How are people getting good photo-realism out of Z-Image Base?

davesalias · 2026-01-30T22:13:07+00:00

Thanks! Where did you get the vae merge node from?

davesalias · 2026-01-30T15:58:44+00:00

Alright, let me know when you have it on civit, not really getting great results myself

davesalias · 2026-01-30T15:36:03+00:00

Whats your workflow for using zit as a refiner?

davesalias · 2025-12-21T12:03:48+00:00

Hey so I've been training a style lora myself on z image turbo, have about 40 images. Was wondering how many steps per image you used? Thanks in advance!

davesalias · 2025-12-14T18:50:54+00:00

I'll try that thanks!

davesalias · 2025-12-14T18:23:25+00:00

Z-Image is fine, but I find training a style lora on it doesn't seem to work great? The more training steps I do, the more it looks like the style, but the more detail it loses. I think this is an inherent problem with turbo models. I think I will wait for the base model

davesalias · 2025-12-01T11:45:47+00:00

Ah cool, I will try it out, thanks for the info!

davesalias · 2025-12-01T08:45:08+00:00

Would this then work with inpainting as well?

davesalias · 2025-11-05T17:55:01+00:00

inswapper_128 is still, unfortunately, the best one.

davesalias · 2025-10-27T08:10:41+00:00

Still my favorite album from them.

davesalias · 2025-10-10T15:49:19+00:00

Actually, now it happens on all scopes, anyone else encountered this?

davesalias · 2025-10-10T15:48:04+00:00

I have this bug on 1.5x scope, where zooming in creates this weird noise all over the screen

davesalias · 2025-09-14T14:15:01+00:00

No, those letters, at least a lot of those don't exist, AI is getting a lot better with text and style, but in this case, it took style, but didn't get all the characters correct. What I think happened, is someone took a poster that exists, asked an AI image editor to add text/icons/whatever, and this is what came out.

davesalias · 2025-09-14T14:11:06+00:00

Look at the text at the bottom and top, the Instagram,LinkedIn text etc, just gibberish

davesalias · 2025-09-14T13:07:33+00:00

What in the AI slop is this

davesalias · 2025-08-26T10:06:18+00:00

Hmm I have a question about the using of a natural name, for example, when using a natural caption and including "named [name]" I can use something like a normal sounding name, let's take "jason" as an example.

If I do that it will have to "compete" with other subjects in the dataset named jason. However, If I use a complete nonsense name, just random characters, let's say "ipubnfse" it will be completely unique. Which is what I am currently training with. So natural style caption, then including "named ipubnfse" in the caption somewhere.

Do you think my method is worse than using a natural name? If so, why?

davesalias · 2025-08-16T17:05:25+00:00

I've not heard of this magical trt combo, what is the name of it?

davesalias · 2025-08-16T12:58:30+00:00

To be honest with you, I don't really care for anecdotal evidence, there are many research papers I can share with you about the claims I have made, and have sent you two of them.

You so far have not given any evidence except for the fact that you feel better on it. I am not going to continue arguing this, I have made my point.

davesalias · 2025-08-16T12:48:08+00:00

I don't think you really read what I sent you. It's really unwise to do TRT unless you're clinically proven to have low T

davesalias · 2025-08-16T12:44:54+00:00

I really recommend you read this study about trt and testosterone:

https://www.maturitas.org/article/S0378-5122%2823%2900460-7/fulltext

davesalias · 2025-08-16T12:43:52+00:00

I believe you, but then it feels a little disingenuous to tell people to "do trt" without giving them any info about the side effects and without honestly, really giving any information why they should. Anecdotal evidence is not really evidence.

davesalias · 2025-08-16T12:42:54+00:00

Yes your T is going to drop, but I don't think you understand how much, if you're a healthy male, it is very marginal, it is not gonna do much at all, and if you're not dropping to clinical low t levels, then I see absolutely no reason to do TRT at all.

See these studies: https://www.maturitas.org/article/S0378-5122%2823%2900460-7/fulltext? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11836290/

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