(Also works for any other type of style transfer, but my initial interest was with realism) In my time experimenting with realism models I've always been disappointed, as I could never get the sort of creativity, variance, and quality I wanted.But with Krea 2 I've found something interesting. I'm able to make creative stylized images with a model like Illustrious or Anima, and then run a denoised KSampler over these with Krea 2 to get good realistic-looking results while generally retaining the creative features.Once you get everything configured right I've found the outputs look even better than what Krea 2 is able to generate through prompting alone.(It is recommended to use realism LoRAs to help push the effect, as Krea 2 might be insufficient by itself.)_________ There are two workflow approaches to this:An "automatic" workflow which uses the vision of the text encoder to inject information about the input image directly into the prompt, providing a quick and a fairly accurate transfer, but also injecting some stylized information, so it's not ideal. A "manual" prompting workflow that provides stronger and more controlled realistic style transfer, but requires the use of LLMs to help with the prompting.

Krea 2 - Realism Transfer Workflow

Files with SHA256: 51e6f400f46a0fbf8d69a90993bd618fee0f5962af9d1821cc3700d4632a251f