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Using Stable Diffusion Properly

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In our world, we can do anything that we want to do here. Any old thing. - Bob Ross, The Joy Of Painting Season 29 Episode 1 Watching a vibrant Seattle sunset the other day, my imagination started running. The otherworldly hue of the sky evoked something from science fiction. The hazy orange-purple was mesmerizing. I envisioned a massive, alien object hovering over a long-abandoned Seattle, with a burning orange sky, and buildings overgrown as nature reclaimed the city. Later that night, I spent a few hours creating the following image: You’ll have to forgive the somewhat low resolution - my GPU only has 12GB of memory, unfortunately. Since I’m clearly a highly-skilled artist with literally dozens of minutes of experience, I thought I would share with you how I created the above masterpiece. Let’s start with that burning orange sky. A nice little gradient will do. I think that looks nice. It matches the hues in my mental image. Now we need the ground. We’ll be creating a nice old city

4.2 Gigabytes, or: How to Draw Anything August 30, 2022 In our world, we can do anything that we want to do here. Any old thing. - Bob Ross, The Joy Of Painting Season 29 Episode 1 Watching a vibrant Seattle sunset the other day, my imagination started running. The otherworldly hue of the sky evoked something from science fiction. The hazy orange-purple was mesmerizing. I envisioned a massive, alien object hovering over a long-abandoned Seattle, with a burning orange sky, and buildings overgrown as nature reclaimed the city. Later that night, I spent a few hours creating the following image: Y

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