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Anyone can create interesting and entertaining images using the powerful Stable Diffusion AI model—no data science required!
If you want to make damn fine images with Stable Diffusion, you need Beyond Slop. This practical, entertaining, and occasionally irreverent book teaches you how to get the images you want out of Stable Diffusion without a lot of jargon and technical ceremony.
In Beyond Slop you’ll learn how to:
With Beyond Slop, you’ll be amazed at what you can create after just the first few lessons. This hands-on book skips the low-level theory and gets on with the business of creating and refining images. Along the way, you'll learn just enough about building your own tools, LoRAs, and fine-tuning models to personalize Stable Diffusion for your needs.
If you want to make damn fine images with Stable Diffusion, you need Beyond Slop. This practical, entertaining, and occasionally irreverent book teaches you how to get the images you want out of Stable Diffusion without a lot of jargon and technical ceremony.
In Beyond Slop you’ll learn how to:
- Write image generation prompts that actually work
- Use custom models to dramatically improve your images
- Tweak Stable Diffusion to get your images just right
- Work from the command line and the Web UI
- Automate workflows with the Hugging Face Diffusers library
- Create your own custom Stable Diffusion tools
With Beyond Slop, you’ll be amazed at what you can create after just the first few lessons. This hands-on book skips the low-level theory and gets on with the business of creating and refining images. Along the way, you'll learn just enough about building your own tools, LoRAs, and fine-tuning models to personalize Stable Diffusion for your needs.
about the book
Beyond Slop helps you get amazing results out of Stable Diffusion fast. You’ll learn how to create everything from graphics for blogs and websites to high-resolution desktop wallpapers. Start with the basics of text prompt engineering for image generation, then quickly move on to using the WebUI to tweak your outputs to your specifications.
From there, you’ll explore methods for making hi-resolution images, programming Stable Diffusion directly with Python and Hugging Face, utilizing ControlNet for poses, and custom LoRAs for specific styles and images. Finally, you’ll dive into creating your own models with in-depth customization methods you can use to create images of your friends, deliver reusable characters, and apply custom styles. You’ll even learn to make a damn fine cup of coffee!
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If you can use a command line, install a video game mod, and know the basics of programming, you’re ready to start using this guide.This is a page turner. Informative, practical, and well-paced.
This is one of the few resources you can find that enable you to learn how to start and become proficient in image creation, without relying on paid services like Midjourney.
This book is the perfect introduction to image generation with Stable Diffusion.
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