With the ongoing christmas walkthrough most will likely want to train a LoRa model in the upcoming week.
To help people get organized I want to illustrate the usefulness of Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/
Benefits include:
Direct download to your Pinterest cloud server from art sources such as Artstation and Deviant Art at the press of a button. No need to store/organize images on your own device.
The ability to move and sort images into separate folders and subfolders within a given theme
Finding similar images to the ones stored within a folder
Drawbacks:
NSFW training data is not allowed on the Pinterest site
Download resolution will be limited (but that is no concern for LoRa training since resolution will be reduced anyways)
Let's examine the 'Creatures' folder:
By linking your Google account to Artstation , you can import an image to your pinterest by pressing this button
By scrolling to the bottom of the gallery , you can find similiar images to the ones added to the current folder which other users have imported to Pinterest
This means you can expand your set of LoRa training images relatively quickly from even a small set of images. Useful!
I find this system to be very useful for casually browsing and sorting through images I find to be cool. Then , whenever I have the time I can organize these images into a LoRa set using batchcropper: https://batchcropper.com/en
For captions I choose to use JoyCaptions : https://huggingface.co/spaces/fancyfeast/joy-caption-alpha-two
Once organized, I upload the lora training data to huggingface for use whenever I need it: https://huggingface.co/datasets/codeShare/lora-training-data/tree/main
Should the LoRa creation fail (as it inevitably will do from time to time) it can be useful to still keep the training data around to remind oneself of what NOT to do in the next training set.
Happy LoRa training and Merry Christmas!
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