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Speed-inpaint of this one: https://tantabus.ai/images/37591
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MareStare

DJ HORN3 took the wheel
I don’t know how, but maybe you could find a way to make the guides more timeless? Maybe structuring it so the models and tecniques can easy be updated to whatever the current meta is?
Yeah, I’m planning to make chapters more independent of each other to make it easier to update them separately. Right now, they are written like one cohesive plot story, which should be corrected. Otherwise, I think that’s the most I can do. I keep all the prompts in images and sources of Excalidraw diagrams to be able to update them with time. Unless Stable Diffusion architecture changes drastically, the core basics chapters will always be actual. I expect AuraFlow to gain popularity with Pony Diffusion V7 soon though. I can’t avoid dealing with that in the future. My options for timeless design are limited
Button Fixer

@MareStare
Ahh yeah it’s obvious it’s a slideshow now that I look at it. Thanks for the ffmpeg instructions. I’m basic when it comes to the comandline.
The difficulty with tutorials is they get outdated so quickly. Any tutorial that’s over a year old is using old models and software, that might not even work correctly anymore.
I love the blog site! I don’t know how, but maybe you could find a way to make the guides more timeless? Maybe structuring it so the models and tecniques can easy be updated to whatever the current meta is?
Just food for thought
MareStare

DJ HORN3 took the wheel
there arent really any insructional videos
There are a lot of videos and guides on Stable Diffusion, but they are very generic. I’m actually working on a guide myself, that is targeted to pony art specifically. It’s not finished yet but already has some useful chapters on basics (https://twai.dev/). I’m planning to rework them to make them more independent from each other and add a guide about inpainting and other more advanced stuff. Unfortunately, I haven’t used all that advanced stuff yet, so I first need to learn it, and it takes time.
What did you use to screen record and edit the video?
I didn’t do a screen recording. I just saved every intermediate iteration of the picture as separate layers in Photoshop. I also have a history of all generated images in Forge, but there are a bunch of bad attempts there, so I just saved all good iterations in Photoshop.
Then I saved all the images in a folder, numbered them with a simple nushell script, and compiled all images into a “slideshow” video with 0.9 FPS via ffmpeg like this:
ffmpeg -framerate 0.9 -i '%d.png' -i "D:\Downloads\01_doin_hhgregg_right.mp3" -filter:a "volume=0.4" -shortest -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -r 0.9 speedpaint.mp4
Button Fixer

It’s so cool that everyone has such a different way of doing things I guess since there arent really any insructional videos, we all just sort of discovered our own way to do it. That’s why a lot of AI artists still have there own ‘style’.
I need to do a video like this.
What did you use to screen record and edit the video?
MareStare

DJ HORN3 took the wheel
Thank you for the pointers! I’ve been using AuhoHotkey to remap Home/End buttons on my laptop. I tried to run the script from your snippet but AHK detected it was probably using some old features of V1, so instead I updated it to V2, and replaced x button with z, so it worked on V2 version:
#SingleInstance Force
#HotIf WinActive("ahk_exe Photoshop.exe")

z::RButton
Now this is much better, thank you!
Clopxie

@MareStare
Since you mentioned that you use the pen and the mouse with the same hand, I thought I’d look into an alternative solution that doesn’t require you to use the mouse at all. Sadly X-mouse only lets you rebind commands on the mouse.
There is a program called AutoHotkey, which lets you do all kinds of rebinds and automations for the keyboard as well. It is entirely script based, so there is quite a steep learning curve if you wanna do anything custom with it, but I made a very simple script that might be of use to you!
It simply just replaces the X key with mouse right click, so you could hold alt+x and move the pen to adjust the brush size. Or if you need X for something else, you can just right click and edit the file and swap “x” to “d” or whatever other combination you’d prefer. The way it’s set up, it should only work when photoshop is open, so the key will have the regular function if you for example tab out to type something. If the script works outside of photoshop, edit the file and replace the “Photoshop.exe” with whatever .exe name your version of photoshop has.
If that sounds like it’d be useful, just download both the V2.0 and v1.1 versions of AutoHotkey, and download this script that I made for it.
Once you have AutoHotkey installed, just double click the file and the script will run in the system tray, where you can right click and exit it when you’re done with photoshop.
PS. In case you don’t trust my fishy drive links, which is more than understandable, you can just create a new script with the program and copy paste this into it
#If WinActive("ahk_exe Photoshop.exe")

x::RButton
MareStare

DJ HORN3 took the wheel
Thank you for the suggestion! I use a HUION tablet, and it has a rather limited config, unfortunately. I’ll take a look at X-Mouse though, it seems promising. Ideally, I’d just like to change the keybinding from ALT+RMB to CTRL+ALT+LMB or smth like that. I usually draw with the left hand on keyboard and the right hand on a pencil, completely ignoring the mouse. So any action that requires RMB is painful.
Clopxie

Switching the brush sizes in Photoshop. Goddamn Photoshop uses Alt+RMB for that, and it’s so annoying on a graphical tablet, so instead I use square brackets buttons.
I have a couple suggestions that might help with that problem.
If you use a Wacom tablet you can change the right click button to ALT+ right click in the stylus tab in the Wacom properties menu: Keyboard > modifiers. Though you’ll lose the ability to just right click with that button.
I assume most other brands have something similar but I’m only familiar with Wacom.
If you use a tablet or a pen that doesn’t have that option, or you don’t wanna give up one of the pen’s buttons for it, you can use something like X-mouse to change some binds, and it lets you add an application profile to it so any of the changes are only applied when photoshop is in focus.
I personally have left alt and rmb both bound to one of the thumb buttons on the mouse, so that I can just hold that one button and move the mouse to change the size and hardness of the brush without having to touch the keyboard at all.
Alternatively, if you don’t wanna have to move the mouse to change the size, you could just bind the bracket keys to the mouse wheel so you don’t have to keep tapping the bracket keys multiple times to change the size.
MareStare

DJ HORN3 took the wheel
Haven’t spent a penny on Photoshop, honestly 😅. I’d be glad to use something else, that would have a comparable set of tools for AI edits like Content-Aware Fill, Object/Quick Selection Tool, Hue/Saturation Color Adjustment and Color Replacement Brush, Remove Tool, Clone Stamp Tool, Smudge. I don’t think there is anything out there that covers all of these.
Anyhow, what editing program do you use for your AI edits and/or drawing?
Local Sugar Provider

@MareStare
Photoshop? My goodness you are going high budget here lol
What I find unique about ai in general, is that unlike traditionnal art, every prompter/editors has their own unconventional methods to make things. Being creative by using the most with what you have, it’s art by itself. It’s like comparing classical music with dubstep (Based on the characters, no pun intended ><)
Once again, very nice, I love your stuff
MareStare

DJ HORN3 took the wheel
Can’t tell exactly, but I think around 10 hours across 2 days. I think the most time consuming are:
  • Searching for the proper denoising strength
  • Fixing stuff in Photoshop and then re-fixing it again after AI regenerates the image with the same artifact again
  • Switching the brush sizes in Photoshop. Goddamn Photoshop uses Alt+RMB for that, and it’s so annoying on a graphical tablet, so instead I use square brackets buttons.