Reviews
SD XL
Overwhelmingly Positive
99% of 979 reviews recommend it · 979 reviews
TomR_NYC
Nice sharp details, thank you for sharing!
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SDXL can produce images of photographic quality, I like it
stablydiffusing
Good model. Much better out of the box than SD1.5
I dislike it. It says:
Failed to create model quickly; will retry using slow method.
changing setting sd_model_checkpoint to sdXL_v10.safetensors [31e35c80fc]: RuntimeError
RuntimeError: [enforce fail at ..\c10\core\impl\alloc_cpu.cpp:72] data. DefaultCPUAllocator: not enough memory: you tried to allocate 54525952 bytes.
gou39
It's more detailed than before, and it's amazing.
MoonRide
SDXL 1.0 is great model, but needs proper workflow - base and refiner should work as stages in latent space, prior to passing output to VAE decoder. Step at which stage should change may vary per scheduler - for normal it looks good when done around 80% of steps, for Karras it's closer to 60%.
You can play with base model using A1111 (v1.5.1), but to get most of (proper 2-stage workflow) I would recommend trying out ComfyUI, and then SDXL workflows from ComfyUI Examples (you can just drag and drop png sample pictures into UI - they have embedded workflows by default).
Uberlord
This is my review from testing out a couple of prompts for creating 2.5D **** style images. As I am mostly interested in creating those, the first problem to overcome was to find prompts which actually create a ***** character.
Well, this can be achieved consistently by using much stronger attention values (1.9+) than used to in SD 1.5. Also, you need to add words like "dressed" or "clothes" in the negative prompt. Eventually, the girl will ******* but it's difficult.
Next challenge which I haven't really completely figured yet is to create the 2.5D style. I achieved my best results by mixing up artist styles in the prompt, but it is far from perfect.
My experience is based on automatic1111, so if you are using comfyui ymmv. Also, I have not used any post-processing so far.
What I really like about the model:
- better face and anatomy generation
- better composition of subjects, you are able to have someone ride on a dragon without a lora!
- sharp details and many of them if lucky with the prompt without the need of a lora
- artist styles supported
What I dislike:
- takes longer to create the images (well, obviously as image size is 4x as high when creating at 1024x1024), probably need a better GPU
- **** support is limited, the model tries its best to avoid it is my feeling
- prompting keywords have changed and we need to relearn how to achieve styles which were easily created in SD 1.5
Verdict:
The model has great potential when compared to the vanilla SD 1.5. This let's me hope that in the future the cool people here at Civitai and elsewhere will do the same as for the predecessor and we can soon have more deterministic ways of interacting with the model.
If I would rate the model in comparison to community favorites like DreamShaper or Rev Animated I could only give it 2 or 3 stars max. for the purpose of 2.5D style.
For the purpose of realistic photo style images I rate it 4 to 5 stars.
Anatomy 2 stars (hands still bad, still additional legs and arms pop up from time to time).
**** 1 star.
Details: 4 stars but it takes luck to get an image which really shows them.
I will update this review as I gather more experience with the model.
eliyasound
I think this model is very promising, I wish there was a different, more efficient way to use refiner without the need to switch to image to image and switching models… I didn’t use refiner on those images though….
