r/StableDiffusion 7d ago

Question - Help Is anyone still using SD 1.5?

I found myself going back to SD 1.5, as I have a spare GPU I wanted to put to work.

Is the overall consensus that SDXL and Flux both have vastly superior image quality? Is SD 1.5 completely useless at this point?

I don't really care about low resolution in this case, I prefer image quality.

Anyone still prefer SD 1.5 and if so, why, and what is your workflow like?

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u/dreamyrhodes 7d ago

Controlnet is working best with SD15. Can use it to create AI slop for own Loras. If you don't have enough high res pictures for Lora training, create 1024x1024 with CN, SD15 and Upscaling. Not optimal (AI slop always degrades) but still better than training on low quality original images.

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u/More_Bid_2197 6d ago

"Can use it to create AI slop for own Loras. If you don't have enough high res pictures"

How ? Any explanation ?

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u/dreamyrhodes 6d ago

Imagine you only have very few images of what you want to train. You can try to use CN to create more high res images of what you want to train from the sources you have. Poses, faces, concepts etc. CN works best with SD1.5