In this photorealistic XL-Pony-Illustrious hybrid model I tried to adopt multiple features, styles and concepts from other resources I used internally. It was trained on a big dataset of carefully selected SFW and NSFW images of different themes. Due to multistage training and additional tuning some PONY and ILL concepts might be washed out. Let me know if something is missing - I will try to bring them back.

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Recommendations:

Don't put style / quality tags to the beginning of the prompt. If you put "beautiful face" at the start of the prompt you probably will get an extreme close-up of the "beautiful face" ;)

Text-to-Image (drafts) - use Euler A or DDPM, CFG 2.0 .. 3.0, 16..24 steps at 832x1216 px.

Image-to-Image (HiRes Fix) - DPM++ 2S a, Karras, CFG 1.0 .. 1.5, 12..16 steps, Denoise 0.45..0.67 at 2.5..3.5 MPx resolution.

More steps - more contrast / sharpness.

I2I at 4 Mpx resolution - set lower denoise because at high resolution elements duplication may occur.

Pony tags may work, but this version trained with more natural SDXL captions.

Tags like "anime style", "painting", "brush strokes", "digital art" may give a drawing style instead of realism. This version can render arts / anime if you ask so.

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Recommendations:

ComfyUI user can drop my samples into Comfy window. My complex workflow contains Qwen 3VL based best image selector - you can remove this option. Main feature of the Comfy workflow is the multi-stage rendering.

Text-to-Image stage usually gives the draft with good composition but bad details (so I recommend Euler A sampler for T2I). One or two Image-to-Image stages is crucial to polish the draft. It will give smooth background, more realistic textures and better detailing. Good results in I2I can be achieved in 2.0..2.5 MPx resolutions. You can also try 4 Mpx resolution.

For the CivitAI generator users I can recommend use the T2I with Euler A for drafts, then apply HiRes Fix with more contrast samplers (DMP++ *).

My apologies, I didn't manage to make it possible to get good results using the single stage render. All my attempts to train single T2I ckpt resulted in different critical flaws.

This version is trained with addition of DMD2 so it have reduced the number of steps required. I see some good drafts rendered with Euler A at 16 steps (or maybe 12) posted by other users, but I recommend 20.

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Recommendation for CivitAI Image Generator: start with Euler or Euler A (DPM++ samplers are too contrast for the first run); then use HiRes Fix mode and DPM++ 2M Karras sampler (if you get too contrast image, then try Euler A for HiRes Fix); see my samples made with CivitAI Gen.

This version is trained in high resolution and uses big number of steps. For speed, apply DMD2 4steps CFG 1.0 of DMD2 8steps CFG 1.5 LORA.

You can render from scratch at resolution of 1440px by longest side and then use ADetailer or HighRes Fix at resolutions of up to 4 MPx.

Use Euler A for Text-ti-Image render - this will produce smooth textures.

Use other contrast samplers with higher CFG to refine the textures.

Ultimate SD Upscale in ComfyUI with tile size of 1216 is a recommended way to produce the high quality images.

If you want to render images with only the Text-to-Image aproach then please give this version more steps. Also, you can post undercooked images if you need my assistance. I will try to help you with better render parameters.

FEEDBACK appreciated!

PS: eyes may be unstable for characters at the distance; I'm working on fixing it asap.

v0.3 params for CivitAI generator

https://civarchive.com/posts/27865267

I hope you will engoy using this. And I hope you will convert your pleasure into BUZZ donation ;) because I need more fuel to continue my work on training dataset improvements.

🥰 THANKS for attention, posts and comments! 🥰