Install LoRA Models in Stable Diffusion Automatic1111

Introduction

Hello there and welcome!

In this video, I’m going to walk you through the quick and easy way to install LoRA models in Stable Diffusion Automatic1111.

LoRA models are absolutely fantastic to easily and quickly inject unique styles and tweaks into your image generations.

Once you discover and start using LoRAs, they’ll become a fundamental part of your image generation workflow, and you’ll probably wonder how you managed to do without them before.

I’ll be walking through the steps to find and install a LoRA model in my local install of Automatic1111, running on my Windows 11 PC.

So, let’s crack on.

Find and Download LoRA Models

By far the best place to find and download LoRA models is from Civitai.

Open the Civitai website. I’ll leave the link in the description for you.

Click on Models in the top menu.

Then click the Filters dropdown on the right side of the top menu.

Make sure under Model Types, you only have LoRA selected.

Click off the Filters options panel.

You’ll now see only LoRA models displayed in the results.

If you want to refine your results further, you can select one of the specific types from the selections above the list, or you can sort your results by dropping down the Sort By box on the left of the Filters box in the right of the top menu.

Select the LoRA model that you want to download from the list.

I’ll just select the first one.

Click on the LoRA card to open the model’s page.

Locate the blue Download button towards the top right of the page.

Notice how small the actual file is, which is one of the big benefits of using LoRAs.

Click the Download button.

On the Save As window that pops up, navigate to your stable-diffusion-webui folder, then models, then Lora, and click Save. I’ll leave the path in the description for you.

The file will download into your Lora folder and will then be effectively installed and ready to use with Automatic1111.

Check LoRA Model Installed Successfully

Let’s have a quick check to make sure the LoRA model that we downloaded, has been installed, and is being picked up by Automatic1111.

Open Automatic1111.

Select the txt2img tab.

On the second row of tabs, just below the negative text prompt input box, you should see a tab named Lora.

Click this tab.

You’ll see all the LoRAs you have installed, including the one we just downloaded.

If you can’t see the new one, or have not restarted Automatic1111 since downloading the LoRA, then click the refresh page icon on the right, and the new LoRA will be shown.

Conclusion

Now you know how to quickly and easily install LoRA models in Stable Diffusion Automatic1111.

Now go explore all the LoRA possibilities!

Anyway, hope you found this video helpful, and I’ll catch you in the next one.