Flux3 vs Flux2 9B for style transfer
From my testing, flux3 seems to be very good at higher fidelity composition combined with single image style transfer than the much looser Flux2 9B.
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Key points
- The flux3 release has been controversial for sure, but I think people maybe aren't realizing that the prompt expander has a lot of utility on its own.
- Here I test an expanded prompt for style transfer on flux3 and flux2 kleins showing the amount of time it takes to transfer the style.
- Otherwise I used a default (updated today) Flux3 edit workflow bridged to a simplified Flux2 workflow with things shared between them (the VAE, prompt, and images).
- I think Flux3 has the edge in a slight majority of these, but Flux2 is often more stylistic (sometimes for better).
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- [1]Flux3 vs Flux2 9B for style transferr/StableDiffusion (top, day) · Oct 17, 08:42 PM
From my testing, flux3 seems to be very good at higher fidelity composition combined with single image style transfer than the much looser Flux2 9B.
The flux3 release has been controversial for sure, but I think people maybe aren't realizing that the prompt expander has a lot of utility on its own.
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