The Oregon Highlander

I saw the name of this illegal alien convicted sex offender who was advising Oregon on healthcare, and my first thought was not “yeah, that tracks”, but rather:

I guess being chief metallurgist to King Charles V of Spain doesn’t pay what it used to.

(“there can be only one!”)

Somebody didn’t get the memo…

😁

Experimental girl-swapping

The Flux models have plasticky skin, fewer trained art styles, and better-than-SDXL-but-not-by-much prompting. Qwen Image has excellent prompting and posing, but a strong tendency to converge on a handful of styles, locations, and faces. One of the more recent Flux models is Krea, which is supposed to be heavily trained on photographic and art styles. The full version is also 22 GB, so I wasn’t sure how well it would perform on my 24 GB RTX 4090 at all.

It was surprisingly quick, and it did style the images more than Qwen or standard Flux, but it definitely didn’t have the kind of LLM-based prompting that makes Qwen stand out.

So I crossed my fingers and set things up so that Qwen generated a 36-step 576x1024 image and then handed it off to Krea for 24 steps of refining and upscaling to 4K. Performance was quite good, but the results were… rough. One gal had a second face growing out of her ankle, another had an eye for a nipple, another had blue feet and something hideous growing out of her mutated hand, etc, etc.

TL/DR: I have yet to find a refine-only model that works well with Qwen as its base; the ones that don’t produce awful images produce low-resolution ones. So that idea was a bust, and not even a bouncy one.

(I need models that are… rock solid)

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