ControlNets provide a more flexible and accurate way to control image generation because you can use an additional conditioning image. The conditioning image can be a canny image, depth map, image segmentation, and even scribbles! Whatever type of conditioning image you choose, the ControlNet generates an image that preserves the information in it.  
For example, let's condition an image with a depth map to keep the spatial information in the image.  
```py
from diffusers.utils import load_image, make_image_grid

# prepare image
url = "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/diffusers/img2img-init.png"
init_image = load_image(url)
init_image = init_image.resize((958, 960)) # resize to depth image dimensions
depth_image = load_image("https://huggingface.co/lllyasviel/control_v11f1p_sd15_depth/resolve/main/images/control.png")
make_image_grid([init_image, depth_image], rows=1, cols=2)
```  
Load a ControlNet model conditioned on depth maps and the [`AutoPipelineForImage2Image`]:  
```py
from diffusers import ControlNetModel, AutoPipelineForImage2Image
import torch

controlnet = ControlNetModel.from_pretrained("lllyasviel/control_v11f1p_sd15_depth", torch_dtype=torch.float16, variant="fp16", use_safetensors=True)
pipeline = AutoPipelineForImage2Image.from_pretrained(
"stable-diffusion-v1-5/stable-diffusion-v1-5", controlnet=controlnet, torch_dtype=torch.float16, variant="fp16", use_safetensors=True
)
pipeline.enable_model_cpu_offload()
# remove following line if xFormers is not installed or you have PyTorch 2.0 or higher installed
pipeline.enable_xformers_memory_efficient_attention()
```  
Now generate a new image conditioned on the depth map, initial image, and prompt:  
```py
prompt = "Astronaut in a jungle, cold color palette, muted colors, detailed, 8k"
image_control_net = pipeline(prompt, image=init_image, control_image=depth_image).images[0]
make_image_grid([init_image, depth_image, image_control_net], rows=1, cols=3)
```  
<div class="flex flex-row gap-4">
<div class="flex-1">
<img class="rounded-xl" src="https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/diffusers/img2img-init.png"/>
<figcaption class="mt-2 text-center text-sm text-gray-500">initial image</figcaption>
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<img class="rounded-xl" src="https://huggingface.co/lllyasviel/control_v11f1p_sd15_depth/resolve/main/images/control.png"/>
<figcaption class="mt-2 text-center text-sm text-gray-500">depth image</figcaption>
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<img class="rounded-xl" src="https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/diffusers/img2img-controlnet.png"/>
<figcaption class="mt-2 text-center text-sm text-gray-500">ControlNet image</figcaption>
</div>
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Let's apply a new [style](https://huggingface.co/nitrosocke/elden-ring-diffusion) to the image generated from the ControlNet by chaining it with an image-to-image pipeline:  
```py
pipeline = AutoPipelineForImage2Image.from_pretrained(
"nitrosocke/elden-ring-diffusion", torch_dtype=torch.float16,
)
pipeline.enable_model_cpu_offload()
# remove following line if xFormers is not installed or you have PyTorch 2.0 or higher installed
pipeline.enable_xformers_memory_efficient_attention()

prompt = "elden ring style astronaut in a jungle" # include the token "elden ring style" in the prompt
negative_prompt = "ugly, deformed, disfigured, poor details, bad anatomy"

image_elden_ring = pipeline(prompt, negative_prompt=negative_prompt, image=image_control_net, strength=0.45, guidance_scale=10.5).images[0]
make_image_grid([init_image, depth_image, image_control_net, image_elden_ring], rows=2, cols=2)
```  
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<img src="https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/diffusers/img2img-elden-ring.png">
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