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LustrousMix aims to serve as a bridge between 2D and 2.5D checkpoints, with vibrant colors, and good contrast.
No need to use bloatware embeddings, they will not make your images better.
Using 3D in your negatives will alter the look of the checkpoint, it is not necessary at all, only use it if you prefer the way it looks with it more than how I use it.
Recommended settings :
Positive prompt : score_9, score_7_up, source_anime
Negative prompt : monochrome, greyscale
Sampler : Euler a
I highly recommend using the ADetailer extension for better faces.
VAE is baked in.
I've included the different models I used in the merge in the suggested resources, check them out!