AI Art Generation Handbook/How to install Stable Diffusion

You can use Stable Diffusion via Web platforms like playgroundai and openart or by installing it locally on your computer. If you install it locally you have many advantages such as being able to use additional software. However, you need a good graphics card so that it doesn't take long (e.g. minutes) to generate an image. This page describes how you can install it.

Hardware Requirements

There are a few PC system pre-requisite that are needed to install Stable Diffusion on the PC

6GB VRAM (GPU memory) at minimum (Which you need to tweak some additional settings to make it work at lower VRAM)

* 8GB VRAM* (For SDXL 1.0 model base)

8GB RAM to handle the processing loads

16GB Hard Disk to store all the Stable Diffusion related files (excluding generated images)

Software Pre-Requisites

Python 3.10.9 (Confirmed working as of July 2023)

Git Version Control

Web-UI (Recommended the most popular Automatic1111, but there are others too, see list of web-ui list below)

List of Local AI Art WebUI

For a list of local (installed in the local PC) web-UI

List of local AI Art WebUI

Software Installation Guide

Auto1111 (Recommended for ease of use , installation)

ComfyUI (Recommended if you prefer node-based programming ala Blender)

Invoke.AI (Recommended if you like powerful in-painting functions)

SD.Next (Recommended if you prefer more support to other models such as Deepfloyd , Kadinsky and others)