Crazy Ramblings on SDXL/SD

I've been writing and publishing my notes on Stable Diffusion for some time now, and I believe it would be helpful to compile a list of articles and topics. Also, this can be a useful hub for my notes and links to resources.

Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL)

Ultimate Guide to SDXL Photorealism

Designed for beginners and advanced users alike, this comprehensive article provides an exploration of stable diffusion techniques using A1111 and Forge.

Stable Diffusion (1.5)

Ultimate Guide to SD 1.5 Photorealism

This extensive article delves into tips and techniques for maximizing the potential of SD 1.5 models and AUTOMATIC1111 GUI. Other articles include:

• ControlNet 1.5

• ControlNet methods

• Regional Prompter and Latent Couple

• A1111

• chaiNNer

Various Tools and Techniques

• NEW Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD2): Photorealism in Lesser Steps

• NEW NVIDIA's Align Your Steps (AYS): Improve Outputs in SD/SDXL/SVD with Sampling Schedule Voodoo

• Cosine-Continuous Stable Diffusion XL (CosXL) and Installation of StableSwarmUI

• Basic LoRA training

• Sigma and Eta noise

• Semantic Guidance

Resources

• ControlNet models SD https://huggingface.co/lllyasviel/ControlNet-v1-1/tree/main

• ControlNet SDXL https://huggingface.co/lllyasviel/sd_control_collection/tree/main

• ControlNet SDXL (lllite, including normal dsine model) https://huggingface.co/bdsqlsz/qinglong_controlnet-lllite/tree/main

• Upscaler models (former Upscale Wiki) https://openmodeldb.info/

• WD tagger V3 https://huggingface.co/SmilingWolf

• Simple tag editor https://github.com/skiars/sd-tagtool

• LCM LoRAs https://huggingface.co/collections/latent-consistency/latent-consistency-models-loras-654cdd24e111e16f0865fba6, article + tutorial on [sandner.art]

• Lightning SDXL LoRAs https://huggingface.co/ByteDance/SDXL-Lightning/tree/main, article + tutorial on [sandner.art]

• SDXL VAE https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/sdxl-vae/tree/main