My first Illustrious CKPT.

It combines the cinematic visual style and sharpness from CinPony v2 (Razor) and with Booru Tags adherence from Illustrious world.

Improvement relative to Pony: better adherence in complex compositions.

Improvements relative to many realistic ILL models: stability and wider CFG range.

Prompting:

Follow the Booru tagging (get from Denbooru for ex.). You can mix in some natural lang parts as well.

Parameters:

REALISM: CFG 2.0 ... 3.5; [ DPM++ 2M Heun | DPM++ 2S a | UniPC | DDIM ] with [ Karras | SGM_Uniform | KL_Optimal ]; also Euler + Beta works in realistic scenario but requires to lower the CFG.

Adherence: CFG 3.0 gives good adherence; from CFG 1 to CFG 7 composition stay similar.

I2I / 2nd pass / ADetailer: [ Heun | Heunpp2 | UniPC_bh2 ] samplers with Karras or SGM_Uniform combined with high CFG and low Denoise can help in rendering grainy textures and sharp edges.

SMOOTH RENDERS: if you need the smooth drafts - use Euler A + SGM_Uniform or DDIM (better anatomy) schedulers. With Euler A you can push CFG much higher.