A New day, a new beginning

[cerberus]

dibs on the second one, please

Indeed, it's quite obvious she's proud of them.

[cerberus]

A new experiment today, SD wasn't cooperating, so I did what I usually do in these situations, I tried out a feature I haven't used before. In this case it was "Checkpoint Merger", i.e. take two or three model checkpoint files and merge them (in this case two). This applies some of the differences in the second file to the first to give something of a hybrid checkpoint. I thought these came out rather well.

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That shirt looks like it is under a bit of stress!

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Oops, gone now!

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[mudmaiden]

Cerberus, I am really enjoying your work. Tell me please, how do you get your mud to be so thick? I am currently using Perchance and Dreamlike from Deviant Art. Is there a prompt you enter or a negative prompt you use?

[cerberus]

Cerberus, I am really enjoying your work. Tell me please, how do you get your mud to be so thick? I am currently using Perchance and Dreamlike from Deviant Art. Is there a prompt you enter or a negative prompt you use?

Thanks, glad you are enjoying them.

Regarding the prompts, I usually put "water" in my negative prompt, this seems to get rid of a lot of surface water (I also put "paths, tracks, sticks, pole,..." to give a bit more of an open look to the landscape and such). In the prompts I often double up on terms e.g. "sinking in quicksand mud", this seems to give a better texture, though it looks a bit less beach like. I think I read somewhere that using multiple terms reinforces the effect. The other thing you can do is increase the "weight" of term/s by putting them in parentheses or applying a weight factor e.g. (sinking in quicksand mud:1.3) or (((sinking in quicksand mud))) has the same effect. Each set of parentheses or .1 on the factor raises the term's weight by 5% - note this is compounded so 1.3 gives a weight of 1.05*1.05*1.05. You can also reduce the weight by using a factor of less than 1 e.g. 0.9 etc. or using brackets [] instead of parentheses. This should work with Perchance as it uses Stable Diffusion as its back-end generator (I'm using a local install of Stable Diffusion with the Automatic1111 GUI). I don't know about Dreamlike, I've never used it, but it is probably worth giving it a try. Note: bumping the weights up too high (1.5 or higher) can give some weird effects. Hope this helps.

[bogbud]

Very nice jungle-explorers. She does not seem to be that concerned. Probably not her first time in the deep

Is there any option to change the resolution of the images? They have become that good already, you can use them as wallpapers! But that would need HD or better.

[mudmaiden]

Here are a few more of Jungle Perils! Thanks so much Ceberus for your suggestions!
I used a model of Vera Miles of "Tarzan's Hidden Jungle" as a theme. Here is my prompt:

Very dramatic 8K resolution color photo from a vintage Tarzan movie of bosomy Vera Miles in wet, torn safari shirt, raised hands, terrified, ((( stuck waist deep into Black muddy quicksand))) ((She screams for help!)))

Here are my results!

[mudmaiden]

By the way the other site on DA is Dream on, not Dreamlike. My Bad!

[cerberus]

Very nice jungle-explorers. She does not seem to be that concerned. Probably not her first time in the deep

Is there any option to change the resolution of the images? They have become that good already, you can use them as wallpapers! But that would need HD or better.

Thanks, no she doesn't seem concerned, quite likes it actually. This was more about testing Checkpoint Merger and the quality that resulted, I was quite pleased and will definitely explore further.

The viewable resolution of the images in this thread is determined by the forum software/configuration, the images I upload are about 2MB, on the forum they appear as about 200KB i.e. a 90% reduction in size. The link below is to the original unshrunk image that was the last of this set, hopefully this is accessible. I can't do many of these, there isn't a lot of spare space in my Dropbox, but could post the occasional one if requested.

Apologies link had to be removed.

Note: this isn't the best that can be done, I could upscale more, use more refinement etc, but these come at a cost in terms of machine usage and time. So this sizing is, to me, a reasonable compromise between throughput and quality.

[cerberus]

Here are a few more of Jungle Perils! Thanks so much Ceberus for your suggestions!
I used a model of Vera Miles of "Tarzan's Hidden Jungle" as a theme. Here is my prompt:

Very dramatic 8K resolution color photo from a vintage Tarzan movie of bosomy Vera Miles in wet, torn safari shirt, raised hands, terrified, ((( stuck waist deep into Black muddy quicksand))) ((She screams for help!)))

Here are my results!

Always pleased to help where I can. That seemed to work well for you, nice images.

[MadMax359]

Cerberus---that missing shirt is a mystery, i may have to investigate further

and Mud Maiden--- very dramatic works for me!!