Chose Midjourney over Stable Diffusion for my comic project

I spent two weeks going back and forth on which tool to use for a graphic novel I'm illustrating. Midjourney gave me cleaner character faces right out of the box, but Stable Diffusion let me train my own LoRAs for consistent armor designs. I ended up picking Midjourney for the first 30 pages because I needed speed over control. The problem is now I'm stuck with weird hand poses and can't fix them without changing the whole composition. My buddy who used Stable Diffusion says he can tweak anything in 5 minutes with inpainting. Has anyone else hit this wall where the easy tool starts holding you back halfway through?

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perez.willow1mo ago

Disagree with you there. Speed doesn't matter if you gotta redo half your pages later.

juliag101mo ago

Oh gosh, I feel this in my bones... nothing like realizing your "quick fix" is actually a brand new problem. I personally stuck with a cheaper tool for my own hobby stuff and ended up redoing ten pages because of those awful mangled fingers. Sometimes the easy road just decides to dump you in a ditch halfway.

blake3221mo ago

Man, is it really that deep though? I've used cheap tools for years and never had to redo ten pages of anything. @juliag10, you sure it wasn't just user error or maybe you were pushing too hard? I've got a twenty dollar stapler that's outlasted three "nice" ones and never mangled a single page. Feels like sometimes people just need an excuse to upgrade when a steady hand and some patience would do the trick.