5 Using Custom Checkpoints for Better Images

“Il Penseroso's Platonist toiled on

In some like chamber, shadowing forth

How the daemonic rage

Imagined everything.”

-- William Butler Yeats, My House

So far in the book we’ve only utilized community created tools that make it easier to work with base Stable Diffusion, such as A1111 and Hugging Face diffusers. In this and subsequent chapters we’ll start playing with changing the way Stable Diffusion itself behaves by replacing components discussed in chapter 4 with ones customized by the community. The impact of this customizations will create major improvements in the quality of the images we generate, easily rivaling what can be created by proprietary commercial offers.

5.1 Customizing Stable Diffusion

5.1.1 Models, Fine-tuning and checkpoints.

5.1.2 Starting with our base checkpoint.

5.2 CivitAI

5.2.1 epiCPhotoGasm

5.2.2 Store Bought Gyoza

5.3 Hugging Face

5.3.1 Using Hugging Face models with A1111

5.3.2 Using Hugging Face Model with Diffusers

5.3.3 Conclusion

5.4 Summary