# `Getting Started on Paperspace for Retards <3`

![paperspace](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Engineer-of-Stuff/stable-diffusion-paperspace/main/Docs/Assets/paperspace.png)

**What is Paperspace?**

Basically, a cloud compute service for AI development. You run your code on their hardware.




**Why Paperspace?**

Paperspace makes it easy to run resource-intensive, long-running AI calculations. Paperspace is convenient, free, and you probably don't have a computer good enough to run the AI. 

You'll run your code on their powerful GPUs which is much faster and easier than locally on your computer.



**Do I have to pay?**

Only if you feel limited by their free tier. You should have everything you need to generate ~~porn~~ really neat images. I'm pretty Paperspace is cheaper than Google Colab Pro.



**Why not Google Colab?**

Google Colab is an alternative, but their free tier is more restrictive than Paperspace's and has less powerful hardware.

**But I want to run it on Google Colab!**

Ok fine. [Here's the official colab notebook by Voldy himself.](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Iy-xW9t1-OQWhb0hNxueGij8phCyluOh)



## Let's do it!



1. [Create an Account](https://console.paperspace.com/signup)

3. Click this button and fill out the form that pops up

![create_project](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Engineer-of-Stuff/stable-diffusion-paperspace/main/Docs/Assets/create_project.png)

3. Click this button to create a notebook

![create_notebook](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Engineer-of-Stuff/stable-diffusion-paperspace/main/Docs/Assets/create_notebook.png)

4. Under "Runtime" select "Start from Stratch"

![start_scratch.png](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Engineer-of-Stuff/stable-diffusion-paperspace/main/Docs/Assets/start_scratch.png)

5. Download [StableDiffusionUI_Voldemort_paperspace.ipynb](https://github.com/Engineer-of-Stuff/stable-diffusion-paperspace/blob/main/StableDiffusionUI_Voldemort_paperspace.ipynb)
6. Upload that file to your notebook

![upload](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Engineer-of-Stuff/stable-diffusion-paperspace/main/Docs/Assets/upload.png)

7. Follow directions

![final](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Engineer-of-Stuff/stable-diffusion-paperspace/main/Docs/Assets/final.png)

## I need more help :(

Here's some other guides. Please don't shit up /sdg/ with tech support questions.

Pro-tip: go lurk in /sdg/ on /g/ and view /sdg/ archives for tips, tricks, and suggestions.

- [VOLDEMORT'S GUI GUIDE FOR THE MENTALLY DEFICIENT](https://rentry.org/zfawb)
- [FINAL GUI RETARD GUIDE](https://rentry.org/voldy)
- [Using the WebUI](https://rentry.org/voldy)
- [Using the Inpainter](https://rentry.org/drfar)
- [Textual Inversion](https://rentry.org/aikgx)
- [Crowd-Sourced Prompts](https://lexica.art/)
- [Artist Name Prompts](https://sgreens.notion.site/sgreens/4ca6f4e229e24da6845b6d49e6b08ae7?v=fdf861d1c65d456e98904fe3f3670bd3)

[Images hosted on Github](https://github.com/Engineer-of-Stuff/stable-diffusion-paperspace)