In this video, I'm going to show you how to set
up Fooocus, which is a user-friendly AI image generation software, on Windows. Unlike
many other Stable Diffusion interfaces, this one is much easier to use. There are advanced
options, but you don't have to use them. Now, the biggest thing that you're going to have to
pay attention to is the system requirements. Basically, if you have an Nvidia card, 20 series
or better, with 4 GB of video RAM or more, you shouldn't really have many issues. Anything
other than that, you'd have to look at this chart and determine what will work or what won't. Worst
case, just give it a try and find out. Obviously, what you have for a video card and everything will
determine how quickly the images are generated. If you don't have 7zip installed, you will need
it to extract the Fooocus download file. So, you can go to the 7zip site if you don't
have it. If you have it, you can skip to the next step. Once you're on the website, you can
probably click on the first link for the 64-bit Windows. Once that's finished downloading,
we'll just click on the file to open it, and then we'll just click on yes, and then
we just need to click on install to install it to its default location and close it,
and we're all set to download Fooocus. Once you have 7zip installed, you can
go to the GitHub page for Fooocus, and I'll include that link in the description.
Once on that page, you're just going to scroll down a little ways until you find the section that
says 'Installing Fooocus.' We'll click on that; it will bring you to the download for Windows,
and you want to make sure you know where you're downloading it to. This should download the
.7z file. I'm going to choose the desktop for this installation; that way, I'll just have
it right on the desktop, and I'll save it. Now, once it's finished downloading, you're just
going to want to go to where you saved the file, right-click on it. Now, if you're on Windows
11, you may need to go down to the 'show more options' in the context menu, and you're going
to be looking for the 7zip option and go into the submenu from there. I'm just going to
extract it to a folder here on the desktop. Do keep in mind that once this is all set up,
everything will reside in that folder; it doesn't actually install anything onto the computer.
Basically, everything runs inside that folder; you can move it around, none of that matters at
that point. Think of it as more of a portable installation. And once you've done extracting
the file, you can delete the original .7z file as well. I'm going to switch over to my other primary
system to show you the rest of this. Now, once that's all extracted, we'll go into the folder,
and I recommend you'll have three starting files you can use to initially get everything up and
running. I suggest running run.bat first. That'll open the command prompt, and at that point, it
will start downloading the models and everything else that you need if you haven't already
installed them separately for some other reason. This is the easiest way; let it go ahead, it'll
download what it needs automatically for you. One thing I will recommend is whenever you're running
Fooocus, and if you ever run into any problems or you're not sure what's happening, you can always
go to this command prompt window and see what's happening in the background. Sometimes I've had
it gets stuck, and I've had to hit Control+C once to kind of unstick it, but that doesn't happen
very often. Do keep in mind that these models can be pretty good size, so it can take a while
to download depending on your internet connection. And once that's done downloading the models and
everything, if you don't run into any errors, it should automatically launch the browser
window, and you should see Fooocus right in front of you with its basic setup, so at this
point, you're ready to start creating AI images. I'll give you a real quick walkthrough of
this, and in further videos, I'm going to explore more advanced features. Now, once we
have Fooocus up and running, I'll give you a real quick rundown of how this works. One thing I
will show you initially is where things are. So, inside that folder that we extracted, you have
your three different files to run. So, when you first run Fooocus, you have the option of running
it with these three presets: your most basic, or standard Fooocus, would be the run.bat. If you're
trying to do more anime stuff, you want to use the anime.bat, and if you're going for more realistic,
like photos, then you're better off usually with the realistic.bat. What that does is load a
lot of the preset settings, the model specific models. Once you run those, you can change
those settings and tweak everything as well. So now, as far as where all the images that you
create are stored, now if you go into your Fooocus folder, inside that initial folder, you see,
find a whole bunch of other folders in here. All your images will be output to the output
folder in here, and they will be coded by date; each folder, each day, will have its
own folder, so you can go into here, you'll see any images that you've created. There's
also the log file because Fooocus doesn't embed any information into the images like certain
other ones do, but you will get that information if you go into your log file here. If we click
on that, you'll see. It'll show on each image that I've just created earlier; it shows all the
settings, and you can actually even copy those to the clipboard and bring them in. I won't cover
that right now; I'll show that in a future video. So, this is the standard Fooocus when you first
launch it, and what you'd want to do at this point, just to show you how it works simply, is
type something into the prompt of what I want for an image. I will do 'a woman sitting on a rock
by the river', and then I'll hit generate. Now, this is going to use all the standard settings.
I haven't turned on the advanced or anything like that. You can use it this way, but pretty
quickly, you're going to want to start using more of the advanced features, which I will cover
in a future video. So, once this starts rolling, you'll see it; it explains what step it's on on
each image, and you can watch it as it generates the images. Depending on what video card you have
and how much memory you have and everything else will determine how fast this will happen on your
system. By default, it uses the speed setting, and it also will generate two pictures at a time.
Now, at any point, if you see that you don't like the image that's coming out, you can hit skip, or
you can hit the stop button to completely stop the generation at that point. Sometimes it can take
a minute for it to actually stop everything. If you do want to check into some of the advanced
features, you'd click on the advanced option, and you do have many options in here as well,
which I will cover in future videos. And that pretty much covers the basic setup and
everything else. At this point, if I, once I'm done, or as you can see here, I'll show
you in this folder here, we have now these two additional images that we just created. Now,
you can also in here click on the images, and if you wanted to save them, you could click
here and save them to wherever you want to save them as well. I just go into the output folder
myself, and hopefully, that explains how to get everything up and running with Fooocus. Hopefully,
you enjoyed the video, and like I said, I'll have more videos coming up soon on how to use more of
the advanced features, including imp painting and many other things. Thanks for watching, and
hopefully, I'll see you in the next video.
