Hey everyone, Rodney here at Kleebz
Tech. Today, I'm going to show you how to get started using Fooocus on Google
Colab. Fooocus is a great and easy-to-use interface for stable diffusion, and for those
who may not have a powerful enough computer, Google Colab allows you to use it for
free. I have many videos on using Fooocus, covering everything from prompting to poses and
inpainting. If you're interested, check those out. Now, I will mention that using the free
tier of Google Colab has limitations. There are no exact limitations, and it could
stop working at any time. When that happens, it will reset for the next day, and you'll
be able to use it again. There is, of course, the option to pay for Colab, which
will give you more resources to use. Okay, let's set things up. You will need a
Google account for this, and you'll need to be signed in. Once you're ready, we're going
to go to the GitHub page for Fooocus. Here, we start by scrolling down to the Colab section.
I recommend reading the information here. I don’t use Fooocus on Colab much myself,
so I can't give a detailed experience on using it in Colab. From my understanding,
it's gotten much better recently. I haven't run into any issues myself, except for the
obvious disconnect when I run out of usage. Since I don’t have a ton of
experience using it on Colab, if anybody else does and wants to give
any tips, leave those in the comments. Or, if there's a better or easier way of doing what
I do, definitely mention it in the comments, as there are several different ways of doing
certain things that I've found, and I don't know if what I'm doing is the best. But this
will get you up and running, and it does work. The first thing we want to do after we've gone
over everything is click on the 'Open in Colab' link. Once you do this, it will open it
up in Colab, but we don't want to just use it from here. You could, but if we make any
changes, which I'm going to show you how to do, they won't save, and you'll have to keep putting
those in. The best way is to click on 'Copy to Drive'. Now, it may ask you to open it
in a new window; mine didn't this time, but it did previously. Now we can close that
original one because we're not going to be using that one. If you want to name it, you can
name it. If I go into my drive here and refresh, you'll see it's now in my drive. I can
come in here and just click on that. If we close that up there and boom, just click
on that, and now we're up and running again. At this point, we can just go ahead, hit
the 'Run' button, and everything would run, and we'd be running Fooocus. I'm going
to show you more information on what you can do to customize or change some
of those things because you're probably going to want to do that at some point,
maybe not the first time you run it. The first thing to understand is how this works.
When you hit that 'Run' button, these first four lines tell it to set up the environment and
it clones Fooocus from GitHub into the folder on Colab. Every time you go to use this, it
has to go through that process of cloning, bringing everything in, downloading any models
or anything like that. It doesn't save all that, so just remember, any folders, any files, those
things will be destroyed, but when it's completely done, when you're done using it, they won't be
there. The last line tells it to launch Fooocus with the settings that it has here in the flags.
If you want to change those, if you want to use just the built-in presets, all you need to do
is go from the GitHub page, you can use these. For the anime, I'd use the anime one. I'd come in
here, Ctrl+V, I can paste it in there, and now if I were to launch it, it would launch it with the
anime presets. But even there, what if you want to use something different? That's what I'm going
to show you how to change this so you can have it download exactly what you want ahead of time
and not download things that you don't need to. One thing I will mention that I'm
not going to be covering here but if you wanted to do it so you could set it up
exactly like this and have it just start is you could set up your own on GitHub,
set up your own Fork of Fooocus with your own presets and everything else, and have it
clone that, and then you wouldn't have to do some of the steps that I do. But I don't use it enough
to go through that, and I'm not going to cover how to do that, but that is an option, just to let you
know. I know that is something that can be done. Now, the first thing I do in here is I add a
couple of extra lines. If you up here, you have the code if I click on that, it'll add multiple
sections of code. I usually start off with about three. I'm going to copy this, or actually cut
it out of there, and then I'll paste it down in the bottom one that way I can have it do other
things between here and then I can run that when I'm ready. When it's done, all that, now the other
thing you can do as well is if you find yourself using the different presets and you want to have
them set up, you could come in here, grab those, and I could add another section, put it in here,
paste it, and now, depending on which one I want to run, when it comes time, I could run the
standard one, or I could run the anime one here. Before I go too far into some of the other
things, let's say I'm going to cover doing individual things first. So, a lot of the
questions I see people asking is how do you get a specific checkpoint onto Colab. The
easiest way to do that is to have it download. You put the code in to download it and to save
