🌟 Ernie Image BASE + Z-Image BASE Refiner 🌟

Get the incredible detail of Ernie without the visual artifacts!

🛑 The Problem:

While Ernie Image BASE is incredibly powerful and produces stunning compositions, it has a known tendency to degrade otherwise great generations with harsh blowouts (overexposed highlights) and heavy stress lines.

✨ The Solution:

This workflow uses Z-Image BASE as a dedicated refiner to clean up the output. By running the Ernie generation through a Z-Image pass, it completely smooths out those harsh artifacts, leaving you with a polished, pristine final image.

⚙️ How It Works (The Sweet Spot):

This setup is specifically tuned to fix artifacts while strictly preserving your original composition. It is also highly optimized, running smoothly even on 8GB VRAM setups like an RTX 3070:

• Base Pass: Runs [Insert Number] steps on Ernie Image BASE to establish the core image.

• Refiner Pass: Runs [Insert Number] steps on Z-Image BASE. • Denoising Strength: Set to exactly 0.35.

💡 Why 0.35 Strength?

This low denoising strength is the magic number. It ensures the original Ernie composition is preserved as much as possible, while giving Z-Image just enough room to act as a cleanup crew for the blown-out lighting and stress lines.

📦 Required Models:

To get this working, you will need to have the following models installed:

1. Ernie Image BASE

2. Z-Image BASE