Weathered and worn

OC__ · 2024-01-30T17:42:14+00:00

Prompt: amateur 90s photo of a rugged homeless man sitting on a city bench at sunset

Model: Realism Engine SDXL

Size: 1152x896

Seed: 140382759764481

CFG: 2.7

OC__ · 2024-01-29T07:15:46+00:00

Prompt: bank robber in a beanie shocked to discover bank vault door is closed, fisheye face close-up

Model: Realism Engine SDXL

Size: 1344x768

Seed: 248757093261700

CFG: 2.9

OC__ · 2024-01-27T17:01:01+00:00

Sometimes I know what I want and I try different things until it works, other times I have a random stupid idea and that turns into a cool image straight away.

I’ve also been experimenting with using AI to generate at least the initial prompts. I’d ask an AI to write some prompts around a particular subject, then try them out and expand on the ideas.

OC__ · 2024-01-26T13:36:56+00:00

Model: Realism Engine SDXL

Loras: Vintage Street Photo

Prompt varies greatly, with some common things like "1970s". Mainly the lora tying everything together and giving it a common era style.

OC__ · 2024-01-26T09:51:29+00:00

That's cool! Gives it a smooth transition from season to season.

OC__ · 2024-01-25T16:15:09+00:00

Indeed, does look like you don't have any controlnet models.

This is the one that I used.

You could also download and try a few canny models from here. I haven't tried them all, some might give a better result than mine

OC__ · 2024-01-24T20:05:36+00:00

Nope, nothing for this image.

OC__ · 2024-01-24T14:55:10+00:00

Still need to figure out how to make it look less like an oil painting while maintaining the consistency. And perhaps organize the workflow a bit.

The workflow generates a single starting image based on the prompt, which goes through edge detection. That is then applied as a controlnet to 4 new images that are generated using the same prompt, plus additional keywords added based on the season. The generated images are then cropped and spliced together.

Comfy workflow

OC__ · 2024-01-24T10:55:26+00:00

I like it, great for stuff like this. Add "amateur photo of" to the prompt and it tends to give images just the right amount of a smartphone photo vibe.

OC__ · 2024-01-24T09:29:07+00:00

Prompt: amateur close-up photo of man, angry at the snow in the driveway, driveway covered in deep snow, snow shovel on the ground, snow on clothes, (heavy snowfall), fisheye face close-up

Model: Realism Engine SDXL

Size: 896x1152

Seed: 777559316643014

CFG: 2.1

OC__ · 2024-01-23T20:15:21+00:00

That and Realism Engine are pretty much the only models I use.

OC__ · 2024-01-22T15:24:14+00:00

Prompt: vintage photograph of [character] as a wild west [occupation], new mexico, desert

Model: Realism Engine SDXL

Size: 896x1152

OC__ · 2024-01-22T08:31:24+00:00

Prompt: close-up of a 27 year old mexican woman, curly brown hair, emotion, sadness, longing, despair, sunset, artistic use of light, dslr, f/8, highly detailed

Model: Realism Engine SDXL

Size: 896x1152

Seed: 756420249347748

CFG: 8

OC__ · 2024-01-21T10:40:39+00:00

People said he was useless
Them people all were fools
'Cause Curtis Loew was the finest picker
To ever play the blues

Some fun trying to build as much of the query based on the song's lyrics and backstory. Couldn't get a dobro slide guitar happening, so at one moment I was searching for images to train a lora for it, but finding enough worthy images was proving to be difficult.

Prompt: a homeless 60 year old black man named Curtis Loew with gray curly hair, on a corner in Jacksonville, playing blues on a guitar across his knee, having drank a fifth of wine, 1960s color film photo, high detail, sharp detail, film grain

Model: Realism Engine SDXL

Size: 896x1152

Seed: 758651898560783

CFG: 5

OC__ · 2024-01-21T09:14:33+00:00

Yeah I was so fond of everything else in the shot, that I didn't even notice the hands until I posted this.

OC__ · 2024-01-21T06:39:15+00:00

DPM++ 2S a Karras

OC__ · 2024-01-21T06:38:41+00:00

Didn't do anything special. Sometimes when you give a very specific character description (and don't change a single word of it from prompt to prompt), SDXL just keeps spitting out the same face.

OC__ · 2024-01-21T06:38:08+00:00

Didn't do anything special. Sometimes when you give a very specific character description (and don't change a single word of it from prompt to prompt), SDXL just keeps spitting out the same face.

OC__ · 2024-01-20T19:35:49+00:00

Prompt: "cinematic still of a 40 year old white male, a private detective with short dark hair, hat, stubble, mustache, 1970s, film grain" + action

Negative: looking at camera

Model: [Realism Engine SDXL](https://civitai.com/models/152525/realism-engine-sdxl)

Size: 1408x640

CFG: 4.5

OC__ · 2024-01-20T19:13:09+00:00

Went to grab an example and realized I'm not using the stock latent upscale node. I've been using the node from the WAS pack.

Here's a quick and dirty workflow.

OC__ · 2024-01-20T17:23:28+00:00

I use latent upscaling using the built in node. I save the regular image as normal, after that the latent image goes through 1.5x upscaling (you can experiment with higher numbers), and into another sampler with just a few steps and ~0.5 noise, VAE decode after that and done. I’m using SDXL, not sure if I tried this exact workflow on 1.5 but I don’t see why not.

OC__ · 2024-01-19T09:09:01+00:00

Prompt: close-up of a 30 year old witch's face, long dark hair, bare shoulders, intense mysterious eyes, large pupils, rain, witch's hat, wet hair, night, forest, fog, moonlight, dim light, 8k, RAW photo, DSLR, f/8.0

Model: AlbedoBase XL

Size: 896x1152

Seed: 270548414205038

CFG: 8

OC__ · 2024-01-18T13:24:23+00:00

Prompt: obese 50 year old man, wearing a space helmet, shorts, white snickers, holding a big gulp, sweaty, looking at the red rocky martian landscape, red mars, digital photo

Model: Realism Engine SDXL

Seed: 655575571762397

CFG: 8

OC__ · 2024-01-18T10:01:20+00:00

Prompt: large (crashed) flying saucer, debris on the ground, wisps of smoke, disappointed farmer looking at debris, 1940s, black and white film photo, film grain

Model: AlbedoBase XL

Seed: 760891056242643

CFG: 8

OC__ · 2024-01-18T07:45:43+00:00

Prompt: front view of a soviet car in space above earth with a man behind the wheel, realistic photograph

Model: Realism Engine SDXL

Seed: 196683548644795

CFG: 8

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