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WHEN USING THIS LoRA IN FORGE, SET: Diffusion in Low Bits to “bnb-nf4 (fp16 LoRA)” or “Automatic (fp16 LoRA)”
This is a synthetic style based on real-world photography that tries to add/change organic shapes in images to get a surreal vibe. Not biomechanical or Giger-esque - more floral/biological.
Trained on Civitai using Flux1 DEV with 20 1024x1024 hand-captioned images.
The source images are selected from a bunch of close-up/macro photos I took of flowers around England and Scotland. For those that are interested, some were taken using a Canon Ixus 800is (6MP of “good” pixels - photographers will know what I mean) that in macro mode lets you get the lens to a couple of mm from subject. Others were taken using a Canon EOS 400D and a Canon EOS 77D with a Canon 60mm macro lens.
Although it’s trained on Flux1 DEV, the LoRA’s output using it was uninspiring. Boring even.
I got my best results with @Adel_AI’s fantastic Fluxmania V:
https://civitai.com/models/778691?modelVersionId=1539776
If you’re using Forge, the “Full Model bf16 (15.91 GB)” is the one you need. It's monolithic - you don’t need VAE or Clips with it.
Fluxmania III also provided great results - not worse than Fluxmania V, just different.
The LoRA doesn’t lock on with every picture, but when I boosted the training in various ways I ended up with generated images that were just flower closeups. This version gives me the surreal look I wanted, although it needs a few tries sometimes.
There’s no particular need for a trigger, but fl0rate (note the 0 instead of o) may boost the effect. Using some of the training words in your prompt might also help. In order from most to least used:
surface
shapes
organic
pale
floral
edges
curved
round
pastel
light
cupped
smooth
The showcase images have full metadata, so feel free to use those as a launchpad or remix source.
Suggested weights 0.8 <---> 1.0 if on its own, less if mixed with other LoRAs.
I’ve been using it in Forge with:
Steps: 20 <---> 40
Sampler: Euler
Schedule type: Simple or KL Opitmal
(The old CFG scale: 1)
Distilled CFG Scale: 3
If using Hires.fix, I’ve generally set:
Denoising strength: 0.4
Hires Distilled CFG Scale: 3
Hires upscale: 1.25, 1.5 or 2.0 usually
(720x720 ---> *2.0 ---> 1440x1440 often worked surprisingly well)
Hires steps: 10
Hires upscaler: 4x_foolhardy_Remacri
Suggested checkpoints: Flux1 DEV, Fluxmania III, Fluxmania V.
Example prompts:
<lora:Florate Flux_v2_epoch_3:0.9> A surrealist painting of mauve and pacific blue variegated organic Victorian lady wearing bandolier, with many pale maize lobes of differing sizes
<lora:Florate Flux_v2_epoch_3:0.9> A surrealist painting of blue gray and slate gray variegated organic scene with sweeping curves and smooth gradients, chained bees
<lora:Florate Flux_v2_epoch_3:0.9> A surrealist painting of vermilion and rebecca purple plain organic scene with many pale bulbous organic shapes, wolf in uniform
<lora:Florate Flux_v2_epoch_3:0.9> A surrealist painting of viridian and saddlebrown variegated floral scene with striated angular pale turmeric shapes, flamingos tango
XYZ grids; with and without using Hires.Fix:
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