Incredible artificial intelligence Easy Diffusion 3.0. The Middle and High School Guide. Alexander Chesalov
is a web service created by Stability AI, which has developed one of the most famous neural networks or, as they say, «models» called Stable Diffusion. The web service is very convenient and allows you to create any images very quickly. This is because Dreamstudio.ai uses very powerful computers provided by Stability AI. In other words, your computer is not involved in the process of creating images, which is a significant advantage of the program. At the same time, the disadvantage of using Dreamstudio.ai is the limitation on the number of images created.
Program website:
https://beta.dreamstudio.ai/dream
– Stable Diffusion Web UI is a web-based program that you can install directly on your computer. Its advantages include the fact that it is a completely free option for using the Stable Diffusion model. The program allows you to choose flexible settings to improve the quality of the image and convert it to a new version or create another image based on it. Disadvantages include some difficulties associated with installation and the need for you to have additional knowledge of the programs necessary for its operation (for example, such as Python and Git). Stable Diffusion can be recommended to all those users who have already gained extensive experience with Easy Diffusion.
Program websites:
https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/Stable-diffusion-webui
https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/
https://git-scm.com/download/win
https://Stablediffusionweb.com/#demo
– Stablecog is a very easy to use, but at the same time very interesting web service. Unfortunately, it’s paid. However, you can create twenty free images per day. I liked it because out of ten models you can choose two created by our compatriots. These models are called Kandinsky and Kandinsky 2.2. In addition, you can increase the resolution of the created image four times (for example, from 1248x832 to 4992x3328).
Program website:
https://stablecog.com/generate
– Easy Diffusion is a completely free Artificial Intelligence system that combines the capabilities of using Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. Easy Diffusion offers you a convenient and simple web interface that allows you not only to create very beautiful images, but also to connect various additional modules and models to its work. By default, the program already has the well-known Stable Diffusion model preinstalled. Additionally, you can download many other models from www.civitai.com, including the «Openjourney» model, which will allow you to replace the use of Midjourney. Another advantage of the program is that it is very easy to install on a computer or laptop and works with not very powerful video cards. The only drawback of the program is the time it takes you to create images. For example, if an image in “Dreamstudio.ai” is created in 20 seconds, then in Easy Diffusion it can take up to 120 seconds to create.
Once again, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that Easy Diffusion is an easy-to-install assembly of software packages (or, in other words, a distribution kit) of the Stable Diffusion Artificial Intelligence system for various operating systems. Here and further, I will not talk about Stable Diffusion, but rather Easy Diffusion due to the fact that it is with this distribution and program that we will work.
Program website (program distribution):
https://github.com/easydiffusion/easydiffusion
Step 2. Install Easy Diffusion
In order for us to install the Easy Diffusion program, follow the following link and download the required distribution for your operating system (MS Windows, Linux or MacOS):
https://github.com/easydiffusion/easydiffusion
There are three distributions on the program page:
• For MS Windows operating system.
• For the Linux operating system.
• For the MacOS operating system.
Before installing the program, please pay attention to the minimum requirements for your computer. You must have:
– Video card from NVIDIA with 2 GB of RAM (better with 4 GB). A laptop video card will do, but keep in mind that you must have the latest drivers installed not only for the video card, but also for all components of the MS Windows system.
– The minimum amount of computer RAM is 8 Gigabytes.
– The minimum amount of disk space (either on the «C:\” drive or on any other drive) is 40 Gigabytes (25 for Easy Diffusion and 15 for models). I recommend installing the program on a computer flash drive (not an external drive, but an internal drive of a computer or laptop). It will make image creation faster.
Next, we will consider installing Easy Diffusion on a computer with the MS Windows operating system.
Before installing, you need to make sure that everything is in order on your MS Windows system. To do this, you need to right-click on the «My Computer» icon and select the «Manage» command from the context menu. The Computer Management program will open, and in the Device Manager section you will see not only all the devices on your computer, but also their operating status. If there is a malfunction of any of the devices, you need to install new drivers for this device. You can find them on the Internet.
Next, download the Easy-Diffusion-Windows program.
After downloading the file named Easy-Diffusion-Windows, launch the installation and click the «Next» button:
We agree to the license agreement and click the «I Agree» button:
Click the «I Agree» button again:
Select the disk on which the program will be installed. The main recommendation is that the program should be located in the root of the disk, that is, it should be installed on the disk, but not inside other folders, but only in its own.
For example, on the drive C:\EasyDiffusion\, as shown in the image below:
Or on drive D:\EasyDiffusion\, as shown in the image below:
Select the disk you need and click the «Install» button.
The process of installing and unpacking the files on your computer has begun:
The installation process takes some time.
During this process, the program will install all the necessary files and models for work, including installing the Stable Diffusion model (version 1.5), with which you will create your first works of computer art:
The program will install other auxiliary models (for example, GFPGAN model, Real-ESRGAN model, etc.), which are used by Easy Diffusion to improve the images you create.
At the end of the process, a CLIP model will be established, which allows you to determine how well the generated image matches the query you wrote.