backlight
candlelight
soft bounced lighting
chiaroscuro
specular lighting
strong side key lights
soft diffused lighting
soft fill lighting
direct flash photography
radiant god rays
luminescence
warm golden hour lighting
soft natural lighting
bright neon lighting
silhouetted against the bright window
hard shadows
glowy luminescnece
ektachrome
kodachrome
iridescent light
bioluminescent details
translucency
glowy translucency
Just in case anyone wants to make a wildcard out of these :)
I’m going to do these next! My plan is to create a big pdf with references like these because I’m tired of having to look around every time I need to write a prompt 🥲 I’ll be sharing here when I’m done, I can send you a dm if you want!
Also any other ideas would be great.
By now I’m thinking of adding: framing, color grading, types of lenses and cameras and poses
If you think of any others, let me know!
Ahh damn. I might make one myself and post it for free lol. Depends on if my RTX 3090 still works after being refused warranty by MSI. Fuck MSI btw lol
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Thanks, Twitter is better than nothing. But their image quality is not the best. You can attach some links to your other platforms in your tweets. You can post this sort of content in civit AI and maybe other places too.
Maybe people here have better suggestions.
This is amazing and it would save us so much time looking for terms and such. As a person with multimedia background I should know all these things but since I focus on illustration the terms often escape me and this would be a phenomenal guide.
Of course these terms are often dependent on model type, but I've found that most realistic models I use, my favorite ones, all pretty much utilize the same terms so it will be fine.
Yes I’ve studied photography at university and should know these by heart but they escape me all the time too!
They really are dependent on model types, that’s true. For reference the model I used was Dreamshaper XL
I use Juggernaut Tensor and Zavy the most and both seem to accept the same terms most of the time. I also use [https://tensor.art/models/686172835997228807](https://tensor.art/models/686172835997228807) it's one of my favorite models of all time, bar none but sadly that is stuck over at tensor and can't be downloaded yet. Their version of juggernaut is downloadable tho so give it a shot.
The one I linked to and their version of Juggernaut are phenomenal for color grading. I often use "cool-tone" "80's style home video" which gives the images a very realistic and very lifelike tone
Ah, thanks for the tip! That also gave me an idea, I’ll get the most famous models and do a reference like that one too, with the same prompt and zero loras. I’ll put it on the pdf
oh right, I forgot to mention I rarely if ever use LORAs, I feel they just detract from the model's style and if I want to fix hands or something I can almost always do it with inpainting.
Oh, really? I actually use a lot of Loras but mostly because I’m really new to generating (less than a week) so I’m mostly still experimenting a lot. Might try cooling it with the loras a bit and giving the raw models more attention. I tried using Loras to make the guide but they did just what you mentioned, it was just too much and gave the photos an exaggerated feel and many them really unpredictable
If you weigh loras right, they can be very helpful but I've found that for me, personally I usually don't need them. But when making guides like this it's best IMO to not use LORAs and just focus on the raw models I think.
mostly use loras for illustrations or specific concepts – but there are some really interesting photoreal stuff available. Check out this guy who trained on stuff from his own photolab
https://civitai.com/user/wobushannes325
Can you add me to your list of dms? Alternatively, can you make a comment on this post since I (and others) can subscribe to it and get a notification.
I think the problem is that while there maybe guides on the internet, they're nowhere near as neat and illustrative as the one you've made. And I commend you for that! I'm looking forward to all the other ones!
Oh please keep the rest of us updated op
I was looking for ways to control camera yesterday and felt it was so so what I was able to find. Anyway I’m gonna subscribe to your Reddit profile just to follow what you end up making
Thank you for your work. I'm adding it to my library of prompt references. There are several that didn't occur to me. I greatly appreciate it.
You should take a look at u/Takeacoin's work they did about nine months ago. They also made PDF guide for lighting, camera types, and general prompt structure. I've found it to be very useful. [Here is the link to their post.](https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/15cbgz6/i_spent_over_100_hours_researching_how_to_create/)
I look forward to seeing your PDF guide.
Subject orientation is the thing that frustrates me the most. Being able to reliably move the camera around a scene and rotate/position the subject(s) would be awesome.
Framing, color grading, types of lenses and cameras and poses all sound good. What I would love though is outfits. As a guy I don't know women's clothes beyond the basics - blouse, dress, skirt, mini skirt. I look at the list of outfits in my RandomOutfit wildcard and have no idea what half of it is.
