This is the SD 1.5 version of Pony V6 fine-tuned at native 1024px on ~5000 hand-selected images (some of them borrowed from my Zootvision model's datasets). Each image was captioned both with Florence-2 Large "More Detailed Mode" rich captions and also Booru tags from WD-VIT-V3. Use this the same way you'd use Pony V6 SD 1.5 normally, and just uh, enjoy the pretty objectively better overall aesthetics.
Important notes:
in A111, use Clip Skip 1 (NOT 2) and in Comfy just do not use the "Clip Set Last Layer" at all, with this
DO NOT use any VAE besides the one that is baked into the checkpoint, it will fry the image
You will probably get worse results from weird "in between" resolutions like 720x1280 than you will from standard ones like 768x1024 and 832x1216
Basic positive prompt: score_9, source_whatever, rating_whatever, your tags or natural language description here.
Basic negative prompt: score_3_up, score_4_up, score_5_up, sketch, (simple background:1.2).
Recommended steps / sampler CFG: typically Euler Ancestral at CFG 7.0 with around 25 - 35 steps is a good starting place. The DPM++ SDE GPU family of samplers can also be good with this at lower CFG (4.0 - 5.0) if you're going for realism in particular.
Generating at 512x512 is NOT recommended, as this model was originally trained by AstraliteHeart at 768px, and my additional training was entirely done at 1024px.
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Various improvements on the road to V6.
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V5.5 is out. Changes might be more or less subtle depending on your prompt. Stuff like eyes should be a bit cleaner in general though. I released 5.5 instead of going all the way to 6 directly as I felt it would probably have wound up a bit fried if I added exactly all the stuff I would be in that case.
I have never used Pony until now because I have a fairly old graphics card. I'm using A1111 and I'm not quite sure if I still need hi-res fix since the model was trained with high resolution images. Also, which upscaler can I use? Anyway, I'm having a lot of fun with the model, I just feel like I have the wrong settings
@mhelm It can still need "after detailing" and / or hi-res fix based on your personal preference, just as much as an XL model might. Upscaler is up to you, 4x Foolhardy Remacri is always a solid option though.
BPV6 V6 dropping soon lol
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