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    SMOOTH EMBEDDINGS

    This is a set of quality enhancing embeddings for NoobAI, Illustrious/SDXL and Pony models.

    No need for more quality prompts. They should be enough for getting great results!

    I recommend using both positive and negative embeddings together.

    NoobAI Checkpoints

    • Smooth Positive NoobAI / Smooth Negative NoobAI

    Recommended only for NoobAI trained models since these embeddings use some tokens that are only recognized by NoobAI Checkpoints.

    Can be very aggressive so don't use it together with a gigantic wall of prompts, specially when using the negative embedding.

    So use:

    1. SmoothNoob_Quality on your Positive Prompt for NoobAI Models

    2. SmoothNoob_Negative on your Negative Prompt for NoobAI Models

    Illustrious Checkpoints

    • Smooth Pos. Illustrious (+) / Smooth Neg. Illustrious

    Recommended for Illustrious trained models. It gives great quality while adding gorgeous lighting effects.

    Smooth Pos. Illustrious+ is much less aggressive on lighting effects now so it should give you more control over prompts that influence light.

    So use:

    1. Smooth Quality on your Positive Prompt for Illustrios/SDXL Models

    2. Smooth Negative on your Negative Prompt for Illustrios/SDXL Models

    Pony Checkpoints

    • Smooth Pos. Pony / Smooth Neg. Pony

    Recommended for Pony trained models.

    These embeddings use most tokens related to quality for Pony Checkpoints, so use only on those.

    So use:

    1. SmoothQualityPony on your Positive Prompt for Pony Models

    2. SmoothNegativePony on your Negative Prompt for Pony Models

    There are a lot of high quality Embeddings on the site already, feel free to use as many others as you want together with these.

    EXTRA: SMOOTH NEGATIVE HANDS

    We all agree that Hands are ANNOYING to make on AI art.

    After getting a few messages asking what prompts/embeddings to use to fix hands I decided to make a Negative Embedding for it.

    Its very light and should not affect the quality or style of your image in anyway.

    It uses tokens of NoobAI, Illustrious and Pony models so use it with any Checkpoint you want.

    Its not a 100% fool proof. Results will vary depending on what combinations of Loras and Checkpoints you are using.

    So use:

    1. SmoothNegative_Hands on your Negative Prompt on any NoobAI, Illustrios or Pony Models

    Have Fun!

    Description

    Negative Embeddings for hands

    FAQ

    Comments (44)

    DigitalPastel
    Author
    Apr 15, 2025· 32 reactions
    CivitAI

    Added a negative Embedding for Hands. It seems alot of people have trouble with those. >.<

    Hopefully this help a bit.

    ahi_hay_AIApr 16, 2025· 1 reaction

    this goes alone? or it does need smooth negative/ the typical negative prompt?

    DigitalPastel
    Author
    Apr 16, 2025· 1 reaction

    @ahi_hay_AI Sure. You can use it by itself or use others embeddings with it.

    aaUn17Apr 16, 2025· 2 reactions

    Qvoheu the MVP

    HammersmithApr 16, 2025· 2 reactions

    Yer doing god's work, Harry.

    DigitalPastel
    Author
    Apr 16, 2025· 32 reactions
    CivitAI

    For some reason SmoothNegative_Hands wasn't being detected by Civitai when uploading images created with local image generators (Forge, Reforge, comfyUI...).

    I reuploaded the file and its working properly this time.

    If you downloaded it before, please download it again so it can be detected by Civitai.

    todiy29Apr 18, 2025· 35 reactions
    CivitAI

    Very nice addition! My favorite! I use it almost all the time, the results are impressive!!!

    ElvindosApr 22, 2025· 41 reactions
    CivitAI

    I have a weird problem when I use smooth pos. Illlustrous+ with WAI-NSFW-illustrous v13 checkpoint, for some reason it turns everything into monochrome picture or at least in most cases

    kevinsoraMay 1, 2025

    Same x.x

    DigitalPastel
    Author
    May 1, 2025

    Thats weird. I can't replicate this. Post some pics so I can try to pinpoint what could be the problem. Does it only happens on v13?

