AI is taking over the world, and here are some handy online AI tools for those of you working with images.
AI upscaling tools
This site has the best AI upscaling tool I have seen: https://replicate.com/xinntao/realesrgan This can scale images up by a lot and do a great job as well. It has a face-enhancing feature and many proper modes for upscaling photos or anime images.
AI image generation tools
There is a Stable Diffusion system for generating images.
Stable Diffusion Guides.
NovelAi: https://rentry.org/sdg_FAQ
Dreambooth: https://github.com/ShivamShrirao/diffusers/tree/main/examples/dreambooth
Inpainting/Outpainting: https://rentry.org/drfar
Upscaling images: https://rentry.org/sdupscale
Textual inversion: https://rentry.org/textard
Training: https://rentry.org/informal-training-guide
Stable Diffusion Local install
GPU: https://rentry.org/voldy | https://github.com/AbdBarho/stable-diffusion-webui-docker
CPU: https://rentry.org/cputard
AMD GPU Guides
Native: https://rentry.org/sd-nativeisekaitoo
Docker: https://rentry.org/sdamd
Onnx: https://rentry.org/ayymd-stable-diffustion-v1_4-guide
Cloud Hosted Install
Colab: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1kw3egmSn-KgWsikYvOMjJkVDsPLjEMzl
Paperspace: https://rentry.org/865dy
SaaS Sites
txt2img: https://huggingface.co/spaces/stabilityai/stable-diffusion | https://beta.dreamstudio.ai | https://dezgo.com | (NSFW) https://pornpen.ai
img2img: https://huggingface.co/spaces/huggingface/diffuse-the-rest
inpainting: https://huggingface.co/spaces/fffiloni/stable-diffusion-inpainting | https://inpainter.vercel.app/paint
Krita
https://github.com/sddebz/stable-diffusion-krita-plugin
https://www.flyingdog.de/sd/en
Textual Inversion
https://rentry.org/embeddings
Models
https://rentry.org/sdmodels
Stable Diffusion setup and recommended hardware
Stable Diffusion running locally needs at least 10 GiB of VRAM in a dedicated GPU to run efficiently. You can create a 512×512 image with less, but higher resolutions would require far more memory. A GeForce RTX 3080 should be enough to get started. For AMD users, an AMD Radeon™ RX 6950 XT Desktop Graphics Card would be fine.
Stable Diffusion installation guide for Linux.
https://github.com/cmdr2/stable-diffusion-ui
Online example: https://dezgo.com/ This is very good for generating images of nature.
Another good AI tool is Dall.E 2 This can generate amazing images, especially images of nature. This is an example of what it can generate.
https://labs.openai.com/s/uH6HyehLhDnbfe2HhkJkB8eP
This is a beautiful scene of a pond in the middle of the gardens. It is amazing that a computer with a GPU can generate such an image, but there we go. Even the reflections in the pond are correct. See this AI tool here: https://labs.openai.com/ Sign up with a Google Account to use this tool and start generating quality artwork. This can also paint, this example shows how good it can be.
https://labs.openai.com/s/hefpzfJGQBngTH7kaHYgBnEP. So AI is the future of artwork? Yes.
And there is also the Night cafe image generator. This generates top-quality AI artwork.
Create some artwork here: https://creator.nightcafe.studio/