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Illustrious Realism by klaabu
For on-site generation use -
Dpm++ 2M Karras
CFG:5-6.5
Steps 25-35
sdxl_vae.safetensor
On-site V1.0 now has VAE baked in
For local generation use -
DPM++ SDE
CFG: 3-4.5
Steps 25-35
sdxl_vae.safetensor
A cinematic fine-tuned model for high-detail, character-rich realism
"Illustrious Realism by klaabu" is a high-fidelity model fine-tuned on top of the Illustrious framework, enhanced for realism, texture depth, and stronger control over nuanced facial and body features. It has been tuned to preserve the cinematic essence of Illustrious while elevating clarity and dynamic lighting.
Native Resolution Range:
Outputs cleanly from 832Ć1216 up to 1536Ć2048, ideal for both portraits and full-body shots.
Recommended Inference Settings:
Sampler: DPM++ SDE KarrasCFG: 4.0Steps: 20Clip Skip: 1Prompting Style:
For best results, use Illustrious-style prompting ā avoid stylised scoring systems like Pony. The model performs best with clean, natural phrasing and descriptive realism.
Suggested Positive Tags:
masterpiece, best quality, ultra-detailed, realistic skin, intricate details, highres,Recommended Negatives:
low quality, worst quality, blurry, (deformed:1.3), extra fingers, cartoon, 3d, anime, bad anatomyCharacter Handling:
The model handles a wide range of character likenesses including many known to Illustrious. It works smoothly with compatible LoRAs ā including SDXL LoRAs, Illustrious variants, and Pony.
Illustrious Realism is crafted for users seeking high-end realism with expressive tone, dynamic lighting, and compatibility with advanced prompting techniques ā all within a flexible resolution range.
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Description
This version includes baked in VAE
FAQ
Comments (143)
Thank you for the model!
cant replicate images in preview , tons of loras i cant find
Hi @fdgfdfd , images in preview are locally generated with different Sampler and loras that i have not yet released.
By far the best realistic base I've been able to find so far!
Pony version?
@carlostyler337 are you asking if I'm releasing Pony checkpoint? I'm currently working on one :)
LOL I can't generate male characters
@SyntheticScenes , don't prompt like you would for PONY, this is illustrious.
@ponyboi can you re-upload the spitroast pics for this model from 2 days ago? Or share the prompt? š
Hii do u have a workflow for comfyUI? do u recommend any loras for the most realism?
Hi @TropicalCat , there's no workforce required to get amazing Realism already. For example, use the cover image as a base, ensure you follow illustrious prompt style and for local generation use DPM ++ SDE sampler, cfg 4.5 with 25 steps as start. This will give you solid base. Otherwise, I'll be releasing Realism lora for illustrious over the coming days that will take it to the next level again. For best workflows check out @prompt_bit_sorcerer , he has decent workflow which you could modify for illustrious.
This is my favorite new checkpoint but I wish it had more poses and positions, it seems to tend to default to a couple poses very insistently under constraint. Any suggestions to counteract this? Otherwise I hope you'll add a bit of variety next version!
Hi @zb4e1 , thank you for the feedback. To be fully honest,I have not noticed this myself. Like its common with illustrious - it doesn't like certain camera angles or composition tags. Ill do some testing on the new unreleased version and see if it's same. Thank you for the support.
Still learning but I am enjoying using this model the most, so far.
I have a noob question, though. Is there a way to comment out stuff in your prompts (i.e. tag it in some way so that it isn't used in the prompt). I just want to add some reminders and stuff.
Thank you for the model and thanks for help!
Hi @ArkaySeven , not to my knowledge no there's not. But you can save your prompt as a style for example in A1111 and name it, this way you can always load it back in from the list.
@klaabu Thanks for the help!
@klaabuĀ Actually, square brackets work for prompt annotations in Illustrious/SDXL! I asked the site AI helper. My prompts get quite long and complicated, so it's good to be able to divide into sections. :)
If you think that's not safe enough, you can also do zero weight prompts, i.e. (this is a comment: 0.0) ;)
@ArkaySevenĀ thanks for the tip!
