Building your brand is really a tough thing. For this, you
need to work on every single tiny concept to make your brand successful. Likewise, a small but powerful idea that can help
your brand building is to create QR code
art using Stable Diffusion.
QR codes can be useful for businesses and artists alike. Plain black-and-white squares are a bit boring, but by using AI art we can make them more interesting for our audience.
Businesses could
print these QR artworks as stickers or posters to drive traffic. Not only this, but even if you are an Artist then can you also sell custom QR codes for clients.
In this post, we will see the creation of colorful, scan able QR
code art using AI image generation.
Installation with workflow:
1. First, head to any QR code generator site by searching on Google. Now, get your link it can be your website link, social media, or anything you want to share. Make sure your link should be short. For URL shortening, you can use any link shorter. Just create one QR code image of your link.
For illustration purposes, we have used our Twitter (X) handle page link. https://twitter.com/SD_Tutorial
2. You can choose your own business website link or social media link. After generating download the basic QR code image and save it on your computer as a PNG file.
3. Now, download the required Stable Diffusion Models. We need two Stable Diffusion models from the Hugging Face platform:
a) Go to the required link:
https://huggingface.co/lllyasviel/ControlNet-v1-1
Select the tab “files and versions”.
4. Now, press ctrl+f to search “tile” on the search bar of the browser. You get a model named “control_vl1fle_sd15_tile…” will be available which will be around 1.4GB. Just click on the download button to download it.
b) Now, go to this link :
https://huggingface.co/ioclab/ioc-controlnet
and select the tab “file and versions”.
5. Click the “models” folder and again search for “Brightness safetensors” and download it as well.
Download these models by searching their names and save them
into your model's folder "stable-diffusion-webui/models/controlnet/". This sets up Stable Diffusion with the capability to
alter images.
6. After downloading the required models, just restart your Automatic1111 to take effect. Upload the generated QR code by drag and drop for ControlnetUnit0 and ControlnetUnit1 as well.
Make sure you "Enable" both extensions otherwise, it will not work.
7. Now, firstly do settings for ControlNet Unit 0, and then we will move to ControlNet Unit 1
8. Select the ControlNet Unit0 tab in Automatic1111.
In ControlNet 0, choose:
- Preprocessor: Inpaint_Global_Harmonious
- Model: Control_v1p_sd15_brightness (Downloaded recently)
- Control
Weight: 0.35
Leave the rest as it is.
9. Select the ControlNet Unit1 tab in Automatic1111, and do these settings:
- Preprocessor: Inpaint_Global_Harmonious
- Model: Tile V1-45 (recently downloaded)
- Control Weights: 0.5
- Start Control
Step: 0.35
- End Control Step: 0.75
Last set these:
-Sampling Method: Euler or DPM+++ 2M Karas
-Sampling Steps: 22
-Enable Hires Fix
For adding more creativity into your image you can increase the Starting Control Step and for decreasing use End Control Net option(Min value is 0 and Max value is 2). Control Weight gives you the overall code impact into your image. (Min value is 0 means no effect and Max value is 2 means strong effect)
10. Now, just click on the Generate button to generate this.
And these are the generated QR art.
Now, these are setting, you need to play around a little bit. Actually you don’t get required results at the first go. So, for that do experimenting because the sometimes you get images that don’t look good sometimes the images are not get scanned.
Experiment with different prompts and tune the ControlNet settings more. The goal is eye-catching images that phones can still read the QR code from accurately.
11. Print Your QR Artwork for your business, or post it on your social media pages like Instagram, Twitter (X), LinkedIn, etc.Once you end up with some neat stylized QR codes, you could
print them out on stickers to put on products, flyers, or around your business.
The funky images will grab people's curiosity to encourage scanning which will definitely help in your brand-building.
Conclusion:
The combinations are endless here - have fun making AI-powered QR code artworks with instant practical application. Making your own QR code art is not that challenging when using stable diffusion.
By, using Control net options and models like Safe tensors made qr code generating so simple with just a drag and drop with some minor settings that normal people can also have that in no time.
