One of the better results of a long and annoying process intended to ameliorate the increasingly pronounced 'washing out' of images produced with low CFG values using this model family, as increasing additions to it have led to the minimum effective CFG scale being 30 or higher (which, as 30 is the maximum, began to produce images that were washed out no matter what scale you use.) This project is an attempt to recreate the general aesthetic of the previous merges while slowing the spread of the washout effect. Unfortunately, there's probably not much more that I can realistically do with this model merge series, so despite it being my favorite, I will probably need to switch to improving my other merges after this one.
All that said, this is still a Yifurr merge, so pretty much all the old tricks and tips will still apply here. This edition functions with lower CFG scales than previously, with somewhere around 18 being the happy medium this time around instead of 24, 28, or even 30. This should make it a little more accessible than previous, though it lacks the final layer of fine-tuning the higher-CFG scale versions have.
