Stable Diffusion for BEGINNERS - Lexica and Dreamstudio

AI generated images have recently exploded over the internet. You type in what you want to see and boom, AI makes the image for you.
Show few examples to capture audience (screen capture from dreamstudio)
Let's take a look at how easy is to make art with these AI tools.

There are three main AI text to image generators:
Dall-e2
Midjourney
Stable Diffusion

Dall-e2 was made by Elon Musk's open AI and it was the first AI generator that captured the headlines. However as of today, it is still not fully open to the public, you have to join a waitlist.

Midjourney operates through a discord server and it is open to public but it does not give photorealistic results like Dall-e2 and stable diffusion.

My favorite at this moment is stable diffusion since they made it incredibly easy for beginners to try it out.
Stable diffusion is open source, so you can run it for free on your own machine, but to start there two better ways.
First is lexica, which is online library of images that have been already created with stable diffusion. This is a great place to start since it is completely free and you can search for the types of images that you are interested in.
For example love New York City, so let's see what type of images are there.
While you are browsing the images, start paying attention to the prompts that were used to make these pictures. Make a note of the specific prompts that generate the images you like.
Writing the right prompts will generate the most interesting art.
Now let's go adn make our own images. You don't need any coding knowledge for this at all and the image generation is done on the cloud.
Head over to dream studio and open an account or log in with your gmail or discord.
Once you sign in, you will get 200 free credits. This is important, while stable diffusion is open source and free to run on your own machine. If you want to run it on the cloud you have to pay for the compute power. The prices are very reasonable. 200 credits is enough for 200 free simple picture generations. The more compute power the generation uses, the more credits it will cost.
$10 buys you another 1000 credits.
I will go into more detail later about how the credits are used.
At the end I try to make some Daenerys Targaryen images.

Timeline:
0:00 Intro
0:11 Three AI generators
0:49 Lexica
1:22 Dreamstudio
1:49 Prompt Guide
4:07 Use of credits
5:51 Generating Images
7:37 Portraits
9:43 Abstract
11:25 Bonus - Game of Thrones

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[generalawareness]

Lexica's discord is full of prompt thieves that resell them (yes, that's a thing, sadly). I am on the official SD discord but I want more discords.

[bellybutton]

DO ANYONE KNOW HOW TO ADD YOUR OWN PERSONAL PICTURE?

[Nightspyz]

how can stable diffusion make such clear accurate faces while dalle -2 makes really horrible faces barely human

[canpin]

Started video...saw Trump, posted this, thumb's down, blocked channel and left. 🫣