A Damn Fine Stable Diffusion Book

by Will Kurt

Anyone can create interesting and entertaining images using the powerful Stable Diffusion AI model—no data science required!

If you want to make damn fine images with Stable Diffusion, you need A Damn Fine Stable Diffusion Book. This practical, entertaining, and occasionally irreverent book teaches you how to get the images you want out of Stable Diffusion without a lot of jargon and technical ceremony.

In A Damn Fine Stable Diffusion Book you’ll learn how to:

- Write image generation prompts that actually work in
- Use custom models to dramatically improve your images
- Tweak Stable Diffusion to get your images just right
- Work from the command line and the Web UI
- Automate workflows with the Hugging Face Diffusers library
- Create your own custom Stable Diffusion tools

With A Damn Fine Stable Diffusion Book, you’ll be amazed at what you can create after just the first few lessons. This hands-on book skips the low-level theory and gets on with the business of creating and refining images. Along the way, you'll learn just enough about building your own tools, LoRAs, and fine-tuning models to personalize Stable Diffusion for your needs.
about the book

A Damn Fine Stable Diffusion Book helps you get amazing results out of Stable Diffusion fast. You’ll learn how to create everything from graphics for blogs and websites to hi-resolution desktop wallpapers. Start with the basics of text prompt engineering for image generation, then quickly move on to using the webUI to tweak your outputs to your specifications.

275 pages, Paperback

Published February 1, 2025