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Stable Diffusion
Prompt Book
Get the latest version from https://openart.ai/promptbook.
Brought by: OpenArt
Authors: Mohamad Diab (PublicPrompts)
Julian Herrera
Musical Sleep
Bob Chernow
Coco Mao
Last updated:
10/28/2022
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Table of Content
All the images in this book are generated by Stable Diffusion.
1- Preface
2 - Prompt Format
3 - Modifiers
4 - Magic words
Stability Diffusion Intro Photography Illustration
OpenArt Intro Art Mediums Emotions
Prompt engineering intro Artists Aesthetics
5 - Stable Diffusion
Parameters
Resolution Step count
CFC Seed
6 - img2img, in/out
painting
7 - Important tips
8 - OpenArt Showcase
Sampler
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Preface
Prompt
Tiny cute cow toy,
reading a book,
standing character,
soft smooth lighting,
soft pastel colors,
skottie young, 3d
blender render,
polycount, modular
constructivism, pop
surrealism, physically
based rendering,
square image
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Stable Diffusion Intro
Stable Diffusion is an open-source text-to-image
AI model that can generate amazing images from
given texts in seconds.
The model was trained on images in the LAION-5B dataset. It
was developed by CompVis, Stability AI and RunwayML. All
research artifacts from Stability AI are intended to be open
sourced.
This prompt book is brought to you by OpenArt, a platform and
community dedicated to AI-native content and written by
members from the community. Should you have any concerns
or questions. You can reach us on our Discord server.
A man with eyes wide open, surprised, in awe,
digital art
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OpenArt Intro
OpenArt (https://openart.ai) is a
AI-native content and social platform.
It has a lot of great features to help you
write better prompts
● Discover millions of AI-generated images
and prompts
● Search by image content
● Build your AI-art portfolio and showcase
your work on our community
● Create with Stable Diffusion and DALL-E 2
for free (and more models to come)
● Participate in our AI art challenges to win
rewards
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Prompt Engineering
Intro
Prompt engineering is the process of structuring
words that can be interpreted and understood by a
text-to-image model. Think of it as the language you
need to speak in order to tell an AI model what to
draw.
Prompt engineering is a great way to stretch the limitations of
Text2IM models. Good prompts can make images go from good to
great.
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Prompt Engineering
This prompt book will help you learn essential building blocks and
all the techniques to master Stable Diffusion.
The secret for generating good images
●
A well-written prompt consisting of modifiers and a good
sentence structure. We will introduce the prompt format in the
section 2. We will also show you all types of modifiers you can
use in the section 3 and some magic words in the section 4.
●
Well-adjusted Stable Diffusion parameters. (section 5). You can
always use the default, but sometimes fine-tuned parameters
can generate better results. This will strengthen your ability to
bring your creative dream images to life.
⭐ Tip - You can always visit OpenArt to get inspired by millions of
prompts ?.
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Prompt Engineering Intro
This is an example of a prompt and all the
parameters Prompt: Funko pop superman figurine, made of
plastic, product studio shot, on a white background, diffused
lighting, centered.
Try out this prompt on OpenArt
Model: Stable Diffusion
Seed: 70455
Scale: 13
Steps: 25
Resolution: 512 x 512
Sampler: DDIM
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Prompt Format
Prompt:Tiny cute
giraffe using a
typewriter toy,
standing character,
soft smooth lighting,
soft pastel colors,
skottie young, 3d
blender render,
polycount, modular
constructivism, pop
surrealism, physically
based rendering,
square image
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Start by asking a list of questions
1. Do you want a photo or a painting?
2. What’s the subject of the photo? Person? An animal or perhaps a landscape?
3. What details do you want to add?
○ Special Lighting. Soft, ambient, ring light, neon
○ Environment. Indoor, outdoor, underwater, in space
○ Color Scheme. Vibrant, dark, pastel
○ Point of view. Front, Overhead, Side
○ Background. Solid color, nebula, forest
4. In a specific art style? 3D render, studio ghibli, movie poster
5. A specific photo type? Macro, telephoto
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This is not an all-inclusive list, but will help you get great results when you start
your prompt crafting journey. Don’t be afraid to experiment the more you try
different prompts the better you will become!
Photo of real life Shaggy Rogers,
cinematic lighting, peeking from a
van's window, vibrant colors, bokeh,
movie poster style
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Example
Answer the following questions
1.
2.
3.
4.
Do you want a photo or a painting? => painting
What’s the subject of the photo? Person. animal, landscape.
=> a goldendoodle
What details do you want to be added? => wearing a suit
a.
Special Lighting. Soft, ambient, ring light, neon =>
natural light
b.
Environment. Indoor, outdoor, underwater, in space
=> in the sky
c.
Color Scheme. Vibrant, dark, pastel
=> with bright colors
In specific art style? 3D render, studio ghibli, movie poster
=> by Studio Ghibli
Use the answers to create a complete
sentence
A painting of a cute goldendoodle
wearing a suit, natural light, in the sky,
with bright colors, by Studio Ghibli
See the next page for the generated
image.
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A painting of a cute goldendoodle wearing
a suit, natural light, in the sky, with bright
colors, by Studio Ghibli
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However, there is a problem. The goldendoodle is
NOT in the sky… The AI didn’t take in “in the sky”
properly.
Worry not! You can change the order of the words a
little bit if one part is important. The earlier a word is
in the sentence, the more importance it will be given.
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A painting of a cute goldendoodle in the
sky, wearing a suit, natural light, with
bright colors, by Studio Ghibli
We moved “in the sky” earlier in the prompt.
As you can see, the dog is now “in the sky”.
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The order of words is important
The order and presentation of our desired output is almost as an important aspect as the vocabulary itself. It
is recommended to list your concepts explicitly and separately than trying to cramp it into one simple
sentence.
A cat sitting on a martian table.
A cat that is sitting on a table
on mars.
A cat that is sitting on a table.
The table is on mars.
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Modifiers
Prompt:
Tiny cute duck playing
guitar toy, standing
character, soft smooth
lighting, soft pastel
colors, skottie young,
3d blender render,
polycount, modular
constructivism, pop
surrealism, physically
based rendering,
square image
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About Modifiers
Modifiers are words that can change the style, format, or perspective of ● Photography
the image. There are certain magic words or phrases that are proven to ● Art Mediums
● Artists
In this section, we will talk different types of modifiers you can use in ● Illustration
your prompt. If you want to visualize how a modifier affects an image ● Emotions
● Aesthetics
boost the quality of the image.
beyond our given examples, you can use the search functionality on
https://openart.ai to see more.
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Prompt
Photography
Tiny cute boy holding
camera toy, standing
character, soft smooth
lighting, soft pastel
colors, skottie young,
3d blender render,
polycount, modular
constructivism, pop
surrealism, physically
based rendering,
square image
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Photography Prompt - Mix and Match!
Shot type Style Subject Lighting Context Lens Device
Close-up polaroid Woman Soft Indoor Wide-angle iPhone X
Extreme
Close-up Monochrome Old man Ambient Outdoor Telephoto CCTV
POV Long exposure Ring At night 24mm Nikon Z FX
Grey cat
Medium
shot Color splash Bunny Sun In the
park EF 70mm Canon
Long shot Tilt-shift Ferrari Cinematic Studio Bokeh Gopro
Close-up polaroid
photo, of a husky,
soft lighting,
outdoors, 24mm
Nikon Z FX
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Photography Styles
Polaroid Tilt-Shift Product Shot Long Exposure
still photo of a child
sitting in the middle of a
wide empty city street,
his back to the camera,
symmetrical, polaroid
photography, highly
detailed, crisp quality photo of construction
site, workers, tilt shift
effect, bokeh, Nikon Product shot of nike
shoes, with soft vibrant
colors, 3d blender
render, modular
constructivism, blue
background, physically
based rendering,
centered An aerial view of a city at
night, long exposure,
instagram contest
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Photography Styles
Portrait Color-Splash Monochrome Satellite
Portrait photo of a
storm trooper with his
beautiful wife on his
wedding day Color splash wide photo
of red phone booth in
the middle of empty
street, detailed, mist, soft
vignette Photo of staircase in
abandoned building,
symmetrical,
monochrome
photography, highly
detailed, crisp quality
and light reflections,
100mm lens Google earth satellite
image, of New York City,
detailed buildings and
streets
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Cameras
Gopro CCTV Drone Thermal
Monkey swimming,
Gopro footage Darth Vader at a
convenience store,
pushing shopping cart,
CCTV still, high-angle
security camera feed Drone photo of Tokyo,
city center Thermal camera footage
from a helicopter, war
scene
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Lenses
Telephoto Fish-eye 800mm Macro
Alligator emerging from
water, telephoto lens Night club, people
dancing, Fish-eye lens Photo of hummingbird,
800mm lens Photo of a ladybug-bee
hybrid standing on a
tulip, macro lens
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Lighting
Nostalgic Purple Neon Sun Rays
Fallout concept art school interior
render grim, nostalgic lighting,
unreal engine 5 Fallout concept art school interior
render grim, realistic purple neon
lighting unreal engine 5 Fallout concept art school interior
render grim, sun rays coming
through window, unreal engine 5
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Prompt
Art Mediums
Tiny cute goat painter
toy, standing
character, soft smooth
lighting, soft pastel
colors, skottie young,
3d blender render,
polycount, modular
constructivism, pop
surrealism, physically
based rendering,
square image
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Art Mediums
Chalk Graffiti Water Colors Oil Painting
A sidewalk chalk
painting of walter white wall graffiti art of
astronaut holding a
super soaker water color painting of
sunset behind
mountains, detailed,
vaporwave aesthetic Oil painting of human
Rick Sanchez, contest
winner
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Art Mediums
Fabric Pencil Drawing Wood Clay
Crochet doll of
Spiderman, studio
lighting Pencil painting of
Emma Watson Modern spiral shaped
table design, made of
wood, studio lighting Clay model of the
throne from Game of
Thrones
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Prompt
Artists
Tiny mouse holding a
paint brush toy,
standing character,
soft smooth lighting,
soft pastel colors,
skottie young, 3d
blender render,
polycount, modular
constructivism, pop
surrealism, physically
based rendering,
square image
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List of artists by style
Portrait Anime
Derek Gores, Miles Aldridge, Jean Baptiste-Carpeaux,
Anne-Louis Girodet Makoto Shinkai, Katsuhiro Otomo, Masashi Kishimoto,
Kentaro Miura
Landscape Sci-fi
Alejandro Bursido, Jacques-Laurent Agasse, Andreas
Achenbach, Cuno Amiet Chesley Bonestell, Karel Thole, Jim Burns, Enki Bilal
Horror
H.R.Giger, Tim Burton, Andy Fairhurst, Zdzislaw Beksinski
Photography
Ansel Adams, Ray Earnes, Peter Kemp, Ruth Bernhard
Concept artists (video game)
Emerson Tung, Shaddy Safadi, Kentaro Miura
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Portrait Artists
Using an artist that is known for doing portraits can be very helpful in creating a specific style. In all the
images below everything was kept the same including the seed, All the differences are caused by the artist
chosen. As you can see some artists have a very profound effect and others have just a subtle effect .
Derek Gores Miles Aldridge Jean-Baptiste
Carpeaux Anne-Louis Girodet
Portrait by Derek Gores Portrait by Miles Aldridge Portrait by Jean-Baptiste
Carpeaux Portrait by Anne-Louis
Girodet
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Landscape Artists
When making a landscape it's smart to give a set of day like morning, noon or night time and to set the
season. Notice that some artists only influence the output subtly while others change it drastically
Alejandro Bursido Jacques-Laurent
Agasse Andreas Achenbach Cuno Amiet
Landscape by Alejandro
Burdisio Landscape by
Jacques-Laurent Agasse Landscape by Andreas
Achenbach Landscape by Cuno
Amiet
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Horror Artists
Horror artists are known for having chilling images but they can be used to make pleasing images mixed
with other artists. See the page on mixed artist later in the book.
H. R. Giger Tim Burton Andy Fairhurst Zdzislaw Beksinski
Horror by H.R.Giger Horror by tim burton Horror by Andy Fairhurst Horror by Zdzislaw
Beksinski
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Anime Artists
It’s important when using anime artists to keep in mind the style they focus on and what time period they are
from
Makoto Shinkai Katsuhiro Otomo Masashi Kishimoto
Art by Makoto Shinkai Art by Katsuhiro Otomo Art by Masashi Kishimoto
Kentaro Miura
Art by Kentaro Miura
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Sci-fi Artists
Choosing the right artist can drastically change the output. Science fiction artists tend to have very distinctive
styles. Remember that you can not only use traditional art mediums but also artists from films.
Chesley Bonestell Karel Thole Jim Burns Enki Bilal
A sci-fi scene by Chesley
Bonestell A sci-fi scene by Karel
Thole A sci-fi scene by Jim
Burns A sci-fi scene by Enki Bilal
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Photography Artists
Dont forget that you can use noted photographers in your prompts. Try to use landscape or portrait
photographers depending on what you are focusing on.
Ansel Adams Ray Earnes Peter Kemp Ruth Bernhard
Photograph by Ansel
Adams Photograph by Ray
Earnes Photograph by Peter
Kemp Photograph by Ruth
Bernhard
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Concept Artists (Video Games)
When it comes to concept artists some of them will make scenes better while others will make better
character designs
Emerson Tung Shaddy Safadi Shaddy Safadi Kentaro Miura
Concept sheet by
Emerson Tung Concept art by Shaddy
Safadi Concept art by Shaddy
Safadi Concept art by Kentaro
Miura
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Advanced technique - Mixing Artist Styles
Building a prompt with artists can refine your image to something more. It’s important for you to use
multiple artists in the right category so to have your own style but keep in mind it can be multiple categories
Frank Frazetta Yoji shinkawa Frank Frazetta & Yoji
shinkawa
Oil painting of a man
staring at the stars, by
Frank Frazetta Oil painting of a man
staring at the stars, by
Yoji shinkawa Oil painting of a man
staring at the stars, by
Frank Frazetta, by Yoji
shinkawa
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Mixing Artist Styles (Portrait)
Building a prompt with artists can refine your image to something more
Jean-Baptist
Carpeaux Derek Gores Jean-Baptiste &
Derek Gores
Portrait by Jean-Baptiste
Carpeaux Portrait by Derek Gores Portrait by Jean-Baptiste
Carpeaux and Derek
Gores
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Mixing Artist Styles (Landscape)
Notice the subtle ways that the artist styles combine. You are not limited to two artists.Use as many as you
want.
Alejandro Bursido Cuno Amiet Alejandro Bursido &
Cuno Amiet
Landscape by Alejandro
Bursido Landscape by Cuno
Amiet Landscape by Alejandro
Bursido and Cuno Amiet
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External Links To Artist Reference Materials
Google Arts and Culture
Stable Art Artist Guide
SD Artist Collection
The AI Art - Modifiers Guide
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Prompt
Illustration
Tiny cute bob ross toy,
fuzzy hair, standing
character, soft smooth
lighting, soft pastel
colors, skottie young,
3d blender render,
polycount, modular
constructivism, pop
surrealism, physically
based rendering,
square image
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3D illustrations
Stable diffusion can be used to create any 3D scene or object you can imagine!
Cute panda, origami art
Needle felted scene from
the Simpsons, highly
detailed, tilt shift, highly
textured, action
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3D illustrations
Isometric assets Low Poly Pixar Renders 3D Item Render
Tiny cute isometric
kitchen in a cutaway
box, soft smooth
lighting, soft colors,
100mm lens, 3d blender
render kawaii low poly squirrel
character, 3d isometric
render, white
background, ambient
occlusion, unity engine 3d fluffy Lion, closeup cute
and adorable, cute big
circular reflective eyes, long
fuzzy fur, Pixar render, unreal
engine cinematic smooth,
intricate detail, cinematic Tiny isometric Alarm Clock,
soft smooth lighting, soft
colors, 3d blender render,
trending on polycount,
modular constructivism,
physically based rendering
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More illustrations
Children’s book Vector Scientific Illustration Comic
Elephant-turtle hybrid,
in Children’s book
illustration style Vector illustration of
Living Room in Flat
Style, pastel color palette Anatomy of Pikachu,
dissection Scientific
illustration from a
biology book Retro comic style
artwork, highly detailed
benedict cumberbatch,
comic book cover,
symmetrical, vibrant
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More illustrations
Caricature Propaganda Poster Movie Poster
Caricature art of
spiderman sitting on a
chair drinking beer, on
Charlie Hebdo USSR propaganda
poster. Eat Oreo! Adventurous trash can,
movie poster
Psychedelic Art
Hypnotic illustration of a
dear face, hypnotic
psychedelic art by Dan
Mumford, pop
surrealism, dark glow
neon paint, mystical,
Behance
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More illustrations
Splash Art Ukiyo-e Stickers Fantasy Maps
Splash art of an armored
mage channeling arcane
magicks, mana shooting
from his hands, mystical
energy in the air, action
shot, heroic fantasy art,
special effects, hd octane
render Peppa pig, in Ukiyo-e
style Die-cut sticker, Cute
kawaii Goldendoodle
character sticker, white
background, illustration
minimalism, vector,
pastel colors DnD map with roads, for
printing, highly detailed,
with many towns
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Character design
When it comes to creating a character you want to first describe the broad description of them like "male orc"
then adding more to them like "metallic armor". After that building the details while generating the images
and make sure to add artists fitting the person
Prompt Prompt Prompt Prompt
Digital art of a
orc, by Larry
Elmore, by
Justin Gerard Digital art of a
orc with metal
armor, by Larry
Elmore, by
Justin Gerard Digital art of a
orc with metal
armor, by Larry
Elmore, by
Justin Gerard,
concept sheet Digital art of a
orc with metal
armor, by Larry
Elmore, by
Justin Gerard,
concept sheet
The last image is made from
using img2img on a higher scale
to get better detail on the image.
The strength was 30 but you can
adjust it to what you want when
making your own image
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Prompt
Emotions
Tiny cute scared
panda toy, standing
character, soft smooth
lighting, soft pastel
colors, skottie young,
3d blender render,
polycount, modular
constructivism, pop
surrealism, physically
based rendering,
square image
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Simple
feelings
modifiers can
set the
atmosphere
of the scene!
Prompt
Cute sad girl toy, curly hair,
standing character, soft smooth
lighting, soft pastel colors,
skottie young, 3d blender
render, polycount, modular
constructivism, physically based
rendering, square image
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Positive emotions
Cosy Romantic Joyful Energetic
Cosy vintage bedroom,
octane render by weta
digital, exotic colorful
pastel, ray traced
lighting and reflections Photo of a couple
shopping, romantic
lighting Joyful photo of a husky
puppy splashing water
at the beach, canon eos
r3 Energetic painting of a
pool with flamingos
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More positive emotions
Hope Lust Peaceful Satisfaction
Woman, filled with
hope, in a beautiful
dress, running on the
beach Painting of a couple,
filled with lust, by mike
mignola A peaceful Japanese
city street, dreamy, soft
colors, studio ghibli style Old man looking at the
camera, filled with
satisfaction, Canon EOS
5D Mark IV
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Negative emotions
Depressing Loneliness Grim Regret
Depressing photo,
futuristic park Girl sitting in window,
reading a book,
loneliness Grim painting of a lake
with ducks Painting of a man
looking at photo album,
filled with regret
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More negative emotions
Suffering Hopelessness Fear Disgust
Digital painting showing
the suffering of a
woman, sitting on a
bench in the forest, by
goro fujita Man, hopelessness,
black and white, looking
into the camera, sketch,
intricate details Child running towards
the camera, in fear, by
atey ghailan and mike
mignola Photo of a child looking
at his food with disgust,
Hasselblad photography
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Prompt
Aesthetics
Tiny psychedelic lion
toy, standing character,
soft smooth lighting,
soft pastel colors,
skottie young, 3d
blender render,
polycount, modular
constructivism, pop
surrealism, physically
based rendering,
square image
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Vibrant
Weirdcore Acidwave Dreamcore Vaporwave
Weirdcore image of a
zoo Dog in the park,
Acidwave aesthetic Photo of neighborhood,
Dreamcore style Vaporwave pool
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Gloomy
Liminal Space After Hours Brutalism Post-Apocalyptic
Flooded, liminal space,
underground city
carpark, lighting with
lensflares, photorealistic
8 k, eerie After hours, stairs to the
park Building, brutalism
architecture Photo in a
Post-Apocalyptic town,
with houses and cars
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Historic
Baroque Sovietwave Wild West Film Noir
Painting of Danny
DeVito, in Baroque cloth
and style People walking in the
street, Sovietwave Photo of a car driving in
a town, Wild West Chandler and monica,
detailed faces, Film Noir
style
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Magic words
Prompt
Tiny wizard with a hat
toy, standing
character, soft smooth
lighting, soft pastel
colors, skottie young,
3d blender render,
polycount, modular
constructivism, pop
surrealism, physically
based rendering,
square image
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HDR, UHD, 64K
Quality words like HDR, UHD, 4K, 8k, and 64K can make a dramatic difference.
Seed: 1000
A Landscape
A landscape, HDR, UHD,
64K
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Highly detailed
Quality words like highly detailed can make a dramatic difference.
Seed: 2437020575
Joann of Arc portrayed
by Jennifer Lawrence,
concept
Joann of Arc portrayed
by Jennifer Lawrence,
highly detailed, concept
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Studio lighting
Studio lighting could really add some nice texture to the image
Seed: 4035355907
A cinematic film still of
Morgan Freeman
starring as 50 Cent,
portrait, 40mm lens,
shallow depth of field,
close up
A cinematic film still of
Morgan Freeman
starring as 50 Cent,
portrait, 40mm lens,
shallow depth of field,
close up, studio lighting
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Professional
Adding professional, can greatly improve the color contrast and details in the image
Seed: 851639
Empty temple,
photograph
Empty temple,
professional
photograph
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Trending on artstation
Seed: 4092599551
Portrait photo of a
beautiful female cyborg
from 1920
Portrait photo of a
beautiful female cyborg
from 1920, trending on
artstation
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Unreal engine
Seed: 868591112
Hyper realistic 4 d model
Hyper realistic 4 d
model, unreal engine
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Vivid Colors
Adding Vivid Colors, adds life to your images
Seed: 1
Photo from a city street
in the 1970s
Photo from a city street
in the 1970s, vivid colors
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Bokeh
Bokeh blurs the background and highlights the subject. It’s like iPhone portrait mode.