This produces some really great results and I like it a lot. But I'm also struggling to get it to obey my prompts. The subject always wants to look at the viewer despite prompting otherwise. I haven't had this issue with other Illustrious checkpoints (like CyberIllustrious).
Hi @Halfaron , this is a Illustrious model and uses Illustrious text encoder, you need to prompt it like Illustrious model. Cyberillustrious is a merge, hence why it's different.
Use prompts like "from_behind", "facing_away"
Feel free to share your prompt or image. Send me a DM if you have to. Thanks
@klaabuĀ Thank you for your response. Yes, that is the sort of prompt I am using. Specifically, I'm trying "looking_down" and the model refuses to look down 99% of the time after hundreds of seeds. Usually the eyes get really messed up or crossed while still looking vaguely at the viewer. I've tried the same prompt with the CyberIllustrious checkpoint and the model will look down as expected 95% of the time. Maybe it's just this one prompt that it doesn't like. I'll mess around with some others and see what I come up with.
@HalfaronĀ you're right, I just tested and it won't work! I guess it's time to make a Slider for that :)
Additionally, i did get it to work by adding eye contact in negative. And bit of a weight to "(looking_down:1.6)"
@klaabuĀ Thanks for verifying that I'm not doing something wrong. I was coming to say that I even tried it with your sample images and couldn't get it to work, but it sounds like you've already figured that out :D. I'll try the negative prompt idea. I did try giving it some weight. Using "closed_eyes" helped in some cases too. Either way, I've been enjoying using your sliders with this model and it produces some really great results.
Well, I still really like the images that this model generates, but it struggles a lot with pose prompting. I mentioned that it doesn't do 'looking_down'. I'm also struggling to get it to properly do 'knees_up' and 'legs_together'. It doesn't seem to like specific pose prompts like this. Maybe I'm just too picky with my prompting or I need to readjust from what I'm used to with Pony.
@Halfaron You are not picky - it is really dumb. that why I not use it. Other IL works fine and understand fine.Ā
These home made trained checkpoints always like this, I tested them a lot. They always worse in prompt following. What worked for me is using long AI generated prompts from short human prompt.
This one checkpoint has really major flaws in concept understanding, but people seems happy with it.
@littlefluffyballĀ What realistic checkpoint do you prefer?
@littlefluffyballĀ the beauty of AI community is that you can do all of it yourself, and do better !
@HalfaronĀ I've done some additional testing, there's no issue with poses. "Sitting, knees_up, full body" will generate that. Same for legs together, I have not seen your prompt, but I think you either don't fully prompt the concept and leave it for checkpoint to figure it out, or you have something in negatives.
Additionally, looking_down is working, while I did notice that it can mess up eyes, again - full concept needs to be prompted. This model uses Illustrious tokeniser, have a read here- https://huggingface.co/OnomaAIResearch/Illustrious-xl-early-release-v0
If you're more used to pony, try cyber illustrious - it's a merge from this model and uses pony tokenizer.
Good luck
@klaabuĀ Thanks for checking in again. I'd like to try to share an image and a prompt with you. What would be the best way to do that?
Wow the generations look insanely realistic. Well done!
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Sometimes you need to give a chkpt a second chance. I'm glad I did here. Getting very good results using free Google colab and forge. I'm not even needing an img to img upscale or hires fix, just a standard portrait or landscape with adetailer and one realism or detail lora (pony, sdxl or Illustrious bring different and good results).
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Damn, What colab are you running that isn't blocked by google?
@scringleĀ https://github.com/gutris1/segsmaker
This one works good, but there are times I feel like I get alot of timeouts and disconnects, then I have to rerun the last cell. Fyi, I think most problems seem to be caused by sdxl model + lora+hires fix because it's using too much memory.
Getting some really good results in some situations. But I am struggling to get it to produce the following: cunnilingus, female masturbation, any kind of dildo self play. Any tips or is it just not trained for that?
