Monthly Archives: July 2023

Stable Diffusion: samplers comparison

I ran the same prompt using many samplers at different steps counts to evaluate which one(s) give a decent quality at a low step count. I have not used the “restore faces” option. Here are my observations related to image … Continue reading

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SDXL 1.0 is out!

And voilĂ ! SDXL 1.0 is out. After tinkering a bit, I think it’s working pretty well. As with SDXL 0.9, I must use both base and refiner models to get good pictures, but they are of excellent quality. Use the … Continue reading

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ComfyUI: remove metadata from image files

When you generate a file using ComfyUI, metadata are added to the image automatically. Amongst the metadata, there is the full workflow including the prompt. If you want to remove those data, you can use ImageMagick convert with the –strip … Continue reading

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ComfyUI: batch run from command line with API

While AUTOMATIC1111 can generate images based on prompt variations, I haven’t found the same possibility in ComfyUI. However, you can achieve the same result thanks to ComfyUI API and curl.

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ComfyUI custom node Impact Pack

I mostly use the FaceDetailer node to fix eyes and mouths, it really makes a difference, especially with models on CivitAI. You will find the workflow below. Note that on Nvidia GPU, I can use the SAMLoader node with “GPU” … Continue reading

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ComfyUI for dummies: a comprehensive guide for Stable Diffusion

ComfyUI is a web UI to run Stable Diffusion and similar models. It is an alternative to Automatic1111 and SDNext. One interesting thing about ComfyUI is that it shows exactly what is happening. The disadvantage is it looks much more … Continue reading

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Open source document search engines

Some websites post lists the best of open source document search engines available, unfortunately, they don’t seem up to date or they don’t care about unmaintained projects. Here’s my updated list as of July 2023, in no particular order. Note: … Continue reading

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