<h2 id="heading-2309">Dream with your Eyes Wide Open</h2><h2 id="heading-2310"></h2>Please enjoy PhotoSomnia, a general-purpose model merge blended and adjusted with an objective of emulating film photography, with some success.Q. Isn't this just another model blend?A. Short answer - No, this is the best photorealism model you'll find today.Long answer - Yes, imo the people who are training/fine tuning and are sharing their models/embeddings/etc. are the real heroes of the AI art community! But this is an excellent photorealism blend for a few reasons - it's been the most responsive to prompts than any others I have tried, and seems biased towards producing photorealistic outputs. Also despite the incorporation of many nsfw models, it doesn't seem as biased towards producing NSFW outputs as many other photorealism blends, I consider this a positive.Q. Isn't this just a rip-off of Analog Diffusion/Dreamlike Photoreal/any other model?A. Though both of those models and many others have been involved in the blending process, it seems to produce relatively unique outputs thanks to the weird and chaotic blending workflow I've been using. The influence of certain models on Gravy Mix seemed quite clear, but this blend shouldn't be considered a direct derivative of any model other than Stable Diffusion 1.5.Q. What models did you use?A. Anything I could find that appears to be trained on actual photos of actual people, plus some artistic ones and top-quality photorealism merges. It's a big list appended to the end of this blurb, and I hate to admit it but I may have missed some, and also may not have used some on the list, but they're in my models folder and are quite likely to have been used.Q. What ratios are they blended at?Calculating the ratio of any contributing model would be impossible. My general approach since Gravy Mix has been to grab the latest photo-trained/fine-tuned model I can find and use the either the weighted sum/add difference merge at a low ratio with the Work in Progress model, reduce all the weightings across the board once things start to get a bit overdone, and continue the process with various models to steer things towards my idea of photorealism as best possible until I'm satisfied with the results I'm getting.It's not as scientific as A+B ratio blends nor as controlled as block merging which I never found the time to experiment with. It's an open-ended exercise but I think the results are aesthetically pleasing enough at this stage for this model to be shared. I presume that AI-assisted blending tools running on more capable systems than my old mid-tier gaming laptop will soon make this sort of approach obsolete, especially with SDXL as a base. Q. The outputs are blurry/weird/fake looking/suck :(A. I'm ok with the softness and other quirks of the outputs. I've blended this model for myself and will share it with the community as it is, if they aren't useful for the style you are aiming for feel free to try using it for your own model blends to suit your own styles, or use this model for composition and img2img or controlnet with your preferred model to achieve the results you're after.Q. What settings/prompts should I use?A. Check the metadata of the demo pics for some examples. Q. What licensing applies to this model?A. It's my gift back to the community that has made so much possible for me. My understanding is that despite using other models to make PhotoSomnia, this is not a direct or provable derivative of any model other than Stable Diffusion 1.5, thus Open RAIL-M should apply. Whether or not the or not the publishers of the models listed below agree with the above licensing terms is between the user and them. If your are using this model I would greatly appreciate attribution considering how much time and effort I've put into this, but it's not a requirement.Q. Will there be updates?A. The final version is final; While this is one of the best photorealism models available I'm no good at hyping it so it's slipped under the radar for most users. Model Merge List (updated for latest version):iirc these are trained/finetuned models that have been used at some stage of developing this blend:Absolute Reality Analog DiffusionBigger Girls PhotorealismBrits out for the ladsCafe-InstagramDoctor DiffusionDreamlike Photoreal v2Emotion PuppeteerElysium_V1El ZipangEpic Realism f222HumansMetagod Selfie MixNeverEndingDreamNextPhotoNoise Offset for True Darkness in SDParailansfwProject Photo Beta 2.0 LITEQGO-10bRPG v4sldrRealism StableGramSubreddit V3td-UltraRealThis Babe Doesn't ExistThis Is RealVodkaWoopWoop Photo 2.0AlphaWavyFusionZ_phyr MixHassan's Blend (not actually used directly but so many of the other blends use it that it needs a mention)...and of course the often forgotten but always fundamental Stable Diffusion 1.5.afaik these are merged models only, all of which are wonderful for photorealism and/or other styles just as they are:Analog MadnessAres MixArt &amp; Eros (aEros)Deliberate v2HARDblendHunter69 v1I Can't Believe it's Not PhotographykkwIDEALMegaMerge v1.1OpenDream 2.0PerfectionPhotoMaxUltra v1Protogen x34Realistic Vision v1.4Reliberates1dlxbrewStablyDiffused's Magnum OpusSunshine MixTheAlly's Mix II: Churneduber-realistic-porn-merge

PhotoSomnia

V1.4 notes:A successor to <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civitai.com/models/1731/gravy-mix-photorealism">Gravy Mix. </a>V1.0-1.3 seemed like a big leap forward from G.M. but aren't worth uploading compared to V1.4I have only tested this with the Automatic1111 webUI locally. the .safetensors file has the VAE baked in. The .ckpt file is a conversion of the .safetensors and may have inherited the baked-in VAE as the outputs are virtually identical. The models are not pruned but it's fp16 and barely over 2GB so pruning seems unnecessary. Also the .ckpt seems to work just fine without the config file.I don't typically use embeddings/hypernetworks/Loras so you'll have to see for yourself how compatible this is with your favorite ones.

