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Art Style Type

This SREF style blends post-apocalyptic decay aesthetics, dark fairytale elements, and vintage film photography. It evokes a decaying romanticism similar to the film "Pan's Labyrinth" and photographer Sally Mann's work, creating a mysterious and melancholic world through faded, deteriorated yet poetic imagery. This style blurs the boundaries between reality and dreamscapes, life and decay, presenting a "beautiful deterioration" atmosphere.

Style Characteristics

The main style characteristics of this SREF include rich vintage color schemes dominated by orange-reds, rust tones and deep greens, paired with a faded quality that resembles time-worn photographs. Images consistently feature grain and slight blur effects, adding nostalgia and dreamlike qualities. Most impressive is the contradictory beauty it createsโ€”life coexisting with decay, nature intertwining with man-made objects, beauty merging with horrorโ€”creating a fascinating visual tension.

Style-Enhancing Prompt Keywords

  • Abandoned and Growing: Emphasizes nature reclaiming man-made environments, enhancing the dramatic contrast between vitality and decay
  • Warm Faded Filter: Reinforces vintage film-like color processing, giving images more of an old photograph quality and sense of time
  • Moist Corrosion Texture: Adding this texture enhances the sense of decay in materials, giving the image more tactile quality and layering, elevating the overall ruins aesthetic

Recommended Application Scenarios

This style is particularly suitable for post-apocalyptic concept art, horror or fantasy game visual design, gothic book cover illustrations, independent film posters, alternative music album covers, and any visual creation needing to express "beauty within decay" or "poetry within deterioration."

More Tips


You can explore further by combining the following command:

  • --sv: There are six versions of the Style Reference feature in Midjourney version 7 when using images. Use the --sv parameter to choose between them. --sv 6 is default. --sv 4 is the old V7 sref model (prior to June 16, 2025). Using --sv 6 and --sv 4 may produce different style results.
  • --s: Default value is 100, can be set from 0 to 1000. The higher the value, the more detailed the image, and the closer the style may be to reality.
  • -niji 6: Using this command will give the image a more anime style.
  • --sw: Default value is 100, can be input from 0 to 1000. A higher value makes the style closer to the original.
  • You can now blend multiple --sref codes together (for example --sref 123 456 )
  • You can weigh individual codes or urls as follows --sref 123::2
  • You can also read more guides on How to use SREF Code

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