For Midjourney beginners, the first hurdle isn’t a lack of operational skill, but "running out of words." You have a clear image in your mind—a cinematic rainy night street, a textured portrait—but when you type it into the prompt box, all you can manage is "night street" or "good photo." The resulting images are so mediocre that they make you question the tool itself. The gap between experts and novices lies largely in that string of "magic words": lens models, lighting terminology, composition styles, and texture keywords. The problem is that these terms are scattered across countless tutorials, and Chinese users face an additional language barrier. MJ Keyword Assistant (mbprompt.com) organizes this vocabulary library by category + visual checkboxes + automatic concatenation, allowing you to generate complete prompts without memorizing words—just select, and it’s done.
What is MJ Keyword Assistant?
MJ Keyword Assistant is a Chinese-language prompt assistance tool designed for Midjourney users: it categorizes common MJ keywords by style, lighting, composition, artist, camera settings, and other dimensions. Users check boxes in each category, and the tool automatically assembles them into a complete Prompt, ready to copy and use. Essentially, it is an "MJ keyword knowledge base + visual combiner," addressing a precise pain point: "knowing what effect you want, but not knowing which words to use."
Keyword Categories
Its core value lies in the classification and organization of its vocabulary library, typically covering:
Style: Realistic, surreal, cyberpunk, steampunk, watercolor, oil painting, sketch, anime—along with corresponding English terms for each style and effect examples.
Camera Settings: DSLR, 35mm/85mm lenses, shallow depth of field, long exposure, macro—adding camera terms to realistic images immediately elevates the texture, a scoring booster that beginners often overlook.
Lighting: Lighting descriptions have a huge impact on output—golden hour, dramatic lighting, rim lighting, studio lighting—changing just the lighting term for the same scene can result in vastly different visuals.
Artist Style: "in the style of XX" or "illustration by XX"—invoking the style of specific artists (note ethical boundaries, see below).
Quality Terms: highly detailed, 8k, masterpiece, award-winning—general quality boosters; their effectiveness varies with MJ versions but is better than nothing.
MJ-Specific Parameters: Explanations and usage for command parameters such as --ar (aspect ratio), --v (version), --s (stylize), and --no (exclude).
Usage Workflow
Check keywords by dimension → Tool concatenates them into a Prompt in real-time → Copy → Paste into MJ’s /imagine → Generate image → Adjust based on results. This workflow allows those unfamiliar with the MJ keyword system to get started quickly, without needing to systematically learn prompt engineering first—lowering the entry barrier is its core positioning.
Comparison with Similar Tools
vs Midlibrary/PromptHero: Midlibrary is a style dictionary with effect images (select words by looking at pictures), while PromptHero is a full Prompt sharing community (copy entire sentences). MJ Keyword Assistant is a checkable combiner—the former two lean toward "reference," while this one leans toward "hands-on assembly." Beginners use the combiner to get started quickly, consult Midlibrary to learn styles as they advance, and copy homework from PromptHero; the three can be used in combination.
vs foreign MJ Prompt tools like promptoMANIA: The functional form is almost identical (categorized checking and concatenation). MJ Keyword Assistant’s advantage is its Chinese interface, which is more intuitive for Chinese users; foreign tools offer fuller English community support.
vs Lexica: Lexica focuses on SD Prompt search, targeting Stable Diffusion users, so its positioning is different.
vs building your own templates: Veteran players often build their own libraries of common templates; this tool provides a pre-organized public scaffold, saving the time required to research from scratch, especially for those just starting out.
Who Is It For?
Midjourney Beginners: Those who don’t know how to write good Prompts can use it for assistance, yielding results far superior to random guessing—the core audience.
Creators with Clear Style Needs but Lacking Vocabulary: Those who know the desired effect but not the corresponding English terms will usually find what they need in the categories.
Efficiency-Focused Users: Those who don’t want to research keywords every time can directly check boxes to quickly assemble one and start generating.
Those Wanting to Learn Keyword Principles: The tool’s classification itself serves as a keyword knowledge framework; using it a few times helps you understand how different types of words affect various aspects of the image—use it as an interactive learning textbook.
Limitations
Risk of Obsolescence Due to Version Updates: MJ updates extremely quickly (v5/v6/v7...), and the same keyword may behave differently across versions; older terms may change effect or even become invalid in new versions. The tool’s vocabulary library needs continuous updates to remain accurate, and recommendations will become outdated if it fails to keep pace with iterations.
Cannot Replace Practice: Keyword tools are scaffolding for beginners; truly mastering MJ prompts relies on extensive practical generation and observing the real effects of different combinations—the tool accelerates the start but cannot replace practice.
Ethical Boundaries of Artist Styles: Deliberately mimicking the signature style of living artists (especially for commercial use) raises copyright and ethical controversies, and MJ itself has policy restrictions on some artist names—using classic masters and art movement terms is safer.
MJ Keyword Assistant is a useful scaffold on the Midjourney learning curve: it lowers the threshold for "writing good Prompts" and helps beginners generate better images faster. But the destiny of scaffolding is to be dismantled—as experience accumulates, you will gradually internalize these words, forming your own prompt intuition, no longer needing it. This process of "using it until you no longer depend on it" is precisely its most successful outcome.