it into your folder in Colab when you run it. So, on this one, I'm going to have it on this line
here is the way I prefer to do it. I've already got the code set up here from my other account
because you can have multiple Google accounts, of course. So, in here, I have just the
comment to start off with, and then you, this is the format that you're going to want,
!wget -O, then we're going to be putting where we want to
save it. So, if you go into here, well, we haven't run it yet, so it's not going to show it, but
you'll see it's putting it in the content folder then Fooocus is where we're cloning it, so in
here, we want it in the content folder in Fooocus, then in the models folder, then in checkpoints,
and then the file name. That's how you'd set up the saving of the file, where it's going to
save it, and the name. Then you put a space, and then we're going to have the actual address
for where we're going to download from. Now, each one is different. I'm going to cover from
Civit AI. You can do the same from Hugging Face as well. So, where you get this from, from
Civit AI, so let's go to the Juggernaut page. Now, we're on here, you do not copy just the
address from up top because that's not the address that you want. If we look here, you'll notice
they're totally different. So, the easiest way to do this that I find, if you first want to get
the file name to use, you can just click on here, click download, copy that, hit cancel because
we don't want to download it onto our computer, and we can go into here, and that's where I would
paste in the file name. I could just paste it in there, or you can just type it in, up to you. And
then in here, we go on the download button, we can right-click and copy link address, and we go
in here, I would just go ahead and paste it, and that's it. Now, when we run that, it's going to go
ahead and download that. So, I'll show you. Let's get started on here. So, I'm going to go ahead
and start cloning Fooocus to start off with first. Now, remember, each time we do this and run this,
if I come back the next day, I'm going to have to do this again, and it's going to have to go
through this process again. Now, this usually only takes maybe 15 to 30 seconds to do in my
experience. Okay, it's completed. So now, Fooocus has been cloned and it's set up on Colab. If we
go over to our folders here, you'll see there's a Fooocus folder. See, we're in the content folder
already, and in the Fooocus folder, you have all the standard stuff for Fooocus in here. And I
will show you, you can interact with these files. Okay, so now that we have it cloned,
if we were to start it now just by clicking on one of these, it'll go ahead and
download what we need for that and download the default models. But the default models are not
necessarily what we want. So, let's say we wanted to have other models available to us. Well, we've
now set up this checkpoint, so I can go ahead, hit run on here. Now, I could add that line
to the initial line as well. That's entirely up to you. I prefer to have these on separates
because I don't always use the same models. So, on my other account that I have set up, I
have different checkpoints set up depending on which one I want to use, and this will take a few
minutes to do because these are very large files. Okay, so it's done downloading. At this point,
it took a few minutes. Now, I'm going to go ahead and launch this, but I'm going to do it to show
something because even though we have downloaded our own models, it's still going to go ahead and
download whatever the standard preset model is set to because that's just how it's set up. But
I'm going to show you how you can avoid that, but I'm going to show you first what ends up
happening so you understand it because the main primary preset still has the default preset model
as the Juggernaut version 8, I believe, at the moment when I'm doing this. So, that's still going
to go and grab that because we haven't changed that preset. But at this point, it's going to go
ahead and install all the requirements that aren't on there already. If you want to change, you can
leave this if you want to; it's not going to hurt it to go through there, but it's going to take
more time to go through downloading everything. Now everything is started and running at the
moment. Looks like now once you have this up and running, there's going to be multiple
links on here. The link you want to click on is whatever this link is here, the running
on public URL. So, when we click on that, and it's going to be the same one that's down
here as well, so we can click on either one of those. If you have any errors or anything,
you'll see those in here. You'll also notice this is everything that it did. It went
through and it downloaded everything it needs, and some of these things,
it will have to do no matter what. Okay, so let's go ahead, and I'll show you what
this looks like when you have it up and running, just to show that it does work. Okay, we have
Fooocus set up. Go into our advanced Tab, and now in here, you'll see the models. So, we
still have the version 8 because that was what's in the preset. We can click on here and change
over now because we also downloaded the other one. And if we go back into our Colab into the
folders, you'll notice in here, under models, checkpoints, you have your checkpoints in
here. Now, in theory, I guess, you can, I don't know if you can upload. I've never tried
uploading a checkpoint by putting it into the folder. You can actually do that with LoRA.