    NigidaMay 2, 2025

    @Qvoheu It happens with versions 7 through 12 as well. Almost monochrome or very little color in outputs. Tested in SwarmUI.

    ElvindosMay 3, 2025

    @Qvoheu i posted some pics i was experimenting with, you can see that when i was removing the + version the color started to return, but sometimes i notice it happening with other embeddings too, and if it's not monochrome, it feels like result is being desaturated very hard

    ElvindosMay 3, 2025

    @Qvoheu also added a few recent ones i did just now, probably quality ones are doing this, and maybe it's reacting to the word "dark" that's the only guess i have

    NigidaMay 3, 2025

    The latest updates to SwarmUI seem to have resolved the issue for me.

    sindouNov 22, 2025

    I use WAI V15, and occasionally I also get greyscale images with a black-and-white manga-like style. Using ‘greyscale’ as a negative prompt can prevent this.

    wajopehMay 4, 2025· 41 reactions
    CivitAI

    Which words are in each embedding?

    KajokenMay 7, 2025

    Would be interested too. So I can remove unnecessary doubles.

    judas2991May 11, 2025· 51 reactions
    CivitAI

    Do embeddings replace all quality tags or i still need to use: masterpiece, best quality etc ?

    anotherstabledif1714Jun 16, 2025· 2 reactions

    depends on the embedding, there are some that include them (most "quality" embeddings) and others who dont (for some specific style, scenario etc).

    LYNX233Jun 1, 2025· 43 reactions
    CivitAI

    Is it an incorrect practice to rename an embedding model?


    DigitalPastel
    Author
    Jun 2, 2025

    You mean to use in a local generator like Forge or ComfyUI? Not at all.

    LYNX233Jun 3, 2025

    @Qvoheu I am using it in the local ComfyUI and want to rename it to Chinese or familiar English. Otherwise, with too many files, I can't figure out the purpose of this file. Since it keeps fluctuating between good and bad, I'm not sure if it's related to my renaming of the file. Anyway, the logic of various software is more friendly to English. From the description in the post, it seems that I don't need to add the prefix "embedding" before the TAG.

    AshenpartyJun 8, 2025

    If you're going to be sharing the prompts it might cause some confusion if you share the image +prompts to others without warning them, but for pure local use you can do whatever you want as long as you don't confuse yourself.

    2713381Jul 4, 2025

    @LYNX233 This is a while after this comment but changing the name will actually be necessary for some embeddings sometimes, I've had the embeddings not work in comfyui because it was two words if you combine into one it will fix if that was ever and issue for you

    journey_Jun 3, 2025· 46 reactions
    CivitAI

    Which words are in each embedding?

    tigon_zayneJun 15, 2025· 34 reactions
    CivitAI

    Smooth Neg. Illustrious says invalid link when attempting to download.

    TuesssdayJun 19, 2025· 42 reactions
    CivitAI

    Huge fan of your work! I've been trying out image generation for weeks now and stumble through your workflows, checkpoints and embeddings. Love it!
    May I ask few questions on embeddings?
    1. Love using your checkpoint SmoothMix Illustrious 2XL +NoobAI v2! I wonder since it is mixed noob ai and illustrious. Should i just pick one for negative and possitive? I don't mind adding tons of embeddings. I just wondering if it helps with the heavy lifting especially for negative prompts.
    2. I'm new to ComfyUI - when using your workflow, there is an autocomplete suggestion on embeddings. Is just "SmoothNoob_Quality" == "embeddings:SmoothNoob_Quality"?
    3. follow-up on 2. can embeddings be weighted? Like "(SmoothNegative_Hands:1.3)"?

    zon14Jun 24, 2025· 61 reactions
    CivitAI

    EDIT 01-06:2026: After some talking with the creator of the model I used, turns out the culprit was using "make up" instead of "makeup" in the prompt. So it wasn't the embedding at all adding the headband, just a space.

    alucardnoir941Jun 26, 2025

    with what model?

    zon14Jun 26, 2025

    @alucardnoir941 it popped up with a couple of them. Smooth Noob and Illustrij. Though after I posted this comment they started popping up again. Been lowering the strengths of some Loras, which might be the real answer. It's been really frustrating to track down since it'll go away long enough to make me think I got it, then reappear later on.

