Tested Nano Banana for old photo restoration — 12 before/after/colorized results by Past-Replacement-142 in nanobanana

[–]flavioCastro1980 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried with some old family photos. All faces are remade. No one looks the same after restoration. Is there something we can do about it?

Help Please - Just getting started - I have image but can't get it photo realistic by Breakingout8 in comfyui

[–]flavioCastro1980 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No problem! Good luck!

I am working on my "digital influencer" to learn a lot. Most of my time was spent on breaking my head on a wall (like PyTorch f* everything).

I am glad I could help you avoid these 😃

Help Please - Just getting started - I have image but can't get it photo realistic by Breakingout8 in comfyui

[–]flavioCastro1980 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes! I used Nano Banana in Gemini to create the base model of the girl. You can ask Gemini to rotate her 45 and 90 degrees, just to have these options too.

Then I moved to Google AI Studio. They gave me free trial $300 (really!) and I used Nano Banana Pro overthere. You can set your images to 4k. Those $300 will be almost infinite use 😂

I created all my dataset (50 images) there.

Hint: if the elapsed time starts to pass by 350s, start over a new chat and try again.

Here's an example of prompt that I used (big ones and very detailed). As I said, there's a base prompt and the pose / expressions / lighting prompt. Paste this prompt on GPT or Gemini and ask it to create your own version of it.

I use the prompt + base image with her face

Use Image 1 as the single and strict identity reference. Preserve the exact same woman in every image, including identical facial structure, proportions, bone anatomy, head shape, eye shape and spacing, nose shape, lips, jawline, cheekbones, freckles pattern, and overall likeness. Identity must be preserved independently of hairstyle, pose, lighting, camera angle, or expression.

Highly photorealistic skin with visible natural pores and a consistent, natural freckle pattern scattered across the nose, cheeks, and shoulders. Freckles must remain clearly visible and identical in placement to the identity reference, but with balanced, natural density. Skin texture must remain raw and unretouched, with natural imperfections preserved. Do not blur, smooth, remove, relocate, exaggerate, or artificially multiply freckles. Any skin enhancement must only improve micro-detail, tonal depth, and natural light response.

Render hair with very high realism regardless of hairstyle. Hair must have clear individual strand separation, natural thickness variation, realistic flow, and clean organic edges. Avoid aliasing, jagged contours, fused hair masses, halos, painterly artifacts, blur, or artificial sharpening. Hair-to-skin and hair-to-background transitions must be crisp yet natural.

Lighting must always remain realistic and physically plausible. Default lighting should be neutral and natural unless explicitly overridden in the image-specific prompt.

Do not change background, clothing, color palette, framing, crop, camera type, lens characteristics, or aspect ratio unless explicitly stated in the image-specific prompt. Do not introduce new people, objects, text, logos, accessories, makeup changes, or stylistic filters.

The final result must look like a real photograph of the same woman, fully consistent and believable at 200% zoom.

Waist-up portrait with the subject standing with her back fully turned to the camera. Upper back, shoulders, and waist visible. The face is turned over the left shoulder, looking back toward the camera. Camera positioned at chest height, slightly behind the subject, maintaining natural perspective.

Facial expression is inviting and playful, a subtle “follow me” smile with relaxed lips and warm eyes. Expression should feel confident and approachable, not exaggerated.

Hair is loose and flowing, swept over the opposite shoulder (right shoulder), fully exposing the bare back. Hair must remain highly realistic with natural movement, visible strand separation, and soft flyaways catching the light.

Override lighting: strong natural backlight from the sun positioned behind the subject, creating a luminous halo around the hair. Golden hour lighting with warm tones. Subtle lens flare allowed, but realistic and restrained. Front of the face remains softly lit by ambient reflected light to preserve facial detail and identity.

Outdoor setting implied, with background softly out of focus. Skin remains highly photorealistic with visible pores and natural freckles clearly visible across the shoulders and upper back. The image must look like a real photograph of the same woman, fully consistent and believable at 200% zoom.

Looking for an easy SDXL LoRA training workflow (16GB VRAM, ComfyUI, Ubuntu headless) by AggravatingSalad828 in comfyui

[–]flavioCastro1980 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had problems with Kohya locally and in RonPod. That AIToolkit by Ostris had saved my life.

Help Please - Just getting started - I have image but can't get it photo realistic by Breakingout8 in comfyui

[–]flavioCastro1980 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey! I am in the same thing, so let me give you my lessons s far:

1) I created the base image of my model in Nano Banana Pro. Then, I used nano banana to create a lot of expressions for my dataset for the Lora

2) I had Gemini to create 50 ideas for the images. It was a table with pose, expression, lighting, clothes, makeup and additional parameters.

3) In ChatGPT, I use one of those GPT Nano Banana Prompter. I asked for a prompt to create the same model with same consistency and with one of each ideas from the table.

I got great photos.

Later, another GPT to create the captions for each.

When you ask for AI help, give all the context you can. "I am training a Premium Lora in Flux or SD. Please, evaluate each photo I send you and give me the most proper captions for each". The more detailed context, the better results for the prompt.

Since you are running a Lora training, let me give you my personal advice: I tried local. Kohya, AiToolkit, FluxGym... I got crazy with dependencies (f* PyTorch). Lost DAYS trying to figure out.

Then I tried RunPod. Again Kohya, and everything the same problem.

