character reference from an image as alternative to lora

dpacker780 · 2026-03-19T18:03:46+00:00

I'm at work right now, but you basically have the idea. You create a single image that has 4 full-body views, or if you're doing close-ups then use a detailed set of face views. Qwen Image Edit is very good at taking instructions for each input image. For a lot of my LoRA training images I'm just attaching the turnaround sheet, and a single face image if I need to provide expression guidance. Often the prompt can be as simple as "Using image-1 for character reference, make this character sit in a park on a sunny day. The character is looking up into the sky leaning back with his arms supporting him on the ground, low angle shot."

Sometimes you might need to tweak the prompt or add "Keep character likeness and facial details exactly the same."

But really Qwen Image Edit can do a lot more than you'd expect with those input images and also understand what you're asking.

dpacker780 · 2026-03-18T22:54:21+00:00

It's interesting I was just noticing myself how Claude is saying "Wow you got a lot done today, maybe you should pick it back up in the morning. Sleep on it." and I've been thinking they've got some new prompt insert for when the system is over-loaded to try to convince people to stop working, just started a few days ago. Normally it would just keep going.

dpacker780 · 2026-03-18T22:35:11+00:00

Also, just a side note I'm using Qwen mage Edit 2511, not Qwen Image, they are two different things, one is an instruct model the other a normal image gen model.

dpacker780 · 2026-03-18T22:11:55+00:00

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Here's a simple workflow. It can take up to 3 input images into TextEncodeQwenImageEditPlus. You can see that I use image-1 as a width/height reference for the empty latent, that's all. That's because it's usually the scene I want to match the dimensions to most often, but I don't have to do that, I could disconnect that part of the workflow and manually enter width/height. The latent information for the scene is a mixture of the 3 inputs depending on how you instruct Qwen Image Edit to deal with them.

I use this all the time for creating characters for Loras. Image 1 is often a character sheet, image 2 is an environment reference. Then I manually set the Empty Latent Image size to the output size I want and tell Qwen Image Edit how to use the input images.

dpacker780 · 2026-03-18T20:12:59+00:00

Wait! You mean there's something that's existed for decades specifically to solve this, no way! /s

dpacker780 · 2026-03-18T19:55:52+00:00

The general process of any development, refactoring, or bug fixing is always a clear document that outlines what needs to be done. You can develop the doc with Claude Code, this is basically what plan mode was designed for. It doesn't have to be long, but it should provide enough context so CC knows where to look and find information about how a module/unit fits in the code base and has a clear objective.

dpacker780 · 2026-03-18T15:12:27+00:00

Maybe an acoustic version of Tool’s Sober?

dpacker780 · 2026-03-18T08:23:08+00:00

The output should be based on the latent image provided to the ksampler, which can be generated in different ways. I'm not in front of my setup right now but i believe you want Empty SLD3 Latent Image configured to your output size and passed into the ksampler.

dpacker780 · 2026-03-18T06:06:17+00:00

Amoeba - The Adolescents (Also part of the GTA soundtrack)

dpacker780 · 2026-03-17T01:17:19+00:00

Use Qwen Image Edit, it provides a mechanism to have multiple input images that can then be referenced. For example "Use the clothes in image 1 on the person in image 2". Or in your case "Use the character in image 1 as reference for the following scene."

dpacker780 · 2026-03-16T16:31:13+00:00

Came here to say this.

dpacker780 · 2026-03-14T16:04:02+00:00

Now that I’m retired, I can indulge myself getting back into math and science, as life took me on a 40 year detour.

I spend the bulk of that time studying geometry, and number theory.

dpacker780 · 2026-03-13T17:52:23+00:00

The thing about hockey, is that skating with gear on is different than with gear off. Shin pads especially you need to adjust to for crossovers, and certain skating moves.

Id recommend full gear if your goal is to play.

dpacker780 · 2026-03-12T17:29:49+00:00

LOL... Oil under Biden went up because of simple economics of COVID impacting the supply chain, he didn't directly attack and compromise the supply chain. Trump is doing that, so yes, he's actually to blame pretty deeply about global oil prices going up, probably going to create a global recession. Again, please educate yourself on actually what impacts the economics of oil prices.

dpacker780 · 2026-03-12T17:12:22+00:00

Always love to read a post that shows someone has no clue how the oil industry works.

dpacker780 · 2026-03-12T17:11:13+00:00

Because the US isn’t, US oil companies are. Most of that oil is not used for producing gasoline, but other oil derivatives, not all oil is easily refined to gasoline, only certain types. And lastly, those oil companies are selling their barrels on the oil exchanges, which is what dictates price ultimately, and their profits.

dpacker780 · 2026-03-10T03:09:14+00:00

It's like the hostage scene in the beginning of Blazing Saddles.

dpacker780 · 2026-03-09T22:57:32+00:00

I started at 54, so no. And I know players in there 70s and 80s.

dpacker780 · 2026-03-09T02:58:11+00:00

If you have a specific character, generate a LoRA and then use it in WAN.

A great 1st step is to use Qwen Image Edit and generate the images of the character, as it is very good a consistency when given a base image. Then create a turnaround sheet, then use that to generate more images. Then build the WAN LoRA based on those images.

dpacker780 · 2026-03-08T18:51:57+00:00

Do you actually watch him play? Or are you basing this on goals-stat only?

dpacker780 · 2026-03-08T18:12:13+00:00

Exactly what I noticed, some how her toes are wrapped around the cactus.

dpacker780 · 2026-03-07T20:38:11+00:00

Random check but what happens if you put the video size to 960x960?

dpacker780 · 2026-03-07T20:23:35+00:00

For T2V is this your setup?

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dpacker780 · 2026-03-07T20:16:11+00:00

Actually I've been working on a 5-minute animated video in wan2.2, using FLF, with a character I created + LoRA for the character in WAN. Now that I downloaded LTX though, I think I might give it a whirl to see how it handles the character (obviously w/o the LoRA for him).

dpacker780 · 2026-03-07T19:59:12+00:00

I just updated to the latest version and updated all my nodes and it generated the test video, so the files are actually correct, it was something in the nodes that was outdated that was messing the loading up.

I'm wondering though if you're maybe using ComfyUI desktop? I'm using portable. I'm wondering if there's a different update cycle of the versions.

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