The new image gen king is here and you
are not ready. Hello and humans when we
k overload and boy oh boy do I have some
mind-blowing stuff for you today because
yes you heard it right this is not a
drill we finally got a brand new text to
image model that is better than flux
called high dream better following
higher quality of the generation more
artist styles and also completely
uncensored that you can run on your
computer right now. This model is
incredible and today I'm going to show
you how to run it with the ultimate best
settings. So that being said, sit back,
relax, and let's go. And to install
Hydream, you have two ways. The first is
of course by using my link installer
that is available for my patre
supporters. Just download the installer
onto your computer. Then double click
it. It will then ask you what kind of
GPU you have. And depending on the
amount of VRAM that you have in your
GPU, you should either choose the number
one, number two, or number three. So if
you have less than 12 GB of VRAM, choose
number one. If you have a GPU between 12
and 16 GB, choose number two. And if you
have more than 16 GB of VRAM, choose
number three. Now, in my case, say I
have a 4090 and soon a 5090, which is
coming very, very soon. In my case, I
will choose number three. Press enter.
It will then ask you if you want to also
download the optional FPA diffusion
model. That works really well if you
have at least 24 GB of VRAM. So once
again, in my case, we'll say yes. So
press Y. and the download will begin
automatically. You don't need to do
anything. And once the installation is
finished, Confy UI will open
automatically, ready to be used. Simple
as that. And for this video, I created a
special Hydream workflow for Confy UI
that is available on Patreon. So, just
download it, then drag and drop it
inside Confui, click on this little icon
to fit into Vue, and there you go. You
have the easy Hydream workflow that you
can start to use right now. Oh, and also
if you already have an older
installation of configui and you just
want to install the missing models and
the missing nodes, you have here a
special model nodes installer that can
do that. So basically just take this
installer, then go inside your confi
folder and paste it right here. And then
you can run the installer from here. And
when it comes to manual installation,
I've already made multiple videos on
that. So you can watch that video first.
It's very, very simple. Right now I
really want to get into the meat of the
video which is the Hydream model. Okay,
so what exactly makes this Hydream model
so special and how does it compare
against Flux? Well, the reason why
Hydream is so special is because first
as opposed to Flux, this is not a
distilled model. This is a full-on 17
billion parameters model that is
available for everyone to use and train.
Flux, for example, was a 12 billion
parameter model that was a distilled
model, meaning that basically it came
from a bigger model optimized with a
special technique that made it very,
very hard to train. But this is not a
problem with Hydream because not only
this is a much bigger, much more
powerful model than Flux, but it is also
a full model that can be trained by
anyone. Kind of like the old stable
diffusion models back in the day. So the
second reason why hydream is such a
special model compared to flux is its
licensing because if you remember
correctly flux 1dev had a non-commercial
license which made it very difficult for
the people who train models to make any
money from them which is basically how
they used to get their money back to
recuperate from the training cost and
they couldn't do that with the flux one
dev however since the hydream models
have the MIT license they can pretty
much do whatever they want so they can
train them and profit from the model
that they trained. Once again, kind of
like the old days with stable diffusion.
And finally, the third and maybe fourth
reason is that Hydream was trained on a
lot of different har styles, way more
than Flux. There's actually an entire
website that kind of shows all the
different styles that Hydream can do.
Even very popular and very famous
artists, Hydream knows a lot of that.
All of that is inside the training and
you can use this website to kind of know
and navigate all the types of styles
that you want to see. But basically uh
it is um a lot there is really a lot and
also compared to flux this is way less
censored than any base model I have ever
seen. So all of these reasons is why
Hydream is probably why I consider it
the current king of image AI generation.
Now there is a lot of people who
actually kind of missed on Hydream when
comparing this to Flux. A lot of people
said that Flux is still much better. But
I think the reason why a lot of people
kind of missed on it is because the
settings that were provided with the
model or should I say models were
actually not optimal. And that is
because Hydream came with three
different models. We have the Hydream i1
full, the Hydream i1 dev and the Hydream
i1 fast. Now, there are some differences
between the models and not really in the
way that you think. Someone logical
would say that the i1 full is the best
model out of the three because it's not
a distilled model. However, in pretty
much everyone's experience, the best
model out of all of three is actually
the i1 dev. Okay, so enough talking.
