"From Wikipedia: Artemisia absinthium, otherwise known as common wormwood, is a species of Artemisia native to North Africa and temperate regions of Eurasia and widely naturalized in Canada and the northern United States. It is grown as an ornamental plant and is used as an ingredient in the spirit absinthe and some other alcoholic beverages."

What is this model?

Wormwood is a merged Stable Diffusion 1.5 model from the following models:

• Photon - v1.0 (CivitAI)

• AbsoluteReality - v1.8.1 (CivitAI)

• xxMix9_Realistic - v4.0 (CivitAI)

• CyberRealistic - v6.0 (CivitAI)

• ReV Animated - v2 Rebirth (CivitAI)

• majicMIX Realistic - v7 (CivitAI)

• DreamShaper - v8 (CivitAI)

• CyberRealistic Classic - v3.2 (CivitAI)

• Uber Realistic Porn Merge - v2.0 (CivitAI)

• Perfect World - v6 (CivitAI)

• LazyMix+ - v4.0 (CivitAI)

• OpenSolera - a5 [Serif] (CivitAI)

This model is an attempt to make a photorealistic model usable with booru tags and also slightly solve the "same face" syndrome. Heavily experimental, with no major testing done other than making sure it works.

How to use this model?

Prompting

This model is mostly tested against booru tags, but probably works best with natural language with a few caveats:

• For tags: use 1male/1female or 1man/1woman. 1boy tends to go too young (like illegally young. THIS IS NOT AN INVITATION TO DO THAT, DO NOT)

• USE NEGATIVE EMBEDDINGS with this model. This model kinda needs it to be good

• It's not very versatile despite its trail mix of models, so use LoRAs to make this model decently usable

Sampler

Tested against DPM++ 2M Karras at 20 steps for the most part, but Euler a might be better. Other samplers are untested. Use at your own risk.

CLIP Skip works at both 1 and 2, recommended at 2 for better prompt adherence.

Resolution

The basics of Stable Diffusion 1.5: 512x512, 512x768, 768x512 all works. 640x640 works, but not well-tested.

For upscaling, RealESRGAN for 2x and 4x is my current recommendation.

Q&A

Why "Wormwood"?

I want to continue the theme of alcoholic-adjacent concepts. Solera is a type of drink, and wormwood is an actual herb used to make an alcohol spirit - absinthe.