality 0.25` parameter to your prompt, and you will be surprised at how often you get high-quality results. Of course, this doesn't apply to all images, but it's worth trying for many of them. You will get the results twice or even four times faster and consume less computational time. As seen in the accompanying images, even the fastest generated results with a quality of 0.25 are still usable. You can further edit the images and use upscaling to achieve the largest and highest quality output.
So don't hesitate to try this cost-saving method that will save you time and money when generating photographs using AI Midjourney.
