"Welcome to Kleebz Tech and another video in
our Fooocus for Stable Diffusion series. In this video, I'll go over how to customize your Fooocus
experience. If you want to change the default settings when Fooocus loads, or want to change
the output folder, as well as many other options, this video will show you how. Don't miss my
other videos covering all aspects of Fooocus, from installation to poses and face swap.
As far as the config file goes with Fooocus, we would find it in the primary Fooocus folder.
Let's start in there, and you're going to notice I actually have another folder in here. This is
actually where I back up my files, like my config file and anything like that. How you do it is up
to you, but I do recommend backing it up after you've made some changes, and before you make more
changes. That way, you can always at least put that file back in there with your latest, correct
version. If anything goes wrong, or you need to do anything, you can always delete the config file,
and Fooocus will create a new one, a default one, when you run it. So, inside your Fooocus folder,
you're going to go down, you're going to find the config.txt file, and there's also a config
modification tutorial txt file. These are the two files that we're going to be mostly
referencing here. The config file is the one that you're actually going to be editing; that's
the one that Fooocus uses when it starts up. The modification tutorial, we don't change that, just
has a lot of the changes and shows you examples of how you can do certain things. To start off with,
let's go ahead and open the config.txt file. Now, I've already edited mine, so what I'm going to do
actually is to get it the default one, I'm going to go ahead and just show you, if we delete this,
it's fine. So in here, what's going to happen is, when I go ahead and run, you're going to watch in
here, and it'll actually create a new file when we run that. Boom, so now we have the default one
that was just created again. At any point, if you need to go back to that default file, you can just
delete the original, or delete the config file, launch it, and it will create a new default one,
but it won't have any changes that you've made. So, that's why I suggest, once you start making
changes, make backups of the files, so you can always go back to one that you know that worked
if you run into any sort of issues. So now that we have the default one, I'm going to go ahead
and open that up to show you what it looks like. So this would be the one that you'd start off
with. Now, there's a couple of things to keep in mind when you make changes to this. If you put, if
there's any syntax errors in here, it won't load. Well, let me show you exactly how this will work.
One of the big errors a lot of people make is they leave a comma at the end before this final
bracket; they'll put the comma down there. You want to make sure when you're copying and
pasting from other portions or anything like that, you remove that final comma. You do want all the
commas between all these other ones, but you don't want it on the final one. Another big mistake
is these; you'll notice are double backslashes instead of just one. That you want to make sure
of because, by default, that's what it's going to look like if you were to paste it from anywhere
else. So, you need to have those two backslashes, not one. If there's any single ones in there,
you're going to get an error as well. So, I'm going to go ahead and save this, just to give
you an example of what'll happen. We'll see here, we get an error, and it explains possible options
of what your most likely problem is. So, this is actually going to load, let me hit enter to
show you, this is actually going to go ahead and load with the standard default configuration; it
won't load that file because it detects the syntax error. So, if you make changes and when you load
it, those changes aren't in effect, most likely, you'll find this error at the top, and you'll
want to fix whatever the syntax error is. Okay, so let's close this down. I'm going to go into my
Fooocus folder again, I'm going to open the text file, I'm going to now fix the error that I've
created, and I'll save that, and now that will be fine. Now, there's a few different ones. I'm not
going to show you every single possible thing that you can do here; I'm going to show you the most
common ones that most people are going to use. So, one of the big ones is the output folder. A lot
of people like to have a specific output folder, a different one than what they normally
use. As we see here, the path outputs, that's where Fooocus is going to save your files
when it generates them. It's going to create a new folder for each day in this folder that you have
here. Normally, that's inside the Fooocus folder, but if you want to have it outside the Fooocus
folder, you can change that. So, for example, on mine, it's the F drive from my computer,
which is actually where I have Fooocus as well, but I want it to do it right in the top folder.
So, I've created a folder, as you can see here, it generates in these. Now, the easiest way
to do this, once you've created the folder, then you need to have these folders created;
you can't just type them in, and Fooocus won't generate them. So, you already have to have
the folder created before you run Fooocus, or you're going to get an error as well.
So, once I've done this, I'm just going to copy the file location; that's the easiest way.
Then, I'm going to open my config file. Now, we were doing the outputs, so in here, I'm going to
go into the path, and I'm just going to go ahead and paste what I just copied. Now, if I go ahead
and save that, it's not going to work, the reason being I didn't add the extra backslash.
