ControlNets allow you to select a image to guide the AI, to make it follow your control image more closely. You can pick a filter to pre-process the image, and one of the known (or custom) controlnet models.

While this sounds similar to image-to-image, ControlNets allow the AI to extract meaningful information from the image and make completely different images in the same style. For e.g. following the same body posture as your initial image, or the same color style or image composition.

1. In the Image Settings panel, set a Control Image. This can be any image that you want the AI to follow. For e.g. download this painting and set that as the control image.
2. Then set Filter to apply to Canny. This will automatically select Canny as the controlnet model as well.
3. Type Emma Watson in the prompt box (at the top), and use 1808629740 as the seed, and euler_a with 25 steps and SD 1.4 model (or any other Stable Diffusion model).
4. Make an image.

It'll take a while during the first image, since it'll download about 1.3 GB of models for the canny controlnet.

You can also set a photo of a person in a particular pose, and make the AI follow that pose. For e.g.

1. Download this photo of a man, and set that as the control image
2. Set Filter to apply to Open Pose (the first one). This will automatically select OpenPose as the controlnet model.
3. Type Knight in black armor in the prompt box (at the top), and use 1873330527 as the seed, and euler_a with 25 steps, and SD 1.4 model (or any other SD model).
4. Make an image.

You can also use images generated in the OpenPose format, e.g. from the civitai poses category. For e.g.

1. Download this openpose photo (stick figure), and set that as the control image.
2. Set Filter to apply to None.
3. Set Model to Open Pose
4. Type Knight in black armor in the prompt box (at the top), and use 1873330527 as the seed, and euler_a with 25 steps, and SD 1.4 model (or any other SD model).
5. Make an image.

• A collection of pose images: https://openposes.com/
• Make your custom pose images: https://app.posemy.art/ or https://openposeai.com/