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    Published November 30, 2025by malcolmrey

    My Z Image Turbo quick training guide

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    Hello everyone!

    You can check my Z Image loras at https://huggingface.co/malcolmrey/zimage/tree/main (currently 5 of them).

    There is really no need for a trigger, the simple "woman" will suffice.

    I have attached my current AI Toolkit config (zimage-config.yaml)

    When you click "New Job", just copy paste the config then click "Show simple" and fill the two things:

    • training name (name of your subject)

    • target dataset (folder with images)

    And then just "Create Job".

    Again, I suggest around 20-25 images. You can include mostly headshots, but you can change some of them to body shots if you are interested in the costume/body physique.

    Those 2500 steps work fine with 20-25 images. If you want to include LESS or MORE images - I suggest to experiment with steps, because there IS a correlation between STEPS and QUANTITY of images in your dataset.

    For a character/person you do not need to include captions, just images.

    My models were trained using 512x512 and as you can see the loras can generate higher resolution images with ease.

    Z Image is new, we do not have yet the BASE model, I will be experimenting with different parameters, etc. So far, the results from the attached template are quite good, but if we find something new and cool - I will definitely update you with that finding :-)

    Cheers and have fun!

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