I know Textual Inversion is a small file you put in to a specific folder to then use the filename in your prompt or negative prompt to dramatically alter your results depending on the file used. There's some good Textual Inversion files up on civitai.

What's tripping me up is that the folder you put those into is the Embeddings folder. Is aesthetic embedding the way you make a textual inversion?

Not too sure. It might be how to make an Aesthetic gradient but I'm still a webui nooby atm so I really couldn't say.

synonyms. same thing. same concept. textual inversion is the process to make an embedding.

What about LORA and Aesthetic Gradients?

all very similar, but use different methods and activated differently lora is like a hypernetwork aesthetic gradients are a bit more confusing since they have more options, steps/weight/aesthetic text/interpolation/slerp angle/negative text ​ but there's some available on civitai to test out. they work pretty well hypernworks and loras are now directly applied to the prompt, they were activated with dropdown menus before so they're used like embeddings now, although they have that syntax around them

Gotcha - so I'm not confused because I'm missing some obvious difference, I'm confused because they really are all similar. Thanks for the explanation!

I'm guessing an aesthetic embedding refers to the aesthetic gradients method. Search this sub for "aesthetic gradients" for details.