🌈 Technicolor-50s Diffusion - Version 2

Style Description

highly-saturated postcard-like colors, flat high-key lighting, strong rim-lighting, 40s and 50s lifestyle

New in version 2

higher quality output
better match to the technicolor style
greater flexibility for diverse prompts
not strictly 1950's imagery

Sample Output (Raw Output)

Unaltered soutput. Prompts are in the PNG block info. <img src="https://huggingface.co/mattthew/technicolor-50s-diffusion-v2/resolve/main/00001-1311798695-tchnclr%20style.png" alt="Woman in a gown on stage" width="512"/> <img src="https://huggingface.co/mattthew/technicolor-50s-diffusion-v2/resolve/main/00002-2224159767-a%20(closeup_1.png" alt="Man loves his dog in the park" width="512"/> <img src="https://huggingface.co/mattthew/technicolor-50s-diffusion-v2/resolve/main/00005-1622581904-closeup%20of%20an.png" alt="Woman looking wistfully out at the city" width="512"/> <img src="https://huggingface.co/mattthew/technicolor-50s-diffusion-v2/resolve/main/00006-4183231104-a%20japanese%20ma.png" alt="Man is more intense than the a storm" width="512"/> <img src="https://huggingface.co/mattthew/technicolor-50s-diffusion-v2/resolve/main/00007-1763774319-a%20smiling%20you.png" alt="Swiming woman doesn't care about the volcano" width="512"/> <img src="https://huggingface.co/mattthew/technicolor-50s-diffusion-v2/resolve/main/00008-1776270391-an%20(female%20ac.png" alt="Sultry woman is literally a doll" width="512"/>

Recommended Usage

Add "tchnclr" and/or "1950s" to enhance the technicolor effect
The model was trained with and excels at closeup portraits of men and women
The model makes beautiful hair, and describe the hair style helps
Generating at 1024x with hires fix produces much better results than 512
Use CFG of 4-7 for best results. Yes 4!

Known Limitations

Faces tend to look similar. To avoid this, prompt a celebrity at low weight or use an alternating prompt, e.g "[woman|celebrity-name]"
The more modernity that the prompt contains modern elements, the weaker the technicolor effect
Blending with other artists and art styles reduces the technicolor effect but is worth trying

Training Process

d8ahazard's Dreambooth Extension for Automatic1111 webUI
40 high-quality training images from movies filmed in technicolor, manually captioned
a version with 600 photo-like classifiers merged with a version with no-prior-preservation to balance style and flexibility
12,000 steps with a 2e-7 learning rate