Xarja's guide in 2024/Jan/30
: Chapter 0 - Introduction Heyo! Welcome to Xarja's Ultimate Guide to Furry AI on Perchance! perchance.org/furry-ai Here you will learn all about using this AI, so you to can be a master prompter! You will learn all of this, in the following lessons:
Chapter 1 – AI Basics 1.1 Description (AKA Prompts) 1.2 Anti-Description (AKA Anti-Prompts AKA negative prompts) 1.3 Styles, Shapes, and Count
Chapter 2 – The Community 2.1 Chat, and Giving Yourself a Nickname 2.2 Public Gallery 2.3 Private Galleries 2.4 The Hidden Filter
Chapter 3 – Advanced Prompting 3.1 Adding Emphasis to Prompts 3.2 Prompt Weighting 3.3 Randomly Selected Prompts
Chapter 4 - Conclusion
So, you want to make some furry AI art? Look no further! In this chapter, I'll discuss the basics of using the generator, so you to can make furry art.
1.1 Description (AKA Prompts) To use the description, simply write what you want to see! You can use terms (eg cat, fluffy, green fur), phrases (eg walking in the store, drinking some wine), or full sentences (eg The female grey fox is running through the forest).
Alternatively, you can press the “brain” icon to the right of the description box, and type in a bit about what you want to see. The AI will then generate a paragraph or two based on your input.
1.2 Anti-Description (AKA Anti-Prompts AKA negative prompts) The Anti-Description can be used to describe what you DON'T want to see. For example, if you don't want any trees in your image, simply add “trees” to the anti-description
1.3 Styles, Shapes, and Count This AI generator comes with a whole plethora of predetermined “styles”. Using a style will automatically add certain prompt and anti-prompt terms to your generation. If you don't want these terms automatically added, then select “no style”. Try experimenting!
Shapes come in three options: Portrait, Landscape, and Square. There is no way to adjust the resolution, or have different sizes. Count is, well, a count of how many images you want generated. Simple as that.
Did you know this site has ways to interact with other members? Obviously, since you are reading this! In this chapter, you'll learn all the best ways to share with your compatriots!
2.1 Chat, and Giving Yourself a Nickname When chatting with Perchance, you'll be given an 4 letter and number ID based on IP Address/Network Area. Because this ID is both hard to remember, and because it can change, you should give yourself a nickname! Follow these steps to give yourself a nickname:
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Press the gear icon to the right of the submit button, and a text box should show up
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Type in "nn" and hit enter. A new textbox should appear
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Type in your nickname, and hit enter. You should now have a nickname! (nickname has to be under 50 characters)
2.2 Public Gallery Did you make an image that you are particular proud of? Then send it to the public gallery to show it off! To do this, follow these steps:
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Hover your mouse over an image you generated. If your on mobile, this step is optional.
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Click the heart icon that appears at the bottom left of the image. A box with multiple buttons should appear in the middle of the image
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Click “send to gallery”. You're done! The image is now in the public gallery for everyone to view.
2.3 Private Galleries You know how to send images to the public gallery, but often images posted there are lost in the flood of other images. To save an image in a way you can find it again, or if you don't want others to see it ;) , post your image to a private gallery! Private galleries are accessible only to those who know its name, so if you don't want to risk others seeing it, make the name long enough it won't be guessed. Make sure you write down the name somewhere, because if you forget it, it is impossible to access the private gallery again.
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Follow steps 1 and 2 of sending to a public gallery.
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Before clicking “send to gallery”, click the button to the right of “send to gallery”. A textbox should appear.
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Type in your gallery name, and hit enter. Be sure to follow the instructions on the textbox
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Click “send to gallery”
Now that you sent your image to a private gallery, you'll want to be able to view it.
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Click the gear icon right above the public gallery. A text box should show up
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Type in “gallery” and press enter. A new textbox should show up.
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Type in the name of your gallery and press enter. Voila, you're done!
To return to the public gallery, simply follow the same steps, but type in “public” instead of the name of your gallery.
2.4 The Hidden Filter Now, let's say you want to see some more “steamy” images in a gallery. You may think simply switching the filter from “pg13” to “none” is enough. However, you'd be wrong. The AI has a “hidden filter” which hides any naughty images until it determines you are suitable to see it.
To get the AI to recognize you as old enough, create some raunchy images of your own, and post them to a gallery, either private or public. Eventually, the hidden filter will be disabled, allowing you to view these less than holy images.
Be warned though. If you clear your cookies, you will have to go through this whole process again.
Have you been using the AI, but sometimes it doesn't quite do what you want? Try using these advanced prompting techniques to hone your images!
3.1 Adding Emphasis to Prompts
Have you ever typed in a prompt, but the AI refuses to listen/only listens some of time, or it doesn't go to the level you want? Try putting emphasis on the prompts!
Adding brackets () around words will tell the AI to pay more attention to it. For example: male, fox, (blue sweater) Will make the AI pay more attention to “blue sweater”, causing it to appear more often
3.2 Prompt Weighting
Now, you surely already know how to add brackets to put emphasis on a word (or words (or even phrase!)), but what if you want even more emphasis on that word? You could always add more brackets like ((flying)), or even ((((eating dinner with friends)))), but there is a better way!
Adding a colon with a number will tell the AI exactly how much more you want a prompt to be listened to. For example: Male cat, female wolf, (two characters:1.5) Will give 1.5 weighting to “two characters”. Now, I'm not sure if (word:1) is equal to (word), but adding (word:1.5) always seems to be more effective than (word).
Additionaly, you can numbers less than one to tell the AI to pay less attention to a prompt, eg: female, cat, blue eyes, (slim:0.6) Will tell the AI to only pay 0.6 attention to “slim”, causing characters that are between average and skinny builds
However, beware not to go too high! Using numbers above 2, eg (horse:3), can cause weird, unnatural images, as the AI desperately struggles to make everything horselike. A general rule of thumb is to never go above 1.5, but sometimes it can be stretched higher.
3.3 Randomly Selected Prompts Throughout my use of this AI, I have come to the conclusion that there is no way to specify something as “random”. However, you can emulate randomness by putting words in {}, seperated by | (not “i”, but a straight line). For example: {furry|scalie|avian} Will randomly select one of “furry”, “scalie”, or “avian” for the prompt. However, the possible options will not be visible by viewing the prompt used in an image, so make sure to save your list of options somewhere.
Congratulations! Now that you've read this comprehensive guide, you should be a master of this AI tool! I hope to see what wonderful creations you make
~Xarja :D YAU0(Xarja {TGG}): Amendmant 1:
For both "3.1 Adding Emphasis to Prompts" and "3.2 Prompt Weighting", the methods described can be used for both the main description, as well as the anti-desciption.