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IL Portreij ~ step by step 👣

hey guys,

being an IL lover now

and after merging some checkpoints, I have thought it might be time for writing a new article ^^ - also to keep the novels under my model description "small"^^ u know me, sometimes I write one or two more words ~ also a bit more in the prompt... ;-)

... and that brings us to the topic. The longer I have tested IL, the more it becomes clear: IL is surprisingly close to the prompt. Sometimes too close xD and small authors like me can be tempted to want to describe a lot of details. So ...

I thought a small prompt structure could help me and so I want to share this with u.

Now I build my IL prompts, when I write a lot, step by step, according to context. that not only makes it easier for the AI ​​to read and implement contexts in a coherent way ~ but also for me to keep track^.^ especially when I'm captivated by a story and only want to change individual parts of the image and IL really invites u to be, precisely because it is so promptly accurate ~ which still surprises me today.

Many of u may find the following some kind of familiar, but maybe you want to take a look?

First of all before we start getting closer:

  1. VAE inclueded ? yes? leave VAE / Text Encoder free^^

  2. recommended settings (in this case e.g. Clip skip 2 / 30steps / CFG 5)

step 1

  • sampler? e. g. Euler a / Euler ? letz take a look

1.1 the rawwwww image ~ subject

  • Who or what do we wanna see?

  • (what does (s)he/it look like? hair, eyes, clothing, description of the scene)

prompting:

1girl, adult_woman, milf, cheekbones, very long brown_ginger_hair, straight hair, hair fall into face, parted lips, lush lips, brown eyes, freckles, body freckles, small breasts, saggy breasts,

pastel pink top, highwaist dungarees, suspenders, looking at viewer,

dark background,

no neg. prompting

1.2 Hires x 1,5 can make the image clearer

prompting same like 1.1

1.3 neg. prompting / what do we wanna skip in our image?

prompting:

1girl, adult_woman, milf, cheekbones, very long brown_ginger_hair, straight hair, hair fall into face, parted lips, lush lips, brown eyes, freckles, body freckles, small breasts, saggy breasts,

pastel pink top, highwaist dungarees, suspenders, looking at viewer,

dark background,

neg. prompting:

(lowres:1.2), (worst quality:1.4), (low quality:1.4), (bad anatomy:1.4), multiple views, jpeg artifacts, artist name, censored, censored nipples, young, 2D

1.4 quality description in general

prompting:

masterpiece, best quality, high resolution, very aesthetic, absurdres, newest, professional, high-quality, hyper-realistic, portrait of a woman, detailed eyes, realistic body,

1girl, adult_woman, milf, cheekbones, very long brown_ginger_hair, straight hair, hair fall into face, parted lips, lush lips, brown eyes, freckles, body freckles, small breasts, saggy breasts,

pastel pink top, highwaist dungarees, suspenders, looking at viewer,

dark background,

neg. prompting:

(lowres:1.2), (worst quality:1.4), (low quality:1.4), (bad anatomy:1.4), multiple views, jpeg artifacts, artist name, censored, censored nipples, young, 2D

step 2

2.1 light description

prompting:

masterpiece, best quality, high resolution, very aesthetic, absurdres, newest, professional, high-quality, hyper-realistic, portrait of a woman, detailed eyes, realistic body,

1girl, adult_woman, milf, cheekbones, very long brown_ginger_hair, straight hair, hair fall into face, parted lips, lush lips, brown eyes, freckles, body freckles, small breasts, saggy breasts,

pastel pink top, highwaist dungarees, suspenders, looking at viewer,

dark background,

moody lighting,

neg. prompting:

(lowres:1.2), (worst quality:1.4), (low quality:1.4), (bad anatomy:1.4), multiple views, jpeg artifacts, artist name, censored, censored nipples, young, 2D

2.2 shadows?

