QR Code Monster for SDXL

Time to try another ControlNet for Stable Diffusion XL - QR Code Monster v1 in ComfyUI. This ControlNet can influence SDXL such that the generated image “hides” a scan-able QR code, which at first glance, looks like a photo! ...

14 Nov 2023

Generating animations / videos with SDXL LCM

I never tried generating video clips or animations with SDXL before, simply because my GPU is not powerful enough. But after testing out the LCM LoRA for SDXL yesterday, I thought I’d try the SDXL LCM LoRA with Hotshot-XL, which is something akin to AnimateDiff. ...

13 Nov 2023

Crazy fast image generation with LCM LoRA for SDXL

Stable Diffusion keeps improving at an astounding pace! This time, it’s the idea of distilling a model into a Latent Consistency Model (LCM) for very, very fast image generation with a quality trade-off. On 24 Oct 2023, the distilled Segmind Stable Diffusion 1B (SSD-1B) model was released, followed by a better implementation in the form of Latent Consistency LoRAs for SDXL and SDD-1B released on 9 Nov 2023. ...

12 Nov 2023

Fix Web Background Videos That Do Not Auto-play in Safari on iOS

I recently encountered a situation where Safari would not play background videos in web pages! I initially assumed the page was broken… until I realized mine was the only iPhone with this behaviour, yet I am on the latest iPhone and iOS version. I finally figured what was different with my setup, and how to solve this issue. ...

10 Sep 2023

Using the SDXL-Inpainting 0.1 Model

Stability AI just released an new SD-XL Inpainting 0.1 model. Here is how to use it with ComfyUI. ...

3 Sep 2023

Improving faces with Impact-Pack Detailers

Stable Diffusion XL has trouble producing accurately proportioned faces when they are too small. Today, I learn to use the FaceDetailer and Detailer (SEGS) nodes in the ComfyUI-Impact-Pack to fix small, ugly faces. ...

31 Aug 2023

Improving poses with SDXL ControlNets

I previously tried Thibauld’s SDXL-controlnet: OpenPose (v2) ControlNet in ComfyUI with poses either downloaded from OpenPoses.com or created with OpenPose Editor. Here are a few more options for anyone looking to create custom poses. ...

26 Aug 2023

SDXL Revision workflow in ComfyUI

Yesterday, I tried out Stability AI’s four Control-LoRAs but mentioned that I did not understand the output of the Revision “image-mixing” workflow. I’ve since done a bit more experimentation… ...

20 Aug 2023

Stability AI Control LoRAs

Less than a week after my post testing diffusers/controlnet-canny-sdxl-1.0, along comes Stability AI’s own ControlNets, which they call Control-LoRAs! Not one but 4 of them - Canny, Depth, Recolor and Sketch models! ...

19 Aug 2023

SDXL 1.0 with SDXL-ControlNet: OpenPose (v2)

As promised in my last post, today I am testing out Thibaud Zamora’s SDXL-controlnet: OpenPose (v2) model using ComfyUI. I keep saying I’ll keep my posts short but never do… ...

18 Aug 2023