Golden Hour is a stylized, high-aesthetic character model designed to capture warmth, softness, and cinematic glow in every generation. The model excels at luminous lighting, delicate facial structure, and richly detailed hair and skin, producing images that feel suspended in that fleeting moment.
Expect expressive eyes with subtle sparkle, smooth yet dimensional skin textures, and a refined balance between semi-realism and illustration. Golden Hour handles dramatic lighting especially well—backlit scenes, rim light, bokeh, and warm ambient glow all come through clean and intentional.
My Settings:
Positive Prompt: masterpiece, newest,absurdres,incredibly absurdres, best quality, amazing quality, very aesthetic,
Negative Prompt: lowres,bad anatomy,worst quality,low quality,normal quality,bad hands,mutated,extra fingers,artifacts,disfigured,
Sampling Method: DPM++ 2M
Schedule Type: Karras
Steps: 30
CFG Scale: 5
Hi-Res Fix: Enabled for all images
Use Adetailer if required.
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A really beautiful model. The lighting and styling can be dazzling. Does not require a lot of prompting or many loras to deliver great results.
Thank you so much for the kind words. :)
Man, I was trying to create this same conceptual type checkpoint for a long-time, but didn't able to create. The beautiful mixture of illustration + realistic feels amazing 👌
I have some questions, that what adetailer and upscaler models are you currently using for this model? because some adetailers just simply destroys the facial structure 😭
Thank you for the kind words. :) I use face_yolov8n.pt for ADetailer and 4x_foolhardy_Remacri for the upscaler. Hope this helps!
@mommymia 👍
This model is very strong, especially in facial close-ups. Although close-ups do improve image quality, it is very unique.