Automatically decomposing a single anime illustration into front hair, back hair, clothes, and other layers with inpaint completion of hidden areas. Testing the LayerDiff + Marigold-based implementation.
Using tori29umai’s LoRA to automatically split facial parts, results from batching 28 images, and a log of running into the limits when attempting finer hair separation
Overview of Black Forest Labs' FLUX.2 Klein 9B model and how it performs on M1/M2/M3/M4 Macs. Covers the key factors behind the CUDA vs MPS performance gap, including memory bandwidth and FP8 quantization.
Configuration for running a Qwen-Image-Layered LoRA that automatically separates facial parts on RunPod. Comparison of RTX 6000 Ada (48GB) and RTX PRO 6000 (96GB).
Tried running the NSFW variant of Qwen-Image-Edit (Phr00t AIO) on RunPod to generate 3-view reference sheets for a 3D model base mesh. A log of failures on RTX 4090 and eventual success on RTX 5090.
Testing the image generation features of Flow, now available in Google AI Pro. Findings on the He/She pronoun issue, the effectiveness of natural English prompts, and how to use Flow vs Gem.