I'll show you that after that. It doesn't seem to be a problem. But checkpoints are pretty
large files, so I don't think those easily will work in my experience by just dropping
them into the folders, but you can edit the stuff in the folders, and that's what I'm going
to show you after to change a couple of things. So now that I've shown you how this works when
you run it, I'm going to show you how to stop it, and then I'll go and show you some more
things that you can edit and change to make it a little bit easier when using it.
So, to stop this while this is running, you'll notice this circle keeps on going
because that means that code is still running. So, we can just hit the stop button here, and
it'll go ahead and stop that. So, that's done. I like to clean that up. I'll close those. Oh,
I know that's already been done, so I don't need that in there anymore, and we can close that up
at the moment because we don't need to see that. Okay, now for LoRAs, how do you install those?
Well, it's the same idea. I sometimes get errors where it won't allow it, unauthorized, so I'll
show you two ways of doing the LoRAs. One way is the same way as the checkpoints. So, you
could have you download the LoRAs that you need by clicking on the button. That's one
way that I do it because a lot of times I'm not using all the different LoRAs, so there's
no reason to download them, as you know. So, I put them on different lines, so whichever
ones I need, I can just click on the button and go ahead and install those for that
session because between each session, you have to go through and download each thing. Now, the same idea, the same format where
you're going to save it, is going to be slightly different because you're putting it in
the LoRA folder. You go into the download, you right-click on it, and copy the link address, and
then you come in here, and you'd paste it in here. You can do that from Hugging Face as well. Now, I
do run into sometimes it doesn't. It gives errors that it didn't download it, but then it ends up
downloading it. So, I'm not entirely sure what the issue is with that, but worst case, if that
doesn't work, the other option you have, so I'm going to go into there, and then I want to go into my
models folder, and we're going to find the LoRAs folder here, and that's where we're going to drag.
We can go in and click on this, and hit upload, and select the file. The other option is to drag
the LoRA over. So, I could take this, as you can see down at the bottom, it says, 'drop files to
upload', and OB sessum storage. So, I find the LoRA folder, I drop, drop it in there, it warns me
that those will be deleted when the runtime when I stop using it, that's fine, I'm going to hit
okay. Now, this depends on your upload speed. If you do not have a very fast upload speed, it could
take a while because those files are, you know, decent size. They're not gigabytes in size as
the checkpoints are, but they are, you know, decent size, and you can see down here, you'll
see the thing rotating. Now, I do find sometimes when you drop something in here, you get the
red circle. If that happens, I don't think it's uploading. That's what happens when I try to put
the checkpoints. I think they're too large. So, it just won't upload them, and if you don't have
a fast upload, you wouldn't want to do it that way because it would take forever. So, you're always
better off with checkpoints doing it the way I showed here. LoRA, if you have your own LoRA,
obviously, you don't have a download link unless you post it online, then you could do it that way,
but then you'd have to otherwise put them in here. Okay, so ours is now in there, even though it
still says it's uploading. So, we'd have to wait for that. But those are the two ways you can do
the LoRAs, as I said here, or you can just drop them into the folder. Now, the other thing that I
do as well, and this is entirely up to you on how you want to do it, I there's another reason I have
it set up not start Fooocus when I do all this, and that is because I wanted to clone all these
things before I start it. So, if I wanted to add wild cards, I could put them in here. If I have
my own custom wild cards now, or any styles, you want to put those in there before
you start Fooocus because if you don't, if you put them in there afterward, it won't see
them, and you'll have to restart Fooocus. Now, that doesn't apply with LoRAs and things. Once
you have the LoRAs or anything in those folders, you can have it refresh your models, and that
will show up in there, but for the other ones, they do have to be in there when you start
Fooocus; otherwise, it's not going to see those. So, what I do is I have a preset, my I've
changed the default one that way. I don't have it download the default models. So, I've
gone in and edited my, I have a specific one, um, default that I put in here, and so
it's telling it, for example, in this one, I want to use juggernaut X, the new one, as my default
model, and I don't have the downloads in here, so it won't download those when I run it,
um, it will download the this one here, this LoRA because I do want it to download
that, but the other ones I don't. Now, you, you could put your, your stuff in here as
well, that's up to you how you do it. So, at this point, all I do is I drop my preset in
here, and that'll replace. If I go into here, double click on it, open it, I'll see that
