{"id":2529,"date":"2024-01-27T19:32:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T18:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.idethloff.de\/wordpress\/?p=2529"},"modified":"2024-01-27T19:32:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T18:32:20","slug":"stable-diffusion-locally-on-macbook-air-via-app-draw-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.idethloff.de\/wordpress\/?p=2529","title":{"rendered":"Stable Diffusion locally on MacBook Air via App „Draw Things“"},"content":{"rendered":"

It would be nice to have a local installation of the open source text-to-image model Stable Diffusion… that was my idea this weekend. As I didn’t find any convincing installation manuals and even wasn’t sure if my Windows PC’s hardware would be sufficient, a very simple article about „Draw Things“ came to my attention: https:\/\/www.unidigital.news\/draw-things-ki-bilder-kostenlos-unterwegs-generieren\/<\/a> Unfortunately my iPad and my iPhone are too old, but with my MacBook Air (M1,2020) the installation was no problem:<\/strong>
\nDownloading the app „Draw Things“ from the Apple Store and afterwards downloading the proposed model „SDXL Refiner v1.0 (8-bit)“<\/strong>. My first text prompt with default options, 1024×1024 etc. and waiting time of some minutes, was a disaster, my second prompt was a disaster and so it went… double things and not nearly what I wanted. O.k., I’m a little bit spoiled because of mostly using ChatGPTPlus and Bing Image Creator, but what was that thing? Totally disappointed, I deleted all the results.<\/p>\n

Here is one disturbing example from today „young woman holding an umbrella“:
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Today, I thought maybe I should be modest and download\/install an older Stable Diffusion model in my „Draw Things“ app and therefore chose „Generic (Stable Diffusion v2.1)“ which would result in a lower resolution image 512×512.<\/strong> For my prompt I chose something about cats (because, normally „cats always work“) and finally, I got results resembling a cat:<\/p>\n

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The good results with the older model led me to the assumption, that the SDXL model was the problem and I googled… a YouTube video „Fix Double-Headed Glitches in Stable Diffusion with Kohya Hires Fix!“ helped me understand the problem (Link: https:\/\/youtu.be\/SbgMwHDXthU?feature=shared<\/a>). As I don’t have a local installation but the Apple Store App „Draw Things“, I can’t install any extensions, but I looked instead at the menu „Advanced“ in my „Draw Things“: There is indeed already a solution, that means a configuration option named „High resolution fix“ (description „[…] it avoids duplicate objects when generating directly“), which I simply had to enable in order to avoid double heads in my results.<\/p>\n

First result after enabling „High Resolution Fix“:<\/em><\/p>\n

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That’s the problem with news articles regarding the topic IT or AI: they become obsolete faster than you can think – I don’t mean any offense – and next time, I will go through the advanced options even when I don’t want to experiment deeper with a software.<\/p>\n

At last, I can start generating images with my local installation of Stable Diffusion via App „Draw Things“:<\/p>\n

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Thanks to the developer of „Draw Things: AI Generation“!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It would be nice to have a local installation of the open source text-to-image model Stable Diffusion… that was my idea this weekend. As I didn’t find any convincing installation manuals and even wasn’t sure if my Windows PC’s hardware would be sufficient, a very simple article about „Draw Things“ came to my attention: https:\/\/www.unidigital.news\/draw-things-ki-bilder-kostenlos-unterwegs-generieren\/ … <\/p>\n

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