Big Love (Pony)

https://civitai.com/models/897413?modelVersionId=1077585

BigLove is a merge of Pony, bigASP and other SDLX models. The Pony releases of Big Love are a hybrid. They produces different images than both Pony & SDXL-based models. Pony tags are understood, but interprets them a bit differently. Some images lean more in the one or other direction depending on how you prompt. It works with Pony as well as normal SDXL loras. It can turn anime/cartoon into photorealistic images in img2img.

Big Love XL is a combination of 5 different training branches of SDXL: original SDXL, bigASP, RealVis, Anteros and Pony. With a bit of Pony in it, some Pony loras (poses, characters) work too. It outputs a more photorealistic & creative look than the Pony versions and is can also do paintings & cartoon.

txt2img Settings: Forge/ComfyUI: DPM++ SDE, Normal/SGM Unifom (Pony), 20-30 steps, cfg 3-10, clip skip 2, 832x1216 or 1024x1536. For faster generation 2M SDE/3M SDE works too, but lower quality with the Pony version.

Civitai: DPM2 a, 30-50 steps, cfg 4-5, 832x1216

Higher Quality & Faster Rendering: Good Quality: For more contrast add the SDXL Lightning 8-step lora with DPM++ SDE, SGM Uniform, 8 steps, cfg 1.5-3 (Pony), lora strength 1.0, clip skip 2, 832x1216 or 1024x1536 Best Quality: For a more natural look use the DMD2 lora with LCM Exponential, 8 steps, cfg 1-1.5, lora strength 1.0, clip skip 2, 832x1216 or 1024x1536

Strengths: Pony: Probably the most photorealistic Pony model, very good anatomy knowledge, huge face variety for a Pony model, very short prompts are quite effective & photorealistic

Weaknesses: Pony: Needs rather precise prompts & takes prompt rather literally, still a bit of the Pony look depending on used prompt, it can switch between fully photorealistic and semi-realistic

Pony Prompting Advice: Pony prompts & prompts from bigASP & Lustify work with it. Score tags and fill words like masterpiece or perfect skin have as good as no effect usually. A negative prompt is often unnecessary unless you want to make something vanish or avoid underage, but it can also change the style of the image. Pure booru tags and some other samplers may produce Pony style. Photographic terms or a simple prompts ensure a photo look. Sometimes it refuses to produce medium shots, portraits or close-ups unless you weigh the term heavily or remove feet, shoes, high heels, boots etc. from the prompt. wavy hair sometimes does not look so great. If it refuses to do porn, try simplifying the prompt. If you want to do a portrait, don't describe surroundings too much. If you want to do porn, describe the action mainly and don't focus on the people or surroundings in the prompt. The largest part of the prompt should be about the main subject of the image. If a prompt does not produce the intended image, you often only need to modify it a bit to make it work perfectly.

Using Character Loras: Big Love Pony supports Pony characters, but they look like real humans. There were some complaints about them not working, but the problem was not the model itself so far. So here are some tips:

• Try Pony as well as SDXL character loras
• Use a lora weight up to 1.5 if it does not reduce quality
• If it is a well known character, add the name in the prompt and also give it a higher weight if necessary.
• Check your negative prompt for problems. Delete it if necessary and rewrite it from scratch.
• Render a lot of images to be able to pick those with the best resemblance.

Higher Ouput Quality: You can highly improve the images generated with this model by using img2img, upscaling, detailing etc. The Lightning lora enhances the look and sharpness despite only 8 steps. Alternatively, the DMD2 lora produces a sharp, but more natural look with less contrast. Also check out the Subtle Style loras, which nicely enhance images.