it's now replaced the original one, and now my default is going to be the X1. So, now I've
already cloned it, I put in anything like my presets or anything like that, I want in here, I
put any custom wild cards that I'd like to put in, any custom Styles. I've changed the preset to use
the X model. So, if I were to Just Launch Fooocus, the moment this wouldn't work because, well, it
would work, but it wouldn't find that X model. So, that would be an issue. So, I do need to download
that first before I start Fooocus, and also, I would need to download any LoRAs that I need
as well. So, I'm going to go ahead and do that. Okay, now I've downloaded the checkpoint,
I've cloned it, I've put in my, my custom stuff that I want before launching it. Now, if
I wanted to let's say get this LoRA as well, I could go ahead and do that, or if you have any
other LoRAs, you could add them at this point to the folders by uploading them as well. And once
that's done, now everything else, those steps are already complete, and then I go ahead, and I'll
launch the one that I want to launch. As I said, you can change how you do all this stuff;
it's entirely up to you. I'm just showing you, this is how I do it. I have a separate folder for
all the stuff I drop in here. It takes me about 30 seconds to put everything in and get everything
up and running, and then I just go ahead, and I'll launch Fooocus at this point. I do want
to stress it's every time you start a new session, it is going to have to go through and get all
those requirements that it needs. It does take a, you know, it can take a few minutes
depending on what it needs to download. Now, if you're ever curious what's going on and
how much your resources are being used, you can click up here, and it'll show you the resource
usage in here. And when you start hitting those, maxing those out, you can start having issues.
But I really I've, I've used Fooocus with plenty of the face swap image prompts, everything else,
all, and I've yet to have it have issues. Now, in the past, when I tried it, I did have issues,
so I think they've done a lot to improve how it runs on Colab. And of course, you do have the
option to upgrade to Colab Pro if you want to go that way as well. I know there are people that
use it on Colab, and there are other services that run it as well. I like it because it's a free
service I can use on occasions when I need to. Okay, so it looks like it's up and running.
I'll go ahead. I'm going to click on that. Now, the one thing to keep in mind when you're doing
this is whenever you do this, you have to remember it's a new session, so if anything hasn't
been already downloaded in the background, it is going to have to download any of that
stuff while it's doing it. It usually will tell you down here on the bar that it's actually
downloading something, but the other option as well is you can always go into your Colab here
and see what's happening in the background. See, it will show you any of that sort of stuff,
anything that's going on, will be in this window, and you'll see the resources as you can see
here as it uses more resources. Of course, you never know when this is going to stop working
when you're going to use up your runtime. So, do keep that in mind. If you run into issues, go
into here. It'll tell you that it got disconnected because of your session, you've used Too Much.
Come back the next day, and it should be able you should be able to use it again. I do have a couple
of Google accounts, so I can always switch between them, but I don't use in a massive amount,
so I don't usually run into that too often. So now, we have our images now. So, I'll show
you how this works. So, let's say we were to, um, do the inpainting. What'll happen
is when we go to actually running it, you're going to see downloading inpainter. So, in
the background, we can see that it's downloading all those things. Now, that'll only happen
once per session because once it's downloaded, same as before, they're in these folders.
But when you close the session out, those will all be deleted. So, the next
time you use it, when you go to IM in paint or anything else, it will have to
do that again, but it usually only takes a few seconds for those. Now, the one other thing to remember when you're
using in Colab, you can just download the images as you generate them by clicking up here and
then downloading them. That's the other option, of course, is to go into here. You want to
remember this because every time you're done with your session, these folders are going to get
deleted, so you can't come back in here later and find your images. So, we can go into our output
folder just like you would on a local system, and you'll find all your images in here. So,
you could go in here and download the individual files. That's where your outputs are put if
you're ever looking for those. It's the same as the normal one, um, focus in that regard,
but you can also just click on each image here and download them as well. And I should get
you started using Fooocus on Google Colab at this point. You can use Fooocus as you would
normally, and I do have lots of other videos and different topics related to Fooocus, so
check those out if you have not. Hopefully, you found the video helpful and hit that like
button. And, of course, I always appreciate anyone buying me a cup of coffee or donating.
Thanks for watching, and have fun creating.
