Guide to creating your first image ​

This guide assumes that you already have started instance of Volta (fully installed and running)

Download your first model ​

Click the Box icon to access the Models page:

Find a model that you like and click on it (I will use Dreamshaper v8 for this example):

Select a version that you want to download (the one automatically selected is usually the best one), select the format and click on the Download button:

Wait for the download to finish (you can see the progress in the terminal window where you started Volta), notification will be displayed when the download is finished

Switch back to the Text to Image tab:

Loading the model ​

Now that you have downloaded the model, you can load it into Volta.

Click on the Load Model button:

Select the model you just downloaded:

1. Click the Load Button
2. Wait for the button to change to Unload

Close the modal by clicking on the X button in the top right corner.

Model should now be loaded and selected:

Generating an image ​

Prompt ​

8k portrait of beautiful cyborg with brown hair, intricate, elegant, highly detailed, majestic, digital photography, art by artgerm and ruan jia and greg rutkowski surreal painting gold butterfly filigree, broken glass, (masterpiece, sidelighting, finely detailed beautiful eyes: 1.2), hdr, (detailed background window to a new dimension, plants and flowers:0.7), <lora:https://civitai.com/api/download/models/87153:0.6>

Negative Prompt ​

(worst quality, low quality:1.4), nsfw

Sampler ​

Pick one of the samplers from the dropdown menu. My favourite is DPM++ 2S a and DPM++ 2M

Sigmas ​

I will use Exponential for this example, but it is a personal preference, experiment with different sigmas to get different results.

Now that you set your inputs, click on the Generate button. Wait for the image to generate. You can see progress in the UI or in the terminal window where you started Volta.

Final result ​