📷 Photorealism - with a touch of artistic magic. ✨
V6 - Escape Velocity
Enhanced contrast, saturation & black levels.
Further push into a natural language & photorealism bias, while expanding artistic composition.
Photorealism can now be maintained @ higher CFG values than in prior versions.
Expanded sampler / scheduler options
I've started using the (Kohya Deep Shrink) node, (a default node in ComfyUI). It's an absolute game changer in terms of image stability @ higher resolutions. I made a simple workflow for it, (embedded in each of my gallery images). I don't see a point in ever generating in standard res again, (outside of testing).
CFG Range: 3.5 - 7 (I typically use 4.4 -4.8).
Samplers / schedulers: DPM++ 2M_SDE_GPU, DPM++ 2M_SDE, DPM++ 3M_SDE_GPU, DPM++ 3M_SDE, Euler_A, heun, dpmpp_2M, DDPM / Simple, SGM uniform, Karras, Exponential, ddim_uniform, beta, normal, AYS (See notes for my preferred combinations & use cases).
Prompting: Natural language is King, tags are still relevant & useful for fleshing out details, but should generally be added after a NatLang description of the scene.
(avoiding negative prompts where possible can improve overall quality)
Medium: RAW photo / professional photo / amiture photo etc... Summary: photo of a woman enjoying a beverage at the neighborhood bar... Tags: alluring gaze, light blue eyes, looking at another, etc. Background details / Lighting / photocentric descriptors, I.E. film type, lens, blur effects zoom etc. (See my sample images for more detailed examples),
Steps: 30 - 40, (I use 36 most often, 10 - 16 for LCM / AYS).
Resolution: I've been using multiples 64 as that seems to be most stable, (Some resolutions I use regularly include: 1152 x 1536, 1280 x 1728, 1344 x 1920 1408 x 1920 & sometimes up to 1536 x 2048. Things will stay quite stable up to about 1408 x 1920 provided you're using the Kohya Deep Shrink node. (load one of my sample images in comfyui for a simple workflow that includes it with recommended settings.