    DigitalPastel
    Author
    Jun 27, 2025· 3 reactions

    @zon14 If your characters start to get little flower attachments in their hair its probably ComfyUI finding the word 'Illustrious' in your prompt and thinking its the character from Azur Lane - Illustrious. She has those things on her hair. Just make sure the word 'illustrious' don't show up anywhere in your positive prompt.

    zon14Jun 28, 2025

    @Qvoheu I've never used that word in either prompt, positive or negative. I am still beginning to think it was the strength of two Lora I was using. Knocked them both back, and haven't seen it pop up since, but we'll see. It's happened before where it went away and came back.

    wednesdaykatapiola326Jul 12, 2025· 47 reactions
    CivitAI

    smooth neg. illustrious says invalind link when attempting to download.

    just_iceJul 13, 2025· 45 reactions
    CivitAI

    Hey is it better to have the embedding at the start of the prompt or the end. Because I've been using it at the start and it's been messing up the pose or whatever but I added it last and it is doing a way better job - thanks

    ThatBastardJohnnyAug 14, 2025· 11 reactions

    The best way in my experience to structure your prompts should generally be LoRAs first, then characters/descriptions, Scene, Art Style, Plain text describing the image, then Quality. So for example, it would be like
    <LoRA>, <LoRA>, <LoRA>,
    Solo, Saul Goodman, male, (suit, fixing tie), stern face, exhausted,
    Office, [Court], Day,
    Photo, (Realistic), Realistic Photo,
    Saul Goodman standing in his office at the local Court, looking very stern as he adjusts his tie. His suit is slightly ruffled, and he's looking a bit exhausted.
    High quality, Detailed, HighRes,

    Generally speaking Stable Diffusion doesn't care how your text is actually formatted, but if you structure it that way, or similarly, it gives the best results. Thankfully, Stable diffusion also doesn't care if you mix plain text with your tags, and it can actually help describe the image you want to it. Just remember, Parentheses raise the emphasis on a portion, while square brackets lower the emphasis. More parentheses or brackets means even more or less emphasis. Stable Diffusion also loves descriptors like "Excessive" or "Tiny", so add descriptors where you can. You can also put them around groups of tags or text and it will emphasize everything within them.

    xiaoyinbiOct 2, 2025· 1 reaction

    @ThatBastardJohnny 我一般吧质量词放在lora后面,我听说越靠前的提示词权重越大,所以我觉得质量优先

    allen00191Aug 3, 2025· 45 reactions
    CivitAI

    how to use this ? Need call the function in cumfyUI?

    555aSep 3, 2025· 17 reactions
    CivitAI

    Do I enter the filename? Or input <lora>? Should I just use the sample PNG's tag name? I don't understand the correct usage.

    SargovelSep 4, 2025· 44 reactions
    CivitAI

    Your instructions are insanely confusing and contradictory with the tags on the right. Your description even contradicts your tags. What the hell do I use for Illustrious hands and positive/negative? Your samples don't even use the -neg versions.

    LuminalArtMar 6, 2026· 2 reactions

    Most of these "developers" just spam LoRAs, Checkpoints, Embeddings, etc to boost their rank on the website. Ego gratification and nothing else.

    SargovelMar 12, 2026

    @LuminalArt they seem to be rewarded for it quite well.

    mv_iaSep 18, 2025· 42 reactions
    CivitAI

    Hi there! Why the "No selling generated content" tag?, would you consider changing it? Thanks

    HBLearningNov 10, 2025· 1 reaction

    Illustrious XL v2.0 are released under the CreativeML Open RAIL-M license. I would appreciate the poster to justify a 'no commercial' claim

    MyShounenAIMar 22, 2026· 9 reactions
    CivitAI

    What is the difference between SmoothNegative_Hands and SmoothNegative_Hands-neg?

    TextualInversion
    Illustrious

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    Downloads
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    Platform
    CivitAI
    Platform Status
    Available
    Created
    4/15/2025
    Updated
    4/30/2026
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