Guidance and prompts for using Style Reference code
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Art Style Type

This SREF style blends elements of black and white photography, dark art, and modern gothic aesthetics. It presents a high-contrast artistic expression, similar to the intersection of fashion photography and conceptual art. The style maintains the realism of traditional photography while incorporating surrealist elements, creating a dramatically intense and highly expressive visual language.

Style Characteristics

The most prominent characteristic of this style is the strong black and white contrast and refined texture representation. The images display extremely high clarity and rich layering while maintaining a somber, mysterious atmosphere. Each image has a carefully constructed dramatic quality and emotional intensity, conveying a primal and profound power through subtle variations in light, shadow, and texture. This style is impressive because it skillfully merges elegance with unease, beauty with horror.

Style-Enhancing Prompt Keywords

  • High-contrast monochrome: Adding this keyword can intensify the light and shadow contrasts in the images, creating more dramatic and cinematic visual effects
  • Gothic aesthetic: Using this word can enhance the mysterious feeling and elegant dark atmosphere in the images, while adding a fashionable melancholy
  • Surreal texture: Adding this element gives the images richer textural details and dreamlike reality distortions, improving the overall artistic expression

Recommended Application Scenarios

This style is particularly suitable for high-end fashion photography, conceptual art creation, music album cover design, gothic magazine layouts, luxury product advertising, experimental film posters, and any visual project that needs to convey strong emotions and dramatic atmosphere. It's also very appropriate for artistic exploration of binary opposing themes such as life and death, beauty and horror.

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

Other Reference Code

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Example of an image generated using the prompt --sref 1468540376 in MidJourney
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Example of an image generated using the prompt --sref 4269906703 in MidJourney
Example of an image generated using the prompt --sref 4269906703 in MidJourney
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Example of an image generated using the prompt --sref 193128832 in MidJourney
Example of an image generated using the prompt --sref 193128832 in MidJourney
Example of an image generated using the prompt --sref 193128832 in MidJourney
Example of an image generated using the prompt --sref 193128832 in MidJourney

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