Managed to get masturbation after a few more tries, though hard to get a finger in there. Can get dildo riding but any kind of fucking self with a dildo I am failing. Best I did with cunnilingus was a detached head of the same model licking her leg. š«£
Well, I say I got female masturbation, but half the pics are still a random dick appearing or her cumming without touching herself...
@SordidlySaneĀ hei, this is an illustrious model and uses Illustrious prompts.
https://civitai.com/images/6925976
https://civitai.com/images/69259804
Look at the above examples. It is more than capable making what you're trying to do. Would you mind sharing your prompt so i can help you?
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@klaabu Yes, I'm using Danboruu tags whenever I can find a suitable one. I could not produce consistent results with "female masturbation" or "crotch rub". I also tried "fingering self" and a number of other more convoluted variants. I see in the second picture, the prompt are "hand between legs" and "implied masturbation", which is kind of my point: the masturbation in the picture is anything but implied? Don't get me wrong, I'm producing some great pics, but sometimes I find myself at a loss how to get good results. Can I PM you a prompt? I'd rather not share it site wide at this point. Thanks for help!
@SordidlySaneĀ ofcourse, send me a DM
Requirements?
What are the requirements for this model?
@toshiro_mifune what do you mean by requirements? Load it up and generate :)
@klaabuĀ the GPU, VRAM, RAM, CPU ?
I get an error and ComfyUI crashes.
@toshiro_mifuneĀ That is most likely your internal error, this is a Illustrious model, no other requirements like any other - Compatible GUI, 12GB VRAM minimum.
Feel free to DM me or join my Discord, happy to discuss this there and look at your log output.
@klaabuĀ I guess that is the issue - low VRAM.
First time trying Illustrious.
Using 1070ti with 8GB VRAM.
Thanks.
@toshiro_mifuneĀ I've sent you some yellow. Try it out on site ā¤ļø
@toshiro_mifuneĀ 8gb more than enough. You need atleast 16gb system ram, better 32gb.
The same issues like many others. Very good Pictures, very real, but I have the biggest problems to get my model look away: I havn“t any pic with full body and from behind. Do you have tipps for prompts to get full body shots, shots from behind and to make the model look siedways? Because I really want to use your checkpoint as it is very beautiful
Hi @rsiegel79291518 . I personally don't have this problem. For starters, when promoting, ensure you prompt for Illustrious. Second - when you prompt facial features like eyes, smile, etc. The model will naturally make character face you. I just did simple test here- https://orchestration.civitai.com/v2/consumer/blobs/MB8KAG0WXHEDT0C91DA8PEXFS0.jpeg
Side profile shot, no issues with subject looking at the "viewer" - positive- (side_profile:1.4), from side, looking away Negative: eye_contact.
Make sure you prompt image composition how you want. If you still get stuck, come hang out at discord (link in my bio), I'll walk you through if needed.
Keep me in the loop if you still have issues ā¤ļø
@klaabuĀ problems were more backview and especially full body standing, all cropped at knees but yes, I will come to you, if problems resist. Because it is a wonderful checkpoint
Hello there! Amazing model as usual. By any chance do you have the workflow used for achieving these results? Thanks!
Hi @yamstapia316Ā , all the images I've created use no special workflows or settings, all made in A1111. Come and hang our in my discord (link in bio). Sharing more there
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Ngl, great results, but this model doesn't give a fuck about your prompts AT ALL.
Hi @NoRecipe3 , glad you are enjoying the model. Would you mind sharing your prompt? I can't imagine that the model is not doing what you're asking it to do.
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great work I've been using it with sdxl vae.
adhering to simple and natural prompts makes it easily one of my top 3 favorite models.
sometimes, simple = more.
Thank you
Hei @wingZ_of_midnight . Thank you for the kind words. There's a model here with VAE baked in.
Fantasy was trained out of that model, too realistic for me...
Hi @Zelrikriando , realism was the intention. It also does fantasy and characters etc. Just not illustrations, there's other models for that.
