Ok. I don’t know if I should admit this…but I am a closeted combiner. 🫣
I know…I know. I can feel the judgements coming in already.
You? Seriously? You?
A combiner? Why are you just coming out of that closet now?
Why announce it now?
My god Render; what did you combine?
Ok. So, rather unique things.
The latest…and do not hate on this…but Avocado with chili peppers and breaded chicken crumble pizza.
I know. I know.
But you have to understand, it’s so good. I am not a fan of Avocado’s, but on pizza, like that, mmm. The slight spice from the mild chili pepper, the chicken slightly crisp from being fried beforehand and then cut up and scattered across the pizza, the creaminess of the avocado slice…mmm. Hats off to those in South Africa where I got the idea from. My friends there know a good combination to put on pizza. And a Spiced Malva Pudding…OMG!!!! 🤤 I swear I went up three pants sizes after eating a single piece, and I don’t even care…apricots, sugar, pudding, custard, ice cream…oh my goddd so good!!!
Ok, you say. Weird, but whatever. What else have you tried to combine?
Well, I once mixed a few drops of mango nectar in with my Cuban coffee. It wasn’t bad. Wasn’t great either, but I did not die except from the weird looks I got when I did it. I swear, you combine 2 different things that others think should stay singular and they act like you slapped their grandmother.
Well to be fair, the grandmother hit me first. All I did was pick the shoe up. I didn’t even throw it back at her. Stinking Chancletas. They hurt. And the Abuelita’s of the world still throw like they are Nolan Ryan in his prime.
Anything else you need to confess Render?
OK. Ok. Stop the interrogation.
I admit it. I started to combine txt-2-img prompts from one model and the resulting image and feed it into control net for a new model and do the same thing into a third model.
But I swear… I only did it once.
Um, what?
You did what?
Can you explain that a bit?
I find myself not really following.
Ok. Sure. Glad to do it. But don’t you judge me on this. I already feel the condemnation from the Abuelita over the Cafecito incident of 1999.
So, I had this idea of creating a prompt and then feeding it into a model. In this case, I did that with flux.
Once flux gave me the resulting image, I then took that image, switched AI models, this time to zImage, and then loaded my flux image into control net.
I then loaded the original prompt I used in flux, now into zImage.
Then when I got that resulting image from zImage, I then took and switched models once more (this time to Krea2 Turbo).
I took the image from zImage, loaded that now into control net, and then for the final time I used the original prompt.
So, these are my results.
txt-2-img (flux)
Flux image, txt-2-img, control net, (zImage)
zImage image, txt-2-img, control net, (krea2-turbo)
Would I do it again?
Yes, I might. It took quite a while.
But I do like the end result.
I feel that the last one is the best and strongest of the bunch.
What I like about this specific way of doing things is that the flux model almost acts like the maniqué de dibujo, the maniqué articulado, or as we say in English, the artists mannequin, or the wooden dummy thing.
ZImage seems to then clean it up, it seems to be able to add the details that flux does not seem able or willing to add.
Krea2 turbo then seems to add the final details and turn out more of the masterpiece you may have had in mind.
In all seriousness, doing it this way is like that South African pizza I mentioned earlier. Is it better than what many feel American pizza is? Or Italian pizza is? Well that is not for me to decide for you. I enjoy both. But like pizza, how you make it may take more time than others. One day your pizza might be a hot pocket, and the next you might decide to go full South African for the pizza. You could get the same excellent results another way. Perhaps just 1 model, or 2 models, but no matter what you do, it seems to be good.
Seriously you need to try that pizza I mentioned.
That and the Malva Pudding.
YOU WILL GAIN WEIGHT ON THIS DIET!
But you also may not care, because they are that good.
If you try this, I would love to see your results. Drop a link to the final image. Please put in the comment also, from what model to what model to what model you used.
Also, come on, I know I cannot be alone in this, what food did you combine that you swear is so good and others are looking at you like you have rocks in your head?
And no, I will not try the kit kat candy bar with ketchup again. Tried it once and almost died before it got in my mouth. Just the idea alone nearly killed me.