When doing research to write my Ultimate Guide to All Inpaint Settings, I noticed there is quite a lot of misinformation about what what the different Masked Content options do under Stable Diffusion’s InPaint UI. To help clear things up, I’ve put together these visual aids to help people understand what Stable Diffusion does when you select these options, and how you can use them to get the AI generated images you want. What are…
When doing research to write my Ultimate Guide to All Inpaint Settings, I noticed there is quite a lot of misinformation and confusion over what denoising strength actually does. To help clear things up, I’ve put together these visual aids to help people understand what Stable Diffusion does for different Denoising Strength values, and how you can use it to get the AI generated images you want. What is Denoising Strength? When a user asks…
Sampling steps is the number of iterations that Stable Diffusion runs to go from random noise to a recognizable image based on the text prompt. As an extremely general rule of thumb, the higher the sampling steps, the more detail you will add to your image at the cost of longer processing time. However, what the optimal number of sampling steps for you and the output image you’re trying to generate is dependent on many variables,…
In Stable Diffusion, CFG stands for Classifier Free Guidance scale. CFG is the setting that controls how closely Stable Diffusion should follow your text prompt. It is applied in text-to-image (txt2img) and image-to-image (img2img) generations. The higher the CFG value, the more strictly it will follow your prompt, in theory. The default value is 7, which gives a good balance between creative freedom and following your direction. A value of 1 will give Stable Diffusion…
Since I started using Stable Diffusion, I have seen a lot of confusion and misinformation on the Internet on what seeds are, how Stable Diffusion uses them and how users can go about using them. So to help clear things up, I am providing this free guide to explain what seeds are and how you can use them to fine tune your generated images. What is a Seed? Here’s the answer, plain and simple: a…
So maybe you’ve heard about ControlNet, or maybe you haven’t but have seen some of the truly amazing images that it has been able to achieve, but what is it? How can you set up ControlNet and start using it yourself in Stable Diffusion? Well luckily this guide is here to help you get started! What is ControlNet and why use it? ControlNet takes the standard img2img tool in Stable Diffusion and ratchets it up…
This is illustrated fairy tale story for young kids was written and illustrated by Alex Inglewood,with help from Chat GPT and Lexica.art Aperture V2. Estimated reading time: 5-10 minutes For Ages 4+ Archer Kitty Dreams Archer curled up in a sunny spot next to his favorite window. He looked out at the forest and wondered what it would be like to be an adventurous cat in the woods. He slowly drifted off to sleep. One…
Although Stable Diffusion is completely free and open source, there are still quite a few barriers to get it yourself. Sure you can get nicely packaged Stable Diffusion based apps such as MidJourney or use online-only text to image generators like Lexica, but you’re here because you want to take the next step and have significantly more control over your images and have access to all of Stable Diffusion’s features. This article will tell you…
This version of the classic English fairy tale of Jack the Giant Killer was compiled by Andrew Lang from the Old Chapbook and published in The Blue Fairy Book in 1889. All illustrations are originals produced by Alex Inglewood, with help from Stable Diffusion. Estimated reading time: 10 minutes Our Short Story Begins… In the reign of the famous King Arthur there lived in Cornwall a lad named Jack, who was a squire of a bold temper, and took…
This version of the Brave Little Tailor was written by Andrew Lang and published in The Blue Fairy Book. All illustrations are originals produced by Alex Inglewood, with help from Stable Diffusion. Estimated reading time: 16 minutes Our Bedtime Story Begins… One summer’s day a little tailor sat on his table by the window in the best of spirits, and sewed for dear life. As he was sitting thus a peasant woman came down the street, calling out: “Good…