What is Stable Diffusion webui ?
Stable diffusion webui, a.k.a. AUTOMATIC1111, is a browser interface for Stable Diffusion. It has many features, such as text-to-image, image-to-image, inpainting, outpainting, upscale etc.
How to install Stable Diffusion webui on Windows ?
1. Go to python 3.10.6. You scroll down to the bottom Files area, select Window installer to download. When you run the installer, remember to check “Add python to the path.”
2. Go to download git for windows. Select “64-bit Git for Windows Setup.” Run the installer.
3. Create a new directory on your local drive, say a1111. In this directory, run cmd:
$git clone https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui.git
It will create a stable-diffusion-webui directory.
4. In this directory, use text editor to open webui-user.bat. Add parameters for COMMANDLINE_ARGS . For example,
COMMANDLINE_ARGS = --autolaunch --theme dark
5. Download models from Huggingface and civitai. For example, go to stable-diffusion-v1-5. Download v1-5-pruned-emaonly.ckpt file. Copy this file to your “stable-diffusion-webui\models\Stable-diffusion” directory.
6. Run “stable-diffusion-webui\webui-user.bat” file. A console window will show the status. After a few minutes, the Stable Diffusion webui runs in your browser. The default url is http://127.0.0.1:7860/.