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Multi-account switching, Civitai Link expanded, plus enter to win over $2,000 worth of prizes in our Legendary Landscapes contest, running now!

Greetings, Civitans! Welcome to the thirtieth edition of Civitai Biweekly, your essential guide to all recent developments and updates within Civitai.

This week, we’ll cover some extremely exciting new Civitai developments including…

  • Account Switching

  • Expanded Civitai Link v2 functionality

  • Site quality-of-life improvements

  • A LoRA Auto-Captioning overhaul

  • Our Legendary Landscape Contest

  • the imminent release of Stable Diffusion 3!

…and more!

Civitai Developments

1️⃣ User Account Switching!

Switch between your Civitai accounts with ease, with the new Account Switcher, from the main Profile Picture menu! Connect all your accounts, and switch between them instantaneously - no logins required, in this huge quality-of-life update!

2️⃣ Civitai Link v2 - New Features!

Civitai Link v2 continues to evolve, with exciting new features released this week, including resource metadata inspection, trigger word display, and custom personal notes for each of your downloaded models!

The application is receiving frequent updates with fixes and features from your excellent community feedback, and is now an invaluable tool for any local-prompting Civitan!

Download the latest release here!

3️⃣ LoRA Training Captioning Improvements

Significant quality-of-life enhancements have been added to the LoRA captioning tools, including the ability to find tagless images; an extremely useful ability when dealing with large datasets!

If you haven’t tried training a LoRA yet - read our quickstart guide to getting started now!

4️⃣ Site Quality-of-Life Improvements

We’ve added a few small (but needed!) quality of life improvements to the site, including the ability to filter any of the resource feeds - model, images, posts - to only view content posted by Creators you follow!

We’ve also tweaked the top menu layout to provide a better experience on smaller screens.

Contests

Our Legendary Landscapes contest is running now until May 3rd at 23:59 CST!

Embark on an artistic journey through mythical realms, futuristic cityscapes, and alien environments.

Whether inspired by the depths of the ocean or the expanses of the night sky, we invite you to share your most legendary landscapes!

Submit 10 entries to 5 contest categories, with over $2,000 in prizes to be won!

Read the rules, and submit your entries here!

Legendary Landscapes Contest Participation Badge

Generative AI News

Stable Diffusion 3 API Release!

Stable Diffusion 3 is available to test via the Stability.ai API and Clipdrop! We’ve heard that the weights for local usage will be significantly improved from the current version available on the API, and will drop at the end of May!

Image examples from the local version, courtesy of Lykon;

Artist in Residence

Studio Update Four

Innovations and Milestones! Noah Miller is harnessing groundbreaking LED stage technology to elevate his cinematic storytelling, crafting scenes with unparalleled visual depth. Meanwhile, Arvid Tappert's "ODDBIRDS" has soared into the spotlight, clinching a finalist spot at the 103rd Annual ADC Awards for its innovative AI animation!

Click through to catch up on the latest from our pioneering residents!

Resource Showcase

Cucoloris Lighting Modifiers for SDXL

Master shadow and light control in your prompts with this stunning lighting control LoRA for SDXL, from Creator Vantablackdark!

Anime Style Backgrounds for Pony XL

Enhance your Pony background game with Creator Motimalu’s Anime Style background helper LoRA!

Newsletter Buzz Reward

Thanks for sticking with us all the way to the end! Here’s your well-earned Newsletter Buzz ⚡ - consider it a ‘thank you’ for being a valued, informed, member of the Civitai community!

Office Hours

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We look forward to seeing you there!