AngeliumiX V.6: Merge Workflow &amp; Improvements🎯 ObjectiveAngeliumiX V.5 is a photorealistic-focused SDXL merge, designed to move away from the "AI-perfect" look and closer to natural, diverse, and lifelike portraits. The goal is to achieve:<ul><li>More natural faces: Realistic skin tones, subtle imperfections, and less artificial perfection.</li><li>Diversity: Better representation of various ethnicities, facial structures, and body types.</li><li>Photorealism: Results that resemble photography rather than 3D renders.</li></ul>🔧 Merge RecipeBase Checkpoints (Safetensors)<ul><li>the best of the best !</li></ul>VAE<ul><li>SDXL_vae.safetensors</li></ul>🎨 Recommended Use Cases<ul><li>Best for: Portraits, photorealistic people, fashion, lifestyle.</li><li>Works well with: Subtle lighting prompts, cinematic styles, natural photography.</li><li>Sampler: DPM++ 2M SDE Karras or DPM++ 3M SDE Karras.</li><li>CFG Scale: 2.5–4 (for realistic results).</li><li>STEPS : 25 minimum</li></ul>📏 Resolution GuidelinesResolution1024 × 1024 1:1 Square Portraits, social media1152 × 896 9:7 Horizontal Close to 4:3896 × 1152 7:9 Vertical Close to 3:41216 × 832 19:13 Close to 3:2832 × 1216 13:19 Close to 2:31344 × 768 7:4 Close to 16:9768 × 1344 4:7 Close to 9:161536 × 640 12:5 Wide horizontal640 × 1536 5:12 Tall vertical1024 × 1280 4:5 Vertical😊 Positive Prompts<ul><li>Useless to describe more than 77 tokens.</li><li>I create a prompt helper here with Grok 4, you enter in your language some elements and Grol do the rest. Inscription is free and free to use it : <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://poe.com/SDXL-prompthelper">https://poe.com/SDXL-prompthelper</a></li></ul>⚠️ Negative Prompts<ul><li>Default: "3D render, octane render, CGI, simplified background, wrong perspective, text, watermark, error."</li><li>For architecture: Add "wrong architecture" to reduce distortions.</li><li>More complete : 3D, CGI, doll, deformed, bad anatomy, blurry, watermark, text, artificial, waxy skin, bad hands, ugly, distorted, unnatural colors, fake, airbrushed, bad lighting, lowres, jpeg artifacts, oversaturated, uncanny valley, instagram filter, bad shadow, floating hair, cloned face</li></ul>🔄 Workflow Notes<ul><li>The ComfyUI workflow is included for easy replication.</li><li>Copy-paste the workflow to comfyui and load the merge and start experimenting.</li></ul>💡 Improvements Over Previous Versions<ul><li>More natural faces: Less "AI-perfect," with realistic skin tones and subtle details.</li><li>Enhanced diversity: Better handling of different ethnicities and body types.</li><li>Photorealism: Closer to photography than 3D renders.</li></ul>📌 Final Notes<ul><li>The merge is versatile and works well for a variety of photorealistic applications.</li><li>Experiment with samplers, CFG scales, and resolutions to fine-tune results.</li></ul>

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Angeliumix 4.1 — SDXL Photorealistic BlendAngeliumix 4.1 is a refined update of the Angeliumix series — optimized for natural skin tones, accurate anatomy, and high prompt fidelity. It works well for portraits, fashion, and cinematic scenes, with baked-in VAE for smooth, realistic results out of the box.⚙️ Recommended Settings<ul><li>Sampling method: DPM++ 2M SDE Karras</li><li>VAE: Already baked in</li><li>Sampling steps: 30+</li><li>Resolution: 896×1152 / 1024×1344 / 768×1344</li><li>CFG Scale: 2.5–4</li><li>Clip Skip: 1</li><li>Upscale: 1.5× (denoise 0.3–0.35)</li><li>Upscaler: 4x-ClearRealityV1.pth</li></ul>

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