So, I need to put two of those in there, anywhere that there's a backslash, I need to
make sure there's two of them in that file path. If I had subfolders, I'd need to put it in each
one of those as well, like you can see up here. And that's all there is to it. I'll go ahead and
save that. Now, when I generate, in that folder is where Fooocus will save those files. The same
thing can be done with pretty much all the other folders. Now, a lot of people probably aren't
going to want to change a lot of these folders, but if you want to be able to run multiple
versions of Fooocus, or if you have other Stable Diffusion user interfaces you want to run, and
you want to use the same checkpoints and LURAs, those take up a lot of room. When you have four
or five different ones going, that's a lot of extra space. So, it's nice to be able to have all
your checkpoints in one location, and each thing can pull from those checkpoints. So, for like
myself, I have an AI folder, and in here, I have my models, and then I have checkpoints and loras.
So, in order to use this, I go up, I'm going to copy the path, I'll go into my config file, and
then I can go up, highlight my checkpoint folder because it's the path for my checkpoints as stated
here, 'path checkpoints.' I'm going to paste, but obviously, we can't keep it like that because
that'll generate an error. I need to go in on each one of these and add an extra backslash, and
always make sure you didn't have any comma at the end here. I can go ahead and save that, and now
it'll load those checkpoints from that folder. So, I have also for loras, so I'm going to go in here,
I'm going to copy, I'll open up my text file. Here, I'm going to paste it. Now, I have my
loras folder. I need to add the backslashes; otherwise, you'll get those syntax errors, and
we're going to hit save. Now, it'll load the loras and the checkpoints from those locations,
and it should also download any it needs in those locations. We'll demonstrate that. I haven't
put any in this lora folder. I didn't move my other ones over just so I can demonstrate what
will happen when I go ahead and launch that. So, let's go ahead and launch Fooocus because, as we
know, Fooocus, when it first runs these things, it'll download any of the checkpoints or anything
that it needs. As we'll see, it's downloading it, and it downloaded it into that folder. That's how
you change the file path with the config file. Okay, so that covers the file paths. Now,
there's a lot of other things we can add to this. I'll go over a few of them just to give
you an idea. In the config tutorial, like I said, that's where a lot of the examples are. For one,
would be the aspect ratios; maybe you don't want all those aspect ratios. You only use a few of
them, so you want to get rid of most of them. Well, we could go through, get rid of any of the
ones that we don't want, and I'm just going to do that just to show you. When I launch it,
that way, over here, in the advanced tab, this will eliminate and only show these aspect
ratios over here next time we launch it. Now, some of the other useful ones that I
prefer is the default aspect ratio is another very useful one because a lot of times
I always use the same aspect ratios. So, we can put that one in there, and then
it would default. Now, if I wanted, let's say it to be 1024 by 1024, I could
change that to that. Now, when I launch it, the default aspect ratio over on the side here
will always be the 1024 instead of the other one. A few other things that you can change that are
I find very useful. Let's say you have a negative prompt that you always wanted; you could put that
in there and type out what the negative prompt would be. If you wanted a default prompt, you
could choose that as well. These are the ones I actually use, and I change these because I almost
always use quality. I always want that advanced checked off. I prefer up to 64 images, and I
like to have the default image number is four. Now, there's a lot of these other ones in here you can change the default scales. You can
change pretty much almost anything you can think of can be changed in here.
I'm just going to show those for now. Now, one thing I got to make sure of
is since I copied and pasted into here, it added that comma at the end, so I want to
get rid of that because we don't want that before that last bracket. Everything
else is ready, so I'm going to hit save. I'm going to go ahead and relaunch
Fooocus to show the different changes. And as you can see here, the advanced is
already checked off as we had told it. The image number is set to four. These are the only
aspect ratios that are offered. It's already set on quality. Now, I didn't put anything in the
negative prompt, but if I had, it would have put that already in there. The same with the
styles, anything like that, would have changed. That makes it very useful if you're always using
the same settings. You can have it always launch with those same settings. You don't have to go
through each time and change everything around. That should get you started with customizing
your Fooocus experience. Don't forget to back up the config file before you make any changes
and double-check for any syntax errors that may cause Fooocus to not load the config file. If you
run into problems, the comma at the end and these double backslashes are the two biggest ones
that people will run into. If you found this video helpful, please do consider clicking the
like button because it definitely does help, and questions or suggestions for video ideas, please
leave a comment. Thanks for watching, and don't forget that I do have other videos on Fooocus, and
we'll have more in the future. Have a great day.