Let's actually try to use this model,
then take a look at what this workflow
can do, and then compare it side by side
with the generation that you can do
inside flux. So here once again in my
workflow I have here the FB8 side and
the GGUF side. This time I put this
message so that people know and
understand what this means. Basically
only use this FP8 side if you have more
than 24 GB of VRAM and that you have
downloaded the FP8 model. And since I
have a 1490 I will be using this side
for this demonstration. But for you for
I think the majority of people you will
be using this GGUF side instead. Now,
don't worry. The quality of the
generation is pretty much going to be
the same. It's just that this is the
most optimized side for the majority of
people. And in here, I prepared a bunch
of different workflows for you to use. I
have here the text to image, image to
image, basic inpainting, a more detailed
upscaler, and a simple upscaler right
here. But don't worry, I will go through
each one of those workflows one after
the other. The hydream text to image. To
activate this workflow, you're going to
click on this little button. Once again,
if you used my previous workflows
before, like my ultimate all-in-one flux
workflow, you know how it works.
Basically, everything is on one side to
mimic the automatic 111 design. So, here
you have your model. Here you can input
any Laura that you want. There are
already a few Hydream Loras available.
Here, you're going to input your prompt.
Like, for example, a portrait of a
beautiful elf woman. Here, you don't
need to change anything. I've already
input all the best parameters which is
actually something I was saying earlier
where the settings that were given with
the model were actually not good enough
but these ones are really really good.
So you can just leave it like that. Then
you can input the resolution of your
image. Now this is where hydream is
really really really good. This is like
one of those models where higher
resolution truly create really really
amazing images. So I highly recommend
increasing the value of the image
resolution. So in my case, it'll
probably do something like 1,200 and
and500 right here. So here I added a
special demon detailer option as I
explained it right here. Basically, it
is an additional option that allows you
to add more details to the finished
image. I will show you later what it
does kind of basically for free, but I
first recommend you to turn this off
when you first generate your image and
then you can reenable the option with a
fixed seed to check the differences
between the two images. so that you can
choose which one you prefer the best.
Now, here I'm just going to disable this
for this example. And then I'm going to
click on run. And in the end, we get
something like this. A really incredibly
beautiful image, extremely detailed,
extremely precise. The eyes are
beautiful. The fairy dust around her is
beautiful. Like everything is just like
screams high detail and prom fidelity. I
mean, this looks fantastic. This looks
really, really good. And if you want to
see what the difference is with the
demon details enabled, I'm just going to
enable this. Make sure I'm using a fixed
seed. And now if I click on run again,
we get something like this, which
basically in this case basically like
increase the amount of dust in the
image. So if you compare them side by
side, this is the before. This is the
after. Like the eyes are actually even
more precise and even more beautiful.
But I feel like this effect is a little
too strong. So I'm actually just going
to make it a little bit less powerful.
So here I'm just going to decrease that
amount to something like this. Then
rerun it again. So in the end you get
something like this. Very very similar
to the original image, but maybe a
little bit more details. So like this is
the original and this is the one with a
little bit more details added to the
image. You might not even see the
difference on YouTube, but I can see it
at least right here. It's very subtle,
but it's still there. Now obviously this
is just an example for this image, but
this option on some images can have a
tremendous effect. So definitely try
this out yourself and choose which one
you prefer the best. But most of the
time you will probably not use this
option at all. But this is still just
really cool to have because even without
this option, the images still look
amazing. So now let's actually compare
it side by side with Flux using the same
exact generation, the same exact
parameters, same exact seed, and see the
differences between the two models. So
here I will be using my ultimate
all-in-one Flux workflow version 3. If
you don't know what that is, it's like a
super ultra huge workflow with a bunch
of different workflows embedded inside
that is available on my Patreon. I made
multiple videos on the subject, but here
I will just be using the normal image
generation. So I will input all the
exact parameters, same resolution, same
exact seed, same prompt. And now if I
click generate and in the end we get
something like this. A fairly decent
pretty good picture, still very very
cool. Flux is still a very very powerful
model. Although everyone will start
noticing the very infamous flux chin,
which is something that is also not
present inside Hydream, which is really,
really cool. But if you compare the two
images side by side, the difference
starts becoming pretty apparent. Even
though Flux is still really, really good
with a very nice finish, a very nice
style, quality-wise, Hydream is much,
much better, more precise, more
detailed, and overall follows the prompt
a little bit better, or at least
interpret the prompt a little bit better
than Flux. Even though Flux is also
really, really good. But once again, if
you compare them side by side with other
images, in pretty much every single
instance, Hydream is the best. Just way
more details. follow the prompt also a
little bit better. Like for example, you
might see here, oh look, uh, Flux is a
little bit better, is more precise, more
realistic. Except the prompt was an
illustration, not a photo. So yeah, once
again, Hydream follows the prompt even
better than Flux. And look at these
little details on the feather, on the
hair, on the background. I mean, this is
really, really good. Once again, here a
old Polaroid photo of a fisherman.
