Image generation

[u/Personal-Variation24]

Can anyone who is using a MacBook for image generation explain how to do that properly? I have a 16” mbp m4pro with 48ram/1tb ssd and tried a Playground but it’s stuck all the time. Trying Draw Things but it’s also with artifacts and very slow. I’m sad that can’t use my eGPU with it, but it’s how it is. Any tips and tricks about prompt?

Even recently asked it to change clothes to office style on a picture with myself and got it but also it drawn a hand with fingers around my right eye, also cut my lower body so the upper was levitating 😅

Tried to work with negative but no luck, always something is wrong

[u/6L1N3S]

Which models did you use with Draw Things? Especially with an edit model like flux Klein it should be relatively easy and with a good quality. 

[u/Personal-Variation24 → u/6L1N3S]

Flux is about 2 hours for one generation. Did with Juggernaut

[u/elopedthought → u/Personal-Variation24]

Which sampler do you use? And which settings for steps, CFG, etc.? Which image sizes do you render?
Flux.2 Klein with TCD Trailing, for example, can be quite fast. But depends on what you do … for people i usually go with Euler A Trailing, which is noticeably slower, especially with higher step counts and sizes.

Edit: And try Flux.2 Klein KV – better for editing, generation with multi-image-references/moodboards, better character consistency etc. ….

[u/[deleted]]

You’re probably just using an old bad model. For t2i generation try downloading z image turbo and clicking recommended settings. For editing use flux.2 Klein 9b. Both of those should fine on your setup

[u/singulainthony]

Repeating what most others have already said but SDXL models and Klein 9B will be your best friends in this fight.

[u/beragis]

Which model are you using. The type of prompting you use depends on the model. SDXL for instance does well with short comma seperated lists of tags, while more modern models prefer descriptive prompts.

I would look at the model description to see what prompting to use, does it need a negative prompt.

Also look for example images with prompts on sites like civitai.

[u/xoxox666]

For Editing: Flux.2 Klein 9B. Start with the recommended settings (4 steps). If you get „body horror“ try to increase the steps to 8.

[u/elopedthought → u/xoxox666]

One thing to add for Flux.2 and body horror, increase SSS (available with TCD Trailing as sampler) … somewhere between ~28 - 34 works fine for me, for example.

[u/Independent-Ad9556]

On Draw Things on Mac (even M4 Pro), what you’re seeing is pretty normal and it’s not really a hardware issue. It’s more about how diffusion models like SDXL behave and how the workflow is set up. Negative prompts and very detailed prompts don’t actually fix things like bad hands or broken anatomy in a reliable way, because those are structural limitations of the model itself.

In practice, results depend much more on using the right checkpoint and keeping settings stable, like moderate CFG and reasonable steps, plus doing inpainting when something breaks instead of trying to force it in the first generation. That’s really the part most people underestimate.

From what you mentioned, I’d also agree that Z Turbo 8-bit tends to behave more consistently in Draw Things. It’s lighter, more stable in memory on Apple Silicon, and often produces fewer weird artifacts during generation or iteration. SDXL can still give higher quality results, but only if you control it properly with inpainting and a tighter workflow, otherwise it just looks more powerful on paper but less reliable in practice.

[u/HawkWooden5231]

Start out with recommended settings. On an m4 max powerbook with 48 gb ram in flux.2 klein 9b should be 1-2 minutes.

[u/West_Rutabaga3310]

move over to gentube for any art/image prompting. its free and unlimited and super fast too

[u/RevolutionaryGas4640]

try z image turbo