For best outputs:

Sampler: DPM++ 2M Karras

Steps: 7, cfg 2.5 ~ 3.5, CLIP skip 2

VAE: sdxl_vae.safetensors

Pos prompt: start your pos with the embedding "epiCPhoto" (found in my example runs).

Neg prompt: add the embeddings "BeyondSDXLv3" and "epiCNegative" (found in my example runs).

Checkpoint Merge.