StableDiffusionWebUI: Checkpoint

Preface

Image generation in SD relies on checkpoints.

Initially, the official team provided some checkpoints.

Later, SD enthusiasts trained many more checkpoints,

which can be found on HuggingFace or Civitai.

Using Checkpoints

Installation

After downloading a checkpoint, place it in the stable-diffusion-webui/models/Stable-diffusion folder.

Method 1

Select the corresponding checkpoint from the dropdown in the top-left corner.

If the newly added checkpoint doesn’t appear, click the refresh button.

Method 2

In the ckpt tab at the bottom,

click the corresponding checkpoint to switch.

If the newly added checkpoint doesn’t appear, click refresh on the right.

Checkpoint Effects

Simply put, choose a checkpoint that matches the style you want to draw.

This also shows that SD can’t create images from nothing — you need to give it a template.

Keeping some parameters fixed, let’s try different checkpoints and see the results.

Prompt - Positive

(best quality:1), (high quality:1), detailed/(extreme, highly, ultra/), realistic, 1girl/(beautiful, delicate, perfect/)

Prompt - Negative

(worst quality:1), (low quality:1), (normal quality:1), lowres, signature, blurry, watermark, duplicate, bad link, plump, bad anatomy, extra arms, extra digits, missing finger, bad hands, bad feet, deformed, error, mutation, text

checkpoint-AnythingV5NijiMix

URL: https://civitai.com/models/110761/anythingv5nijimix

checkpoint-DreamShaper

URL: https://civitai.com/models/4384/dreamshaper

checkpoint-epiCRealism XL

URL: https://civitai.com/models/25694/epicrealism

checkpoint-LEOSAM’s HelloWorld XL

https://civitai.com/models/43977/leosams-helloworld-xl

checkpoint-majicMIX realistic

URL: https://civitai.com/models/43331/majicmix-realistic

checkpoint-Realistic Stock Photo

URL: https://civitai.com/models/139565/realistic-stock-photo

checkpoint-Realistic Vision V6.0 B1

URL: https://civitai.com/models/4201/realistic-vision-v60-b1

checkpoint-ReV Animated

URL: https://civitai.com/models/7371/rev-animated

checkpoint-Samaritan 3d Cartoon

URL: https://civitai.com/models/81270/samaritan-3d-cartoon

SDWebUI

|—URL: https://sdwebui.ai/?from=vq

|—The original Stable Diffusion WebUI V1.10.1

|—Top-tier 4090 GPU, premium members get exclusive single 4090 for image generation

|—Supports Mac client, Windows client, and web usage

|—Innovative instant model transfer feature for local models

|—Supports txt2img, img2img, extras, and image info

|—Supports CLIP interrogation, DeepBooru interrogation

|—Supports Hires.fix upscaling, with 21 built-in upscale models

|—Supports ADetailer detail repair, with 11 built-in repair models

|—Supports ControlNet, with 44 preprocessors and 68 built-in models

|—Supports ultra upscaling (Tiled Diffusion, Demo Fusion, Tiled VAE)

|—Supports old photo restoration, with 21 upscale models, plus GFPGAN and CodeFormer repair models

|—Built-in 2 common Styles, 11 popular Checkpoint models, 7 popular LoRA models, 14 common embeddings

|—Built-in oldsix prompt plugin

|—Built-in 23-lesson beginner tutorial