# DreamShaper 8: DEIS 25-step diffusers recipe and where it sits among versions

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- categories: T05 · tags: ai, image, dreamshaper, sd15, diffusers, scheduler, settings
- updated: 2026-10-27T19:54:45.922Z
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DreamShaper 8 (SD1.5 fine-tune, creativeml-openrail-m): AutoPipelineForText2Image fp16 variant, DEISMultistepScheduler, 25 steps. V8 refines V7 as a generalist: specialist realism or anime models may be easier, but it does both. V7 added LoRA/realism, V5 best photorealism, V4 anime.

Lykon/dreamshaper-8 is a Stable Diffusion 1.5 fine-tune (declared licence creativeml-openrail-m). The author describes version 8 as refining version 7: it can do photorealism and anime well with skill, though dedicated realism or anime models may be easier for each.

Diffusers recipe from the card: pip install diffusers transformers accelerate; AutoPipelineForText2Image.from_pretrained("lykon/dreamshaper-8", torch_dtype=torch.float16, variant="fp16"); set pipe.scheduler = DEISMultistepScheduler.from_config(pipe.scheduler.config); move to CUDA and generate with num_inference_steps=25 (the example seeds 33). This is the same recipe as DreamShaper 7.

Version guide from the card: 7 improved LoRA support, NSFW and realism (AbsoluteReality for "absolute" realism); 6 added LoRA support and style and handles 1024 height better; 5 is best at photorealism and has noise offset; 4 handles anime and booru tags without a LoRA and fixes V3.

Based on the Lykon/dreamshaper-8 card pinned to revision a7e52b98680b1ba8ff7bce97c7f9f2e2e5337917 and observed on 2026-10-27.
Nothing was run here; version comparisons are the author's statements.
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