Hydream on the left, Flux on the right.
Once again, Flux very, very decent, very
nice style, but Hydream is much much
better and more precise, more detailed
compared to Flux. Here again, I mean,
the difference here is just insane. Like
a cartoon fish character sitting on a
wooden pier holding a fishing rod,
mountain landscape in the clear blue sky
in the background. I mean, the
difference is it's it's huge. All right,
very very big difference here. And these
are not cherrypicked, by the way. These
are really literally using the same
exact seed, same exact prompt. But
pretty much each time, Hydream gets way
better and more precise images than
Flux. Here, for example, you can even
see the difference between Hydream
without the demon detailer option. And
this is with the demon detailer
activated. You can see way more details
on the right compared to the left. So,
it's still a definitely really cool
addition to have. Now here for example,
this is actually the first time where I
actually prefer the feel of the image
made by Flux. Even though the image made
with Hydream is way better, way more
precise. I mean, look at the skin
texture. It's absolutely fantastic.
However, this image feels a little bit
scarier. So, I kind of prefer this image
made by Flux. But this is also where I
tell people because people kind of tend
to forget that you don't necessarily
need to use only one model for
everything. And you can actually combine
the two of them to create better
pictures. So like for example, let's say
that you generate this image inside Flux
and you want to make it even better.
This is why I created this the Hydream
image to image workflow. Very very
simple to use. Just activate it. Select
your image right here. Input your prompt
here. You're going to input the
resolution of the image. Activate this
option or not. For now, I'm just going
to leave it off and then click run. And
it will actually use this flux image and
then transform it. make it even better,
more detailed using the high dream
model. And in the end, you get something
like this. An absolutely amazing image
which basically retain the feel of the
flux image, but adds way more details
thanks to the Hydream model. So, this is
something that you can do as well. You
can take an image that you like because
of the feel made with another model and
then make it even better using Hydream.
I mean, look at the difference of the
skin in Flux compared to the one with
Hydream. I mean, this is night and day.
This is really really good. Obviously,
you can play a little bit with the the
noise strength. Make it higher or make
it lower so that it looks more like the
original picture. It's really up to you.
And you can of course once again enable
the add more details option so that your
image looks even better. So like this is
the before and this is the after. As you
can see, pretty huge difference. Now,
which one do you prefer is kind of up to
you. I actually prefer this version
which is even more detailed than the
previous one, but it all depends on what
you really want. And once again, when
you compare all these images side by
side, you will see that the differences
between the images generated with iDream
or more like optimized compared to the
one with Flux. I mean, this is this is
night and day. Like once again, this is
Flux and this is Hydream. Yeah, a pretty
big jump in quality. And once again, all
of these images are not cherrypicked.
They're just randomly generated with the
same exact prompt between Hydream and
Flux. So yeah, I mean in my opinion, and
I think you can see it pretty clearly as
well. For me, Hydream seems like a
better model compared to Flux. Even
though I love Flux, I've been using this
model for months, but for me, comparing
them side by side, I mean, this is not
even fair. Hydream is definitely better,
especially when you are using the
correct settings. Now, when it comes to
the other workflows, um it's very easy,
very simple, pretty straightforward.
There is a simple impainting workflow
right here. Just upload your image, open
mask editor, paint over the areas that
you want to change, click save, then
write my prompt, and then click run. And
then you get something like this. I
mean, pretty cool. Definitely very
decent in painting. So you can
definitely make some really cool stuff.
So the next we're going to go inside and
see the hydream upscaler, which is very,
very easy to use. It's basically a
simple easy to use upscaler. You're
going to write your prompt. You can
leave pretty much everything else by
default. And now if you click run and at
the end it will basically add more
details to the final image while
increasing the resolution. So like for
example this was the before and this is
the after. So basically a little bit
more details while still preserving the
aura of the original image. Kind of up
to you which one you prefer the best
depending on the image. But if you don't
want any of that, if you don't like the
fact that it sometimes changes the image
and you just want to upscale it
normally, then in that case, you can use
the simple upscale workflow. Just upload
your image right here. Choose the
upscale model. In my case, I will choose
this one. Then choose the upscale
factor. In my case, I will just leave it
by default and then click run. And then
very quickly, in around a few seconds,
it should basically upscale your image
into something of a much higher quality
and a much sharper image. So yeah, I
mean there you go, pretty simple to use,
but all the tools are here. Oh, and
obviously if you want to generate um you
know what and you can do so very easily.