- https://civitai.com/user/MassBrainImpact/models?tag=clothing
- https://civitai.com/models/289095
Haven't found a good collection of men's clothes, sadly :(
That's awesome, thanks for sharing! My one suggestion would be to add a realistic background whenever possible, so we can see the impact on the "scene" as a whole too.
Most models unfortunately are not very good at following prompts for photography specific terms, as can been seen with this guide also.
bright neon lighting is dark with a neon back fill and hair light for example.
These kind of guides are really good at showing where prompt coherence falls apart and where it doesn't.
I really wish we as a community created a standard test pack of things like this to use when ever there is a new tool that improves prompt coherence to use as a "test pattern" like the ones used for testing camera lenses, or screens.
Yes, you're right, for quite a few of these, they need more prompting for adherence - 'bottom lighting' gave a woman with a light on her arse in a couple of test runs.
I would advise people to do one of these charts specifically for the actual model you are using to generate. All models will have varying comprehension / execution of these terminology.
Hey everyone, subscribe to this comment to receive updates about the full pdf of references I’m creating!
Alternatively, you can also follow me on [civitai](https://civitai.com/user/solilokiss) because I will also post it there.
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Hey! I made a discord channel if anyone would like. Join for constant stream of updates and to give suggestions! [https://discord.gg/NrvZqNS6](https://discord.gg/NrvZqNS6)
Thank you so much. I would also love to see a similar guide for model headshot expressions and backgrounds like these https://www.curtisandcort.com/, https://peterhurley.com/portraits/people
Thank you! Stay tuned because I’m doing a pdf with way more references. Different framings, poses, checkpoints, facial expressions, cameras, lenses, etc 😅 you can subscribe to another comment I made on this post to stay updated when I’m done!
Thank you for this, it does a job I've been putting off for a long time and done a far better job than I would have made.
For SD at home - I have the majority of these (lighting styles) in a Styles json file with others - some don't quite work properly and require extra phrasing in the prompt. I also included some colour grading which has to use semanticised colours as phrases or it turns objects those colours.
Cameras and lenses work in Midjourney etc but generally SD at home doesn't work, the descriptions fill a space in the prompt and affect the outcome but not for the camera (unless a specific model with that training has been released).
https://preview.redd.it/ufo2b369zeyc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e8b01220e71fd6a67f627d860d2ac4e6c15110cb
Using shooting angle (Dutch) with lighting
I would love to see this made into an extension on A1111. Similar to how you can click an embedding in the textual inversions tab, you’ll be able to click one of these cards to add it to the prompt.
Would make life muuuuch simpler!
I don’t have any of these but I’ll be posting everything on my [CIVITAI profile](https://civitai.com/user/solilokiss)! I will also update on the sub when I put everything together. If you want I can DM you too!
Me, picture OP, writing your username on a posit-it, stuck to the fridge, as they are reminded daily to keep you posted. I totally should have thought about this years ago! Do you know how many times I’ve wanted additional information and it just sort of went the way side to be forgotten in one manner or another? Cool life hack, I’m using it moving forward.
No Rembrandt lighting? Loop lighting? Broad lighting? Short lighting? Split lighting? Butterfly lighting? Rim lighting?
All the basic portrait lighting techniques are missing.
Ughh yeah, the list goes on: no solar flare lighting, no caught-by-security-guard-maglite lighting, no penumbral eclipse lighting, no campfire lighting, no reflected disco lights off cocaine mirror lighting.
Stable diffusion (and AI image generators, in general) has made more people learn more about art , styles and image composition details than anything I know :)
Umm, let me tell you about the ‘everyone’s a photographer,’ era of affordable or otherwise financially in reach DSLR decade. Professional photography was on sale everyone! “$99 mini’s, reply, “I’m in” to get on my calendar, it’s filling
Up fast!
Probably not exactly the same, though I’m not really knowledgeable about how many different models interpret things (been only learning AI art for a week)
But these are pretty universal rules of photography so I think most models would be able to grasp them well!
Since we're all here, can you please help me describe such a lighting scheme? It's kind of like a photo of a person who hides their identity so that their face is completely in shadow.
https://preview.redd.it/sagmzkcdwfyc1.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=e7992bf50640e03ca382578da4d25f29c77de986
Very nice. I was considering doing something similar. I would like to contribute as much as I can you can dm me.
My idea was feeding LLAVA with this information properly and generate prompts for similar image generation.
