# Text-guided image-to-image generation
[[open-in-colab]]
The [`StableDiffusionImg2ImgPipeline`] lets you pass a text prompt and an initial image to condition the generation of new images.
Before you begin, make sure you have all the necessary libraries installed:
```bash
!pip install diffusers transformers ftfy accelerate
```
Get started by creating a [`StableDiffusionImg2ImgPipeline`] with a pretrained Stable Diffusion model like [`nitrosocke/Ghibli-Diffusion`](https://huggingface.co/nitrosocke/Ghibli-Diffusion).
```python
import torch
import requests
from PIL import Image
from io import BytesIO
from diffusers import StableDiffusionImg2ImgPipeline
device = "cuda"
pipe = StableDiffusionImg2ImgPipeline.from_pretrained("nitrosocke/Ghibli-Diffusion", torch_dtype=torch.float16).to(
device
)
```
Download and preprocess an initial image so you can pass it to the pipeline:
```python
url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion/main/assets/stable-samples/img2img/sketch-mountains-input.jpg"
response = requests.get(url)
init_image = Image.open(BytesIO(response.content)).convert("RGB")
init_image.thumbnail((768, 768))
init_image
```
💡 `strength` is a value between 0.0 and 1.0 that controls the amount of noise added to the input image. Values that approach 1.0 allow for lots of variations but will also produce images that are not semantically consistent with the input.
Define the prompt (for this checkpoint finetuned on Ghibli-style art, you need to prefix the prompt with the `ghibli style` tokens) and run the pipeline:
```python
prompt = "ghibli style, a fantasy landscape with castles"
generator = torch.Generator(device=device).manual_seed(1024)
image = pipe(prompt=prompt, image=init_image, strength=0.75, guidance_scale=7.5, generator=generator).images[0]
image
```
You can also try experimenting with a different scheduler to see how that affects the output:
```python
from diffusers import LMSDiscreteScheduler
lms = LMSDiscreteScheduler.from_config(pipe.scheduler.config)
pipe.scheduler = lms
generator = torch.Generator(device=device).manual_seed(1024)
image = pipe(prompt=prompt, image=init_image, strength=0.75, guidance_scale=7.5, generator=generator).images[0]
image
```
Check out the Spaces below, and try generating images with different values for `strength`. You'll notice that using lower values for `strength` produces images that are more similar to the original image.
Feel free to also switch the scheduler to the [`LMSDiscreteScheduler`] and see how that affects the output.
