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Spooky Season is upon us!  I put this together to build some spooky/scary/scarousing images for Halloween!  Using some of these tokens will help you get the most out of this merge:

Spooky, dark atmosphere, horror, gothic, monster, Halloween

If you haven't used my merges before, my focus has been creating models that I really like the style of "out of the box", without needing to tweak the visuals with tons of LoRA or TIs.  This model puts out some really nice looking 2d/2.5D images.  Please check out the resources linked in the Suggested section as well!

All sample images were generated with no LoRA or TI.  I use Adetailer and Hires.fix on all of my gallery images.  Faces still generally look OK without Adetailer, but I recommend using it if possible.  I use face_yolov8s.pt for most of my uploads. 

If you are new to Pony, here are some tips:

Scoring - Use score_9, score_8_up, score_7_up, score_6_up, score_5_up in your positive prompt instead of SD1.5/SDXL quality tags.  I have personally found that my images have much lower chance of frying if I keep the tokens below 200 (I usually shoot for under 150 when possible).

My base negative prompt looks like this: 

score_1, score_2, score_3, score_4, score_5, score_6, watermark, text, signature, logo, monochrome, muscular, censored, ugly

Or use Zovya's Tis that do this for you with fewer keystrokes:

https://civarchive.com/models/332646/pony-pdxl-negative-embeddings

You can also use some of the baked in sources and content ratings  to control  the kind of output you get: 

Sources - 'source_pony', 'source_furry', 'source_cartoon' and 'source_anime'

Ratings - 'rating_safe', 'rating_questionable' and 'rating_explicit'

My Usual Settings / Other Tested Options

Sampler -DPM++ 2M SDE Karras / Restart / Euler A

Steps - 30--50 (30 for fast gens to test ideas, 50 for things I may save/post)

Resolution -896x1152, 832x1216 (or flip for landscape)

Hires.fix:

Upscaler - Ultramix_balanced, 4x_Ultrasharp

Steps - 15 or 20

Denoise -.3-.4

Upscale by - 1.5 - 2.0