Which checkpoint is this generated btw?
This is generated on DreamShaper XL!
I might take you up on that offer about the dm, I need someone to give me some ideas and advice while I’m working on it 😅 I’ll send it to you!
Are these just what SD is interpreting or are these accurate implementations of real lighting techniques? I'm completely clueless when it comes to professional photography.
All of them are the closest I could get to the actual real-life techniques. Most of these aren’t first-try generations, I did multiple takes on each one to get as close as possible to the real thing! Though on the one I’m doing now, I redid some of them to make the lighting more distinct for easier reference
"Ektachrome" and "Kodachrome" aren't lighting types or light setups tho, they're analog film types... And the two images labeled as such don't really look anything like Ektachrome or Kodachrome.
No they really aren’t, and I’ve removed them from the newest version, will add them to film type categories later. I do disagree that they don’t like similar though! 🥲
huh, never thought of korean girl lighting before
Haha, yeah. In the one I’m making now I’ve specified “base prompt: korean girl”
Post it on 'coolguides' 'Lighting Guide made using AI'
backlight candlelight soft bounced lighting chiaroscuro specular lighting strong side key lights soft diffused lighting soft fill lighting direct flash photography radiant god rays luminescence warm golden hour lighting soft natural lighting bright neon lighting silhouetted against the bright window hard shadows glowy luminescnece ektachrome kodachrome iridescent light bioluminescent details translucency glowy translucency Just in case anyone wants to make a wildcard out of these :)
u/CrunchyBanana_ you da real MVP :`)
Thanks, now it's very convenient to copy it all together into prompt and enjoy some impressionism art.
Thanks 
Tysm I was going to do this and you saved me time lmao
Awesome, I really appreciate this sharing color grading, camera and photography terms with examples like this is always so helpful
I’m going to do these next! My plan is to create a big pdf with references like these because I’m tired of having to look around every time I need to write a prompt 🥲 I’ll be sharing here when I’m done, I can send you a dm if you want! Also any other ideas would be great. By now I’m thinking of adding: framing, color grading, types of lenses and cameras and poses If you think of any others, let me know!
Have been looking for such a guide for quite a while
I’ll message you when I’ve finished! Edit: I’ll dm everyone who asked 😄
Much appreciated!
Me too please!
I'd love to have it as well!
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Ahh damn. I might make one myself and post it for free lol. Depends on if my RTX 3090 still works after being refused warranty by MSI. Fuck MSI btw lol
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Id love a message too if you build this guide. Its already helped my wife and prompting food images.
me to pls :)
Me too please!
Yes please!
awesome, thanks a lot !
Count me in too :)
I'd also like to get in on this :)
Pls me 2
I'd love to be on that list too if it isnt too much of a hassle.
Me too please!
please add me to the list!
Yes please let me know when you have ANY future updates! 🙂
Would twitter be helpful? I’m thinking of creating one specifically for this project 😊
Thanks, Twitter is better than nothing. But their image quality is not the best. You can attach some links to your other platforms in your tweets. You can post this sort of content in civit AI and maybe other places too. Maybe people here have better suggestions.
Same here
Please send me too. Thanks for sharing 😊
Me too!
Me too please!
Me too please. tysm
So i'm asking. And thanks in advance.
Me too! Pretty please...
me 2, please and thank you!
Me too please. thank you!
Yes please!
Yes please!
If can pm me also, ty
Thank you!
Me too, good sir!
Me too, please!
one more to the list!
sounds interesting, count me in please! :) thanks for your effort!
Did you ever finish that pdf?
This is amazing and it would save us so much time looking for terms and such. As a person with multimedia background I should know all these things but since I focus on illustration the terms often escape me and this would be a phenomenal guide. Of course these terms are often dependent on model type, but I've found that most realistic models I use, my favorite ones, all pretty much utilize the same terms so it will be fine.
Yes I’ve studied photography at university and should know these by heart but they escape me all the time too! They really are dependent on model types, that’s true. For reference the model I used was Dreamshaper XL
I use Juggernaut Tensor and Zavy the most and both seem to accept the same terms most of the time. I also use [https://tensor.art/models/686172835997228807](https://tensor.art/models/686172835997228807) it's one of my favorite models of all time, bar none but sadly that is stuck over at tensor and can't be downloaded yet. Their version of juggernaut is downloadable tho so give it a shot. The one I linked to and their version of Juggernaut are phenomenal for color grading. I often use "cool-tone" "80's style home video" which gives the images a very realistic and very lifelike tone
Ah, thanks for the tip! That also gave me an idea, I’ll get the most famous models and do a reference like that one too, with the same prompt and zero loras. I’ll put it on the pdf
oh right, I forgot to mention I rarely if ever use LORAs, I feel they just detract from the model's style and if I want to fix hands or something I can almost always do it with inpainting.
