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    Creating Photorealistic Images With AI: Using Stable Diffusion - v1.0
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    Over the last few months, I've spent nearly 1000 hours focused researching, testing, and experimenting with Stable Diffusion prompts to figure out how to consistently create realistic, high quality images.

    I wanted to share a free resource compiling everything I've learned, in hopes that it will help others. I made a 182 page prompt guidebook covering:

    • The best models for photorealism

    • Optimal program settings

    • Prompt syntax and structure

    • 350+ example images

    • 200+ prompt tags for styles, lighting, angles, etc

    Rather than keeping this knowledge to myself, I believe we all benefit when artists collaborate and share techniques. I'm not affiliated with any AI companies or selling anything - this is just a passion project.

    All I would ask is you give the video guide on YouTube a like and if you would like to buy me a coffee please do so over at gumroad. https://promptgeek.gumroad.com/l/photoreal

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    Comments (32)

    maxhitmanJul 29, 2023· 2 reactions
    CivitAI

    Very good research and a great tutorial.

    Deserves a star rating. Thank you.

    I have also made tons of tests and discoveries of which many people still have to find out.

    820774Jul 29, 2023· 1 reaction
    CivitAI

    下了一下看了一下,非常棒的东西,做的很用心。五心评价

    GairmJul 29, 2023· 3 reactions
    CivitAI

    Had to come back after reading through only 10% of this PDF guide to drop a review on this. 182 pages of amazing details, well structured, and full of example images to help illustrate what you are explaining. Well done, and thank you for sharing this fantastic resource with us!

    ladiesmenJul 29, 2023· 3 reactions
    CivitAI

    Great to see and super thks

    TigonTXJul 29, 2023· 3 reactions
    CivitAI

    Thank you so much for releasing this. I'm digging into it, the examples are super helpful.

    1622771Aug 1, 2023· 4 reactions
    CivitAI

    Holy shit this is incredible work.

    nkngerAug 7, 2023
    CivitAI

    That book looks very promising, thank you Sir!

    You should also consider doing voice acting or reading audio books (children's books maybe) for you have a very calming voice. So calming that after a hard day of work I almost fell asleep listening to it. And it was absolutely not caused by boredom or so, don't get me wrong! The tone and pace was just so damn relaxing^^

    PromptGeek
    Author
    Aug 12, 2023

    Very kind of you nk!

    Ale50Sep 6, 2023· 1 reaction
    CivitAI

    fantastic guide! Thank you very much for sharing it, very admirable action on your part. May you have a life full of successes!

    spencerhughesnet289Nov 8, 2023
    CivitAI

    Very helpful and well done, thank you!

    TooaiArtNov 28, 2023· 3 reactions
    CivitAI

    I found this pdf by chance through gumroad and it has totally changed the way I write prompts, it has been very helpful to me. Thank you!

    chien420Aug 3, 2024
    CivitAI

    glad i found this guide and its so much easy to start with! thank you for the work and hope to see more vods from your channel

    Adria_oriciAug 5, 2024· 5 reactions
    CivitAI

    You, sir, are a legend. This guide has saved me a lot of time and energy in teaching myself this AI art stuff (I'm a total noob). Thank you for putting your time into creating this. My first attempt after following your suggestions created a perfect photo.

    lolmann12332Sep 6, 2024· 3 reactions
    CivitAI

    Sir. You are a legend!

    buonopedro572Nov 6, 2024
    CivitAI

    Sir, my humble compliments for such efficient work for us

    AndyParkKoreaDec 16, 2024
    CivitAI

    I cursed my stupid blind eye find this just now.

    talonhead264Dec 28, 2024· 1 reaction
    CivitAI

    This is totally INSANE that you're offering this gold nugget to everyone! People like you push this tech even farther through your passion, wisdom, and generosity. Thank you thank you thank you!!

    AutomaticDesireFeb 2, 2025· 1 reaction
    CivitAI

    I've been messing around with SD for a while now (really should update & repub some of my old Loras and whatnot haha) and the results have been very much a 'mixed bag' ... precisely coz I've just been 'messing around'.

    Gave this a skim and it's GORGEOUSLY put together, and I wager will be useful for actually getting some rigour into my workflow. You really SHOULD charge for this buddy :)

    mboros1633634Mar 7, 2025· 1 reaction
    CivitAI

    I’m trying to create 100 % ai photo of me, without using deepfake

    PanOfArcadiaApr 21, 2025· 2 reactions
    CivitAI

    You Tube Vid is wonderful! I'm unable to download the pdf with the link here though?!? Am I missing something?

    Click the download link, the one to download the "model". Its the PDF.

    PanOfArcadiaJun 22, 2025

    @cloudhopper774997679 sigh, thx lol i missed that

    cmgood3000Apr 27, 2025· 1 reaction
    CivitAI

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this information. This should help me avoid so much wasted time trying to get the results I'm after.

    silverlinings29991791Jun 7, 2025· 1 reaction
    CivitAI

    This was a fantastic read! And I honestly can't believe you gave this away for free. This has made me look at SD 1.5 - SDXL in a whole new way and works on all checkpoints. Thank you for this, and your hard work in making it.

    OnvisiJun 17, 2025· 1 reaction
    CivitAI

    When I follow the link to gumroad I see a message saying "this product is not currently for sale," and don't see any button to download anything. Is it there any longer?

    withery26Jul 29, 2025

    download the resource on civitai

    megvadulthangyaJun 18, 2025
    CivitAI

    Hi Guys I try to convert to txt but some of the text not present in the converted txt ... like the photographer names etc someone has this in txt please?

    3433997Sep 7, 2025
    CivitAI

    Whoa first time someone share something like this, I mean very detailed and with examples 🙌🏻

    AikzOct 9, 2025· 3 reactions
    CivitAI

    I was so curious about this, sounds like you put a lot of work in it! I was ready to buy you a few cups of coffee but unfortunately Gumroad says it's not for sale right now, is that a Gumroad issue or did you take it offline? Cheers!

    HibsMaxOct 30, 2025
    CivitAI

    LOVE this document and thank you so much for spending the time putting it together.

    If I have one gripe, I tried your example prompts and got totally different images, which is to be expected, to an extent. I am using the same model as you recommend in the PDF (Absolute Reality v1.6), but it would be helpful to know what other settings you used like did you use any LoRAs? What was the seed? That sort of thing.

    I am not complaining though because the real value is in the text prompts.

    HibsMaxNov 13, 2025· 1 reaction

    Click on the download button to get the ZIP file. Open that with 7-zip, or something else, and that's it.

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