SDXL newb confused: Pony/Illustrious workflows make photorealism — which fine-tune to pick?
throwaway0204055 · reddit · 2026-08-20
A Reddit newcomer to SDXL asks how to choose among the many fine-tuned models. Pony and Illustrious are the most popular but skewed toward anime, while the user prefers photorealistic output — yet sees Civitai workflows producing photorealism with them. They ask whether a realism-oriented checkpoint like Juggernaut XL is the better choice.
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