It is actually one of the least
uncensored model I have ever seen at
least when it comes to base models. Now
obviously I cannot really show you
because this is YouTube, but try it out
and you will see what I mean. Oh, and
also don't worry. Even if you don't have
a powerful GPU or if you don't have a
GPU at all, you can still run Hydream
inside comi by renting a GPU on a
website like runpod for example and run
it as if this was running on your local
computer. And for this is very simple.
If you don't have a runpod account
already, you can click the link in the
description down below and create a new
account. Then you're going to click on
pods and click deploy. Now here you're
going to choose a GPU with at least 24
GB of VRAM like a 1490 for example,
which is pretty cheap. So you just
select this. Then you're going to click
on change template. Then you're going to
search for entrepreneur and then click
on the confi template. Here you're going
to click edit template and change the
container disc from 10 GB to 80 GB. Then
click set overrides and click deploy on
demand. Then you're going to click my
pods. Wait for everything to be
initialized. Then once this is done,
you're going to click connect and then
click on this link right here. And then
once you are inside the workspace,
you're going to go inside the confi
folder. And here, if you're one of my
patron supporters, the installation for
you will be very, very easy because I
made an easy oneclick installer for you.
So, all you have to do is just drag and
drop this installer inside the confi
folder. Then, you're going to click on
the terminal icon and then copy and
paste these two lines of code that you
will find in the Patreon post and then
press enter. It will then ask you if you
want to download the optional FPA
diffusion model, which in my case, I
will say yes, and then press enter. And
then it will begin the download and
installation of all the models that you
need to run Hydream. Then once this is
done to make installation a little bit
easier and more visual so that you know
what exactly is happening we're actually
going to go back to workspace inside
logs here we're going to click on new
tab click on terminal icon and here
you're going to type
-fmpy.log the command will once again be
in the patron post. So just copy and
paste it. Then if you press enter you
will see basically the same information
as if this was running on your local
computer inside of your terminal. So
that now you see exactly what is
happening at all time. And then you're
going to go back then click right here.
So here once you are inside confi you're
going to click on the manager button
click update all wait for everything to
be updated. You're going to go back to
check on this on the progress on the log
that you created right here. Basically
be patient and wait for everything to be
updated. Then you're going to restart.
Then press F5 to refresh. And then
finally you can drag and drop the
workflow inside config UI. Simple as
that. Oh, and also there is a lot of
people who ask me what to do if you want
to restart the pod because if you
basically stop the pod and you restart
it, it doesn't work anymore. So, I'm
going to show you what to do when it
happens. So, when you stop the pod and
then you restart it, then once again,
you're going to click on connect, click
on Jupiter Lab. From here, you're
actually going to use the same
installer. So, you're going to go inside
UI, click on terminal. The installer
should already be there. Then you're
going to copy and paste the same command
lines that you used previously to do the
installation. But this time it will only
install whatever it needs. Whatever is
already present will not be installed.
It will basically just reinstall the
requirements for all the missing nodes.
It will take like maybe 10 15 seconds.
It's very easy. Then once it's done,
you're going to click on the manager
button, click update all, follow the
update progress in the log, then click
restart, click refresh, and then if you
see this message saying that there are
still missing nodes anyway, don't worry.
Just close this message. Then reddrag
and drop the workflow in Senui and then
boom, magic. Everything works. Simple as
that. Oh, and also don't forget that I
provide priority support for my Patre
supporters. So if you have any question
whatsoever, do not hesitate to send me a
DM and I will try to answer your
question as soon as possible. And yeah,
I mean once again, Hydream is a really
incredibly super powerful model that can
generate images with insane details in a
variety of different styles right out of
the gate without any Loras and can
generate incredible images with text
like this fake cover for a Japanese
magazine which looks really really cool
as well as some very cool abstract
images with a very very cool and
detailed style or generate anything that
you really want. It really doesn't
matter. Hydream is really that powerful.
And yeah, there you go. This has been
Hydream, the current best open- source
text to image AI model available right
now. More powerful than stable
diffusion, more powerful than Flux, more
powerful than any model released to this
day. Simple as that. So, definitely try
my workflow and tell me what you think
of it because this model is really just
fantastic. So, yeah, there you go.
Definitely try this out yourself and
have some fun. And there you have it,
folks. Thank you guys so much for
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Bye-bye.