My current favorite model for inpainting boobs. Most models don't pay much more attention then "boobs" but you can get crazy detailed with your description and it will try it's best and usually succeed. Much better than stand alone boob models I've used. Only minor gripe is it sometimes ignores the obvious size of the covered boobs and and will make your Double D's into A's or vice versa and when you try and crrect this on the next pass, it will interpret your "medium sized breasts" prompt as "(Mammoth colossal supersized breasts:1.5) but it's beautiful 86.7% of the time
Hi @semenslurper69 , thank you :)
Also give my breast size slider, puffy breasts or big naturals a go, they work great if you play around in img2img. ā¤ļø
Can you do inpainting on Civitai website or is this only possible with external editor?
@MrBurnerĀ locally or other Gen services that allow it.
Great work! Love this model and your loras!
Where is solid generations amazed by photo quality?
At your fingertips, @Elaria_Nyx
Whenever I generate with this model, I get these white pearl-like artefacts throughout the image.
Hei @chekhovsghost , you need to use VAE , or download the version with VAE attached
Aaaaaand now we have to bid to get it back in the generator. Wonderful.
Dang. Was just finding my stride with this again! I wish there was a warning or something so I could have put in a bid...
@GremlothĀ I've reached out to Civit. The bid was put on but it might have been just little bit too late and didn't register. Hopefully they can assign the bid in the backed and it will become available asap.
@klaabuĀ Thanks, and no worries. It was kind of funny when I didn't realise it had switched to Illustrious X and it started trying to do variations on my photorealistic work.
any alternatives to this piece of art?
@RandomioCalrissenĀ will be available in today ā¤ļø
Ok, this is actually one of the better il realism models, usually they look too fake, or do the speckles all over the place. My only problem with it, it struggles with older and plain looking women.
@Starry_Eyes thank you for the feedback. I actually have Mature Female Slider ready to be released that works wonders with this model. Stay tuned!!
best pictures i produced yet, i'm getting very good results at 1200x1600
@Shurarar thank you :)
excellent model, really like it alot! Works well!
great model, lloking very good after good prompt, excellent job
so lovely
Very good checkpoint for realism ,excellent! Keep it up! <3
This model can do night or dark lighting, but with not-booru tags - by_night in positive and daytime in negative.
@magenta , thanks for the feedback. This model can do night perfectly. Try and readjust your prompts. If you need help, let me know.
klaabuĀ Okay, here's the simplest prompt. Night doesn't work:
Pos: 1girl, swimsuit, beach, night, dark, skinny, (masterpiece), very aesthetic, best quality
Neg: worst quality, bad quality, low quality, blurry, lowres, jpeg artifacts, high contrast, bad anatomy, deformed, chibi, fat, huge ass, wide hips, thick thighs, bad hands, plump, mismatched irises, cropped, mutated, bimbo, extra fingers
magentaĀ like I said, your issue is with prompt.
Positive: masterpiece, best quality, amazing quality, highres,1girl, swimsuit, beach, by_night, dark, skinny, moonlight,
Negative: Bad quality, low quality, lowres, sun, daytime, sunlight,
Examples-
https://orchestration.civitai.com/v2/consumer/blobs/3903Q63XXAFAZW4HCQSNT4FHK0
https://orchestration.civitai.com/v2/consumer/blobs/338GJFYWNR0P313HC1ANZ5KDC0
https://orchestration.civitai.com/v2/consumer/blobs/VGW8NEGEWCZJQ3W64Q1MJTE4Q0
https://orchestration.civitai.com/v2/consumer/blobs/X9PA08BRRJ7J7S7KF1BC8M7R70
Good luck. And please don't forget to change your review :)
klaabuĀ Thanks, now it's clear. However, these are not booru tags. There is no such booru tags as by_night and daytime.
magentaĀ you can have same result by using "night" or "day". By_night is cooked into this model for particular reason. Thank you for your support :)
Great model! Why was onsite generation disabled?
Thanks. It wasn't, Civit didn't register the bids.