photosomnia_v14.yaml

photosomnia_v14.safetensors

photosomnia_v14.ckpt

V1.4

Omega

VFinal.inpainting

vFinal

v1.8

v1.6-pix2pix

v1.6-inpainting

v1.6

<h3>Gravy Mix is still Great! but it has been superseded by <a rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/18637/photosomnia">PhotoSomnia</a>.</h3>This blend started as a mess of mashing models together but has become a very delicately balanced and versatile model. The objective has been to improve photorealism and hand/face details.I've found it to be great for sfw and erotic female fake photos, idk how it is for porn or other subjects that's not my niche. It can also get quite artistic with creative prompting.While Gravy Mix 1 is still somewhere at the heart of things, It's undeniable that Dreamlike Photoreal in particular has made a huge difference and helped to make this quality of output possible more than any other contributing model. Their <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/3811/dreamlike-photoreal-20">modified licensing requirements as visible on their page need to be read, understood and complied with</a> and will affect commercial applications, but this model is very suitable for creative use by hobbyists and independent professionals. Otherwise permissions for use aren't mine to give as this is just a blend of other people's work, but I'd appreciate being given credit if these models are being used in blends.

Gravy Mix Photorealism

Incremental update again but this has been the one I'm using to make pics while working on the next version. This is the result of further delicate blending and testing done with an aim to improve hands and faces as well as other features, to good effect.As well as re-adjusting with models listed in previous versions (including <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civitai.com/models/3811/dreamlike-photoreal-20">Dreamlike PhotoReal with its modified license</a>), the following models were also used, or at least tried out. Due to the way I blend models it's not getting documented precisely:<a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civitai.com/models/4680/hunter69-v1">Hunter69 v1</a><a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civitai.com/models/6431/hardblend">HARDblend</a><a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civitai.com/models/6931/ares-mix">Ares Mix</a><a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civitai.com/models/5160/project-photo-beta-20-lite">Project Photo Beta 2.0 LITE</a>After including Project Photo beta 2.0 Lite, Gravy Mix 2.3 now has a config file as well, if you're using the Automatic1111 webUI you can download it and put it in your models folder, it does seem to make a positive difference.

gravyMixPhotorealism_v23.yaml

gravyMixPhotorealism_v23.safetensors

gravyMixPhotorealism_v23.ckpt

v2.3

V3Clean

V3final

v2.0

Requires: vae-ft-mse-840000-ema-pruned.ckpt (<a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/sd-vae-ft-mse-original/blob/main/vae-ft-mse-840000-ema-pruned.ckpt">https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/sd-vae-ft-mse-original/blob/main/vae-ft-mse-840000-ema-pruned.ckpt</a>)<h1>Hypernetwork Portraits</h1><a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/5832/hypernetwork-for-project-photo-beta-20-lite">https://civarchive.com/models/5832/hypernetwork-for-project-photo-beta-20-lite</a>jdolinschi/tagger(<a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://github.com/jdolinschi/tagger">https://github.com/jdolinschi/tagger</a>)Please note before use that this is not the final versionDonate : <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hotfantasyai">https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hotfantasyai</a>

Project Photo Beta 3.0 

change % to more realistic image(lightroom) red:34% blue:53% green:43% filmgrain_minimal, texture:+25%, clarity: +40%, Contrast:+4%, shadows: +11% , sharpen:70%

projectPhotoBeta30_projectPhotoBeta20.yaml

projectPhotoBeta30_projectPhotoBeta20.ckpt

Project Photo Beta 2.0 LITE

Project photo Beta 3.0

Project Photo Beta 1.0 LITE

Was trying to re-create an intermediate blend and instead I came up with something even better, it's worthy of a new, final version. It's an improvement on 2.4's composition but with better photorealism for human subjects than that or 2.3, at the expense of versatility. The more complex the prompt, the higher cfg up to 10 is recommended, with 4 as a minimum for the simplest of prompts. The larger the pic the better the details but composition starts to suffer above 768px height, lower resolution images work well as an input for img2img at higher resolutions, or the automatic1111 hires fix will do it for you. This was made by building on 2.4 and remixing with some previously used models, plus <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civitai.com/models/3848/theallys-mix-ii-churned">TheAlly's Mix II: Churned. </a> It has <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/sd-vae-ft-mse-original">vae-ft-mse-840000 </a>baked in. Don't forget the config file! I'm calling it a day after this one, it's been fun trying things out and finding some things that work and a lot that don't, but the returns on improved quality for the time spent are diminishing so I'll be focusing on other projects. Please enjoy this gift to the AI art community and use it to bring to life a little more beauty in this world.

gravyMixPhotorealism_v3final.ckpt

gravyMixPhotorealism_v3final.safetensors

gravyMixPhotorealism_v3final.yaml

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