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pastel-mix

Available as managed deployment Image mirroring Text→image 1 variants 971 dl/mo

pastel-mix is an open-weight image model from mirroring. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.

Available as managed deployment — configured and operated for you on dedicated EU hardware, quoted per deployment.

What it is

Released bymirroring
TypeImage models
TaskText→image
Runs withdiffusers
Released2023-06-25
Popularity971 downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What pastel-mix is

Update Logs:

[1/27/22]

I uploaded the model in CivitAI! -> https://civitai.com/models/5414/pastel-mix-stylized-anime-model I'd appreciate the ratings, thank you!

[2/2/22]

Uploaded a lora version.

Recipe for this mix could be found below. Like other anime-style Stable Diffusion models, it also supports danbooru tags to generate images.


Read the full model card

How to download with Git

git lfs install
git clone https://huggingface.co/andite/pastel-mix

🧨 Diffusers

This model can be used just like any other Stable Diffusion model. For more information, please have a look at the Stable Diffusion.

You can also export the model to ONNX, MPS and/or FLAX/JAX.

from diffusers import StableDiffusionPipeline
import torch

model_id = "andite/pastel-mix"
pipe = StableDiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained(model_id, torch_dtype=torch.float16)
pipe = pipe.to("cuda")

prompt = "hatsune_miku"
image = pipe(prompt).images[0]

image.save("./hatsune_miku.png")

Gradio

We support a Gradio Web UI to run pastel-mix:

Examples

masterpiece, best quality, ultra-detailed, illustration, portrait, 1girl
Negative prompt: lowres, ((bad anatomy)), ((bad hands)), text, missing finger, extra digits, fewer digits, blurry, ((mutated hands and fingers)), (poorly drawn face), ((mutation)), ((deformed face)), (ugly), ((bad proportions)), ((extra limbs)), extra face, (double head), (extra head), ((extra feet)), monster, logo, cropped, worst quality, low quality, normal quality, jpeg, humpbacked, long body, long neck, ((jpeg artifacts))
Steps: 20, Sampler: DPM++ 2M Karras, CFG scale: 7, Size: 448x640, Model hash: 7edc8e08, Model: pastelmix-fp32, Denoising strength: 0.6, Clip skip: 2, ENSD: 31337, Hires resize: 960x1280, Hires steps: 20, Hires upscaler: Latent
masterpiece, best quality, ultra-detailed, illustration, portrait, hakurei reimu, 1girl, throne room, dimly lit
Negative prompt: lowres, ((bad anatomy)), ((bad hands)), text, missing finger, extra digits, fewer digits, blurry, ((mutated hands and fingers)), (poorly drawn face), ((mutation)), ((deformed face)), (ugly), ((bad proportions)), ((extra limbs)), extra face, (double head), (extra head), ((extra feet)), monster, logo, cropped, worst quality, low quality, normal quality, jpeg, humpbacked, long body, long neck, ((jpeg artifacts))
Steps: 20, Sampler: DPM++ 2M Karras, CFG scale: 7, Size: 448x640, Model hash: 7edc8e08, Model: pastelmix-fp32, Denoising strength: 0.6, Clip skip: 2, ENSD: 31337, Hires resize: 960x1280, Hires steps: 20, Hires upscaler: Latent
masterpiece, best quality, ultra-detailed, illustration, 1girl, witch hat, purple eyes, blonde hair, wielding a purple staff blasting purple energy, purple beam, purple effects, dragons, chaos
Negative prompt: lowres, ((bad anatomy)), ((bad hands)), text, missing finger, extra digits, fewer digits, blurry, ((mutated hands and fingers)), (poorly drawn face), ((mutation)), ((deformed face)), (ugly), ((bad proportions)), ((extra limbs)), extra face, (double head), (extra head), ((extra feet)), monster, logo, cropped, worst quality, low quality, normal quality, jpeg, humpbacked, long body, long neck, ((jpeg artifacts))
Steps: 20, Sampler: DPM++ 2M Karras, CFG scale: 7, Size: 448x640, Model hash: 7edc8e08, Model: pastelmix-fp32, Denoising strength: 0.6, Clip skip: 2, ENSD: 31337, Hires resize: 960x1280, Hires steps: 20, Hires upscaler: Latent
masterpiece, best quality, ultra-detailed, illustration, close-up, straight on, 1girl, black hair, yellow eyes, red roses, chains
Negative prompt: lowres, ((bad anatomy)), ((bad hands)), text, missing finger, extra digits, fewer digits, blurry, ((mutated hands and fingers)), (poorly drawn face), ((mutation)), ((deformed face)), (ugly), ((bad proportions)), ((extra limbs)), extra face, (double head), (extra head), ((extra feet)), monster, logo, cropped, worst quality, low quality, normal quality, jpeg, humpbacked, long body, long neck, ((jpeg artifacts))
Steps: 20, Sampler: DPM++ 2M Karras, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 2203084815, Size: 640x448, Model hash: 7edc8e08, Model: pastelmix-fp32, Denoising strength: 0.6, Clip skip: 2, ENSD: 31337, Hires resize: 1280x960, Hires steps: 20, Hires upscaler: Latent
masterpiece, best quality, ultra-detailed, illustration, close-up, straight on, face focus, 1girl, white hair, golden eyes, long hair, halo, angel wings, serene expression, looking at viewer
Negative prompt: lowres, ((bad anatomy)), ((bad hands)), text, missing finger, extra digits, fewer digits, blurry, ((mutated hands and fingers)), (poorly drawn face), ((mutation)), ((deformed face)), (ugly), ((bad proportions)), ((extra limbs)), extra face, (double head), (extra head), ((extra feet)), monster, logo, cropped, worst quality, low quality, normal quality, jpeg, humpbacked, long body, long neck, ((jpeg artifacts))
Steps: 20, Sampler: DPM++ 2M Karras, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 240742293, Size: 640x448, Model hash: 7edc8e08, Model: pastelmix-fp32, Denoising strength: 0.6, Clip skip: 2, ENSD: 31337, Hires resize: 1280x960, Hires steps: 20, Hires upscaler: Latent

So what the hell is the 'better-vae' version?

I merged the pastel-waifu-diffusion.vae.pt inside the model so you don't have to set up the vae anymore.

life so much ez now since you don't have to download the vae and set it up right?

What is pastelmix-lora.safetensors?

It's a lora version which is made from extracting the loras from pastel-mix using a script that is similar to add-difference method.

https://github.com/bmaltais/kohya_ss/blob/master/train_network_README.md

Guide

For the settings or parameters, I recommend using these settings.

Sampler: DPM++ 2M Karras

Steps: 20

C

From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys pastel-mix for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (pastel-mix below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/images/generations \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"pastel-mix","prompt":"a red bicycle","size":"1024x1024"}'

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