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.

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