Tired of the plastic, airbrushed, "perfect AI" look? This LoRA brings back the unfiltered look of a real phone snapshot: harsh flash, bad white balance, soft focus, blown-out windows and awkward framing. Nothing is polished, and that's the point.
Trained on naturally captioned amateur snapshot datasets for Krea 2 and Qwen-Image-2.1.
What it does
- Real camera flaws: low-light noise, soft focus, lens smear, flare, blown highlights and uneven auto white balance.
- Real lighting: direct flash, mixed room light, streetlamp color casts, and backlit window bloom.
- Unposed compositions: casual mirror selfies, candid street shots and awkward crops, with no studio feel.
Versions
Qwen-Image-2.1 (v1)
Qwen works best with natural-language paragraphs. Describe the scene and light casually.
- candid_snap photo of a young woman wearing a casual grey hoodie sitting in a dim diner booth, direct flash lighting, holding a coffee cup
- candid_snap amateur snapshot of a man walking down a rain-slicked city sidewalk at night, yellow streetlamp reflections, harsh ambient lighting
Krea 2 (v1.0)
Use descriptive tags alongside the trigger word.
- r3alism, a casual flash mirror selfie of a woman in her bedroom, messy hair, low-light phone camera texture...
- r3alism, an amateur smartphone snapshot of a person walking on a city street at night, visible digital noise...
Krea 2 (v2.0)
V2 isn't a replacement for v1. It's a different take. V1 gives a stronger composition and style out of the box, and V2 leans into a softer, blurrier amateur look with closer prompt adherence.
V2 was retrained on the same image set with rewritten, more descriptive captions and a lower rank.
- The look scales with your prompt: ask for flash, grain or a blown-out window and it delivers. It doesn't force a night color grade onto daytime scenes.
Krea 2 (v3.0): WIP
In progress and not released yet. Goals:
- Sharper, more readable faces.
- More realism in general, including daylight photos.
- Wider variety: street scenes, food, car interiors and everyday objects, not only selfies.
- Better behavior alongside character LoRAs.
Follow along for updates. These are goals, and I'll update this page once V3 is tested.
Description
Update 1/10/2026 – V2 file replaced with a retrained version
- Dataset expanded with 13 new images that have clear, sharp faces.
- Captions rewritten again: they now describe expression, makeup and face details, and note when a face is hidden or out of focus, so blur no longer gets tied to the trigger.
- Result: sharper faces at close and medium range, and it keeps a character LoRA's face better in my testing.
- Already downloaded V2? Re-download to get the update.
About this version
krea2 V2: retrained on an expanded image set with rewritten, more descriptive captions and a lower rank.
What changed:
- Better prompt adherence: outfits, props, textures and settings follow your prompt more closely.
- Low content leakage in my testing: no stray training outfits or props, and daylight scenes stay neutral instead of picking up the night-time color grade.
- Sharper faces than before, and it plays well with character LoRAs.
- The effect is subtler than v1 at strength 1.0, so raise the strength if you want more.
Recommended settings:
- Trigger: candid_snap,
- Strength: 1.0 to 2.0 (start around 1.0 to 1.25 and raise it if you want a stronger effect)
- Describe specific phone flaws in the prompt (tilted framing, blown-out window, uneven white balance, mild noise). Avoid "heavy grain", "significant noise" and "out of focus", which can cause mush and edge glitches.