Mastering Stable Diffusion 3: A Comprehensive Guide to Using SwarmUI for Stunning AI Art



Don’t skip a second of this tutorial if you want to master Stable Diffusion 3 (SD3) using the cutting-edge generative AI open-source app, SwarmUI. While Automatic1111 SD Web UI and Fooocus don’t yet support SD3, SwarmUI has you covered. Developed by StabilityAI, #StableSwarmUI will amaze you with its incredible features. It builds on #ComfyUI’s robust backend, combining the best of ComfyUI with the user-friendly features of Automatic1111’s #StableDiffusion Web UI.


I’m excited about SwarmUI and will be creating more tutorials to showcase its capabilities.

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Stable Diffusion 3 Tutorial Time Stamps

0:00 Introduction to the Stable Diffusion 3 (SD3) and SwarmUI and what is in the tutorial

4:12 Architecture and features of SD3

5:05 What each different model files of Stable Diffusion 3 means

6:26 How to download and install SwarmUI on Windows for SD3 and all other Stable Diffusion models

8:42 What kind of folder path you should use when installing SwarmUI

10:28 If you get installation error how to notice and fix it

11:49 Installation has been completed and now how to start using SwarmUI

12:29 Which settings I change before start using SwarmUI and how to change your theme like dark, white, gray

12:56 How to make SwarmUI save generated images as PNG

13:08 How to find description of each settings and configuration

13:28 How to download SD3 model and start using on Windows

13:38 How to use model downloader utility of SwarmUI

14:17 How to set models folder paths and link your existing models folders in SwarmUI

14:35 Explanation of Root folder path in SwarmUI

14:52 VAE of SD3 do we need to download?

15:25 Generate and model section of the SwarmUI to generate images and how to select your base model

16:02 Setting up parameters and what they do to generate images

17:06 Which sampling method is best for SD3

17:22 Information about SD3 text encoders and their comparison

18:14 First time generating an image with SD3

19:36 How to regenerate same image

20:17 How to see image generation speed and step speed and more information

20:29 Stable Diffusion 3 it per second speed on RTX 3090 TI

20:39 How to see VRAM usage on Windows 10

22:08 And testing and comparing different text encoders for SD3

22:36 How to use FP16 version of T5 XXL text encoder instead of default FP8 version

25:27 The image generation speed when using best config for SD3

26:37 Why VAE of the SD3 is many times better than previous Stable Diffusion models, 4 vs 8 vs 16 vs 32 channels VAE

27:40 How to and where to download best AI upscaler models

29:10 How to use refiner and upscaler models to improve and upscale generated images

29:21 How to restart and start SwarmUI

32:01 The folders where the generated images are saved

32:13 Image history feature of SwarmUI

33:10 Upscaled image comparison

34:01 How to download all upscaler models at once

34:34 Presets feature in depth

36:55 How to generate forever / infinite times

37:13 Non-tiled upscale caused issues

38:36 How to compare tiled vs non-tiled upscale and decide best

39:05 275 SwarmUI presets (cloned from Fooocus) I prepared and the scripts I coded to prepare them and how to import those presets

42:10 Model browser feature

43:25 How to generate TensorRT engine for huge speed up

43:47 How to update SwarmUI

44:27 Prompt syntax and advanced features

45:35 How to use Wildcards (random prompts) feature

46:47 How to see full details / metadata of generated images

47:13 Full guide for extremely powerful grid image generation (like X/Y/Z plot)

47:35 How to put all downloaded upscalers from zip file

51:37 How to see what is happening at the server logs

53:04 How to continue grid generation process after interruption

54:32 How to open grid generation after it has been completed and how to use it

56:13 Example of tiled upscaling seaming problem

1:00:30 Full guide for image history

1:02:22 How to directly delete images and star them

1:03:20 How to use SD 1.5 and SDXL models and LoRAs

1:06:24 Which sampler method is best

1:06:43 How to use image to image

1:08:43 How to use edit image / inpainting

1:10:38 How to use amazing segmentation feature to automatically inpaint any part of images

1:15:55 How to use segmentation on existing images for inpainting and get perfect results with different seeds

1:18:19 More detailed information regarding upscaling and tiling and SD3

1:20:08 Seams perfect explanation and example and how to fix it

1:21:09 How to use queue system

1:21:23 How to use multiple GPUs with adding more backends

1:24:38 Loading model in low VRAM mode

1:25:10 How to fix colors over saturation

1:27:00 Best image generation configuration for SD3

1:27:44 How to apply upscale to your older generated images quickly via preset

1:28:39 Other amazing features of SwarmUI

1:28:49 Clip tokenization and rare token OHWX

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