Fix plastic skin: KREA 2 Turbo and I2I workflows for realism
Do the images you generate look like AI slop with plastic skin?
Proof1 community thread
Key points
- They're based on the 2K upscaler with Z-Image Turbo.
- The upscaling step has been removed, and the model has been swapped for the int8.convrot version of Z-Image Turbo.
- You can easily add it to KREA 2 Turbo and Qwen-Image-Edit workflows, with only a small increase in processing time.
- Performance (1024×1024) KREA2 Turbo+ Z image Turbo: ~9.5 seconds for a second-generation image on an RTX 5070 Ti; ~19 seconds on an RTX 5060 Ti 16GB.
Sources (1)
- [1]Fix plastic skin: KREA 2 Turbo and I2I workflows for realismr/StableDiffusion (top, day) · Oct 12, 05:22 PM
Do the images you generate look like AI slop with plastic skin?
They're based on the 2K upscaler with Z-Image Turbo.
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