Fabled Infusion - IL / XL - (N/SFW)

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(Semi & photo realism, with an eye to the artful).

v1 -(best for simi-realism, creative composition)

v2 -(best for full photorealism, detailed skin texture)

These models can use both Illustrious and XL Loras, though you may need to adjust the weights a bit.

I used a face detailer in about 10 of the 20 example images, and most use upscaling (4x-nickelback). A face detailer is generally helpful depending on zoom level, If your subjects face is about 30% or more of the image it can be detrimental. I urge experimentation in all areas.

V2 - Fully REALized - (greater photorealism while maintaining much of the illustrious knowledge base)

Suggested settings:

VAE: sdxl_vae (baked in)
Clip skip: 2 was used during merge, (setting 1 or 2 should yield same results)
Sampler: DPM++ 2M SDE - SGM Uniform, (good option for photorealism) or Euler Ancestral - SGM Uniform (experimentation is recommended),
Resolution: all standard 1MP resolutions work well in portrait and landscape, (depending on context) (I often use 1024x1360 and 1120x1440 in portrait and landscape)
CFG: 2.8 - 9.0 (I commonly use 3.8, 5 & 7)
Steps: 24 - 38 (I use 36 most often, though I'm starting to use lower values with solutions like CFG rescale & Zero Star).

V1 - Beyond the Valley

Suggested settings:

VAE: sdxl_vae (baked in)
Clip skip: 2 was used during merge, (setting 1 or 2 should yield same results)
Sampler: Euler Ancestral - SGM Uniform (most consistent good results), DPM++ 2M SDE - SGM Uniform, (good option for photorealism)
Resolution: all standard 1MP resolutions work well in portrait and landscape, (depending on context) (I often use 1024x1360 and 1120x1440 in portrait and landscape)
CFG: 2.8 - 8.0 (lower for more photorealism - I commonly use 2.8, 3.8, 5 & 7)
Steps: 24 - 38 (I use 36 most often)

Prompting:

Primarily Danbooru tags, mixed with a bit of natural language prompting. Generally less is more, for best results try to write clear concise prompts, (look to my sample images for examples and general formatting).

positive prompts - Hype4realistic can be added to push realism a bit further.

negative prompts - I generally recommend starting with none and adding tags as needed. (it can be helpful to add a few things like "toon, illustration, unreal", if you're pushing for greater realism).

I started this project to in an attempt to recreated a specific aesthetic created by blinkdotleh using his workflow where 2 models split the steps during image generation. He created a series of images using Uncanny valley for the initial steps & my fabled Illusion model as a refiner. I created a style Lora from those outputs and included it in this merge. This is an attempt to recreate that look in a singe model while preserving as much of the Illustrious knowledge base as possible.

on the image generation side, this is roughly 50% Illustrious & 50% XL (mostly bigASP), while the CLIP more heavily favors Illustrious at about 65%.