<h2 id="schmusrealism:-anamorphic-streaks-krea-2">SchmusRealism: Anamorphic Streaks - Krea 2</h2>This slider draws horizontal anamorphic lens flares through the bright lights in a Krea 2 image: headlights, street lamps, neon, stage spots. No trigger word. Strength = amount, 0 to 1<h3 id="what-it-does">What it does</h3>Anamorphic film lenses squeeze the image sideways. Every bright point light then flares into a thin horizontal line, usually blue: the look of night-time car chases, cyberpunk cities and space movies.This LoRA adds the streaks as a lens effect:- Streaks start at the lights. Headlights, lamps, neon tubes and red warning lights each get their own line, longer on the brighter ones.- Thin and sharp, with a white core near the light that fades to blue: real lens streaks, not broad bands of color.- 0.5 is a hint, 1.0 is the full movie look.Use cases<ul><li>Night cars and streets: headlights on wet asphalt, highways, tunnels, street racing.</li><li>Cyberpunk and neon: rainy alleys, signs, megacities.</li><li>Concerts and stages: spotlights pointing into the crowd.</li><li>Sci-fi: corridors, cockpits, landing lights.</li><li>Cozy night scenes: a cat at a window with the city lights behind it.</li></ul><h3 id="why-not-just-prompt-&quot;anamorphic-lens-flare&quot;">Why not just prompt "anamorphic lens flare"?</h3>Same seed for every column. Off: base Krea 2. Base Krea 2 + prompt: the same prompt with "Shot on anamorphic lenses: noticable content shift over the whole image. Thin horizontal blue lens flare streaks spanning the whole height of the light source instead of through its horizontal center. LoRA 0.5 / 1.0: the slider, prompt unchanged. Thin horizontal streaks as they would appear from a real lens.<img src="https://image.civitai.com/xG1nkqKTMzGDvpLrqFT7WA/e3973e3b-13fa-44e4-9f1d-8897f9dffd87/original=true/e3973e3b-13fa-44e4-9f1d-8897f9dffd87.jpeg" /><ul><li>The prompt rebuilds the photo. A different camera position, another car, other street lamps; the cat moves. The whole image also turns colder.</li><li>The prompt draws broad bands and star bursts. Wide blue smears across the frame, often where there is no light at all (car), and starburst lamps instead of lines (cat).</li><li>The slider keeps your picture and draws thin lines that start exactly at each light: the headlights, the street lamps and the red lights on the radio tower.</li><li>The slider is a dial. 0.5 is subtle, 1.0 is the full look. No rerolling, no prompt tweaking.</li></ul><h2 id="how-to-use">How to use</h2>Recommended:  Krea 2 Turbo, 8 steps, cfg 1, euler / simple, with two samplers:<ol><li>Sampler 1: steps 0 to 3 on the plain model. This lays out the picture.</li><li>Sampler 2: steps 3 to 8 with the slider. This adds the streaks.</li></ol>Set the amount with <code>strength_model</code> on the Load LoRA (model only) node:StrengthLook0.5subtle: short streaks on headlights and lamps1.0the full anamorphic lookValues in between blend smoothly.<ul><li>Keep the change point (<code>start_at_step</code> / <code>end_at_step</code>) at 3. At 4 the streaks get weaker, at 5 they almost disappear.</li><li>Positive strengths only. Krea 2 has no streaks to remove, so negative values just change the image.</li><li>Works with other LoRAs. Put the slider last in the chain on the sampler-2 model.</li><li>Best subjects: dark scenes with small, bright lights. Big soft light sources (a lit window, an overcast sky) get little or nothing.</li></ul><h2 id="strengths-and-weaknesses">Strengths and weaknesses</h2>Strengths<ul><li>Thin, physically placed streaks from the actual lights in your image, which prompting can't do.</li><li>Smooth control from 0 to 1 with a single number.</li><li>With the two-sampler workflow, the image keeps its composition, light colors and mood.</li><li>Scenes without bright lights are left alone.</li></ul>Weaknesses<ul><li>Faces and small lettering can change at 1.0. A face in the frame may turn into a slightly different person, and neon characters get redrawn. At 0.5 they stay. For portraits, stay around 0.5 to 0.7.</li><li>Small drift elsewhere: clouds and small background details can shift a little.</li><li>Daylight at 1.0: a few faint streaks can appear on very bright white areas, such as a white shirt in the sun.</li></ul>Thanks for checking out my LoRA and I hope you find it helpful in your artworks. Feel free to leave some feedback or let me know what could be improved. 🫶

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