The best of the best. Excellent response to prompts. Works great with the lors I've trained. A beautiful model for my creative ideas. Thanks a lot.
How do you train your loras? sorry I'm no to SDLX world
Absolutely! I was so thrilled to see the model respond accurately to my posing prompts, and the quality is just stunning, like no other model I've tried so far. Like living skin. Beautiful & realistic eyes (so important!), no monsters/deformities to be found here that I've seen.
@artist992Ā ā¤ļø
a good fit with your realism slider, also works with real skin with a bit of tweaking. My current go to since it does a good job balancing between sensual and photo-realistic without that uncanny or exaggerated quality other photo-real illustrious models tend toward
Bro where did you get the slider and what setting do you use with regard to: "A bit of tweaking" ?
lawrencee99501Ā set advanced mode under settings using on-site generation (should pop up with the add resources menu), then you can add pony and some xl resources while using illustrious. From there, adjust if you have any other style sliders to your personal preference
A great model for beautiful creations! Stunning faces! One of my favorites! Works very well. Good job!
How does one reduce the size of the ENORMOUS BAZOOMS in this model. WOO WEE F CUP CITY
Did you try the classic tag, "flat chest"
LOVE it! I really appreciate that, as a newbie to ai image generation, this is the first model I've found (after trying several) that delivers extremely high quality realistic images without requiring novel-length, contorted prompts and tons of after-processing. So far it also responds very accurately to my posing prompts
Is this model also good at generating Asian faces?Cuz I dont see any asian face in gallery
It can. Plenty on my profile and under the model itself.
How about training Asian models for similarity?
Which scheduler do you recommend for local generation?
Dpm pp sde for local.
@klaabuĀ That's the sampler. I asked about the scheduler.
@diego892009410Ā lol. My bad mate. I always use dpm pp sde Karras. Some others work too tho
@diego892009410Ā I use Invoke
Don't even need to ask, always Karras unless otherwise stated, although I have to dissagree with dpmpp SDE, maybe it's because I have focused my prompt on fixing the issues with euler ancestral, but to me I get significantly better results Euler A, dpmpp SDE comes out grainy even though I have "film grain, blurry and bad texture" in the neg, although those are mostly for the upscalars as I practically have 4 upscale runs in my workload, so it can get messy without weeding out such artifacts, added "artifacts" to the negative and it's... better... but still not as good as euler ancestral.
Must admit it does give the skin a slightly more natural look if you don't look too closely, but if you do... yeh it's not good, where as Euler A the closer you look the more natural the skin looks as more detail becomes visible so in the end looks more natural on the whole.
maybe it's the epsilon scaling and or detail demon.
why can't this be downloaded?
@texaspartygirl it can be. There is no reason why it couldn't be. Maybe try refreshing your settings click Burger menu (=) -> settings -> Refresh My Session
@klaabuĀ thank you
thats a lot of freckles
Very forgiving model. It can take a lot of different sampler/scheduler combos, and a wide range of cfg/steps.
You have done a solid job on the stability of this model.
no workflow, how would i know the requirements..
@gemstonebro by reading the info under the model.
@klaabuĀ I did. not a word on text encoders. Not sure if i need, one or two, and which ones. I saw clearly VAE is baked in, but nothing on text encoders.
@gemstonebroĀ no need for any special setup.
I wanna say, this is a pretty nsfw model, I don't mind it though, it's just funny I'm getting sexual scenes even though I didn't prompt for it.
@se7sinblackbird795 was not intended to be SFW. But it can easily do :)
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Why this model says base model Illustrious, yet no IL loras can be used with it and everyone uses Pony loras?
I'm bit confused about what you mean?
@klaabuĀ i appreciate your reply, maybe you can clarify it for me:
Base Model -> Illustrious
I would assume that then Illustrious loras should work with it? Or im conceptually wrong about something? (cause IL loras dont work with it)
I see all loras being used with this checkpoint are Pony based.
Or its Illustrious XL based?
