AI Image Generator by Art Neurona vs ICBINP | Civitai

Neurona from Art Neurona turns text prompts into images and keeps photo editing in the same browser workflow on art-neurona.com. You describe what you want, generate visuals, then adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, and backgrounds without switching tools. The same account covers face swap in photos and video, AI upscaling, retouching, and body shape edits.

Most image generation models stop at the first render. Neurona bundles face swap photo and video, figure correction, and background replacement next to text-to-image generation inside one credit wallet. That makes it faster for social posts and ad variants, but it is not built for layer-based design work in Photoshop or Figma.

Marketers, content creators, e-commerce sellers, and artists use Neurona to draft campaign graphics, Pinterest covers, product banners, and stylized art from prompts. Weekly, monthly, and annual plans include commercial use rights, watermark-free HD to 4K output, and access to the linked iPhone app.

ICBINP is a Stable Diffusion 1.5 checkpoint merge built to push photorealistic image generation as far as a local SD 1.5 setup allows. The Civitai model page hosts multiple versions, with Mid 2024 as the latest major release updated in February 2025. Each variant ships as a pruned fp16 SafeTensor file with the SD-v2 840k VAE baked in, so you can load it in Automatic1111, ComfyUI, or any standard SD 1.5 interface without swapping VAEs.

Where most photorealistic checkpoints chase a single aesthetic, ICBINP grew through successive merges. It started from the RCNZ Gorilla With A Brick base, then folded in ten more photorealistic models at varying weights plus noise offset tuning. The Mid 2024 version adds a LoRA trained on Pexels stock photos merged with ICBINP Final, which tightens skin and lighting realism but still shows typical SD 1.5 quirks like cleft chin bias.

The author recommends DPM++ 3M SDE Karras or DPM++ 2M Karras at 20 to 30 steps with CFG between 2.5 and 5. Resolution sweet spot is 640x960 with a hires fix pass, though 768x1152 works if you hunt seeds to avoid duplicate heads. Beyond portraits, the checkpoint handles CGI characters and landscapes when prompted accordingly.

Downloads are free from Civitai under CreativeML Open RAIL-M. The Mid 2024 file (ICBINP_midYear.safetensors) weighs 2.21 GB and needs about 3.4 GB recommended VRAM. With 163,500+ downloads and 285 Very Positive reviews, it remains one of the most downloaded photorealistic SD 1.5 merges on the platform.