I'm not the original author but passing this along since others were interested and it's a game-changer. This takes the realism aspects (skin, texture, etc.) of the KREA Flux model and has it in LORA form to apply to other Flux models or Chroma - BIG recommend!
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what does this do?
It has some insane realism to help get rid of the plastic skin and other flux annoyances that have been on models for quite some time now
That's a big file for a LoRA.
Yup it's definitely huge but worth it (there's some other smaller merges from KREA coming out that I saw on huggingface somewhere as well)
you need a bigger lora if youre wanting to change fine grain textures, which is a big difference between flux dev and flux krea
Kind of a flop for me so far. Not remotely close to photo realistic. Trying the complete model, but just use a LoRA. There's plenty of photo realistic LoRAs out there. I made a few and others have some great ones as well. I'm going to keep trying with it because I love photo realism, but not sure this is it.
This was never about "photorealism" in a general sense. That's such a limiting, banal end goal that the authors of Krea weren't even going for.
pocketsVFX No, it quite literally was what they were going for. "exceptional realism" ...right on BFL's website with the announcement.
That said, I'm still probably going to continue to use Krea because I'm finding it a bit easier to work with, but you CAN get Flux Dev to perform just as well too. What Krea is doing is it's providing some of my LoRAs more flexibility in the strengths I can apply. So I'm going to also try training LoRAs for it directly. Flux is my all-time favorite model so I'll stick with this new one for some time, but it wasn't a really good initial impression to be honest.
Just go look at eyebrows for example. Look at the number of flat washed out images. I'm going to continue exploring it as I see some potential, but no - this is not something I would use the words "exceptional realism" for as some sort of comparison to Flex Dev (or Pro). Flux is already capable of good realism. So it just felt like an over sell to me.
HackAfterDark problem is what people think of as "photo real" even is tainted anymore by mainly having experience with digital photography and digital photography aping analog through IG filters and the like.
Your pictures with flux1.d are mostly not "photo real" in that sense. Pretty, but digital, and a lot bordering on really good digital meta human CG rendering where skin is concerned, because digital cameras don't respond the same as film up in the shoulder and highlights.
That's why the "too warm" thing others say still makes me laugh, because they don't know how film works (3200-3400k) out in the world with uncontrolled interior practical lights (~2700k) unless you use an ugly/"amateur" flash, and then what do you know, it's doing consistently cooler renditions when the seed calls up flash photo reference instead. They're used to digital ass-wiping white balance and their idea of "photoreal" is something that's clinically synthetic, wholly un-filmlike, and more like what is really going on with their camera footage, which is something like a still from a really high resolution video camera.
Go watch a movie like "Sinners". That's what "photoreal" means and anything else is what people started settling for.
Some lighting is rather cool as is some film stock. It's not always warm all the time. Maybe the golden hour is just overdone in photography, I don't know. Of course lots of film style is warm. Blues and oranges are dominate color themes there.
You should link to the original source
I totally would but I forgot where it came from now (someone had sent me the git link and now I can't find it)
@Grockster This Lora has nothing to do with Realism etc. It is a converter . https://huggingface.co/vafipas663/flux-krea-extracted-lora
@Kireinaka I think it's almost like an infuser. I notice the elements of KREA that are more natural than the stock flux work morph into more realistic imagery using this, but again I'm not the author, just my take
this is not necessary when there is a wan 2.2
Wan 2.2 is great but it obviously doesn't work with all the excellent Flux loras available. That makes it necessary for some.
That statement only has meaning when comparing to the basic flux model with no lora for far more generic, conventional imagery. If you're making a big pharma looking commercial, knock yourself out. Wan has no shot of competing with basically any other t2i generator out there on look and style and tone potential or actual.
Not until the same effort in t2i style/look lora starts happening for wan lora.
wideload Agreed
"internet denizens" never fail to assert themselves as if there were no other people in existence. i honestly have absolutely no idea why. like, good for you, you found something you like. 🤷
wan2.2 slower 5х times than flux + this lora + a few more other loras.
I respect but disagree with this as the Wan Models can't nearly handle the breadth that many Flux and Krea models can re: adherence and fidelity
Anyone try this Lora with my workflow ?
super fast : 20 sec 1 photo 🚀🚀
https://civitai.com/models/1831687/
Hey I like your workflow ! Can I ask where you get these lora pls?
asdert_o
main lora i use, these lora so cool
https://civitai.com/models/685874/flux-detailer
https://civitai.com/models/1166973/aesthetic-details
https://civitai.com/models/643886/flux-faetastic-details
I love it. Now looks better than the plastic skin. TY. This is a huge game changer at HIGH resolution re-shrink back down. Looks so real damn.
I have tested over 6 loras that attempts to "enhance" realism or improve quality but like the other this is also a snakeoil. nothing changes w/o
Did you try the Power LORA Loader? That's what I use and I definitely see changes
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