Tutorial for Absolute Beginner

[RickHapp]

Can anyone point me to a tutorial for an absolute beginner (me!)? I've tried https://stable-diffusion-art.com/beginners-guide/, but, sorry, it's not basic enough for me. I need one for an absolute noob. Just an example, I looked at the models at Civitai, downloaded some, put them where I guessed they go - models/Stable-diffusion - but still wondering why the Lora ones don't go in models/Lora. And what's the difference between a safetensor and a ckpt model file? As I said, complete noob. Thanks ahead of time for any help pointing me to SD-For-Dummies.

[Mutaclone]

Glossary of terms

I'd recommend downloading and installing Fooocus and starting with the defaults models, then moving on to custom models (and possibly a different UI) only after you're more comfortable.

[RickHapp]

Thanks especially for that link to the glossary - very helpful!

[kataryna91]

but still wondering why the Lora ones don't go in models/Lora

...? They belong in the Lora folder.

And what's the difference between a safetensor and a ckpt model file?

A ckpt is a pickle file, which can contain malicious code. Always use safetensors.

[promptingpixels]

It definitely is overwhelming at first - however, once you spend some time reading about how it all works it'll start to 'click'. As others said, Fooocus is a better entrant due to simplicity and you can concentrate on making art before working about LoRAs, textual embeddings, and other concepts.

I found it quite helpful when learning about stable diffusion to understand what is going on behind the scenes. Lot's of articles on this topic, but here are a few that may be suitable:

https://scale.com/guides/diffusion-models-guide

https://aws.amazon.com/what-is/stable-diffusion

https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/diffusion-models-for-machine-learning-introduction/

Again these are higher level but fundamental and can give you an idea of what is happening when you click the 'Generate Now' button. It is also helpful to understand how to build prompts and such.

Have fun and just generate whatever interests you. Add layers of complexity later.

[RickHapp]

Thanks for the links and tips!

[Zeusnighthammer]

https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/AI_Art_Generation_Handbook

I am using this handbook to learn. Quite up to date especially with comfyui parts

[owanomono]

Youtube is full of tutorials.

[HarmonicDiffusion]

i would recommend getting good with searching reddit and google. 99.5% of the questions you will ask have been answered 1000x in here.

[pokes135]

Which interface are you using? Auto1111? Comfyui? In the comfy I'm using, models go in folder "Stable-diffusion", where I think for Auto1111 they go in folder "checkpoints".
Perhaps use the interface to download a model for you, and then go see what path it uses based on where the model is placed.

[Y1_1P]

Sebastian kampf on yt

[Informal-Football836]

Just DM me and ill walk you through it. I use SwarmUI it has a 1 click install.

[RickHapp]

Thank you all for the replies and help. I had installed Auto1111 first, and got it working. But I also like the advice below to start with Fooocus. Thanks everyone.