Trigger (must include in prompt): early 2010s snapshot photo captured with a phone and uploaded to facebook,
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Newest version: Fixed remaining overtraining issues for the most part, at the cost of some likeness; file size much bigger now (sorry, no way around it); changed name to be a little bit simpler
Works best with mundane, real-life scenes. 'High-concept images' (e.g. fantasy and sci-fi scenes) can work, too, but will likely have less of an amateur and real look to them and more of a standard FLUX professional photography look (e.g. more bokeh).
Results can vary a lot from seed to seed and prompt to prompt. Some seeds and prompts will have much better likeness, quality and/or prompt adherence than others.
Recommended inference settings:
Rule-of-thumb:
lower guidance, lower amount of steps = more realism
higher guidance, higher amount of steps = better coherence/quality
This is however not universally true, as depending on seed and prompt this can still vary.
1.0 LoRa strength (only lower as a last resort or when needed, e.g. when combining with other LoRa's)
min. 2.5 (more realism) - max. 3.5 guidance (more coherence)
20/25/40/50 steps (these seem to be the optimal convergence points)
euler + ddim_uniform (more realism) OR normal (more coherence)
LoRa description:
This LoRa model was designed to generate images that look more "real" and less "artificially AI-generated by FLUX". It achieves this by making the natural and artificial lighting look more real and making the bokeh less strong. It also adds details to every part of the image, including skin, eyes, hair, and foliage. It also aims to reduce somewhat the common "FLUX chin and skin" and other such issues.
Training Workflow:
18 images at 1 repeat. ChatGPT generated captions. Trained on https://huggingface.co/aoxo/flux.1dev-abliterated.
Disclaimer:
I do not claim to be the current owner, original creator of, person or legal representative of a person depicted in, any of the concepts that my models, including this one, aim to emulate nor the training data used to train this model. I do not claim that any of my models have received an endorsement by those respective individuals. I also do not claim that the emulation attempted by my models represents a 100% accurate depiction of the original concept in question nor do I claim that the quality of my emulation reaches the same quality of the original concept. All credit goes to the respective current owners, original creators, or people and I encourage you to support them in any way you can.
If you are the current owner, original creator of, person or legal representative of a person depicted in, any of the concepts that any of my models aims to emulate and would like that specific model to be removed, then please leave me a private message here or on Reddit with proof of authenticity of your identity and claim and I will remove it.
Additionally, I do not endorse my models being used to violate the law or enact still legal, but immoral acts such as the spread of misinformation using deep fakes.
Commissions
TBD
KNOWN ISSUE: A few prompts, such as "A man in his late 20s is laying back on a grassy hill, wearing a hoodie and jeans, looking up at the sky with a thoughtful expression. The background shows a clear blue sky with a few clouds." return wrongly orientated images. I thought it might be related to one of the new images having wrong EXIF data orientation so I thought I fixed that and retrained, but the issue is still there. So no fix there yet, although it seems to affect only a very small number of prompts as far as I can tell. I will of course work urgently on fixing that!
Based on a lot of feedback from a Reddit thread about my model (that I made), I have decided to completely revise it again, as v6 was clearly vastly inferior to v5. Luckily, this has resulted in the best model yet. By far.
The model now has much more natural and detailed looking skin, less often or less strong occurrences of FLUX chin (at lower guidance values), looks much more real now, and overall is just better in every way. I would say that after 7 versions now and months of work, this is finally THE state that I always wanted to achieve and it can easily compete with the rest of the FLUX Realism LoRa's out there, if not even beat them imho
What I did was
adjust dataset again: switch out the previous AI generated images with some previously unused photos of mine
change the trigger to "early 2010s snapshot photo captured with a phone and uploaded to facebook, " as extensive testing showed that this is the best one (I could come up with during multiple hours of testing)
remove "artstyle" from the trigger, as that caused some images to turn cartoonish or otherwise non-photoreal
switch to lower FLUX guidance values as the default for samples, instead of 3.5 more around 2.5, unless the prompt demands it
Files
'True Real Photography' - v7 - [STYLE] [LORA] [FLUX] - spectrum_0001 by 'AI_Characters'.safetensors