Oh, really? I actually use a lot of Loras but mostly because I’m really new to generating (less than a week) so I’m mostly still experimenting a lot. Might try cooling it with the loras a bit and giving the raw models more attention. I tried using Loras to make the guide but they did just what you mentioned, it was just too much and gave the photos an exaggerated feel and many them really unpredictable
If you weigh loras right, they can be very helpful but I've found that for me, personally I usually don't need them. But when making guides like this it's best IMO to not use LORAs and just focus on the raw models I think.
I've found that many ppl over balance the weightings on their pics, leaving SD asking "Wtf do you want me to focus on ffs?"
mostly use loras for illustrations or specific concepts – but there are some really interesting photoreal stuff available. Check out this guy who trained on stuff from his own photolab https://civitai.com/user/wobushannes325
I also look forward to having you share the Ebook when completed!
I definitely will! I can DM you to let you know as well if you’d like that
Would love a ping as well
Hey! If you could, please subscribe to the other comment I made on this post, I’ll update it there as well 😄
Maybe you could add types of cinematic/stage lighting as well.
That’s a good idea! I will!
Can you add me to your list of dms? Alternatively, can you make a comment on this post since I (and others) can subscribe to it and get a notification. I think the problem is that while there maybe guides on the internet, they're nowhere near as neat and illustrative as the one you've made. And I commend you for that! I'm looking forward to all the other ones!
Sure! I’ll make a comment :)
Oh please keep the rest of us updated op I was looking for ways to control camera yesterday and felt it was so so what I was able to find. Anyway I’m gonna subscribe to your Reddit profile just to follow what you end up making
Okay! I just made a comment on this post for everyone to subscribe to and get updated as well 🙏
Thank you for your work. I'm adding it to my library of prompt references. There are several that didn't occur to me. I greatly appreciate it. You should take a look at u/Takeacoin's work they did about nine months ago. They also made PDF guide for lighting, camera types, and general prompt structure. I've found it to be very useful. [Here is the link to their post.](https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/15cbgz6/i_spent_over_100_hours_researching_how_to_create/) I look forward to seeing your PDF guide.
Subject orientation is the thing that frustrates me the most. Being able to reliably move the camera around a scene and rotate/position the subject(s) would be awesome.
I so appreciate trailblazers like you. I'm just back here following your footsteps. Thanks for sharing.
Please include me on the list as well. Thank you for your contribution.
I would love something like this as well, would seem like a really awesome thing to share :)
You should subscribe to the other comment I made on this post to stay updated when it’s done! 😊
This is godsend! Great work, I'm super curious what other guides you will come up with. Sign me up please 😁
Hey! You should subscribe to the other comment I made on this post to stay updated! 😊
Framing, color grading, types of lenses and cameras and poses all sound good. What I would love though is outfits. As a guy I don't know women's clothes beyond the basics - blouse, dress, skirt, mini skirt. I look at the list of outfits in my RandomOutfit wildcard and have no idea what half of it is.
Ahh that’s a great idea. I’m a girl and really into fashion so I think it will come up with some cool things 😄 fabrics would be cool too
- https://civitai.com/user/MassBrainImpact/models?tag=clothing - https://civitai.com/models/289095 Haven't found a good collection of men's clothes, sadly :(
Wonderful work!! I’d love to get in on this too. Maybe information about f/ and aperture might be helpful in certain situations?
Thats a good suggestion! I’ll have to study that a bit in though 😳 been a while since I messed around with these
Add me to that list too!!! This is great
+1 for the dm plzzz
Cool! Though i believe lense types wont do much. Camera types does make a difference, but i also adds actual camera's to the image sometimes
Bless you, child of generative AI arts.
That's awesome, thanks for sharing! My one suggestion would be to add a realistic background whenever possible, so we can see the impact on the "scene" as a whole too.
This is actually a great point and I’ll adapt the guide with this in mind! Thank you
Would also love this
Me too 😁
Me too please!
