README.md

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title: StickerGen
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# AI Sticker Generator (Stable Diffusion + IP-Adapter/InstantID/ControlNet, CPU-ready)

## 🚀 Features
- Generate emoji/sticker-style faces from your own photos
- Uses Stable Diffusion + one adapter (IP-Adapter, InstantID, or ControlNet)
- Runs on CPU

## 🖥️ Quickstart: Hugging Face Spaces

1. **Create a new Space:**  
   Go to [https://huggingface.co/spaces](https://huggingface.co/spaces), click **"Create new Space"**.  
   Select **"Gradio"** as the SDK, choose **CPU** for hardware.

2. **Upload these files.**

3. **Add model weights:**
   - For IP-Adapter: Download weights from the official [IP-Adapter repo](https://github.com/tencent-ailab/IP-Adapter) or Hugging Face model hub.
   - Place them in the `models/` directory.
   - Alternatively, adjust the code to download them at runtime.

4. **Requirements are auto-installed from `requirements.txt` on Hugging Face.**

5. **Hit "Run".**

## 🛠️ Local testing
- Create a virtual environment and install dependencies: