I’ve been curious about AI art for a while and finally decided to try it out. However, the program I’m using now (network is a more accurate term) has some fairly strict rules in place about the kind of prompts they allow. As I’ve seen some images here that clearly have those terms in their prompts, I was wondering where you guys generate your images or what programs you use.
I use stable diffusion locally with ComfyUI. It has higher learning curve than other apps, but it uses less VRAM and much faster. I can even do higher resolution without getting out of memeory error. If you have good GPU I suggest trying Automatic1111 or SD.Next instead; it’s a better introduction. As long as you have at least 4GB VRAM (which is the GPU I’m using), you can run stable diffusion locally, albeit quite slow and limited resolution.
How slow is “quite slow”?
I don’t know the typical speed, but it’s around 1.2s/it or 25s for 20 steps 512x512, on ComfyUI. It’s 3 times slower on A1111.