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PixelWave SDXL 11

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PixelWave SDXL 11
Created by
humblemikey
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PixelWave 11 SDXL by HumbleMikey is a general purpose fine tuned model. Great for art and photo styles. I use 20 steps, DPM2M /karras sampler, guidance 4 to 6 or 40 steps
Creator notes
PixelWave FLUX.1-schnell 04 - Apache 2.0! Safetensor Files: GGUF Files: Links to Model also available at: and PixelWave FLUX.1 schnell version 04 is an aesthetic fine tune of FLUX.1-schnell. The training images were hand picked to ensure the model has a bias to eye catching images, with beautiful colors, textures and lighting. - Trained on the original schnell model, so Apache 2.0 license! - No special requirements to run. Supports FLUX LoRAs - Euler Normal, 8 steps. You can use more steps to improve finer details, but the output doesn't change much after 8 steps. Shout out to RunDiffusion Huge thank you to (co-creators of Juggernaut) for sponsoring the compute that made training this model possible! Figuring out how to train schnell without de-distilling the model required a lot of experimenting, and being able to utilize RunDiffusion's cloud compute made it a lot easier. For those needing API access for this model, we're partnering with I have made the FLUX.1-dev 04 version exclusive to RunDiffusion and Runware for the time being. When I release version 05 in future, I plan to release the dev 04 open weights. Grateful for their support in getting this model out there, please ! Training Training was done with kohya_ss/sd-scripts. You can find my fork of , which also contains changes to the sd-scripts submodule, make sure you clone both. Use the fine tuning tab. I found the best results with the pagedlion8bit optimizer which also could run on my 4090 GPU 24GB. I found other optimizers struggle to learn anything. I have frozen the time_in, vector_in and mod/modulation parameters. This stops the 'de-distillation'. I avoid training single blocks over 15. You can set which blocks to train in the FLUX section. LR 5e-6 trains fast, but you have to stop after a few thousand steps as it starts to corrupt blocks and slow down learning. You can then block merge with an earlier checkpoint, replacing the corrupt blocks, and then continue training further. Signs of corrupt blocks: paper texture over most images, loss of background details. Contact For business or commercial inquiries please reach out to us at . Licensing flux fine tunes. Customer training projects. Commercial AI development. The team can do it all! PixelWave Flux.1-dev 03 fine tuned! Safetensor Files: GGUF Files: Links to The 'diffusers' files are actually the Q8_0 and Q4_K_M GGUF versions. I fine tuned version 03 from base FLUX.1-dev for over 5 weeks on my 4090. It is able to do different art styles, photography, and anime. I used dpmpp 2m sgm uniform 30 steps for the showcase images. If you want a neater/cleaner output, try increasing the guidance. Also mentioning a style can help, so the model doesn't have to guess. I also recommend try adding the upscale latent by node, and scale the latent by 1.5, e.g. generating an image that is 1536x1536 instead of 1024x1024. PixelWave Flux.1-schnell 03 Safetensor Files: GGUF Files: I used dpmpp 2m sgm uniform 8 steps for the showcase images. You can start with 4 steps, but there are less errors with anatomy if you run with more steps. PixelWave Flux.1-dev 02 Safetensor Files: GGUF Files: Version 02 has greatly improved black and dark images, and more reliable outputs with fewer issues with hands. I recommend using dpmpp_2s_ancestral, beta, 14 steps. Or euler, simple, 20 steps. PixelWave 11 SDXL. A general purpose fine tuned model. Great for art and photo styles. I use 20 steps, DPM++ SDE, CFG 4 to 6 or 40 steps, 2M SDE Karras Accelerated Version - 5+ Steps, DPM++ SDE Karras, 2.5 CFG ⚡Recommend 1.5 Scale, with CFG 3. ⭐You don't need to use 'quality' terms such as 4K, 8K, masterpiece, high def, high quality, etc. Unless you want it, I recommend not using words such as 'vibrant, intense, bright, high contrast, neon, dramatic' for photographic styles if you a wanting a more natural look. This can cause images to look 'overcooked', but it's just the CLIP following your prompt. 🙂 If you do want vibrant, neon photos PixelWave will provide! The focus for version 10 was to train the CLIP models, which improves the reliability, ensures you can produce a wide variety of styles, and better at following prompts. Thanks to my friends who helped test: , , , , . No need for the refiner model. This model is not a mix of other models. I also created which contains a lot of useful nodes. You can install it through comfy manager.
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Heat score, last 12 months
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PixelWave SDXL 11: Heat score, last 12 months7,000°7,444°7,887°8,331°8,774°Oct 2025Dec 2025Mar 2026May 2026Aug 2026Oct 20268,087°ModelTrends.ai
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Floor
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+1,088°
Civitai downloads
3,835 downloads of this exact version on Civitai. Downloads are the heaviest ingredient and are counted on a log scale: ten times the downloads adds the same 300°, so a model with a million downloads is not a thousand times hotter than one with a thousand. The six download sources share that one term, split between them in proportion to their counts.
