WHEN USING THIS LoRA IN FORGE, SET: Diffusion in Low Bits to “bnb-nf4 (fp16 LoRA)” or “Automatic (fp16 LoRA)”

02 July 2025 - Version 6.

A big thank you to all the people who reacted, buzzed and commented on ver2!

V2 was quite subtle and really needed supporting words in the prompts for full effect, but V6 is much stronger and goes in a slightly different direction.

For version 6, the trigger word “fl0rate” has a very strong effect. The LoRA will still work without the trigger, at a medium to strong strength. To change strength you can weight the LoRA as normal: I’ve been using 0.5 <---> 1.0. You can also weight the trigger, e.g. (fl0rate:0.7), or move the trigger towards the right of your prompt for a lower effect.

In the example grids:

Top left uses the LoRA + trigger.

Bottom left uses only the LoRA.

Top right uses the trigger but not the LoRA.

Bottom right does not use the trigger or the LoRA.

The right hand column is to show that the trigger does not affect bare Flux prompts ridiculously.

Hires.fix upscaling: Using UltraSharp or Remacri with low denoise worked as normal, but I also got some good results with:

Upscaler = Latent (nearest-exact)

Denoising strength = 0.7

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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://civarchive.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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