This article will take you to understand what Civitai is, as well as provide detailed guidance and introduction to how to open, register, download, use, and set up Civitai. It includes the following parts:
Civitai is an AIGC image, model, and video content generation and sharing platform that has become very popular in China recently. It currently has more than 20 million monthly active users, ranking second in China, surpassing Midjourney in all aspects, so Civitai is in The influence of AI image generation is self-evident.
The website supports users to generate images and train LoRA models in a professional but uncomplicated mode. Users can customize English prompt words and adjust related options to generate beautiful images. They can also refer to works uploaded by other users and copy parameters to generate similar images. Civitai contains many models in various styles created by users. These models can be downloaded for free and can be applied to Vincentian diagrams or Stable Diffusion with one click. In addition, users can also publish and participate in bonus tasks on Civitai to obtain rewards for works that meet the requirements or Civitai special tokens.
As we all know, due to China's network problems, domestic users cannot directly open Civitai, and they will be automatically blocked when they click on the website.
The way to solve this problem is also very simple. Just look for some tutorials about scientific Internet accelerators on the Internet, and choose a suitable accelerator to download and install according to the tutorials.
If you want to open Civitai or other external networks, unless the user goes abroad in person, the only way is to connect to an accelerator. Mirror websites are unreliable, and Civitai does not have a real domestic mirror website.
In order to prevent students from not being able to find suitable search keywords when searching in the browser, or from blocking related content in China too seriously, the author has found a blog website " Accelerate Fish " that specifically recommends and evaluates accelerators . There are many in it. Easy-to-use accelerators are recommended, and detailed download and installation tutorials are attached. For example, the Cheetah accelerator , Lightning Cat accelerator and Aha accelerator that the author has tested are easy to use. Tutorials are written on this website.
The official website of Accelerate Fish and some links to articles that the author has read and found very useful are posted below this paragraph. If you are interested, you can click in and take a look.
Speed up fish entranceAfter registering and logging in to Civitai, you can Free trial , new users will receive 100 Buzz , which can be used to train LoRA models, generate images, purchase user-created content, reward creators, establish bounty tasks, etc. If you want to continue using Civitai's paid functions after using up the free Buzz, you need to purchase a paid plan. The following is a brief introduction to the paid plan. For details, please refer to the official website description page: https://civitai.com/pricing.
Civitai supports a total of 5 usage methods, namely:
Then, among the five methods, Google mailbox and Discord account are more versatile and support one-click authorized registration of nearly 99% of foreign websites and software. Moreover, authorized registration is not prone to problems with IP addresses or accounts being blocked just after registration, so It is more recommended to register a Google email or Discord account first, and then go to Civitai to authorize login.
The registration tutorials for Google Mail and Discord are here. Registration can be completed in a few minutes according to the graphic instructions. Please open the accelerator before registering:
This tutorial will introduce 1. Google Mail and 2. Discord authorization tutorials, as well as ordinary 3. Email registration tutorials that can use personal commonly used email addresses.
① After registering a Google email account, keep the account logged in, open the Civitai registration page: https://civitai.com/login?returnUrl=/, and click the " Google " icon.
② Select and click your account.
③ After reading the privacy and terms of use, click " Continue " and wait for the page to automatically jump back.
④ After jumping to the personal account setting link, first read the privacy terms of use and click " Accept ".
⑤ Enter the Google email address and user nickname you just registered in sequence. After completing the input, click " Save " to save. Remember not to click on the crossed “ Sign Out ”, as clicking it will log you out of your account.
⑥ Control the content you want to see and what you don’t want to see, as shown in the icon. Subsequent relevant permissions can also be changed in the settings.
⑦ In the last step, Civitai introduces the use of their special currency " Buzz " and how to obtain it, and will give 100 Buzz to your new account. Click " Done " to start using it.
① After registering Discord, open the Civitai registration page: https://civitai.com/login?returnUrl=/, and click the " Discord " icon.
② Log in to the Discord account you just registered.
③ After viewing the authorization content, click " Authorize ", and then repeat steps ④-⑦ of the Google Email authorization tutorial to successfully register.
① Open the Civitai registration page: https://civitai.com/login?returnUrl=/, enter your commonly used and normal email address in the input box, and click " Email ".
② Open the email address you entered, click on the latest verification email from Civitai, click " Sign in ", and then repeat steps 4-7 of the Google Email authorization tutorial to successfully register.
The official Civitai APP is only available to paid users. By downloading the official APP, you can add models in Civitai to Stable Diffusion with one click, or view and delete them more conveniently. In addition, users can pair with Vault to easily free up space, even if If the creator deletes the model from Civitai, the model added to the Vault will not be deleted.
Users can click this link: https://civitai.com/pricing, recharge to purchase and become a paying user, and then click the button below to enter the download link to download and install.
Official software download address
Open the homepage of the website, click " Create " in the upper right corner, and then click " Generate images " in the drop-down list to enter the image generation page.
Generate pictures according to the guidelines in the two pictures above, and pay attention to the use of free credits.
Select " Model " on the homepage, follow the filtering and sorting options to find your favorite model, select one and click on it.
Click " Create " to apply it to Vincentian diagrams with one click. Click the download icon to directly download the SAFETENSORS file of the model. Click the cloud icon to save the model to an online cloud disk. In addition, click " Save " in the three-dot icon above to save this model to your favorites. You can find it faster on the model search page next time you create a drawing.
If you forgot to set up adult content control when registering or want to modify some options, you can click on the user avatar in the upper right corner, click on " Account settings ", scroll down the page to find " Content Controls " and " Content Moderation ", refer to the guidelines below Just make the changes.
Civitai is one of the platforms that I have used to share the most models and have the most complete styles. It doesn’t matter even if you are new to AI drawing. There are so many works and models by great masters on the website that are shared for free. You only need to refer to them. , borrowing their data, you can generate similar but completely different original works yourself. This is actually the best way to learn AI drawing. You can gradually learn and understand AI drawing in this way. One day, you will be able to create the same exquisite AI works skillfully, stably and independently.