Useful links for daily work with Stable Diffusion

Created on October 6, 2023 by Dawid Wasowski Updated on Feb 11, 2025

User Interfaces

Applications

Stability Matrix - a Multi-Platform Package Manager for Stable Diffusion. You can use it to download and run your favorite UI locally without unnecessary configuration.
LynxHub - another Multi-Platform Package Manager for Stable Diffusion. It’s a newer tool than Stability Matrix. Released in August 2024.
AI-Dock - containerized UIs like Forge Automatic1111, ComfyUI, InvokeAI, and Fooocus. You can run them on your local machine or on a rented server.
chaiNNer - a node-based image processing GUI aimed at making chaining image processing tasks easy and customizable. You can find Upscalers on OpenModelDB.
TagGUI - cross-platform desktop app for adding and editing image tags and captions.

Models

CivitAI - the best place to find great Checkpoints, Lora’s, Embeddings and more. Almost every model has some images generated using it. So you can easily find out if it’s worth downloading. Also it’s a great place for inspiration.
HuggingFace - a platform for sharing and deploying AI models.
I recommend checking out the Spaces section and especially LoRA Studio.
OpenModelDB - a community driven database of AI Upscaling models.

Server rentals

Vast.ai - a great place to rent a server for your work. You can find there a lot of different configurations and prices. Servers are located around the world. This service has the best prices.
Runpod.io - a bit more expensive than Vast and has a worse server browser, but it’s still a good place to rent a server.

Styles and Studies

SDXL Artistic Studies - awesome studies on Artists, Art Mediums, Art Movements, Camera Models, Camera Films. I highly recommend last two, because they are very useful in realistic photography generation.
SDXL Artist Style Studies - probably the biggest collection of artist styles for SDXL.
SDXL Artists Browser - browser for SDXL artists.
Stable Diffusion 1.5 Artists Cheat Sheet - a cheat sheet for Stable Diffusion 1.5. Might not work with newer models like SDXL.
Lighting Types in SDXL - a Reddit post showing different lighting types in SDXL.
Nationalities in Stable Diffusion - a Reddit post showing different nationalities in Stable Diffusion 1.5. It works with SDXL too.

Tools

CLIP Interrogator - analyzes images and generates descriptive text prompts for SD1 & SDXL. This one is for SD2 and this one is for Pony Diffusion.
Diffusion Tokenizer - converts text prompts into numerical tokens used by diffusion models.

Tutorials

stable-diffusion-art.com - a great website with many useful tutorials. Each tutorial is focused on a specific topic. You can find basics as well as more advanced tutorials there.
Articles @ CivitAI - there are many guides created by the community. Some are great and some are useless. You need to find good ones by yourself.
ComfyUI Examples - some examples of how to use Nodes in ComfyUI.

Communities

Stable Diffusion @ Reddit - a place where you can find news related to Stable Diffusion and Flux models. You can find there many interesting works and discussions. That’s also a good place to ask for help if you have any problems with your work.

Discord Servers

All of the following Discord servers are great places to ask for help, share your work, and find inspiration. You need to find your favorite one by yourself.

YouTube Channels

All of the following YouTube channels offer useful tutorials and interesting content.