@denodimiar481Ā hei. Illustrious LoRAs do work with it. Also SDXL and Pony loeas work with ILXL. Are you getting locally or on CIVIT ?
Great model for realism, after making some changes to my base prompt for regular illustrious models it worked perfect, however pro tip it's still an illustrious model which mean a strong attachment to danbooru tags and the model creator suggest deformed:1.3 in the negative prompt which... deformed doesn't mean the dictionary meaning of "deformed" in danbooru tags, rather the anime deformed, which would be addressed by the "anime" tag, instead I suggest something like: abomination, corrupted anatomy, or artistic error. or all 3, anatomical nonsense doesn't ever seem to work well for me, and leave it unweighted
My personal negative is "(abomination:1.3).
(worst quality, distorted details, medium quality, bad details, lowres:1.2).
(blurry, artistic error, stretched, disordered:1.1)
(corrupted anatomy, ugly, unattractive, broken, damaged, bad textures),
baby, toddler, big belly, tanlines, fat rolls, cartoon, 3d, anime, doll, artificial, painting_\(object\), multiple views, long legs, long arms, film grain, bad hands, bad feet, bad symmetry, big feet, "
The last section you might want to have a look at for personal taste, also stretched may be a case by case basis if you want something stretched like tight clothing, mostly danbooru tags or at least borrow from words from danbooru tags to get a more targeted effect.
Hello, thanks for your great effort. Can it be used with Controlnet? I couldn't get it to work. I tried many workflows. Either the pose is okay but the image is bad, or the image is good but the pose is not taken into account. If you know of a workflow or control that works, could you share it? And yes, I'm a noob :)
Conrolnet is CONDITIONING (as Prompt). So, using ONLY Controlnet - is always tricky (as using ONLY Prompt). For more stable result use img2img+Controlnet - and try to find BALANCE between img2img and Controlnet. Here is basic workflow (NSFW). You can load this PNG as workflow in your ComfyUI - https://www.imagebam.com/view/ME1A2V83
Damn Imagebam now remove all workflows embedded in PNG! Here is file of workflow - https://disk.yandex.ru/d/K1w3gzvJpbHHvQ
@xNzXĀ Thank you.
I'm sure I'm doing something wrong lol. I put in light a lesbian scene and I keep getting a woman having anal/vaginal intercourse with a man.
Very good model, and several problems:
1, Don't follow prompts, this might even be the problem of SDXL
2, Tend to generate nude and nsfw images, even with stong neg prompt trying to prevent.
@Tsinghan tha k you so much for the feedback !
1. Give it a go prompting like you would ILXL anime Model, with underscores "blonde_hair", "wardrobe_malfunction". See if this helps you. Keep Steps at 28, cfg at 4.5 or so.
2. Intention was to have NSFW Model. V2 will be more versatile tho and less nude. ā¤ļø
Thank you :)
Thank you, likely a stupid question but I am still dumb and new :D, the workflow I have requires a VAE, but this is baked in. Do i bypass vae or just use it as normal?
With 'baked in VAE' use "VAE" output from 'Load Checkpoint' node in ComfyUI.
Have to just stop, and say, Thank you so much for making this checkpoint. Absolutely beautiful results. One can only hope this staves off the world from leaving their bedrooms/computer.
World Peace. Not a bad accomplishment.
Wonder how many we can attribute to this checkpoint as a life spared by making some dude too tired to leave his bed.
This is my new favorite realistic fine tune for Illustrious. Good facial variation, lighting and detail, with some banding on skin depending on the prompt. No anime bleed over which can be an issue, especially for strange eye shapes that happen even with CyberRealistic Illustrious (my second favorite). The model is well behaved too, following prompts and not adding unwanted details such as automatic high heels and garish nail polish when using with certain⦠other keywords. Feet and fingers might still get mangled, but overall it is quite naturalistic.
I get really bad anatomy. I use forge UI and used the described settings, but the bodies look either wierd or have bad anatomy.
OK definitely like and gives a good effect when mixed with anime style prompts
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