Steps

30 steps should be plenty for most samplers. Higher number will give better results on non-ancestral samplers. Ancestral samplers on the other hand will continuously change the image as steps get increased.

Steps vs. the two most common samplers

If you are using a higher Prompt Strength (CFG) you may also require higher Step count.

GitBook

Chapter on Prompt Strength (CFG)

Settings Used to generate image

Positive Prompt: Woman wearing a Sweater

Negative Prompt: mutated, deformed, amateur drawing, lowres, worst quality, low quality, jpeg artifacts, text, error, signature, watermark, username, blurry, censorship, sketch, monochrome

Steps: Variable, Sampler: Variable, CFG scale: 7.5, Seed: 5, Size: 768x768, Model: UMI Olympus