thisismyalias

if you need to skip my very important philosophy/bloviation, skip to the TL;DR THE PROCESS So, almost daily I get questions in my inbox or comments on the images I post: What's your prompt? Catbox the file so I can read the metadata! What LoRA is this? and so on. I hate to break it to you, but even if I gave you the exact prompt, checkpoint, LoRAs involved, and the seed, you're simply not going to get the same result. It'll be in the same ballpark, but it just won't have the same level of detail these images have. Don't worry, I'm not on a high horse here. I've written this post to explain my process in detail so you too can get the same kind of results! But before we begin, please read the following statement like 20 times: THE PROMPT IS NOT IMPORTANT. THE PROMPT WILL NOT GIVE YOU EVERYTHING YOU NEED. Obviously that's a pretty hyperbolic statement. And it's not entirely true, but I'm trying to make a point here. Everywhere I go for discourse on image generation, I see this