ControlNets allow you to select a image to guide the AI, to make it follow your control image more closely. You can pick a filter to pre-process the image, and one of the known (or custom) controlnet models.
While this sounds similar to image-to-image, ControlNets allow the AI to extract meaningful information from the image and make completely different images in the same style. For e.g. following the same body posture as your initial image, or the same color style or image composition.
Quick guide to using ControlNets in Easy Diffusion
- In the
Image Settings
panel, set aControl Image
. This can be any image that you want the AI to follow. For e.g. download this painting and set that as the control image. - Then set
Filter to apply
toCanny
. This will automatically selectCanny
as the controlnet model as well. - Type
Emma Watson
in the prompt box (at the top), and use1808629740
as the seed, andeuler_a
with 25 steps andSD 1.4
model (or any other Stable Diffusion model). - Make an image.
It'll take a while during the first image, since it'll download about 1.3 GB of models for the canny controlnet.
Pose from images:
You can also set a photo of a person in a particular pose, and make the AI follow that pose. For e.g.
- Download this photo of a man, and set that as the control image
- Set
Filter to apply
toOpen Pose
(the first one). This will automatically selectOpenPose
as the controlnet model. - Type
Knight in black armor
in the prompt box (at the top), and use1873330527
as the seed, andeuler_a
with 25 steps, andSD 1.4
model (or any other SD model). - Make an image.
Custom pose images:
You can also use images generated in the OpenPose format, e.g. from the civitai poses category. For e.g.
- Download this openpose photo (stick figure), and set that as the control image.
- Set
Filter to apply
toNone
. - Set
Model
toOpen Pose
- Type
Knight in black armor
in the prompt box (at the top), and use1873330527
as the seed, andeuler_a
with 25 steps, andSD 1.4
model (or any other SD model). - Make an image.
Resources:
- A collection of pose images: https://openposes.com/
- Make your custom pose images: https://app.posemy.art/ or https://openposeai.com/