Hi, for those of you who are new here, I am Silvi, and among other things, I am a professional graphics designer. In this blog post, I am going to instruct you how to create beautiful ai-generated or assisted images – possibly without spending a penny on it.

The penniless version works only if you have a formidable enough computer, though – most importantly it needs to have an NVIDIA card. If you’re already filtered out by that and you’re not looking to upgrade your computer anytime soon, you still have the opportunity to use Stable Diffusion through https://creator.nightcafe.studio/ – it is where I made my first images as well, and it is a good enough platform to start learning. Nightcafe also can upscale your images should you generate something print-worthy! It comes with a free mode (you’ll get daily top-ups for points that you need to generate the images with), but you can also buy some kind of subscription if you like (starting for ca 10 euro per month). Nightcafe is also brilliant because you can use it on your phone!

So, if you have an NVIDIA card, the next step would be to get yourself graphics processing software – if you already have photoshop, might as well stick to that – if you don’t (or are a sorry lad trying to get by with Affinity programs, which do not have the plugin (not yet, anyway)) – there is a good open source alternative for you, and I am using it as well – Krita.

For Krita, go here: https://krita.org/en/download/krita-desktop/

To get the Stable Diffusion plugin, follow the instructions here (I promise you will not have to enter a single line of “code” anywhere – just install and copy some files and folders to their designated locations): https://github.com/internationalTD/defuser