3 Programming Stable Diffusion with Hugging Face Diffusers
"You're in Carcosa now."
- Reginald Ledoux, True Detective
This chapter covers
- Writing Python in a notebook environment
- Using Stable Diffusion XL via the Hugging Face Diffusers library
- Programmatically working with Stable Diffusion
- Automating repetitive Stable Diffusion tasks with Code.
The main focus of this chapter is going to be using Python to programmatically use Stable Diffusion. Don't worry if you don't consider yourself a programmer! The code we'll outline in this chapter can be mostly copied from the book and easily modified in key areas to get the desired impact on the output. Tweaking and modifying existing programs is often a great way to get started on your journey programming if you're interested.
As we’ll soon see, Python programming allows us to use a surprisingly small amount of code to automate repetitive tasks. By working in a notebook environment to write out Python we can essentially build a custom interface to perform any task we’d like with Stable Diffusion.
3.1 Why use Python to work with Stable Diffusion?
You might be asking: why bother with programming when we have powerful graphical user interfaces such as Webui that we learned about in the last chapter? Here are three good reasons to become more comfortable with Python if you’re interested in Stable Diffusion: