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None of the file sharing sites I tried could handle this many files, so I created a single 7zip archive and uploaded that instead. Should be relatively easy to unzip, but let me know if you run into any issues doing so.
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Excellent stuff! For anyone else who has downloaded the file, don't double click and open the file (it will stall given how many images there are) but instead right click and choose the option to extract to a folder (if you aren't using winrar but a different program this may look different. but here's what my options look like, you want to choose the very bottom option)
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So now that i've got a massive collection of images to use, courtesy of Xenon, i'm going to go through and select a diverse, balanced, high quality set of images from the collection and make them training-ready, which means.... manually removing each watermark. 😭
I initially thought i could batch-remove the watermarks using qwen-image-edit but it always modifies the entire image and degrades detail and color accuracy no matter how much i try to tweak the node tree, so unfortunately I believe manually editing is the only way to do it if we really want a superb training dataset.
The way i'm doing this is opening the image in photoshop, selecting only the region of the watermark and doing "content aware fill". Gonna take a bit of time for sure, so if anyone is decent with photoshop and wants to help in this project send me a DM. Otherwise, if you haven't seen me post in this thread in a while don't worry I didn't abandon it, i'm probably just tediously cleaning up images. 🤣