Seed: 432543543
A cute totoro in a yard
A cute totoro in a yard,
bokeh
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High resolution scan
Want a historic looking photo? Add "High resolution scan"
Seed: 88114615
Photo of a parade in
New York City
Photo of a parade in
New York City, High
resolution scan
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Sketch vs Painting
Almost always, sketch creates pencil images, while painting adds colors and will probably give an older
looking scene
Seed: 851636
Sketch of a car parked in
front of a shop
Painting of a car parked
in front of a shop
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Stable Diffusion
Parameters
Prompt
Tiny robot scratching
his head toy, standing
character, soft smooth
lighting, soft pastel
colors, skottie young,
3d blender render,
polycount, modular
constructivism, pop
surrealism, physically
based rendering,
square image
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Resolution – default is 512x512
This parameter is straight forward. You choose the Width and Height of the generated images. But it’s
important to know that the model was trained on 512x512 images, and in general these dimensions provide
the best quality and composition, so it is recommended you stick to them as a beginner.
576x448
512x512
Even with all
parameters fixed,
changing the
resolution will
completely change
the generated image.
Although it may have
similar colors and
composition
This parameter increases the required VRAM, and the time needed to generate
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Classifier Free Guidance (CFG) – default is 7
You can see this parameter as a “Creativity vs. Prompt” scale. Lower numbers give the AI more freedom to be
creative, while higher numbers force it to stick to the prompt.
Prompt: a red bird drinking water from a lake, children's book painting
CFG: 0 Completely
ignores the prompt
CFG: 4 Missing the
red color
CFG: 7 Good balance
CFG: 15 Too high Starts
creating artifacts
This parameter does not affect the VRAM needed, or the generation time.
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Step count – default is 50
Stable Diffusion creates an image by starting with a canvas full of noise and denoise it gradually to reach the
final output, this parameter controls the number of these denoising steps. Usually, higher is better but to a
certain degree, for beginners it’s recommended to stick with the default.
Steps: 1
Steps: 2
Steps: 40
Steps: 3
Steps: 30
Steps: 4
Steps: 20
Steps: 5
Steps: 10
This parameter does not affect the VRAM needed, but increasing it is directly proportional to the time it takes to generate an image
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Seed – default is “random”
Seed is a number that controls the initial noise. The seed is the reason that you get a different image each
time you generate when all the parameters are fixed. By default, on most implementations of Stable
Diffusion, the seed automatically changes every time you generate an image. You can get the same result
back if you keep the prompt, the seed and all other parameters the same.
Prompt: photo of a rabbit driving a bicycle, in Tokyo at night
Seed: 0
Seed: 8
Seed: 18
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Sampler
Diffusion samplers are the method used to denoise the image during generation, and since they differ in the
way of calculating the next step in the image production, they take different durations and different number
of steps to reach a usable image. We suggest beginners to use DDIM since it's fast and can usually generate
good images with only 10 steps, making it easy and fast to experiment and improve
Sampler: PLMS Sampler: DDIM
Steps: 10 Steps: 10
kawaii tiny cute unicorn emoji made of clay, iOS emoji , 3D clay blender render, rich vivid colors, smooth gradients,
isometric front view, diffuse lighting, octane render, unreal engine
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Important Tips
Prompt
Tiny duck playing on
guitar toy, standing
character, soft smooth
lighting, soft pastel
colors, skottie young,
3d blender render,
polycount, modular
constructivism, pop
surrealism, physically
based rendering,
square image
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When to use different CFG values?
CFG 2 - 6: Creative, but might not follow the prompt
CFG 7 - 10: Recommended for most prompts. Good
balance between creativity and guided generation
CFG 10 - 15: When you’re sure that your prompt is
good/specific enough.
