How To Use Stable Diffusion Models?

December 10, 2022 2:15 AM

I successfully followed a tutorial to download Stable Diffusion 1.5 locally. I want to use lotsa community made Checkpoint models now. I'm looking at a list of models on HuggingFace (link below), but I don't know how to install. // Also, how do I take Screenshots on Windows? "Windows-key + G to take screen captures" method isn't working anymore.

Here's the link for the Hugging Face models:
/models?pipeline_tag=text-to-image

My current method is to click on one of the models, click on the "Files and Versions" tab, download the .ckpt file, then move it to my "stable-diffusion-webui\models\Stable-diffusion" folder.

This works with some of the .ckpt (checkpoint) files, but some of them don't load when I'm in Stable Diffusion. Also, sometimes a model will have multiple checkpoint files. And then some models won't have any checkpoint files.

I'm not at all experienced in any of this... I'm a total newb to anything more complicated than saving an image from the web or downloading a .exe (it will run itself when I doulbe-click it) program file. I just now discovered Github and Python when I had to download them to use Stable Diffusion 1.5 locally.

Okay, so something totally different I need to know as well:

I was screenshotting every "good" AI image creation by going to the Xbox Game Bar (Windows-key + G)... selecting the "Capture" option, I got a little pop-up window with a couple buttons (Take Screenshot (with a camera icon), Start Recording (with a filled-in white circle icon), and Turn Mic On (with a crossed-out microphone icon).

For a while, I was able to take screenshots by clicking on the camera icon, and they were saved to "Videos\Captures". But now, clicking the camera icon no longer saves screen captures... clicking the camera icon doesn't do anything.

How do I make clicking the camera icon save screenshots again?

posted by ggp88 to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

Can't help you on your software but for a screenshot try windows+shift+s.
posted by phunniemee at 3:10 AM on December 10, 2022

Also can't help with using different models, but if you're running a local web UI for stable diffusion (so you're interacting it in a normal web browser after going to http://127.0.0.1:7860 or something like that) you should be able to just right-click on the generated images and save them out.
posted by russm at 3:19 AM on December 10, 2022

For screenshots on Windows, use Windows + PrtSc (PrintScreen key). To capture just the active window, use Alt + PrtSc (note that this copies it to the clipboard for pasting; it doesn't automatically create a file.)
posted by Hardcore Poser at 8:24 AM on December 10, 2022

Best answer: NOTE: It's often better to download a BETTER screen cap program than the one built into Windows, but Windows has a built-in one known simply as Snipping Tool: WIN-SHIFT-S then highlight the portion you want to save, or pick full screen mode if you just want a shot of the whole screen.

If you want a different app to make it easier, there's LightShot , LightScreen, and Greenshot
posted by kschang at 9:05 AM on December 10, 2022 [1 favorite]

Best answer: You might do well to spend some time with some of the reddit Stable Diffusion community's tutorial page and broader wiki. It has information about running locally, using checkpoints (I think) and many other things.

I use both Stable Diffusion UI and Automatic1111's interfaces and both have options to automatically save all images created (so you won't have to bother with screenshotting). And further they embed prompt and other creation details (and create an accompanying text file with that info) so you can go back to something you created and recreate it or tweak it as you see fit. After a while, you'll probably want a program that can sift through folders filled with hundreds or thousands of images to make it easier to browse through what you've created.

The instructions for Automatic1111's various features are quite extensive.

I don't have any more info for you about checkpoint files; haven't delved into that part yet beyond what came with my installations. I have seen some tutorials about how to use specific checkpoints linked on /r/StableDiffusion or /r/SDForAll (which also has a pinned post with lots of tutorials and guides), but don't have links to checkpoint-specific guides to link for you.

I have heard that some checkpoints have been found to contain malicious code and there's something process called "pickling" or "unpickling" involved. The two UIs I use now include a basic malicious software check when using a checkpoint, but best to use some of the most popular and well-used checkpoints to be safe, I think.

Good luck!
posted by msbrauer at 7:01 PM on December 10, 2022 [1 favorite]