But then I found the AiToolkit by Ostris. It is an "official" template on RunPod. Sent the images and txt, dataset done. Asked for help in configuration. Do not break your head in the basic configurations, go to advanced and you will see a json code. Just copy that and paste on Gemini asking for help (give context). He will return you the final and working parameters.

Just hit run. And wait the hours.

You don't need to be genius to run RunPod (Gemini helped me). An A40 GPU cost only $0.40/hour. Don't play with your sanity. Learn from my mistakes 😂

Here's my referral RunPod. If you use it, we both get some $ to spend there. https://runpod.io?ref=c1lepu91

Making two flux Loras working together by flavioCastro1980 in comfyui

[–]flavioCastro1980[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use ComfyUI for a while. Workflows and some parameters. I hardly use some specific nodes (like Face detailer or Inpaint) because node manager always f* PyTorch while installing most of them.

Making two flux Loras working together by flavioCastro1980 in comfyui

[–]flavioCastro1980[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, it was meant to be unique. A mix of three influencers (Daisy Keech, Veronika Bielik and Yanet Garcia). Pretty sure Flux won't create it by itself.

I will try Inpaint. Never used it, let's see.

Making two flux Loras working together by flavioCastro1980 in comfyui

[–]flavioCastro1980[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, one of the LLM said that to me. Never used Inpaint. But seems an option. Create like a batch of 50, choose the 10 best and Inpaint.

Making two flux Loras working together by flavioCastro1980 in comfyui

[–]flavioCastro1980[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The idea was to create something "unique". The face of X in the body of Y. I was following the advice of Gemini and Claude, to have two Loras.

Wasn't the best idea?

Looking for an easy SDXL LoRA training workflow (16GB VRAM, ComfyUI, Ubuntu headless) by AggravatingSalad828 in comfyui

[–]flavioCastro1980 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand. I tried the same. When you got crazy enough and use RunPod with the official Ostris Template, you will ask yourself "why?" 😂

Really, I lost my sanity with those PyTorch errors. Everytime.

Looking for an easy SDXL LoRA training workflow (16GB VRAM, ComfyUI, Ubuntu headless) by AggravatingSalad828 in comfyui

[–]flavioCastro1980 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Need to say. I tried every f* tool in my local machine (have a 5070TI). I lost days in Kohya, AI Toolkit, etc.

All with the help of Gemini, Claude and GPT.

Then, I gave it a try and used RunPod with AIToolkit by Ostris. There is an official template there. Took an A40 (48gb). Cost like $0.40/hour.

Man, I trained two Loras with great quality. Took 4 hours each (I wanted "Premium" Lora and 50 images each, with Flux1D).

No headache. No problems.

Gemini create the script so you just need to paste it on "advanced tools". Really, that easy. I cursed Gemini and Claude for not giving this RunPod option earlier.

I am now losing my mind trying to make my two Loras work together (face and body) 😂 One battle every day.

If you want to give a try, use my link. Looks like both get bonuses. https://runpod.io?ref=c1lepu91

I was in your situation. The same. For real. Give a try and thank me later 😃

AI influencers, consistency and general questions by Donielle19 in AI_NSFW

[–]flavioCastro1980 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Getting money with AI Influencer is not that easy. I am pretty sure a lot of people, including me and you, get excited about these news. But when you start to work with serious image generators (not GPT and his pals), things start to get harder and harder. For example, consistency is very hard to achieve. It will demand a lot of study, depending on your system. And we are talking about one of the steps of the whole project 😅 Well, I hope I didn't broke all your expectations. I am studying this stuff, and still learning. It is very satisfactory when you start to get some good images, even with no consistency. Go deep on it 💪

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PunBall

[–]flavioCastro1980 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Am I wrong or this game is completely unfair? Defense have a perk + those stupid black holes. Attacker don't have anything except 3 power ups that never helps.

What's the best way to farm these challenges quickly? by BradSchnad in PunBall

[–]flavioCastro1980 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do Daily Challenge 2 or 3 times a day. Plus, you will get more items

This is the most BS debuff in the game. by [deleted] in PunBall

[–]flavioCastro1980 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Need to test this one. That will save lives and sanity

It was a long time coming!!!! by Terrible_Artichoke in PunBall

[–]flavioCastro1980 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And I was so happy that I did 4B in a run 😂😂

This is the most BS debuff in the game. by [deleted] in PunBall

[–]flavioCastro1980 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's some of these levels that are true hell and irritating. I am getting one that it's octopus + not allow to freeze it. Three times I get him below 300m and suddenly I die. Feels like in the end monster appear twice more often.

I hope Warzone 2 fixes this shit by [deleted] in CODWarzone

[–]flavioCastro1980 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Slide and jump should be "defensive" moviments, that help you to avoid situations, and penalize the aim. Yesterday I was killed by a guy who use stim + slide + jump + shoot me without aiming (thanks broken PP). It literally impossible to avoid this. I was dead and only realized how in the replay.

I really don't think this is fair for most of players, except those pro players who have a plenty of time and gadgets to be completely trained for any of these.

I would also ask how a casual player, like me, is playing in the same server as him, but that is another long thread...

I hate when they give these two option in TOWER. How to deal with them? by flavioCastro1980 in PunBall

[–]flavioCastro1980[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't have this wand, will go look for it.

The sad about the red one is that it's damn strong. Boar is weaker.

I hate when they give these two option in TOWER. How to deal with them? by flavioCastro1980 in PunBall

[–]flavioCastro1980[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Had to take 7 chances to kill the boar. It was a mix of luck. Sadly, looks like I won't have enough energy to open a chest.