If completely new to AI Art, this foundational course develops a strong base for your future skill growth

Session 1 (1 hour)

• Introductions and Backgrounds

• Goal identification

• AI Art Options out there (free services, paid services, cloud vs. local)

• Setting up Discord

• Getting on to Midjourney & Piclumen

• Very Simple Prompting Techniques

• Overview of Fooocus, Automatic 1111 and ComfyUI

• Installing Fooocus or Automatic 1111 with Pinokio and Basic Usage

• Recap and Session Wrap-up 

Session 2  (1 hour)

• Review of any open Session 1 questions

• What are seeds, steps, CFG, schedulers and samplers and their use

• SDXL versus Flux

• Introduction of Outpainting and usage in Fooocus or Automatic 1111

• Introduction to Masks and Inpainting usage in Fooocus or Automatic 1111

• Models, what are they for, where do you find them?

• Stable diffusion 1.5 vs XL and Image Resolutions

• Installing a model and usage in Fooocus or Automatic 1111

• Recap and Session Wrap-up 

Session 3  (1 hour)

• Review of any open Session 2 questions and overflow topics

• Next level prompting using weights

• Using styles in prompts to envision a different flavor of your images

• Introduction of Image to Image (Img2Img) and it's usage in Automatic 1111

• Introduction to Controlnet and usage in Automatic 1111

• Introduction to LORAs and why they're used

If completely new to AI Art, this foundational course develops a strong base for your future skill growth

Session 1 (1 hour)

• Introductions and Backgrounds

• Goal identification

• AI Art Options out there (free services, paid services, cloud vs. local)

• Setting up Discord

• Getting on to Midjourney & Piclumen

• Very Simple Prompting Techniques

• Overview of ComfyUI

• Installing ComfyUI with Pinokio and Basic Usage

• Recap and Session Wrap-up 

• Previewing Images

Session 2  (1 hour)

• Review of any open Session 1 questions

• What are seeds, steps, CFG, schedulers and samplers and their use

• SDXL versus Flux

• Introduction of Outpainting and usage in ComfyUI

• Introduction to Masks and Inpainting usage in ComfyUI

• Models, what are they for, where do you find them?

• Stable diffusion 1.5 vs XL and Image Resolutions

• Image Bridge, Preview vs. Saving

• Installing a model and usage in ComfyUI

• Recap and Session Wrap-up 

Session 3  (1 hour)

• Review of any open Session 2 questions and overflow topics

• Next level prompting using weights

• Using styles in prompts to envision a different flavor of your images in ComfyUI

• Using Mile High Styler to style prompts

• Introduction of Image to Image (Img2Img) and it's usage in ComfyUI

• Introduction to Controlnet and usage in ComfyUI

• Introduction to LORAs and how to use them in ComfyUI

If you know basic imagery, this series focuses on advancing your creative options & workflow design

Session 1 - All About Images (1 hour)

• Custom Nodes Introduction

• Crystools Resource monitor

• Loading Images

• Image Composition and Blending

• Batches and Image Selection

• Make Image Batch (Impact)

• Image Effects (ImageEffectsAdjustment, Grayscale, Sepia)

• Blurring Effects (ImageFilterGaussianBlur / Sharpen)

• How to use Image Sender / Receiver

• Basic image automation from folders

• Comparing images with a comparison slider

• Removing Image Backgrounds

• Image get resolution

• Changing Backgrounds for Characters

• Color Matching Characters to scenes

• Image Blending

• Creating Vignettes 

• Recap and Session Wrap-up

Session 2 - Transformation Time  (1 hour)

• Review of any open Session 1 questions

• Bookmarks/Navigation

• Text Overlay and Bake

• Advanced masking (SAM, Clipseg, Coco, Dino)

• Copy/Paste (by mask, join by alpha, image overlay)

• Layering using Photopea

• Layer Effects (e.g. drop shadow, stroke, glow, etc.)

• Gaussian Blur

• Style transfer using IP Adapter

• Basic Upscaling

• Face/Skin/Clothes Detailer

• Quick Detailing Hacks (Self Attention Guidance and Perturbed Attention Guidance)

• Input Sliders

• Mask Grow, Blur and Stroke

• Recap and Session Wrap-up 

Session 3 - Latent Creativity  (1 hour)

• Review of any open Session 2 questions and overflow topics

• Sketch to render (Canvas)

• Playing with Layers in Canvas

• Special effects using Canvas

• Photoshop in Comfy with Photopea

• Gradients / Playing with 

• Creating Memes and Panels

• Denoise

• Quick Image Switching

• Boaty McBoatFace Upscale/Refiner

• Photopea Layer Saving/Retrieval

• FreeU

• Abstract to Photo (Latent Manipulation)

• Face Swap (Reactor)

• Recap and Session Wrap-up

Session 4 - Master Optimization (1 hour)

• Review of any open Session 3 questions and overflow topics

• Modular design techniques

• Workflow organization techniques (groups, line display)

• Node Templates

• Side Bar Tool

• Llama Big Remover (Instant Cleanup)

• Nesting Nodes (pros and cons)

• Group Nodes

• Modules

• LCM (Latent Consistent Model)

• Real-time render techniques

• Turbo models

• Lightning SDXL

• Use Everywhere (Basic) 

• Show Text node

• Recap and Session Wrap-up

Session 5 - Control and more (1 hour)

• Bypasser (individual and group)

• Impact Bridge

• Review of any open Session 4 questions and overflow topics

• IP Adapter

• Multiple Controlnet including posing

• Subject Detailer - Peturbed Attention Guide (PAG)

• LORA weights and clip strength

• Basic string concatenation

• Seamless Checker for pattern creation

• XY Grids

• Online video creation (Pika, Suno for music)

• Recap and Session Wrap-up

This combines all topics from the beginner and intermediate packages to accelerate your AI Art journey. 

You're very comfortable with content creation and ready to take your skills to the next level

Session 1 - Advanced Control (1 hour)

• Load Prompts from file

• List usage for looping

• Advanced use everywhere (regex)

• Re-routing to create workflow buses

• Node data type conversion

• Recap and Session Wrap-up

Session 2 - Advanced Creativity (1 hour)

• Review of any open Session 1 questions

• Layer Effects/Layer Style

• Zero Shot 3d

• Advanced Face Swap (IP Adapter Face, Model Seg Detailing)

• Noise generation and impact on latents (noise injection, generate noise)

• Regional Conditioning

• Advanced Upscaling Techniques (Segment Anything, Clipseg)

• Recap and Session Wrap-up 

Session 3 - The Bleeding Edge (1 hour)

• Review of any open Session 2 questions and overflow topics

• Implementing Local LLM - Image to Text

• Video (LTX)

• WD14 Tagging

• ComfyUI_toyxyz_test_nodes (webcam)

• Recap and Session Wrap-up

If you have particular topics you would like to learn more about or would like to collaborate on a particular challenge, this session is for you! Prior to the scheduled time, please inform your instructor what you're looking to achieve to ensure we can properly prepare, address and surpass your needs.