How to Use Stable Diffusion, SDXL, ControlNet, LoRAs for Free Without a GPU on Kaggle Like Google Colab

Learn how to utilize Stable Diffusion, SDXL, ControlNet, and LoRAs for free without a GPU using Kaggle's cloud service. Set up a Kaggle account, create a notebook, and configure the necessary settings. Install Automatic1111 Web UI, download models, and set up extensions. Generate images using various models, including SDXL and custom LoRAs. Explore advanced features like ControlNet and After Detailer. Troubleshoot common issues and optimize performance. By the end of this comprehensive tutorial, master the process of creating AI-generated images using powerful tools without the need for expensive hardware.

Introduction to how to use Stable Diffusion for free without a computer or a GPU
How to register a Free Kaggle Account and activate it
How to create a new Notebook on Kaggle
The two very important steps that you need to make before start using Kaggle Notebook
How to set accelerator select GPUs and enable Internet
What is persistence and should you use it
How to write code on a Kaggle notebook and use the code shared in the GitHub readme file
How to manually setup your Stable Diffusion Automatic1111 Web UI notebook if you are not my Patreon supporter
How to download and import the Automatic1111 SD Web UI notebook used in this tutorial
Suggested resources before following this tutorial
How to start your Free Kaggle Dual GPU session
How to see how many resources you are using in your current session in a Kaggle notebook
How to install Automatic1111 on a Kaggle notebook
Explanation of the right section of the Kaggle notebook, working directory
How to clear the outputs of a Kaggle notebook session
How to download Stable Diffusion SD 1.5, LoRAs and SDXL models into the correct Kaggle directory
How to download models manually if you are not my Patreon supporter
An example of how to download a LoRA model from CivitAI
An example of how to download a full model checkpoint from CivitAI
How to start downloading all the model files
How to install ControlNet extension and download ControlNet models
How to use custom LoRAs from CivitAI or Hugging Face
How to start Automatic1111 Web UI instance with correct parameters and settings
How to understand installation of Automatic1111 Web UI has been completed and ready to use
First time model loading may be very slow
How to enable quick VAE selection drop down list
How to set correct folder scan path for ControlNet
How to reload UI for extensions and setting changes to be effective
Automatic1111 Web UI is ready to use on a Free Kaggle notebook
How to use embedded VAE of the models
Which image generation sampler is the best one
Why and how much first image generation is slower
How to install extensions e.g. After Detailer of Automatic1111 on a Free Kaggle notebook
You need to reload Web UI to see new extensions
How to use your downloaded LoRA models in Automatic1111 Web UI
First image generation with SDXL model
First time image generation speed vs consequent images generation on SDXL
First image generation with the custom LoRA model from CivitAI
Image generation speed of SDXL when using LoRA
How to use your own trained LoRAs, models or LoRAs, models from your computer
How to import your files, datasets in to your current session on Kaggle
How to use files imported as data set such as LoRAs or models that you have uploaded as dataset
How to restart Automatic1111 Web UI on a Kaggle notebook
How to prompt your own trained LoRA
How to enable After Detailer adetailer extension to improve faces of Stable Diffusion generated images
Where are the SD generated images are saved on a Kaggle notebook
SDXL with LoRA image generation speed
How to use Stable Diffusion XL SDXL ControlNet models in Automatic1111 Web UI on a free Kaggle
Where to download SDXL ControlNet models if you are not my Patreon supporter
Notebook crashes due to insufficient RAM when first time using SDXL ControlNet and how I fix it
First image generation results of SDXL ControlNet
SDXL ControlNet development discussion topic
Possible bug with ControlNet
How to use Stable Diffusion 1.5 version based ControlNet instead of SDXL ControlNet
What happens if you exceed your assigned disk space on a free Kaggle notebook
First time using SD 1.5 ControlNet model on a SD 1.5 based Realistic Vision 5.1 model
How to fix runtime error when changing SDXL to SD 1.5 based model
How to use PNG info to get the prompt
How to download all generated images