{"id":356,"date":"2023-05-19T19:58:01","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T23:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/?p=356"},"modified":"2023-05-19T19:58:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T23:58:03","slug":"stable-diffusion-generation-stormy-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/stable-diffusion-generation-stormy-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"Stable Diffusion Generation: Stormy Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was experimenting with a more flat, animated style in Stable Diffusion<\/a> using various models. Clouds are fascinating and storm clouds are even better. Add in some rugged mountains and a white castle, all at sunset, and that sounds like fun!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After some tinkering with models and prompts I founds a generation batch that looked promising, with the general style I wanted. I chose this picture because of the bright colours, beautiful contrast, warm inviting castle, and the cute path. Here’s the prompt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(anime), (illustration), cartoon, detailed, a white castle on the top of a rugged mountain, dark storm clouds in a huge sky above, sunset at dusk, fantasy, intricate<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I wanted this picture to be wider so I used outpainting to extend it horizontally in both directions. The left side was pretty good but the right bottom was giving results that I didn’t like. I wanted more of an abyss. So I opened GIMP<\/a> and crudely painted in the colour I wanted there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I inpainted the bottom right and also the top left, to clean it up and make it more consistent with the rest of the picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I outpainted more on the left and got some lighting. Makes sense since I did ask for storm clouds in the prompt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(anime), (illustration), cartoon, detailed, trees with rugged mountains in the distance, dark storm clouds<\/strong> in a wide sky, sunset at dusk, fantasy, intricate<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I didn’t like how the clouds seem to end on the left, though, nor how the lightning was occluded by the clouds. I used GIMP to draw in thicker clouds and added a jagged lightning bolt. I lightened the clouds some by the lightening to encourage a glow in the clouds there, for more realism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And inpainted to clean that up. Splendid lightning!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The scenery is really nice now. Time to upscale and then focus on cleaning up the castle (mansion?) and other oddities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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OK, those balconies look wonky, the windows in the roof are duplicated, and the top piece is lopsided. Also, there’s an extra post in the pathway fence. I had done four upscales and used GIMP to edit together three of them, piecing the best bits together. Then I did more inpainting in various parts of the castle to fix issues or make it more the way I wanted. I’m quite tickled with the final result! It feels like it’s got a thrilling story to tell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I was experimenting with a more flat, animated style in Stable Diffusion using various models. Clouds are fascinating and storm clouds are even better. Add in some rugged mountains and a white castle, all at sunset, and that sounds like fun! After some tinkering with models and prompts I founds a generation batch that looked …read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[24,30,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}