+325°
Likes
146 likes and thumbs up across the sources. A like weighs half a download, on the same log scale.
+21°
Adoption rate
About 1 downloads a day, measured between two readings of the sources, never guessed from a lifetime average. Speed weighs a quarter of the download term, so a fresh surge shows without letting a one-day spike outrank years of use.
+150°
Full model
+150° because this is a full model: a checkpoint, the weights themselves. A LoRA or an embedding is an add-on to someone else's weights and does not outrank a checkpoint of equal popularity.
−497°
Age
−497° because the SDXL weights came out in 2023. Every model inherits the age of the weights it is built on: 150° a year, up to 750°, and it keeps growing until then. Without it the top of the list would be 2022 and 2023 checkpoints on the strength of downloads that had years to pile up.
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    Why 7,000° and not zero: the scale runs from 0° to 9,999°, and the part below 7,000° is reserved for models no source reports on yet, which carry a stand-in number there so the lists stay complete and never outrank a model with data. 7,000° is where measured data begins. A model with real data but almost no downloads sits here; everything that follows is measurement, and the room above the floor holds ten tenfold steps in downloads at 300° each. The floor is the same for every model, so it decides nothing; the degrees above it do.
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    Add the downloads.
    3,835 download-equivalents in all, from Civitai downloads. Ten times the downloads adds the same 300°, so size matters but never runs away with the score.
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    Add the likes.
    146 likes and thumbs up, at half the weight of a download.
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    Add the adoption rate.
    About 1 downloads a day right now, measured between two readings, at a quarter of the weight.
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    8,434°
    running total
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    Bonus for a full model.
    A checkpoint carries the weights themselves; add-ons do not outrank one of equal popularity.
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    8,584°
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    Take off the age.
    The SDXL weights came out in 2023: 150° a year, up to 750°, growing until then.
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    The heat score.
    Where this model stands on every list of this site. Nothing else adjusts it.
    8,087°
Glossary: the terms used here
Heat score
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Floor
The 7,000° every model with real data starts from. The scale runs from 0° to 9,999°; the part below the floor is reserved for stand-ins (models without data), so that a model with data always ranks above one without. The floor is the same for everyone and decides nothing; the degrees above it are the measurement.
Download-equivalents
Everything the score treats as a download, added up: downloads themselves, each torrent seeder as 1,000, each AI Horde image and each run on a generation site as one.
Log scale
Counting by tens, not by ones: going from 1,000 to 10,000 downloads adds the same degrees as going from 10,000 to 100,000. It keeps giants from crowding out everything else.
Likes
Thumbs up and likes from every source, worth half a download each on the log scale.
Adoption rate
How many downloads a day a model gets right now, from the difference between two readings of a source. A quarter of the weight of the download term.
Measured and estimated
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Seeder
Someone who keeps a copy of the weights online for others to download over a torrent, or a hosted mirror doing the same. Each one counts as 1,000 downloads.
AI Horde
A volunteer network that generates images for free on donated computers. The number of images it has made with a model is public, and each counts as one download.
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Full model (checkpoint)
The weights themselves, the file that generates on its own. It gets a bonus because add-ons depend on it.
LoRA and embedding
Small add-on files that steer someone else's weights toward a style, a character or a concept. They cannot run alone.
Family and weights
The base a model is built on, such as SD 1.5, SDXL, Flux or Wan. Every model inherits the release date of its family's weights.
Age
Degrees taken off for how long ago the family's weights came out: 150° a year, up to 750°. It keeps old downloads that had years to pile up from freezing the top of the list.
Family boost
A small, bounded nudge for LoRAs of a family this site is pushing forward right now, always listed in the breakdown.
Stand-in score
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New! (grace period)
A model less than 7 days old shows New! instead of a score and holds no place in the rankings. Its score is computed from day one, but a model one day old grows faster than anything, so without the wait the week's #1 would always be whatever came out yesterday rather than what held up for a week.
Trend
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Typical model
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How this model's popularity has moved against the rest of the catalog: its growth in downloads, likes and usage over each period, measured against the typical model's growth over the same period, with its heat score at the time. Above the typical growth reads as a rise, below it as a fall. The past is reconstructed from today's totals, the model's first day and its measured download speed where two readings exist; a model that did not exist at the start of a period shows n/a.
