AcornXL V2
This is my first update for AcornXL. It's been a while, but I don't upload unless I believe I have made considerable improvement. I believe that is now the case.
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Acorn has always been primarily a photo model. It still is, which I think my samples will show, but I have included a variety of styles in my initial examples to show the model is not only among the best, if not THE best, photo model available, but also a versatile model capable of many styles.
There have been a lot of changes in Stable Diffusion since my first XL model. Updates to Automatic1111 which is what I primarily use, as well as others such as ComfyUI which I use some as well. I still get the best results in A1111. I find for photo quality images, it is best to use CFG in the 3.5 to 4.5 range. My favorite samplers are:
DPM++ 3M SDE Karras
DPM++ 2M Karras
and DPM++ 2M SDE Heun Exponential
Although good result can be achieved at around 20 steps, I find that taking a little extra time and doing 60 steps tend to have good payoffs.