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Trying to recreate "casual photo" style locally (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by smimbertwizzle@lemmy.world to c/perchance@lemmy.world
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edit: after spending an entire day wasted on this, i give up. i'm tech saavy but this is way way too much work and i'm working blind. Hopefully someday this is packaged up in a way that we can just buy it and run it. I'd pay real money for the ability to run the model as it is today completely offline on my own LAN. Ideally something I could just checkout, run and then hit localhost to run.

I've been really interested in reproducing perchances image generator locally. I've installed lots of UI, tried lots of models including SD 1.5, top ones from civitai, and flux schnell and have gotten nowhere close (maybe 60%) to what perchance generates. Mainly it just gets details wrong and the faces look terrible and warped. Despite going with a bunch of iterations and tweaking all the settings I know.

Does anyone else know what else I can try?

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[-] RandomPerchanceUser@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Perchance model is FLUX Chroma.

FLUX Chroma Flash Heun

Easiest way to get photoreal output is to head off to getty and copy a photo caption: https://www.gettyimages.com/editorial-images

Example output on perchance generator

2025 Toronto International Film Festival - Black Excellence Brunch TORONTO, ONTARIO - SEPTEMBER 08: (L-R) Karen Chapman, Regina Taylor and Joan Jenkinson attend the Black Excellence Brunch during the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival at Petros82 Restaurant on September 08, 2025 in Toronto, Ontario. (Photo by Leon Bennett/Getty Images)

From : https://www.gettyimages.com/editorial-images/entertainment/event/toronto-international-film-festival-black-excellence-brunch/776375508?editorialproducts=all

[-] smimbertwizzle@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

It’s def more than flux chroma. I tried that exact model and it’s missing details that perchance gets right all the time. It may be the UI I’m using (AUTOMATIC111/stable-diffusion-webui). I’m on macOS, but I have a 48 GB machine which supposedly can run these models and I am getting images out of it, just not the same ones that’s I get online.

I almost feel like perchance is combining multiple models or doing something more complex than just using a single one.

[-] RandomPerchanceUser@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

You ask for info , I give info. Why so distrustful?

[-] smimbertwizzle@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Not distrustful. Just respectfully disagreeing

[-] RandomPerchanceUser@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

You are disagreeing because of your own ego. Stop it.

I'm not looking to claim any points.

this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2025
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