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Sampler
Euler a
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30
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4
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3632628304
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832x1216
Prompt
giallo aesthetics photo, depth map, encaustic. a folk music album cover art <lora:artfully_DEPTHMAP:0.6>, vivid color gel, dramatic shadows, fashion backdrop, deep reds and blues, gothic atmosphere, expressionist lighting, technicolor, dramatic shadow work, murder mystery, slasher, thriller, psychological horror, psychological thriller
Negative prompt
natural lighting, realistic colors, documentary style, minimalist set, chibi, loli, child, kid, teen, teenager, tattoo, dirty, messy, nude
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dpmpp_2m
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30
Guidance
5
Seed
1027298399748081
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896x1152
Prompt
forest of coral fungus glowing in a gothic garden, backlit, low-key, highly detailed, high quality, 8k, moody atmosphere
Negative prompt
photoshop, video game, ugly, tiling, poorly drawn hands, poorly drawn feet, poorly drawn face, out of frame, mutation, mutated, extra limbs, extra legs, extra arms, disfigured, deformed, body out of frame, bad art, bad anatomy, 3d render, double, clones, twins, brothers, same face, repeated person, long neck, make up, ugly, animated, hat, poorly drawn, out of frame, text, watermark, signature, logo, split image, copyright, cartoon, desaturated
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Sampler
DPM++ 2M
Steps
40
Guidance
7
Seed
1967099363
Size
1024x1024
Prompt
A damaged Surrealist painting, (peeling paint on sandpaper:1.2). A grotesque elderly ethereal female elf being a (indigo:0.5) Tiger in a decrepit mountain river, rapids. (Large patches of broken paint reveal a world of lemon). Intricate details. Victorian botanical. white-tinted, white wavy patterns. Symbolism.
Negative prompt
(Vertical symmetry), (Horizontal symmetry), horror, nudity, naked, nude, Superman, Superwoman, Supergirl, USA flag, American flag
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dpmpp_2m
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30
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6
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1027298399746188
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896x1152
Prompt
Realistic portrait photograph, contemporary style. Close-up of woman, Average height, sleek bob. Soft lighting creates a dramatic, moody ambiance with a dark, textured background. Detailed focus on her eyes. High-resolution image emphasizing texture and natural beauty.
Negative prompt
photoshop, video game, ugly, tiling, poorly drawn hands, poorly drawn feet, poorly drawn face, out of frame, mutation, mutated, extra limbs, extra legs, extra arms, disfigured, deformed, body out of frame, bad art, bad anatomy, 3d render, double, clones, twins, brothers, same face, repeated person, long neck, make up, ugly, animated, hat, poorly drawn, out of frame, text, watermark, signature, logo, split image, copyright, cartoon, desaturated
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Sampler
DPM++ SDE Karras
Steps
28
Guidance
2.4
Seed
100416726572151
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1024x1536
Prompt
breathtaking, professional, highly detailed, a giant lightbulb with a magical fairylight kingdom inside, tiltshift macro hypermaximalist detail
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dpmpp_2m
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30
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5
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1027298399748114
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896x1152
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SYMMETRIC, baroque devilish queen of rot and decay skull, portrait, patina, face, close-up, portrait!!! deer skull. patina LIQUID GOLD, GLITTER, sculpture made of patina bronze and charcoal and high-tech robot panels!!!!. jellyfish phoenix head, nautilus, orchid, betta fish, intricate artwork by Tooth Wu and wlop and beeple. octane render, trending on artstation, greg rutkowski very coherent symmetrical artwork. cinematic, hyper realism, high
Negative prompt
photoshop, video game, ugly, tiling, poorly drawn hands, poorly drawn feet, poorly drawn face, out of frame, mutation, mutated, extra limbs, extra legs, extra arms, disfigured, deformed, body out of frame, bad art, bad anatomy, 3d render, double, clones, twins, brothers, same face, repeated person, long neck, make up, ugly, animated, hat, poorly drawn, out of frame, text, watermark, signature, logo, split image, copyright, cartoon, desaturated
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Prompt on BunchaPrompts
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Sampler
dpmpp_2m
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30
Guidance
6
Seed
1027298399746199
Size
896x1152
Prompt
Realistic portrait photograph, fantasy style. Close-up of a Garuda (Hindu Bird Creature), anthropomorphic hybrid creature. Soft lighting creates a dramatic, moody ambiance. Detailed focus on their eyes. High-resolution image emphasizing texture.
Negative prompt
photoshop, video game, ugly, tiling, poorly drawn hands, poorly drawn feet, poorly drawn face, out of frame, mutation, mutated, extra limbs, extra legs, extra arms, disfigured, deformed, body out of frame, bad art, bad anatomy, 3d render, double, clones, twins, brothers, same face, repeated person, long neck, make up, ugly, animated, hat, poorly drawn, out of frame, text, watermark, signature, logo, split image, copyright, cartoon, desaturated
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dpmpp_2m
Steps
30
Guidance
6
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1027298399746247
Size
896x1152
Prompt
Realistic portrait photograph, fantasy style. Close-up of a Inferno elemental spirit. Soft lighting creates a dramatic, moody ambiance. Detailed focus on their eyes. High-resolution image emphasizing texture.
Negative prompt
photoshop, video game, ugly, tiling, poorly drawn hands, poorly drawn feet, poorly drawn face, out of frame, mutation, mutated, extra limbs, extra legs, extra arms, disfigured, deformed, body out of frame, bad art, bad anatomy, 3d render, double, clones, twins, brothers, same face, repeated person, long neck, make up, ugly, animated, hat, poorly drawn, out of frame, text, watermark, signature, logo, split image, copyright, cartoon, desaturated
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