e.g. golden hour glow (for light incl. shadow), subtle shadows,diagonal shadows,

prompting:

masterpiece, best quality, high resolution, very aesthetic, absurdres, newest, professional, high-quality, hyper-realistic, portrait of a woman, detailed eyes, realistic body,

1girl, adult_woman, milf, cheekbones, very long brown_ginger_hair, straight hair, hair fall into face, parted lips, lush lips, brown eyes, freckles, body freckles, small breasts, saggy breasts,

pastel pink top, highwaist dungarees, suspenders, looking at viewer,

dark background,

golden hour glow, deep shadows

neg. prompting:

(lowres:1.2), (worst quality:1.4), (low quality:1.4), (bad anatomy:1.4), multiple views, jpeg artifacts, artist name, censored, censored nipples, young, 2D

step 3

3.1 point of view

⬇️Euler

⬇️Euler a

prompting:

masterpiece, best quality, high resolution, very aesthetic, absurdres, newest, professional, high-quality, hyper-realistic, portrait of a woman, detailed eyes, realistic body,

1girl, adult_woman, milf, cheekbones, very long brown_ginger_hair, straight hair, hair fall into face, parted lips, lush lips, brown eyes, freckles, body freckles, small breasts, saggy breasts,

pastel pink top, highwaist dungarees, suspenders, looking at viewer,

dark background,

golden hour glow, natural shadows,

over the shoulder view,

neg. prompting:

(lowres:1.2), (worst quality:1.4), (low quality:1.4), (bad anatomy:1.4), multiple views, jpeg artifacts, artist name, censored, censored nipples, young, 2D

3.2 angle

e.g. Dutch Angle, Dutch Tilt, Oblique Angle,Canted Angle, from below, from above

⬇️Euler

⬇️Euler a

prompting 1st image:

masterpiece, best quality, high resolution, very aesthetic, absurdres, newest, professional, high-quality, hyper-realistic, portrait of a woman, detailed eyes, realistic body,

1girl, adult_woman, milf, cheekbones, very long brown_ginger_hair, straight hair, hair fall into face, parted lips, lush lips, brown eyes, freckles, body freckles, small breasts, saggy breasts,

pastel pink top, highwaist dungarees, suspenders, looking at viewer,

dark background,

golden hour glow, natural shadows,

front view, close up, eye view,

prompting 2nd image:

masterpiece, best quality, high resolution, very aesthetic, absurdres, newest, professional, high-quality, hyper-realistic, portrait of a woman, detailed eyes, realistic body,

1girl, adult_woman, milf, cheekbones, very long brown_ginger_hair, straight hair, hair fall into face, parted lips, lush lips, brown eyes, freckles, body freckles, small breasts, saggy breasts,

pastel pink top, highwaist dungarees, suspenders, looking at viewer,

dark background,

golden hour glow, natural shadows,

front view, close up, eye view,

dynamic angle,

prompting 3rd image:

masterpiece, best quality, high resolution, very aesthetic, absurdres, newest, professional, high-quality, hyper-realistic, portrait of a woman, detailed eyes, realistic body,

1girl, adult_woman, milf, cheekbones, very long brown_ginger_hair, straight hair, hair fall into face, parted lips, lush lips, brown eyes, freckles, body freckles, small breasts, saggy breasts,

pastel pink top, highwaist dungarees, suspenders, looking at viewer,

dark background,

golden hour glow, natural shadows,

front view, close up, eye view,

from above

neg. prompting all 3:

(lowres:1.2), (worst quality:1.4), (low quality:1.4), (bad anatomy:1.4), multiple views, jpeg artifacts, artist name, censored, censored nipples, young, 2D

okay, letz test some seeds ^^ time for the random surprise -1 roll

⬇️Euler

⬇️Euler a

step 4

Want a lil more? Hires x2 can give more details if wanted.

⬇️ Euler 4.1 / 4.2

4.1 background details

e.g. green patterned background, squares and stripes, abstract background

prompting 1st image:

masterpiece, best quality, high resolution, very aesthetic, absurdres, newest, professional, high-quality, hyper-realistic, portrait of a woman, detailed eyes, realistic body,

1girl, adult_woman, milf, cheekbones, very long brown_ginger_hair, straight hair, hair fall into face, parted lips, lush lips, brown eyes, freckles, body freckles, small breasts, saggy breasts,

pastel pink top, highwaist dungarees, suspenders, looking at viewer,

dark background, green patterned background, squares and stripes,

golden hour glow, natural shadows,

front view, close up, eye view,

dynamic angle, Dutch View

neg. prompting:

(lowres:1.2), (worst quality:1.4), (low quality:1.4), (bad anatomy:1.4), multiple views, jpeg artifacts, artist name, censored, censored nipples, young, 2D

4.2 more focus? depth maybe?

prompting 2nd image:

masterpiece, best quality, high resolution, very aesthetic, absurdres, newest, professional, high-quality, hyper-realistic, portrait of a woman, detailed eyes, realistic body,

1girl, adult_woman, milf, cheekbones, very long brown_ginger_hair, straight hair, hair fall into face, parted lips, lush lips, brown eyes, freckles, body freckles, small breasts, saggy breasts,

pastel pink top, highwaist dungarees, suspenders, looking at viewer,

dark background, green patterned background, squares and stripes,

golden hour glow, natural shadows,

front view, close up, eye view,

dynamic angle, Dutch View,

depth of field,focused subject,

neg. prompting:

(lowres:1.2), (worst quality:1.4), (low quality:1.4), (bad anatomy:1.4), multiple views, jpeg artifacts, artist name, censored, censored nipples, young, 2D

⬆️Euler a 4.1 / 4.2

oh we lose the background...

(green patterned background:1.1), (squares and stripes:1.1) can fix ^.^ so prompting can look like this:

masterpiece, best quality, high resolution, very aesthetic, absurdres, newest, professional, high-quality, hyper-realistic, portrait of a woman, detailed eyes, realistic body,

1girl, adult_woman, milf, cheekbones, very long brown_ginger_hair, straight hair, hair fall into face, parted lips, lush lips, brown eyes, freckles, body freckles, small breasts, saggy breasts,

pastel pink top, highwaist dungarees, suspenders, looking at viewer,

dark background, (green patterned background:1.1), (squares and stripes:1.1),

golden hour glow, natural shadows,

front view, close up, eye view,

dynamic angle, Dutch View,

depth of field,focused subject

neg. prompting:

(lowres:1.2), (worst quality:1.4), (low quality:1.4), (bad anatomy:1.4), multiple views, jpeg artifacts, artist name, censored, censored nipples, young, 2D

step 5

5.1 time for motion? some facial expression?

e. g. dynamic motion or sth special u wanna see^^

prompting 1st image:

masterpiece, best quality, high resolution, very aesthetic, absurdres, newest, professional, high-quality, hyper-realistic, portrait of a woman, detailed eyes, realistic body,

1girl, adult_woman, milf, cheekbones, very long brown_ginger_hair, straight hair, hair fall into face, parted lips, lush lips, brown eyes, freckles, body freckles, small breasts, saggy breasts,

pastel pink top, highwaist dungarees, suspenders, looking at viewer,

dark background, (green patterned background:1.1), (squares and stripes:1.1),

golden hour glow, natural shadows,

front view, close up, eye view,

dynamic angle, Dutch View,

depth of field,focused subject,

dynamic motion

prompting 2nd image:

masterpiece, best quality, high resolution, very aesthetic, absurdres, newest, professional, high-quality, hyper-realistic, portrait of a woman, detailed eyes, realistic body,

1girl, adult_woman, milf, cheekbones, very long brown_ginger_hair, straight hair, hair fall into face, parted lips, lush lips, brown eyes, freckles, body freckles, small breasts, saggy breasts,

pastel pink top, highwaist dungarees, suspenders, looking at viewer,

dark background, (green patterned background:1.1), (squares and stripes:1.1),

golden hour glow, natural shadows,

front view, close up, eye view,

dynamic angle, Dutch View,

depth of field,focused subject,

dynamic motion, head flirtily tilted to the side, harmonious facial expression

prompting 3rd image:

masterpiece, best quality, high resolution, very aesthetic, absurdres, newest, professional, high-quality, hyper-realistic, portrait of a woman, detailed eyes, realistic body,

1girl, adult_woman, milf, cheekbones, very long brown_ginger_hair, straight hair, hair fall into face, parted lips, lush lips, brown eyes, freckles, body freckles, small breasts, saggy breasts,

pastel pink top, highwaist dungarees, suspenders, looking at viewer,

dark background, (green patterned background:1.1), (squares and stripes:1.1),

golden hour glow, natural shadows,

front view, close up, eye view,

dynamic angle, Dutch View,

depth of field,focused subject,

dynamic motion, hands on chin, head flirtily tilted to the side, harmonious facial expression

prompting 4th image:

masterpiece, best quality, high resolution, very aesthetic, absurdres, newest, professional, high-quality, hyper-realistic, portrait of a woman, detailed eyes, realistic body,

1girl, adult_woman, milf, cheekbones, very long brown_ginger_hair, straight hair, hair fall into face, parted lips, lush lips, brown eyes, freckles, body freckles, small breasts, saggy breasts,

pastel pink top, highwaist dungarees, suspenders, looking at viewer,

dark background, (green patterned background:1.1), (squares and stripes:1.1),

golden hour glow, natural shadows,

front view, close up, eye view,

dynamic angle, Dutch View,

depth of field,focused subject,

dynamic motion, forming heart hands, head flirtily tilted to the side, harmonious facial expression

neg. prompting all 4 images:

(lowres:1.2), (worst quality:1.4), (low quality:1.4), (bad anatomy:1.4), multiple views, jpeg artifacts, artist name, censored, censored nipples, young, 2D

in summary ...

Finish

still tasty?

If you want, you can use an ADetailer to finish.

To skip face deraction till ultimo^^ or body fingers or toooo detailed faces in background faces

  • set Detection more towards 1 than 0 ^^

For bigger images it can help to switch from 512 to 1024 and a lower denoising strength may help to keep the original face.

It can also be helpful to avoid visible ADetailer boxes, for example by including the corresponding parts from the prompt/neg. prompt in the ADetailer prompts^^ e.g. settings for quality, light, and so on.

An example for ADetailer prompting in this case for the final image could look like this:

masterpiece, best quality, high resolution, very aesthetic, absurdres, newest, professional, high-quality, hyper-realistic, portrait of a woman, detailed eyes, realistic body,

golden hour glow, natural shadows,

neg. Prompt:

(lowres:1.2), (worst quality:1.4), (low quality:1.4), (bad anatomy:1.4), jpeg artifacts, young, 2D

Final step? ~ and that's how I get to the finish of this article. I want to thank everyone who made it this far ;) Thank u for ur support and I look forward to ur results.

Best regards ~ Reij

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frenchyhk's Avatar

Thanks for the article,

New to all of this, may I know what are the proper keyword to have the character from head to toes, and not just the upper body?

IceB2's Avatar

I usually go with "full body"

reijlita's Avatar

I can only agree with @IceB2 . Sometimes u can also direct the focus to the whole picture by describing the lower body, e.g. the shoes, legs, pants, etc. or by using the perspective like "feet view" or describing the leg poses like "one leg bent", "one leg stretched" to show dynamic poses. When I design fashion, I often describe what the shoes look like, so u often automatically have more shown in the picture than just close-ups^^ unless of course u only describe the shoe, which would also work ;)

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You can also describe the body parts you want in the picture, like feet or shoes. Depending on the situation or your resolution that can produce kneeling or sitting characters, in that case you need to describe them as standing or whatever position you want them to take.
This means also the opposite, if you want a character not in "full body", don't describe their shoes.
This can be useful if you want to minimize tokens.

