How to make very realistic photos

Making realistic photos is very simple with AI Runner, but it fully dependent on the model and embeddings you choose.

In this example I used the following settings

• Model: nextphoto_v10
• Embeddings: veryBadImageNegative and EasyNegative
• Scheduler: DPM++ 2M Karras
• Size: 512x768
• Prompt: a photo of a woman eating at denny's
• Negative prompt: verybadimagenegative_v1.3, easynegative, cartoon, fake, not real, illustration, drawing
• Steps: 20
• Scale: 7.5
• Seed: 1574226477
• Samples: 1

This produces the following image

Next I navigated to Filters > RGB Noise and increased the sliders slightly for each channel. This produces a nice grain effect

Lastly, I navigated to Filters > Blur > Gaussian Blur and increased the slider to 0.03. The final image looks more like film

To use custom models and embeddings:

1. Create a folder to store your custom models (for example C:\Users\<your_user_name>\stablediffusion\custom_models)
2. Create a folder to store your custom embeddings (for example C:\Users\<your_user_name>\stablediffusion\custom_embeddings)
3. Download your models and embeddings to these folders
4. Next run AI Runner and navigate to Settings > Path preferences in the toolbar at the top of the AI Runner application and choose the model folder you just created for Model Path and the embeddings folder for Embeddings path
5. Click ok to close the Path Preferences window

Your custom model will show up in the Model dropdown, and your embeddings will show up under the embeddings tab.

Use the names that show in the embeddings tab for the embeddings you want to trigger.

Update In v1.17.5 I have introduced the ability to apply the filters mentioned in this post (RGB noise and blur) with the correct settings for a film-like effect with the click of a button.

Just generate your image, then navigate to Filters > Film and a small amount of grain and blur will be added to your image for a more realistic effect.