>This is an art thread, not AiDEGEN thread, try keeping it clean and troll-free. When you post here you recognize AI art is real art. Respect AI artists.
Backends:
>https://github.com/LykosAI/StabilityMatrix
This is more of a one-click manager that you can install / run the other backends though. Easiest by far. Recommended to download Forge through it and use its built-in Civitai browser to download models with.
For models not through the in-built downloader just download and drop them in Stability_Matrix\Data\Models\* (lora folder if a lora, TextualInversion if embedding, stablediffusion if checkpoint...)
>Tantabus, the best MLP AI art archive, please use this to archive your art.
>https://tantabus.ai
>reForge
>https://github.com/Panchovix/stable-diffusion-webui-reForge
I would recommend installing this through Stability Matrix.
>ComfyUI
https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI?tab=readme-ov-file#installing
Has a learning curve but is extremely customizable and usually has the latest methods / papers implemented first.
>"But I don't have a decent GPU"
NovelAI also does great pony: https://novelai.net
You could also use a service like civitai and I recommend cloud GPU services it's more affordable and even a laptop can generate.
Models:
>Pony Diffusion V6 XL
>https://civitai.com/models/257749/pony-diffusion-v6-xl
>NoobAI-XL Great new alternative. Is closer to novelai than anything else. Really diverse yet coherent positioning / styles, knows artist tags.
https://civitai.com/models/833294/noobai-xl-nai-xl
>ZoinksNoob, a popular new model built off ChromaXL Mix, which itself was built off of NoobAI. Very, very close to NovelAI and arguably better at many things, it does ponies very well and has much less of a "burnt-in" default style than something like Pony Diffusion V6 does.
https://huggingface.co/zatochu/ZoinksNoob
>Purplesmart.ai best for starters and with a great community
>https://purplesmart.ai
>Useful artist style LoRA:
>https://civitai.com/models/317578/pdv6xl-artist-tags?modelVersionId=356175
>LoRAs by /mlp/:
https://rentry.org/ponyxl_loras
>LoRAs by /h and other useful info:
>https://rentry.org/ponyxl_loras_n_stuff
>How to make your own LoRA:
>https://rentry.org/59xed3
https://civitai.com/articles/91/how-to-correctly-obtain-images-for-a-dataset
https://civitai.com/articles/3522/vaIstrixs-crash-course-guide-to-lora-and-lycoris-training
https://civitai.com/articles/4100/how-to-create-a-style-lycoris-for-ponyxl-on-low-vram-locally
>Prompt tips for new users:
Grab an image you like the style of from the desired model's civitai's site and drop it onto the PNG info tab in SD, you can then click send to text to image to reuse its generation info for your own images. Change the seed so you do not get just the same image. Use tags from e621 and natural language.
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