This is one guide to learn about Stable Diffusion and teach how you can use this tool.
The image above is generated with Stable Diffusion. It has been generated from the following text (prompt)
City skyline with skycrapers, by Stanislav Sidorov, digital art, ultra realistic, ultra detailed, photorealistic, 4k, character concept, soft light, blade runner, futuristic
Stable Diffusion is a text-to-image machine learning model. A deep learning model, of artificial intelligence that allows us to generate images from text that we put as input or input.
It’s not the first model or the first tool of this style, right now there’s a lot of talk about Dall-e 2, MidJourney, Google Image, but it is the most important because of what it represents. Stable Diffusion is an Open Source project, so anyone can use and modify it. In version 1.4 we have a 4G .cpxt file where the entire pre-trained model comes from, and this is a real revolution.
So much so that in just 2 or 3 weeks since its release, we find plugins for PhotoShop, GIMP, Krita, WordPress, Blender, etc. pretty much every tool that comes with images is implementing Stable Diffusion, so much so that even competitors like Midjourney are using it to enhance their tools. But it is not only used to generate tools, but we as users can install it on our PC and run it to obtain the images locally.
Because in addition to being Open Source does not mean that it is less powerful than the previous ones. It is a true wonder. For me right now it is the best tool that we can use if we want to generate our images for any project.
Ways to install and use Stable Diffusion
There are different ways to use it. Right now I recommend 2. If your computer has the necessary power, that is, a graphics card with about 8Gb of RAM, then install it on your computer. If your hardware is not powerful enough use a Google Collab, right now I recommend the Altryne one, because it comes with a graphical interface and is easier to use.
step to detail.
Colab of Altryne
This is the option that I recommend if your computer is not powerful enough (GPU with 8Gb of RAM) or if you want to try it with all its features without having to install anything.
I recommend it because it has a very comfortable graphical interface with many options to control the images and other model tools such as image to image and upscale.
We use the Google colab created by Altryne and Google Drive to save the model and the results.
It’s all free. I leave a video of the whole process that as you will see is very simple.
