Synthwave SREF Style Guide for Midjourney
Synthwave SREF code
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How to Use This Synthwave SREF Code
Step 1: Find Your Style
Browse our extensive styles list and find the perfect style reference for your project.
Step 2: Copy the Code
Click the "Copy" button to get the SREF code. It's as simple as --sref XXXXX.
Step 3: Create Your Prompt
Combine your prompt with the SREF code. Don't forget the aspect ratio! e.g., --ar 16:9
What is Synthwave SREF style
Synthwave is a highly stylized aesthetic revivalizing 1980s digital art, electronic music culture, and retro-futurism. Key visual elements include neon grids, glowing sunsets, deep saturated colors like magenta, cyan, and deep purple, often combined with silhouettes of palm trees or dramatic architecture. When using this in a **Midjourney** **prompt**, it creates immediate visual impact with high contrast and moody, nostalgic lighting. Mastering this **style** often requires specific color and lighting instructions to capture that distinct, energetic, 80s VHS quality.
Synthwave Prompt Ideas
- Dramatic close-up portrait of a detective wearing a leather jacket, heavy neon rim lighting, synthwave aesthetic, purple and cyan glow
- Vast desert landscape at dusk, glowing wireframe grid stretching to the horizon, massive pink striped sun, retro-futurism, high contrast
- A vintage cassette tape on a reflective surface, illuminated by harsh magenta and turquoise lights, moody still life composition, synthwave
- Futuristic Japanese pagoda floating above the clouds, bathed in deep neon twilight, atmospheric perspective, retro-80s