Why this book

While the Stable Diffusion GUI tool can generate fantastic images driven by the Diffusion model, its usability is limited. The presence of dozens of knobs (more sliders and buttons are being added) and specific terms sometimes makes generating high-quality images a guessing game. On the other hand, the open source Diffusers package from Hugging Face gives users full control over Stable Diffusion using Python. However, it lacks many key features such as loading custom LoRA and textual inversion, utilizing community-shared models/checkpoints, scheduling, and weighted prompts, unlimited prompt tokens, and high-resolution image fixing and upscaling (The Diffusers package does keep improving over time, however).

This book aims to help you understand all the complex terms and knobs from the internal view of the Diffusion model. The book will also assist you in overcoming the limitations of Diffusers and implementing the missing functions and advanced features to create a...