How to run Stable Diffusion on your Mac

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Abstraction: Step-by-step guide to running Stable Diffusion locally on Apple Silicon

Key points:

Requires an M1 or M2 Mac running the latest macOS; older Intel Macs are not supported by the DiffusionBee native app.
DiffusionBee is the recommended installation path: download from diffusionbee.com, drag to Applications, then use the "Text to image" tab with comma-separated prompt tags.
Hugging Face web app (stabilityai/stable-diffusion space) provides a no-install alternative that generates ~4 images per prompt.
A Photoshop plugin by Christian Cantrell integrates Stable Diffusion directly into Photoshop with full advanced options, though it was new and potentially buggy at time of writing.
Prompting tip: list most important subjects first, then style attributes, lighting, and direct inspiration sources (painter, TV show, etc.).

Connections: Stable Diffusion · Diffusionbee · Hugging Face · AI Image Generation · Local AI Deployment · Text To Image