CFG 16 - 20: Not generally recommended unless the
prompt is well detailed. Might affect coherence and
quality
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When to use different CFG values? - Examples
CFG: 2 CFG: 7 CFG: 12 CFG: 19
Complete mess We have a rabbit now We got all 3 subjects! Composition seems forced
anime illustration of a blue rabbit, riding a scooter near a lake, with the sun in the sky
In a prompt with multiple subjects, it’s a good idea to increase the CFG scale
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The power of seeds
Some seed are just better for a prompt, so try to save a good seed and slightly tweak the prompt to get what
you’re looking for while keeping the same composition. This can also be used to test the effect of different
modifiers.
All these images used the same seed and parameters,
only change was the prompt
Painting of a cute cat
holding an umbrella
Photo of a cute cat
holding an umbrella,
at night
Photo of a cute dog
holding an umbrella
Photo of a cute cat
holding an umbrella
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Token efficiency
Your prompt is limited effectively to 75 tokens. If you are working with a long prompt try to be efficient with
words that do not significantly add to your meaning. A typical example is when using an artist as a modifier
to get a particular style. Here are a few prompts and their token counts. They all will produce a piece that
looks like it was created by Vincent Van Gogh with their associated token counts,
● A horse in the style of Vincent Van Gogh (11)
● A horse in the style of Van Gogh (10)
● A horse by Vincent Van Gogh (7)
● A horse by Van Gogh (6)
● Horse by Van Gogh (6)
● Horse Van Gogh (5)
All will accomplish the result but are not exactly the same.
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The order of words can be as important as
the words themselves
This trick is especially useful when trying to make unusual creations.
Pink ice cream truck
with machine gun
mounted on it, technical
Machine gun mounted
on top of a pink ice
cream truck, technical
“Using the same seed
and sampler”
In the above example, the machine gun doesn’t appear unless you put it in the start of the prompt!
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Don’t forget about conventional tools!
You got a great generation with a messed-up facial features? Use GFP-GAN to fix it (use it online)
Close-up
portrait photo
of a blonde
woman on her
wedding day
Close-up portrait
photo of an
elderly middle
eastern woman
smiling, bokeh
Portrait photo of
a female army
soldier during
WW1
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Negative prompt
You can use the negative prompt to tell Stable Diffusion what not to include in the image. This is especially
useful when paired with using the same seed for the new generation!
First image
portrait photo of genghis khan
Second image
portrait photo of genghis khan
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Img2Img
in/out painting
Prompt
Tiny monkey sitting in
a frame toy, standing
character, soft smooth
lighting, soft pastel
colors, skottie young,
3d blender render,
polycount, modular
constructivism, pop
surrealism, physically
based rendering,
square image
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Sketch to professional art
With img2img you can easily turn any simple sketch to beautiful art using a text description
Initial
image
Generated
image
Digital painting of a magical pirates ship floating on a purple mist cloud, over a desert, vibrant colors, 3D pixar
render, delicate details, strong sun rays
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Converting Styles
It is possible for you to change the style of a image by editing the prompt
Original
Steps: 30
Prompt Steps: 72
Color pencil
drawing of a
baby duck Starting on 70-90 will
keep pretty much
everything so use this if
you want a small change
Starting on 30-40
will keep the main
things mostly but
edit the details
Steps: 16
Starting on 10-20 will
remake the image but
keep the color and shape
so use this if you just like
the idea of the image
The creation of a new image can sometimes be almost perfect so using
img2img can recreate the original image and make it exactly what you
want
Tip!
If your Lower step image looks better than your higher one then you can use
img2img to recreate the better lining but getting the detail you want
Prompt
Digital art of a
baby duck
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Img2Img Variation
Img2Img is useful for creating a variation of a image and getting similar images
If you wish to create a image but something isn't quite
right you can use Img2Img to remake the image
With This you can see that it changed the
layout and the time of day but kept the idea
of the original image
First image Second image
cherry blossom In a empty
park, by Thomas Kinkade cherry blossom In a empty
park, by Thomas Kinkade
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Img2Img+Multi Ai Issues
Now this method may not always give what you want because dalle cannot do long prompts well
Its good at
recreating faces
but it also may
mess up some
elements in a
landscape
Digital art of a
Cherry blossom
landscape by Yoji
shinkawa, by Makoto
Shinkai, by Frank
Frazetta
Digital art of a
Cherry blossom
landscape by Yoji
shinkawa, by Makoto
Shinkai, by Frank
Frazetta
Digital art of a bearded
man around Cherry
blossoms by Yoji
shinkawa, by Makoto
Shinkai, by Frank
Frazetta
Digital art of a
bearded man
around Cherry
blossoms by Yoji
shinkawa, by
Makoto Shinkai, by
Frank Frazetta
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Img2Img Variations Low Strength
Img2Img is useful for creating a variation of a image and getting similar images
At times the image at the start will be correct but
not the face you want so if you use Img2Img with a
low strength you can recreate the image until you
get a face you like.
