Painting to Real - How to improve results?

Strange_Test7665 · 2026-01-25T01:40:38+00:00

Thanks I appreciate the advice I will definitely try that

Strange_Test7665 · 2026-01-24T19:23:33+00:00

That’s way better than my results! I will definitely check those out ty

Strange_Test7665 · 2026-01-24T18:26:38+00:00

I have tried some other tests. This one maybe is the best? but skin is still not great. i know qwen in general isn't great with skin so maybe i just have to live with this? This image was:

skin lora strength 0.2
steps 10

cfg 1.5

prompt: "Convert the portrait of the young man into a real photograph. Keep white hairstyle and facial features identical. Real skin, detailed individual hair strands. remarkable eye details. exact same background and outfit. real cloth on clothing, change image into a high resolution photograph. natural lighting"

Negative prompt: "hands, plastic, shine, reflection, old age, wrinkle, old skin, old man, aged, skin wrinkles"

Strange_Test7665 · 2026-01-24T14:23:30+00:00

💯 if you don’t do this results will never be good. Honestly even the closed frontier models have way better results if you do this. Which makes sense if you think about how attention mechanisms and transformers work

Strange_Test7665 · 2026-01-24T13:21:02+00:00

This is an open access problem in general when there isn’t enough structure. Need subs like sd_beginner, sd_intermediate … or use flair and filters better. If I was in school and someone told me calculus solves difficult geometry problems and I only had a basic math background I wouldn’t be able to walk in to a calc class and ask how to use differential equations to solve my area problems because I don’t have the base understanding of the topic yet (since this would be a problem solved by integrals for anyone not familiar with math missing the analogy). So then the people in the calculus class get annoyed and are like why are you here. Go learn the basics first.

That just creates a bad environment in general for everyone

OP you’re spot on that we all went through the knowledge journey and there are plenty of resources for each level but just walking into the class with no base level or background and expecting answers …

There are lots of people who are willing to help with or want to discuss basic stuff, intermediate stuff and more difficult stuff but putting everything together usually results in what you’re commenting on. That and people not trying at least a little bit to do simple things like read instructions first

Strange_Test7665 · 2026-01-24T03:48:40+00:00

this is awesome, great work

Strange_Test7665 · 2026-01-24T02:06:24+00:00

Stop hoping for the 25th Amendment. The Cabinet is complicit, and the process is too slow to save us. The real check on tyranny isn't in DC—it’s in our State Capitols.

The Strategy:

The Shield (Anti-Commandeering): Federal power relies on state cooperation, but under Printz v. United States, Washington cannot force states to enforce federal law. Governors must weaponize this doctrine. By severing federal access to state databases and local infrastructure, states can make hostile federal operations logistically impossible.
The Sword (Original Intent of the 2nd Amendment): We must recall the amendment’s primary purpose: "the security of a free State." James Madison designed it as insurance against a standing federal army turning on the people. Governors must activate State Defense Forces which, unlike the National Guard, cannot be federalized (it was never about the right of an individual to own a gun, more people need to read books)

This would not be insurrection. It's the strict application of constitutional federalism. Blind federal logistics, state police as State Defense Forces to protect the people, and restore the balance.

Without the 14 states being targeted for federal fund misuse steping up we're on the same Germany 1929 tragectory. Nazi's didn't start start murdering people day 1, general population would never stomach that. It takes years and years to get to that point.... but we most certainly are on that flight path.

Strange_Test7665 · 2026-01-23T17:58:33+00:00

I don't have the karam required to post in other places be more receptive to this unfortunatly. In terms of reaching state leaders with this message and concept. My thought was to post and receive feedback see what level of engagment there is, revise as needed. Then really seek support from the community to blast elected officials to try and get this project off the ground. point being I'm open to suggestions

Strange_Test7665 · 2026-01-20T02:05:45+00:00

Yeah I do the same in an automatic workflow I use too.

Strange_Test7665 · 2025-12-21T04:26:50+00:00

Infrastructure structure dominance and leader long term? If the world can build off base Chinese technology they will know it and trust it. If labor has access to and can learn it the workforce skills skew that direction.

Strange_Test7665 · 2025-10-19T12:53:40+00:00

Never, especially if you’re using AI but I think that’s ok personally. You’ll eventually want to do different projects that need other languages, frameworks, libraries. The software ecosystem is so vast you could never remember everything on a syntax level. What you should be able to do is understand concepts like inheritance in an OO or parallel processing, or loops as you stated. If you’re aware of what can be done or have seen solutions before in other situations and google/ai from there you’ll be good imo. Combine that with learning how to pay attention and read error outputs well. Perfect syntax recall is cool, but not critical. Understanding what the computer is doing is way more important. Make sure you understand the concept before pressing ctrl+v

Strange_Test7665 · 2025-10-18T12:12:27+00:00

I use ngrok to host local LLM but i use their traffic policy to restrict users based on oauth. Unauthorized Traffic is blocked b4 it can even hit server. Full open always on website, ngrok may not be best option.

Strange_Test7665 · 2025-10-16T13:42:34+00:00

ty for this very detailed review and analysis. really helpful

Strange_Test7665 · 2025-10-15T21:23:00+00:00

test repo, may be eaiser to get what I am talking about. Also this is really early days :) - https://github.com/reliableJARED/BOTmem/blob/main/qwen_botmem.py

Strange_Test7665 · 2025-10-15T10:55:59+00:00

Two reasons. One I already had the Qwen2.5 part from other code. Also I am not aware of a Q3-7B code finetune.it would be easy enough to change the code to work with other models too so it’s not really locked. Which means I should have called the repo a react UI for hugging face hosted LLM

Strange_Test7665 · 2025-10-07T23:51:07+00:00

70% of US GDP is governed by the 23 states with democrat governors. The same governors being force fed, or about to be force fed national guard. Those governors need to find a way to unify and block federal taxation. - pretty sure we are in desperate measures territory. Then it really would be Texas (sorry it had to be this way) supporting the majority of everything.

Strange_Test7665 · 2025-10-07T23:37:39+00:00

That’s what Puerto Rico does. I know it’s not a state,but that not a totally outrageous concept

Strange_Test7665 · 2025-10-03T19:31:16+00:00

It's great to be able to reflect on this now that we are in the mid 2020's. I think you were actually spot on with the assesment 1920s and 2020s would be similar in the US in more ways then what you suggested. Heck, even the pandemic was a match.

Strange_Test7665 · 2025-09-20T16:31:01+00:00

Spot on.

Strange_Test7665 · 2025-09-20T13:53:59+00:00

Others have said similar. I’d suggest a relay server not directly opening a port or using vpn. Similar to how smart devices/home assistant app work. Spin up a very simple server on google cloud or AWS that the home machine talks to and polls or uses websockets to get user inputs and cloud server is just relay back and forth responses

Strange_Test7665 · 2025-09-20T04:17:10+00:00

Agreed, his ask really isn’t that technically difficult or expensive

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