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v5 Cinéma Chiaroscuro

Better handling of dark cinematic scenes, high realism, complex backgrounds. standard and High resolutions.

V5 - Cinéma Chiaroscuro

(High realism, capable of high contrast chiaroscuro effect & highly cinematic scenes, greater prompt adherence ).

A strong return to photorealism. (use lower CFG: 2.8 -4.5-ish to achieve this). (a photorealistic look can still be achieved in the higher ranges by adding the following examples to your negative prompt: (unreal, airbrushed, artificial)

Samplers / schedulers: DPM++ 2M_SDE, DPM++ 3M_SDE, Euler_A / SGM uniform, Karras

I generally prefer SGM uniform, DPM++ 2M_SDE @ 32-38 steps.

I've been experimenting with higher resolutions to good effect: Below are just some ideas, don't feel constrained to these ratios

Multiple columns for different ratios. (The highest resolutions can be tricky depending on composition). Adding (malformed, distorted, warped, stretched) can be helpful.

1792 x 1792 | 2142 x 1792 | 1728 x 1344 | 2128 x 1456 | 2352 x 1344

1536 x 1536 | 1840 x 1536 | 1584 x 1232 | 1824 x 1248 | 2016 x 1152

1280 x 1280 | 1528 x 1280 | 1440 x 1120 | 1552 x 1040 | 1680 x 960

1024 x 1024 | 1224 x 1024 | 1152 x 896 | 1216 x 832 | 1344 x 768

(I've been using: 1120 x 1440, 1232 x 1584, 1344 x 1728 most often).

Added the following models:

Lustufy GGWP (V7)

BATCH XL ( PHOTO REAL)

Cinema Diffuso XL

Real Humans (LORA)

dark (dramatic chiaroscuro lighting) (LORA)

(See full list of models used / Creator credits below)

Adjusted / rebalanced ratios of preexisting models. Updated / retrained custom style LORAs

Model by https://civitai.com/user/prodajie