Arctenox/Crystal - VAE [SDXL/Illustrious]

I'm working on a small AI Discord Community you can join here: https://discord.gg/ehhMrD4PQT My Very First VAE Merge, which is found in one of my models on my old account. Feel free to test and/or use them. V3 is what I originally wanted the VAE to be, a VAE that adds subtle contrast/saturation/brightness. This will not fix an already overfitted/overbaked image as it's a VAE. Also the VAEs may effect images a bit too much for you personally, especially if you're doing hires/upscale/etc with IMG2IMG, but if you like the those images go for it. Works best for TXT2IMG. I personally like the VAEs

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