I wanted tor make a checkpoint to work with my original SD1.5 model.

I like to make images that are semirealistic, with some ability to go photorealistic if needed. There are other models out there, so I thank you for taking a moment to look at my merge.

This merge uses a 50/50 mix between (RealCartoon-XL, thanks to 7whitefire7 for your hard work!) and (SereneXL, thanks to hatchetkilla80328 ). I then bleneded in the WowifierXL LoRA at 0.60 for a little extra Ooomp! (Thanks to mooncryptocow!) I baked in vae-ft-mse-840000-ema, so there should be no need to roll in a seperate VAE (unless you want to)

Usage:

The Sample Images shown have the following settings:

VAE: vae-ft-mse-840000-ema

Clip Skip: 2

Aspect: 768*1216 for portrait

The initial pass through ComfyUI is usually:

Steps: 20

Cfg: 6

Sampler: euler (normal)

The upscale is done at 1.5 times using 4x-Ultrasharp

Steps: 20

Cfg: 8

Sampler: euler (normal)

Denoise: 0.35