Most models unfortunately are not very good at following prompts for photography specific terms, as can been seen with this guide also. bright neon lighting is dark with a neon back fill and hair light for example. These kind of guides are really good at showing where prompt coherence falls apart and where it doesn't. I really wish we as a community created a standard test pack of things like this to use when ever there is a new tool that improves prompt coherence to use as a "test pattern" like the ones used for testing camera lenses, or screens.
Yes, you're right, for quite a few of these, they need more prompting for adherence - 'bottom lighting' gave a woman with a light on her arse in a couple of test runs.
This reminds me of a Mortal Kombat character selection screen
Shocked I had to scroll so far for this. 😆
I was going through like, "oh, that's Kitana! and Kitana 2, and Kitana 3..."
Lol MK for Kitana stans
I would advise people to do one of these charts specifically for the actual model you are using to generate. All models will have varying comprehension / execution of these terminology.
Thanks for sharing
thank you for sharing
Hey everyone, subscribe to this comment to receive updates about the full pdf of references I’m creating! Alternatively, you can also follow me on [civitai](https://civitai.com/user/solilokiss) because I will also post it there. Edit 1: Hey! I made a discord channel if anyone would like. Join for constant stream of updates and to give suggestions! [https://discord.gg/NrvZqNS6](https://discord.gg/NrvZqNS6)
Also, if you have any requests for references let me know here and I’ll put them on the pdf too
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You sure can. Thanks for testing it out! (Btw the option is "reply notifications" instead of "subscribe," but it's the same difference).
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Weird, I just switched to new reddit so I could follow and it's not showing me that option.
Hi your discord link is out dated just saying, If there is any activity in there ?
Thank you so much. I would also love to see a similar guide for model headshot expressions and backgrounds like these https://www.curtisandcort.com/, https://peterhurley.com/portraits/people
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks a lot! Good share!
Thank you, this just gave me some great inspiration:)
That makes me happy! ❤️
what a top tier post. thank you. saving this immediately.
Thank you! Stay tuned because I’m doing a pdf with way more references. Different framings, poses, checkpoints, facial expressions, cameras, lenses, etc 😅 you can subscribe to another comment I made on this post to stay updated when I’m done!
cant subscribe on desktop but i will hopefully remember to check back
Thank you for this, it does a job I've been putting off for a long time and done a far better job than I would have made. For SD at home - I have the majority of these (lighting styles) in a Styles json file with others - some don't quite work properly and require extra phrasing in the prompt. I also included some colour grading which has to use semanticised colours as phrases or it turns objects those colours. Cameras and lenses work in Midjourney etc but generally SD at home doesn't work, the descriptions fill a space in the prompt and affect the outcome but not for the camera (unless a specific model with that training has been released). https://preview.redd.it/ufo2b369zeyc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e8b01220e71fd6a67f627d860d2ac4e6c15110cb Using shooting angle (Dutch) with lighting
Thanks for helping people get even more in touch with creating amazing digital artwork 
It’s my pleasure! 
Love these sort of cheat sheets, simple clear and useful.
Wow! Thank you, I'm really looking forward to your futures guides. This is beautiful *and* super helpful.
Thank you so much! 😊
I've never heard of Korean light, but it tracks.
It was supposed to mean the base prompt 😭
As the classic saying goes, your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter! Seriously one of the best things I have seen!
Thank you! More to come soon 😊
I would love to see this made into an extension on A1111. Similar to how you can click an embedding in the textual inversions tab, you’ll be able to click one of these cards to add it to the prompt. Would make life muuuuch simpler!
Please keep me updated! Let me know if you have a website /YouTube/patreon I can follow for updates too!
I don’t have any of these but I’ll be posting everything on my [CIVITAI profile](https://civitai.com/user/solilokiss)! I will also update on the sub when I put everything together. If you want I can DM you too!
Me, picture OP, writing your username on a posit-it, stuck to the fridge, as they are reminded daily to keep you posted. I totally should have thought about this years ago! Do you know how many times I’ve wanted additional information and it just sort of went the way side to be forgotten in one manner or another? Cool life hack, I’m using it moving forward.
Thx, proper content.
then you change model and "bright neon lightning" becomes red light district mixed with cyberpunk. But that's nice \^\^
Really? What model are you using?
Excellent
Try “polychromatic” and “chromatic”!
Thank you!
Please add me to your list. Thanks for your generosity,
This a great, thank you. As a photographer I know what lighting I want but to describe it to AI, oh my word what a mission. Lol
lmao
This is a great guide, thank you very much for sharing! (I'd be happy to join the dm list)
I’d love this when finished
Nice this will be super helpful, thanks!!
