Synthwave SREF Style Guide for Midjourney
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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
This visual aesthetic is defined by its intense, high-contrast illumination, typically featuring deep blues, cyans, and vibrant magenta/pinks contrasting against dark environments. It evokes a nostalgic, futuristic mood reminiscent of 1980s digital art and sci-fi cinema. Achieving this distinctive color palette is highly effective when crafting a **prompt** for **Midjourney**. This dramatic lighting **style** works exceptionally well for atmospheric portraits, futuristic landscapes, or mysterious still lifes, lending an immediate sense of drama and depth to the composition.
Synthwave Prompt Ideas
- Close-up portrait of a brooding traveler, harsh cyan and magenta volumetric lighting, cinematic depth of field, high detail
- Vast alien desert landscape at twilight, glowing purple and blue atmospheric fog, solitary figure silhouette walking towards distant neon structures
- Alchemist's cluttered workbench filled with glowing potions in glass bottles and strange fruits, extreme high contrast rim lighting, moody interior
- A lone figure in a gritty urban setting, illuminated solely by intense neon signs reflecting off wet ground