Ether Blu Mix

🔹☁️ Hello, this is Ether Blu Mix ☁️🔹

Ether Blu Mix 3 is a semi-realistic anime styled model. It specializes in stylized character illustrations with vibrant colors and a painterly feel. I consider this my interpretation of a "pastel-mix" style of model.

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Meet "Ether Real Mix" - EBM's big sister.

Since Ether Blu Mix is based on AOM3 it has strong biases in generating females and suggestive/NSFW content. If you're looking for a model with more flexibility please try Ether Real Mix linked above.

* Version 3.1 Update:

Ether Blu Mix 3 is the stylish evolution of the Blu mix. It leans further into its stylish roots while retaining some of the quirks of the older versions (the spicy parts 🌶️).

Weights were further adjusted to enhance the painterly, vibrant look and AyoniMix was updated to V6 as it better compliments the model.

If you prefer the more realistic look of the previous versions, please add "realistic" to the start of your prompts or try Ether Real Mix linked above.

Placing "NSFW" into the negative prompt is recommended if you're concerned about suggestive generations or rare instances of unprompted nudity. Due to AOM3 this mix is generally biased towards suggestive and NSFW imagery.

☄️ Generation Recommendations

Use whatever sampler, steps, cfg you prefer.

Sample images were generated with

• Sampler: DPM++ 2M Karras

• Steps: 20 - 28

• CFG: 7 - 11

• Clip Skip: 1

Increasing CFG can lead to more vibrant results.

Placing "NSFW" into the negative prompt is recommended if you're concerned about suggestive generations or rare instances of unprompted nudity. Due to AOM3 this mix is generally biased towards suggestive and NSFW imagery.

Negative Prompt Example:

"NSFW, (worst quality, low quality:1.3), watermark, signature"

Recommended VAE:

Waifu Diffusion VAE kl-f8-anime2

Strongly recommended as the model was tuned with this VAE's saturation in mind.

Sample images were further upscaled using AUTO1111 Hi-res fix. Please utilize it if you wish to achieve similar results.

• Latent (nearest-exact)

• Upscale by: 2

• Denoising strength: 0.55

Are your results changing too much after Hi-res fix? Please try 4x-foolhardy-Remarci.

• 4x-foolhardy-Remarci

• Upscale by: 2

• Denoising strength: 0.45 - 0.55

🖊️ Prompting Advice

As Ether Blu 3 leans heavier into the anime aesthetic I recommend using the suggested positive and negative prompts of AOM3.

• masterpiece, best quality,

• NSFW, (worst quality, low quality:1.3)

The model was mixed and tested using these prefixes and as such will give you the most consistent style results. Of course you're free to prompt however you'd like as danbooru-style models tend to be quite flexible in prompting.

I personally like to use short prompts mixing prose and danbooru-style tags. Experiment and give the AI some freedom to interpret your ideas!

If you look at the prompts included with the sample images they demonstrate that even with a very loose and vague style of prompting you can achieve fun, high quality images.

General guidelines:

• Prompt in the style of anime/danbooru-style models, "masterpiece, best quality, ..... "

  • More anime style images

• Prompt in the style of photography/non-anime models, "professional photograph of ..... "

  • More realistic images, higher style variety

📘 Model Merging Info - V3.1

I have no training or real knowledge of machine learning. I merged the model using the information provided on WarriorMama777's AOM model page. I very arbitrarily used the UBM weights given to merge and create AOM3 and its derivatives and modified the values with trial and error until I was visually happy with it.

I utilized the SuperMerger extension for AUTO1111 by hako-mikan.

▼ Merging

• MODEL A: AOM3.safetensors

• MODEL B: Counterfeit-V2.5_fp16.safetensors

Weight Sum merge - Use MBW

• Alpha: 1

• 0,0.8,0.8,0.8,0.8,0.8,0,0,0,0,0.8,0.8,0.8,0.8,0.8,0.8,0.8,0.8,0.8,0.8,0.8,0.8,0.8,0.8,0,0

  • Model: AOM3-CounterfeitSumS2-08

▼

• MODEL A: AOM3-CounterfeitSumS2-08

• MODEL B: dalcefoPainting_2nd.safetensors

• MODEL C: pastelmix-better-vae-fp16.safetensors

Weight Sum merge - Use MBW

• Alpha: 1

  0,0.9,0.9,0.9,0.9,0.9,0,0,0,0,0.9,0.9,0.9,0.9,0.9,0.9,0.9,0.9,0.9,0.9,0.9,0.9,0.9,0.9,0,0

• Beta: 1

  0,0.9,0.9,0.9,0.9,0.9,0,0,0,0,0.9,0.9,0.9,0.9,0.9,0.9,0.9,0.9,0.9,0.9,0.9,0.9,0.9,0.9,0,0

  • Model: AOM3-CounterfeitSumS2-08-Dalecfo2SumS2-09-PastelSumS2-09

▼

• MODEL A: AOM3-CounterfeitSumS2-08-Dalecfo2SumS2-09-PastelSumS2-09

• MODEL B: ayonimix_V6.safetensors

Weight Sum merge - Use MBW

• Alpha: 1

• 0,0.4,0.4,0.4,0.4,0.4,0,0,0,0,0.4,0.1,0.4,0.4,0.4,0.4,0.4,0.3,0.1,0.1,0.4,0.4,0.2,0.4,0.4,0.4

  • Final Model: Ether Blu Mix 3.1

Models Used:

• AOM3.safetensors

  D124FC18F0232D7F0A2A70358CDB1288AF9E1EE8596200F50F0936BE59514F6D

• Counterfeit-V2.5_fp16.safetensors

  A074B8864E31B8681E40DB3DFDE0005DF7B5309FD2A2F592A2CAEE59E4591CAE

• pastelmix-better-vae-fp16.safetensors

  D01A68AE76F97506363F387F5F28BB564AD9E20924844FD5945E600B72D39E79

• dalcefoPainting_2nd.safetensors

  14647de2f8662a6c460d6b9bd47def2b0342adc8f8f3d7b89d5b397eb09014d5

• ayonimix_V6.safetensors

  F3A242FCAAF1D540A1C2D55602E83766CC2EFBDF64C2B70E62518CBF516BFCD3

💙 Credits

Thank you to WarriorMama777 for providing AOM and other various mixes as well as detailing your workflow and inspiring me to try mixing my own models.

Thank you to hako-mikan for creating the SuperMerger extension allowing a quicker workflow for merging.

Thank you to gsdf, rqdwdw for creating Counterfeit.

Thank you to Dalcefo for DalcefoPainting2nd.

Thank you to andite for Pastel-Mix.

Thank you to Ayoni for AyoniMix.

Thank you to AUTO1111 for creating the web UI everyone uses.

Thank you to StabilityAI for starting everything with Stable Diffusion.

Thank you to the entire SD community for continuing to openly share and create.