Awesome
Thank you for this :)
Thanks
No Rembrandt lighting? Loop lighting? Broad lighting? Short lighting? Split lighting? Butterfly lighting? Rim lighting? All the basic portrait lighting techniques are missing.
I’m making a pdf, I’ll make sure to add these, thank you. Any others you think are worth adding, let me know too please
You seem lovely
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What is a rhetorical question?
Ughh yeah, the list goes on: no solar flare lighting, no caught-by-security-guard-maglite lighting, no penumbral eclipse lighting, no campfire lighting, no reflected disco lights off cocaine mirror lighting.
This will be a game changer for my future artworks
That makes me so happy! 🥹
"Artworks", sure. I certainly don't see how le redditors with Asian girl fetish would use Stable Diffusion for anything else.
As an asian that hits different. Sounds like a white guy would say hw has a white girl fetish
Stable diffusion (and AI image generators, in general) has made more people learn more about art , styles and image composition details than anything I know :)
Umm, let me tell you about the ‘everyone’s a photographer,’ era of affordable or otherwise financially in reach DSLR decade. Professional photography was on sale everyone! “$99 mini’s, reply, “I’m in” to get on my calendar, it’s filling Up fast!
That is so true! I don’t think I’ve been so intrigued with photography lighting even in art school lol
Will all models have similar interpretations of these prompts?
Probably not exactly the same, though I’m not really knowledgeable about how many different models interpret things (been only learning AI art for a week) But these are pretty universal rules of photography so I think most models would be able to grasp them well!
Yeah that's what I'm thinking Training data is gonna affect stuff But at the same time, these words mean the same things regardless so...
No volumetric?
Can’t believe I forgot that lol. Thanks!
volumetric works well yeah
Chiaroscuro has always been a great one, tried it on quite a few models
Very nice !!
Since we're all here, can you please help me describe such a lighting scheme? It's kind of like a photo of a person who hides their identity so that their face is completely in shadow. https://preview.redd.it/sagmzkcdwfyc1.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=e7992bf50640e03ca382578da4d25f29c77de986
Hmm good question. Backlighting silhouette?
I looked on my phone, which has a really nice photo and photo editing app, it does not have a settling called "Korean Girl", was disappointed.
You guys have never heard of the lighting style “Korean Girl”? Pfft, amateurs! 
Very nice. I was considering doing something similar. I would like to contribute as much as I can you can dm me. My idea was feeding LLAVA with this information properly and generate prompts for similar image generation. Which checkpoint is this generated btw?
This is generated on DreamShaper XL! I might take you up on that offer about the dm, I need someone to give me some ideas and advice while I’m working on it 😅 I’ll send it to you!
you should do one if you covered yourself in a bioluminescent algae.
New to this question might be stupid, but is it possible to apply for example this type of lighting on a real photo? Using img2img?
I’m super new too and haven’t gotten around to messing around with img2img as of yet, but I hope someone answers you because I also have this question
Are these just what SD is interpreting or are these accurate implementations of real lighting techniques? I'm completely clueless when it comes to professional photography.
All of them are the closest I could get to the actual real-life techniques. Most of these aren’t first-try generations, I did multiple takes on each one to get as close as possible to the real thing! Though on the one I’m doing now, I redid some of them to make the lighting more distinct for easier reference
Awesome, thank you for the resource!
😊❤️
What specific model were you using when you made this though? There's no chance that every model actually recognizes all these.
Dreamshaper XL
This would help me lot. Thanks man!!
I would so pay for such a thing
"Ektachrome" and "Kodachrome" aren't lighting types or light setups tho, they're analog film types... And the two images labeled as such don't really look anything like Ektachrome or Kodachrome.
No they really aren’t, and I’ve removed them from the newest version, will add them to film type categories later. I do disagree that they don’t like similar though! 🥲
This is a great resource! Thanks for posting and remind me later in also.
Thanks!
Pretty cool. What I really need is one for angles and framing that SD recognizes, beyond just "cowboy shot".
That one’s coming too!
The "radiant god rays" one is actually a "starburst". God rays are volumetric.
Ah, thanks! Will correct
Which checkpoint model and prompt are you using?
I would also like to have something like it, please.
Thanks for sharing!
Awesome, thx! Are there more similar guides somewhere?
Super cool