3 weeks away from my desktop has forced me to explore RunPod.io environment more and more. This lead to getting comfortable and testing the various builds of the Templates that are available in Runpod.io. So here I will share my opinion on my Top 5 Runpod Templates that I have found to be feature rich and versatile. What is a RunPod Template? A template is a pre-built script which when deployed on a RunPod GPU will execute all the code to build the environment, generally a version of Linux and will run the script to do the necessary pre-requisite installations for AI Image Generation software ..read more

This technique was share by Philz1337x and he was the one who came up with this method to generate Magific level details using Automatic1111. He published all of his code as open source but that runs on something called COGS which I don’t know yet how to run on its own. So the interim solution is to use Automatic1111 along with Tile Diffusion and ControlNet. This method is another great alternative to Magnific which is a paid service and is complementary to another method using ComfyUI I have posted before. What you need? Have a running instance of Automatic1111 Install extensions – Tile Diff ..read more

ComfyUI has become my most common AI Image and Video generation tool, 2nd only to Automatic1111. As much as I was apprehensive about using ComfyUI I am overjoyed by the community that is behind ComfyUI which continues to develop and share ComfyUI workflows. One such amazing creator is Zho and has published some amazing workflows via Git Repo. However some of the content is published in Mandarin or Cantonese so you can translate it using Google. I have linked the whole repo in English using Google translate so checkout the whole page in English here. He is very active and always creating new st ..read more

Midjourney is by far the leading provider of text-to-image service and is able to create the most realistic images possible. Now combine the power of ChatGPT (v3.5 Free version) and you have a very powerful combination. I came across this post on X by Umesh which is the inspiration behind this blog post. ChatGPT Prompt Submit the below prompt to ChatGPT which will get to work and create 10 prompts for you to begin with. Don’t have ChatGPT then don’t worry just scroll to the prompts below. Imagine you are a world renowned artist who focuses on minimalistic visual design for background wallpape ..read more

IPAdapter has been around for a long time (in AI space time) but I have never really taken the time to explore it in anyway. At the moment I am travelling on vacation and therefore have time to explore new things when not out and about. However I don’t have my PC with me so I’m spending some time using RunPod.io GPUs. These are proving to be quite convenient I used the pre-built ComfyUI template available on RunPod.io which installs all the necessary components and ComfyUI is ready to go. I will perhaps share my workflow in more details in coming days about RunPod.io. Setup IPAdapter Plus Howe ..read more

Tired of trying to use Runpodctl or Croc or Wget to download large checkpoint files or worse uploading via the Jupyter file browser which will take lot of time to upload. When you are running and using Cloud GPU like RunPod, time is literally money and last thing you want to do is wait for uploads and downloads to finish on your virtual server. Many RunPod template refer you to command line tools which you need to use to download from remotely hosted files. However my solution is UI based and requires no coding to be done. I have build a Jupyter Notebook which you can download large files onto ..read more

Frame interpolation is a technique used in video processing to create additional frames between existing frames in a video sequence. The purpose of frame interpolation is to increase the frame rate of a video, which can result in smoother motion and improved visual quality, especially for slow-motion effects or for converting video content from one frame rate to another. Now I wanted to use this technique on a Series of Images that are similar to one another and therefore I simply them to be morphing from one to another using this same technique. You can also increase the number of frames in a ..read more

Stable Cascade almost feels like the underdog overshadowed by the announcement of Stable Diffusion 3, however SD3 is not out yet not available as early access to anyone yet. So before we leapfrog from one release to next, let’s settle down and enjoy some capabilities of Stable Cascade. As shared in an earlier post about it produces very nice and coherent results and is leaps and bounds ahead of Stable Diffusion XL when it comes to producing Text. As you can see below, the text is pretty damn good!! Spelling may be a problem but its an evolution. So here are my two workflows that will let y ..read more

ComyUI is very powerful when it comes to building custom workflows to generate images, videos and all kinds of created images. In this video tutorial I show you how you can quickly and easily install ComfyUI Manager in your ComfyUI install. The steps are very easy and hopefully with this video you are able to get started and benefit from the vast ecosystem of ComfyUI extensions/custom nodes. Installation Navigate to Custom Nodes folder (ComfyUI/custom_nodes) inside ComfyUI folder. On Windows type CMD in address bar and hit Enter to open command prompt in this folder. On Linux, you should nav ..read more

Improving Text-to-Image Synthesis with Multi-Modal Diffusion Models Text-to-image synthesis is a rapidly growing field that has gained significant attention in recent years. The goal of text-to-image synthesis is to generate an image based on a given text description. This task has numerous applications, such as in computer vision, natural language processing, and multimedia processing. In this blog post, we’ll explore how Stable Diffusion 3 Multi-modal Diffusion Transformer (MMDiT) can be used to improve text-to-image synthesis. We’ll discuss the current state-of-the-art methods, the limitati ..read more