Chroma - The Creepy, The Unsettling And The Ugly

v2.0

More images added ( more environments and atmospheric stuff) , much, much more training, merging and a simple change in training strategy.

Anything movie related will still produce blurry b-movie like quality, so lower strength, but the overall quality enhanced a lot. Given the resolution of a few training images that was kinda unexpected. Sometimes the change is subtle but more than enough i think. In some cases, it can turn simple tags into a good looking image, even illustrations.

If the same works with other loras, i may have reached my personal peak... for now... with a lora that was just made for shenanigans sake.

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After, i think, 40.000 steps i call it a day for now, till i collect more pictures of fitting environments and actually more unsettling atmospheric stuff instead of just monsters.

The pictures are pretty much cherry-picked for quality sake and because Civit's idiotic oversensitive filter will most likely run to mommy and putt everything under XXX just for a single harmless tentacle or some shit. It's not trained on anything NSFW, but most creatures or monsters have in general no clothes, so yeah, you may need to specify that. Should be no problem, because text-encoder doesn't get trained ( unfortunately to much RAM needed ) and Chroma doesn't use CLIP as far as i know, so only U-Net should be flexible enough.

It can and will produce much more fucked up things if asked to. I don't really know what people would call creepy, uncanny or whatever since i have no limit / barometer when it comes to things like that. Quite a few pictures where from old horror movies and some from new ones, a lot of them pretty niche. Also artsy images, abstract, biopunk and environments.

If you wanna really go for it use horror, movie, slimy, translucent, movie, cinematic etc. In a lot of cases the quality will suffer though because of the base material. Lower strength is maybe better or if you know how to prompt it can be negated for the most part.

For now i just wanna make some "base" loras which i can mix and match later or for merging with other loras to enhance certain aspects.