Updated: Jul 10, 2023.

Ether Real Mix is a realistic anime style model focused on flexibility, hopefully to the point of general purpose use. It still has some shortcomings inherit to anime models such as light biases in generating females and humans.

UPDATES:

Ether Real Mix - Version 2.1 . Version 2.1 focuses on style, adding BasilMix to improve realism, with the core of Ether Blu 4 to enhance colors while also subtly shifting facial proportions to be more stylized/anime. Though version 2 was quite versatile, its overall style was lacking, often becoming too realistic to be called an anime model. With 2.1 Ether Real looks to find its own stylistic identity while retaining its flexibility.

Do some faces feel weird? Please try adding "realistic" to your prompts to help them feel a bit more comfortable.

☄️ Generation Recommendations: Use whatever sampler, steps, CFG you prefer.

Most sample images were generated with:

Sampler: DPM++ 2M Karras .

Steps: 20 - 28 .

CFG: 7 - 11 .

Clip Skip: 1 .

ENSD: 31337 .

Higher CFG can lead to more vibrant results.

Negative Prompt Example:

"NSFW, (worst quality, low quality:1.3), watermark, signature" .

I recommend this simple negative prompt if you wish to achieve a similar style to the sample images.

Recommended VAE: Waifu Diffusion VAE kl-f8-anime2 .

Strongly recommended as the model was tuned with this specific VAE's colors and saturation in mind.

Sample images were further upscaled using AUTO1111 Hi-res fix. Please utilize it if you wish to achieve similar results.

Latent (nearest-exact) .

Upscale by: 2 .

Denoising strength: 0.55 .

Are your results changing too much after Hi-res fix? Please try 4x-foolhardy-Remarci.

4x-foolhardy-Remarci .

Upscale by: 2 .

Denoising strength: 0.45 - 0.55 .

🖊️ Prompting Advice: Prompt however you like. The model was merged with both Danbooru-style tag prompting as well as natural language in mind. You're free to mix and match prompting styles, the model should understand it.

Do some faces feel weird? Please try adding "realistic" to your prompts to help them feel a bit more comfortable.

Generating unprompted girls/humans? Try removing "masterpiece, best quality, ....."

If you look at the prompts included with the sample images they demonstrate that even with a very loose and vague style of prompting you can achieve fun, high quality images.

Try mixing natural language and booru-styled tags. Experiment and give the AI some freedom to interpret your ideas!

General guidelines:

Prompt in the style of anime/booru-style models, "masterpiece, best quality, ..... "

More anime style images, stronger bias towards females/humans .

Prompt in the style of photography/non-anime models, "professional photograph of ..... "

More realistic images, higher style variety, (probably) less bias