Krea 2 - Realism Transfer Workflow

(Also works for any other type of style transfer, but my initial interest was with realism)

In my time experimenting with realism models I've always been disappointed, as I could never get the sort of creativity, variance, and quality I wanted.

But with Krea 2 I've found something interesting. I'm able to make creative stylized images with a model like Illustrious or Anima, and then run a denoised KSampler over these with Krea 2 to get good realistic-looking results while generally retaining the creative features.

Once you get everything configured right I've found the outputs look even better than what Krea 2 is able to generate through prompting alone.

(It is recommended to use realism LoRAs to help push the effect, as Krea 2 might be insufficient by itself.)

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There are two workflow approaches to this:

An "automatic" workflow which uses the vision of the text encoder to inject information about the input image directly into the prompt, providing a quick and a fairly accurate transfer, but also injecting some stylized information, so it's not ideal.

A "manual" prompting workflow that provides stronger and more controlled realistic style transfer, but requires the use of LLMs to help with the prompting.