Openjourney-v4 Local Setup

About

This is a simplified setup of the Open Journey v4 image generation model available on huggingface. It allows you to start creating AI-generated images on your local machine.

Setup

There's a bit of setup required for this repo so buckle up.

If you don't have brew or python3 installed you're gonna have a bad time. Get that set up before continuing.

Next order of business, you're going to need git-lfs to manage exceedingly large files associated with the OpenJourney repo:

brew install git-lfs

Then run the following commands in this repo's directory to clone the OpenJourney model:

git lfs install
git clone https://huggingface.co/prompthero/openjourney-v4

Fair warning, the files exceed 25GB and will take a while to pull down. If you want to clone without large files and just have reference to their pointers, prepend the git clone with:

GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1

Now you're going to need a few more dependencies to make the magic happen:

# diffusers library
pip3 install diffusers
# pytorch
pip3 install torch

Usage

Once setup is complete, update the prompt in generateImage.py run the following command:

python3 generateImage.py

An image will be created using the OpenJourney-v4 image generation model. Enjoy!

Disclaimer

Please note this setup is geared towards MacBooks with Apple Silicon chips. Performance may vary for other setups

About

If you found this setup tutorial useful or had any issues along the way, feel free to contact me at stephen.anthony.rivas@gmail.com or hit me up on LinkedIn. Also if you create any amusing images please send them my way, I'd love to see them!