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Create awesome images with AI
Will Kurt
  • MEAP began April 2024
  • Publication in Fall 2025 (estimated)
  • ISBN 9781633436800
  • 275 pages (estimated)
  • printed in black & white

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Anyone can create interesting and entertaining images using the powerful Stable Diffusion AI model—no data science required!

If you want to make damn fine images with Stable Diffusion, you need A Damn Fine Stable Diffusion Book. This practical, entertaining, and occasionally irreverent book teaches you how to get the images you want out of Stable Diffusion without a lot of jargon and technical ceremony.

In A Damn Fine Stable Diffusion Book you’ll learn how to:

  • Write image generation prompts that actually work
  • Use custom models to dramatically improve your images
  • Tweak Stable Diffusion to get your images just right
  • Work from the command line and the Web UI
  • Automate workflows with the Hugging Face Diffusers library
  • Create your own custom Stable Diffusion tools

With A Damn Fine Stable Diffusion Book, you’ll be amazed at what you can create after just the first few lessons. This hands-on book skips the low-level theory and gets on with the business of creating and refining images. Along the way, you'll learn just enough about building your own tools, LoRAs, and fine-tuning models to personalize Stable Diffusion for your needs.

about the book

A Damn Fine Stable Diffusion Book helps you get amazing results out of Stable Diffusion fast. You’ll learn how to create everything from graphics for blogs and websites to hi-resolution desktop wallpapers. Start with the basics of text prompt engineering for image generation, then quickly move on to using the webUI to tweak your outputs to your specifications.

Stable Diffusion - Sci-fi cover

From there, you’ll explore methods for making hi-resolution images, programming Stable Diffusion directly with Python and Hugging Face, utilizing ControlNet for poses, and custom LoRAs for specific styles and images. Finally, you’ll dive into creating your own models with in-depth customization methods you can use to create images of your friends, deliver reusable characters, and apply custom styles. You’ll even learn to make a damn fine cup of coffee!

Stable Diffusion - A damn fine cup of coffee

about the reader

If you can use a command line, install a video game mod, and know the basics of programming, you’re ready to start using this guide.

about the author

Will Kurt is the author of Get Programming with Haskell and Bayesian Statistics the Fun Way. He also writes the Count Bayesie blog. He has done AI and Machine Learning work for over a decade.

This is a page turner. Informative, practical, and well-paced.

Jeremy Chen, Lead Instructor and Content Specialist, AWS Tech U, Amazon Web Services

This is one of the few resources you can find that enable you to learn how to start and become proficient in image creation, without relying on paid services like Midjourney.

Riccardo Marotti, Head of Software Engineering, Expert Lab Service

This book is the perfect introduction to image generation with Stable Diffusion.

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