AI Image generation for macOS (It's free!) AI Art stable diffusion / mid journey Tutorial

I've made a better AI video covering most of the same stuff but focusing on only one program.
"Become an AI Art legend with your iPhone, iPad or Mac "

There are a lot of scammy AI art generators in the Mac App Store . In the video, we will cover how you can run stable diffusion on your own computer for free using three image generation apps for Mac and some of the really cool things to do.

Update: the DiffBee app has improved quite a bit from when I demoed it in this vid, to the point of being faster than the other two and more options. Be sure to click around in it as it’s the nicest UI.

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The video is a tutorial for AI Image generating on your Mac covering all the basics and even some advanced usage.

These apps are surprisingly easy to use and offer a friendly GUI. They also utilize hardware acceleration, including the GPU and, on Apple Silicon, the neural engine. With practice, you can achieve decent results.

0:00 Intro
0:38 Tip #1: Have expensive computer
1:00 App: Diffusers
1:13 AI Models
1:41 Guidance Scale
2:15 Step Count
2:57 Prompting for our first Image and refining our prompt
4:28 App: DiffusionBee
5:06 Prompt Ideas
6:17 Upscaling Images
6:48 Image to Image
7:45 Inpainting
8:36 Out Painting
10:02 App: Draw Things
10:20 Over view of Draw Things options
11:50 Stable Diffusion Samplers
12:43 Weird Results and refining
13:10 Inpainting and Outpainting in Draw Things
14:16 Making new images from existing images


A word on the implications of AI:
I have a lot of thoughts about Stable Diffusion and AI models as they're trained often without consent on copyrighted works. This video I didn't feel like addressing my concerns about the potential for stealing from artists. The latest version of Stable Diffusion 2.1 as I understand it reduces the reliance on stolen art. That seems like a step in the right direction.

Software Links:

DiffUsers

Diffusion Bee:

Draw Things

Articles:

[dmug]

I've made a better AI video covering most of the same stuff but focusing on only one program. Check it out:
"Become an AI Art legend with your iPhone, iPad or Mac "

[borisov_dev]

Absolutely love that you go in-depth with your videos, this is a rare thing on YouTube. Thank you!

[RichardServello]

Holy crap! An official diffusers That’s insane!

[HOLLYWOODUNAPOLOGETIC]

Thank you for sharing all of this with us! I appreciate all that you do for the community.

[carolcross_aiexperiement]

Thanks so much, just what I wanted. Very nice.

[YoureNowOnTV]

Awesome thank you. I ordered a Mac Studio and assumed it would be a long time until I could do AI generated images like I can do on my Nvidia PC. Neat ! 😁👍

[keaton]

Draw Things is surprisingly hard to learn, but it doesn't take long to learn. I've found results very promising once you learn how to use it. Beefy computer for sure, my M2 Max fans kick in after a minute and stay on until I stop generating.

[arianshahrokh]

Great video man thanks. You should definitely do one on image and video upscaling if you get the chance.

[enchantingescapes]

Great introduction - I am using first diffuser and am getting ERROR when I enter cat playing with ball of yarn and select generate. basically Eoorr generating NN outputs?

I am trying on a MacBook Pro - not enough processor power?

[JayanthSahasranamamula]

I think I like Diffusers the best, though the waifu model in DrawThings is very enticing

[siyaram]

Can you please do a video on Roop also?

[pinheadlarry]

As soon as I downloaded the app diffusers and tried to generate an image I got hit with the error
Error Domain=com.apple.CoreML Code=0 "Error computing NN outputs." computing NN outputs.}
If you could help me out on how to resolve this I would appreciate it

[kdl]

where do you find HQ version for Diffusion Bee. On there website there is nothing.

[CC-]

m1 max 32gb? mind to share the time required to process those images?

[ShyBoyEnt]

Will this work for a M2 base model Mac?

[dmug]

I made another about AI that might be of interest about Chat GPT and using 3rd party clients.

[nexusyang]

DrawThings look like an apple version of automatic1111.