PS: awesome article, very detailed and with all those examples very easy to understand.

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roxin282's Avatar

Nice detailed article. Better prompts for everyone :)

IceB2's Avatar

Thanks for the info !!

belember's Avatar

Wonderful Article! I appreciate the details that you went into making this. Thank you!

mommymia's Avatar

Love the guide. Very detailed and as a visual person, the photo examples were very helpful to understand what everything meant. I'm still learning myself and it was nice to learn about the different options to include in prompting.

MaxOne69's Avatar

Always the best of the BEST!

Daalis's Avatar

Very useful writeup. I have found your images to be so beautiful, this is very helpful for understanding how the magic works.

I am trying these prompts but the lighting is too bright, the face is shiny, the images don't look as good as these. I'm using illustrious_v50. Do I need to change something for that model? Theoretically I should be able to get these exact images, or pretty close, with the same settings? The face is always in shadow with the light coming from the side and heavy shadows on the face - no matter how much I say "front lit, evenly lit" etc it won't change

reijlita's Avatar

every model has its own style ~ that includes light, shadows, posing behavior, facial features, etc. some also differ if u leave out negative prompts or write something about them and react individually to prompts. unfortunately I don't know much about the model. but basically if the light is intense it can help to write something opposite: dim, moody lighting or u describe the shadows in more detail

what does '1girl' do, is that a special token? is it needed?

reijlita's Avatar

many loras and models are trained to represent a woman when writing 1girl. you can also write a flower, a cat, a rainbow or whatever comes to mind, according to your own imagination. the prompt is basically just your gate to your ideas

Thank you. May I know if you are using ComfyUI or Stable Diffusion, please? Thanks.

reijlita's Avatar

I have started with A1111 and switched to Forge a while ago. Did not start with ComfyUI but I am very interested in to get a look in the future ☺

McBob67's Avatar

Thnak you so much. I highly appreciate some of your Pony checkpoints - I am interested in Illustrious, too, but I can't seem to get anything close to what I'd like (in Comfy). I'll try again starting from this article's insights. We'll see!

reijlita's Avatar

Glad to hear u like my merges, I hope u have a lot of fun trying it out :) IL is really surprised close to ur own prompt ☺

Awesome guide! But I suggest using not hiresfix, but mixture of diffusers. Also for lighting - try NoobAI v-pred, it is raises it to a completely different level.

One more thing. I am currently testing illu1.0 and it's claims of generating at higher resolution and figured that a lot of finetunes actually produce better results if you go higher then normal sdxl resolution. What resolution are you currently using?

reijlita's Avatar

thank u for the advice. I haven't personally tried that yet. Can u recommend a setting, then I would just try it out ☺

Depending on the model, I vary the resolution. Personally, I have a preference for portrait format ~ although that's where the difference in models sometimes becomes apparent. With the newer models I often use 900*1600 or 1040*1510. The image is often more detailed and also finer in terms of contours, although on some models a finger can grow here or"long neck" becomes a friend for the -pompt ^^

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I wrote a bunch of guides for Noob, this is the last one for vpred: https://civitai.com/articles/10998/noobai-xl-nai-xl-v-pred-10-generation-guide-for-forge-and-inpainting-tips

Probably will update it later with resolution thing and maybe try extension with newer samplers for forge, but no eta on that. Illu 1.0 is blatantly bad at communication and it is kinda hard to get data on that for proper comparsion. About resolution I found that around 1.5MP is a sweet spot, eg not higher then 1024x1536. I am currrently using 1024x1328 and then upscaling x4 via mixture of diffusers with tile controlnet and denoise of 0.44. But bear in mind that if you will use my settings - DDPM Exponential works a bit veirdly with first steps not producing much which leads to some prompt modifications like [from:to] working a bit differently.

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reijlita's Avatar

thank u very much 4 the fast answer and the guide☺ will take a look ♥