With This you can see that it changed the face to
Gordon. The issue is that this image was the most
creative but it failed to give it the right face.
First image Second image
Digital art headshot of Gordon
Ramsey as a demon, orange,
horns, black armor, evil smile,
nonhuman, By Greg Rutkowski,
by Zdzisław Beksiński Digital art headshot of Gordon
Ramsey as a demon, orange,
horns, black armor, evil smile,
nonhuman, By Greg Rutkowski,
by Zdzisław Beksiński
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Inpainting
This technique can be used to fix a part of an image, by completely removing or changing the subject in an
image, or just fixing a small detail
Remove
Mask + Prompt: orange couch in living room, cartoon show
Change
Mask + Prompt: cartoon boy eating pizza on a couch
Fix
Mask + Prompt: Photo of sunset
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Outpainting/uncropping
You can use this technique to expand real/generated images, can be very useful since Stable Diffusion likes to
create a lot of cropped images
Beautiful 3D rendered female
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Showcase
Prompt
Tiny cute boy painting
himself toy, standing
character, soft smooth
lighting, soft pastel
colors, skottie young,
3d blender render,
polycount, modular
constructivism, pop
surrealism, physically
based rendering,
square image.
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Prompt
Full length oil painting of gorgeous woman as a
translucent arctic fox spirit| detailed face| wearing
white dress| straight white hair| mythical| elegant|
hyperrealism| highly detailed| intricate detailed|
volumetric lighting| Ukiyo-E| by Anne Stokes and
Noriyoshi Ohrai
source
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Prompt
Very detailed female, steampunk city taken over by
plants in the background, d & d, fantasy, with blue
flowers, beautiful face, hyperrealism delicate detailed
complex, sophisticated, vibrant colors, volumetric
lighting, pop surrealism art by Mark Ryden and Anna
Dittmann
source
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Prompt
An oil painting of the autumnal equinox,a woman
surrounded by autumn leaves, an airbrush painting
by Josephine Wall, deviantart, psychedelic art,
airbrush art, detailed painting, pre-raphaelite, 3d
render, rococo art
source
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Prompt
Full head and shoulders, beautiful female porcelain
sculpture by daniel arsham and james jean, smooth,
all white features on a white background, delicate
facial features, white eyes, white lashes, detailed
tangled white lillies and lillie leaves on the head,
volumetric lighting
source
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Prompt
Miniature cafe diorama macro photography, cafe for
mice, alleyway, ambient, atmospheric, british, bokeh,
romantic
source
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Prompt
detailed miniature diorama a soviet residential
building, brutalism architecture, car parking nearby,
elderly man passing by, sunny day, warm and joyful
atmosphere, summer, streetlamps, several birches
nearby
source
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Prompt
An elegant winged fairy in the lord of the rings
scenery landscape, looking out at a vast lush valley
flowers and homes made of mushrooms, stream,
sunrise, god's rays highly detailed, vivid color,
cinematic lighting, perfect composition, 8 k, gustave
dore, derek zabrocki, greg rutkowski, belsinski, octane
render.
source
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Prompt
Oil painting of a fantasy treehouse by ivan shishkin
and aivazovsky, highly detailed, masterpiece
source
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Prompt
Landscape photography of fundatura ponorului by
marc adamus, morning, mist, rays of light, beautiful
source
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Prompt
A beautiful landscape at dawn by atey ghailan, ismail
inceoglu, michal lisowski, artstation, volumetric light,
high detail, perfect
source
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Prompt
Kodak portra 4 0 0, wetplate, fisheye, award - winning
portrait by britt marling, 1 8 8 0 s kitchen, ghost,
picture frames, shining lamps, dust, smoke, 1 8 8 0 s
furniture, wallpaper, carpet, books, muted colours,
wood, fog, plants, flowers
source
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Prompt
A monster is standing in a dimly lit hallway, terrifying
visuals, horror elements, dark ambiance.
source
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Prompt
High quality 3D render neo - cyberpunk very cute half
fluffy! wombat!! half cyborg with headphones,
mechanical paw, highly detailed, unreal engine
cinematic smooth, in the style of detective pikachu,
hannah yata charlie immer, neon purple light, low
angle, uhd 8k, sharp focus
source
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Prompt
Standing breaded chicken with a crown of a king in
top of it, hyper realistic, 4k
source
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