Coming from another tool

Where your settings went if you have used Automatic1111, ComfyUI or a similar tool, and what changes when someone else's machine does the work.

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  1. 1 · Where each setting is here

    If you have generated images in another program, you already know most of these controls. and are the two boxes you expect, and is steps. is what some tools label guidance: how firmly the model is held to your words. lists the same samplers, under their k_euler style names. is the number the starting noise comes from, and , on a request that starts from your own picture, is how much of that picture is allowed to change.Two controls are in a different place here, though they do the same job. is a switch with its own strength slider, in the Size card, where in most tools it is one control. sits in the Sampling card and is set per request, where most tools set it once in a settings page.The example pictures here show them working, so you can see they do what you expect before you rely on them. Every field's reference page names the API field behind it, so if you know a setting by its API name you can find it that way too.
    Size · Interactive explorer Hires fix
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    Hires fix Off
    The same picture rendered at On
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    The same picture both ways 768 × 1536

    Generated in one pass at the full requested size. Past the model's comfortable size, this can duplicate details, stretch anatomy, or split one subject into several.Generated smaller first, then enlarged and redrawn. The first pass decides the composition, so the final image is more likely to stay coherent.

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    Sampling · Interactive explorer CLIP skip
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    Skips the last layer. On an anime-lineage model this is the intended setting; elsewhere it just loosens the prompt.

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  2. 2 · The work happens somewhere else

    The big difference is where the work happens: nothing runs on your computer. The request goes to the , a volunteer's machine picks it up, draws the picture and sends it back. So there is no progress bar; you watch your place in the queue and how fast the that took the job is.
  3. 3 · Kudos set your place, nothing more

    record who has given and who has taken. They set your place in the queue and nothing else: generating is free, with no kudos, a negative balance, or no account at all.
  4. 4 · The model list moves

    The list is whatever the workers online right now carry. There is nothing to download, and a common model comes back sooner because more workers can take it.
  5. 5 · Each model's tuned settings are shown

    Model authors publish the sampler, setting and their model was tuned for, and the panel shows those beside the controls.
  6. 6 · The same seed can differ

    One habit to change: a fixed does not guarantee the same picture here. Workers run different hardware and library versions, so the same seed on another worker gives a slightly different picture.
    Sampling · Interactive explorer Seed
    The same picture rendered at Seed ASeed Seed A 1024 × 1024
    Seed ASeed F

    One draw of this prompt. Every other strip in this library holds this seed.

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  7. 7 · What is not here

    Some controls from your old program have no equivalent here, and they are not planned.Custom schedulers, extension scripts and add-ons belong to that program. A request sent to the horde has to be something any matching worker can run, so the panel offers only the settings every worker understands.There is also no model folder to manage, no download button and no disk space to watch, because you never hold the model. There is no local progress bar either, because the picture is drawn somewhere else.If you go looking for one of these and cannot find it, you have not missed it.
  8. 8 · Make one request

    That is the summary. The controls are the same and mostly keep their names. Someone else's machine does the work, so you watch a queue position in place of a progress bar, and the model list is whatever the volunteers are running.The quickest way to place the rest is to send one request. The tutorial takes a real one through the panel field by field and ends with you pressing Generate.Move past any step whose field you already know.