AI Art Generation Handbook/How to install Stable Diffusion
You can use Stable Diffusion via Web platforms like playgroundai and openart or by installing it locally on your computer. If you install it locally you have many advantages such as being able to use additional software. However, you need a good graphics card so that it doesn't take long (e.g. minutes) to generate an image. This page describes how you can install it.
Hardware Requirements[edit | edit source]
There are a few PC system pre-requisite that are needed to install Stable Diffusion on the PC
6GB VRAM (GPU memory) at minimum (Which you need to tweak some additional settings to make it work at lower VRAM)
* 8GB VRAM* (For SDXL 1.0 model base)
8GB RAM to handle the processing loads
16GB Hard Disk to store all the Stable Diffusion related files (excluding generated images)
Software Pre-Requisites[edit | edit source]
Python 3.10.9 (Confirmed working as of July 2023)
Web-UI (Recommended the most popular Automatic1111, but there are others too, see list of web-ui list below)
List of Local AI Art WebUI[edit | edit source]
For a list of local (installed in the local PC) web-UI
Software Installation Guide[edit | edit source]
Auto1111 (Recommended for ease of use , installation)
ComfyUI (Recommended if you prefer node-based programming ala Blender)
Invoke.AI (Recommended if you like powerful in-painting functions)