<p>AURORAL Retro is a soft, nostalgic vintage-aesthetic style LoRA for Krea 2. It washes a scene with warm faded colour, gentle contrast, fine film-like grain and a quiet, dreamy mood — while leaving the content of your prompt where you put it.</p>
<p>It is tuned for people and quiet everyday scenes: portraits, old rooms, rainy streets, courtyards, still life. It is a mood layer, not a subject changer.</p>

<h3>Trigger word</h3>
<p>Put <code>AURORAL Retro</code> at the end of the prompt (that is the form it was trained with).</p>

<h3>Recommended strength</h3>
<ul>
<li>1.0 — the designed strength. Balanced and clean.</li>
<li>1.3 – 1.5 — clearly stronger vintage / film feel. On our own test sets this scored best on average (1.5 was the top setting on 6 of 10 library prompts, and on all 3 anime test prompts).</li>
<li>0.8 and below — not recommended: the style fades and the base model's own texture comes through more.</li>
<li>On Turbo / quantized checkpoints (e.g. krea2 Turbo nvfp4) the effect is a little weaker than on the original raw bf16 base.</li>
<li>A ×2 pre-scaled file is included in this version: load it and set 1.0 to get the same result as 2.0 on the main file.</li>
</ul>

<h3>Example prompts</h3>
<pre>a photograph of a young woman sitting beside a large window in the morning, holding a ceramic cup, wearing a cream knit sweater, half body shot. AURORAL Retro</pre>
<pre>a photograph of a young woman turning her head over her shoulder on a wet street at night, wearing a dark coat, city lights behind her. AURORAL Retro</pre>
<pre>a quiet courtyard with a wooden bench and hanging paper lanterns at dusk. AURORAL Retro</pre>
<p>Suggested negative prompt (see the note below): <code>text, watermark, signature, letters, AURORAL, Retro</code></p>

<h3>What it does well</h3>
<ul>
<li>Portraits and half-body shots of a single person; skin, fabric and light get the vintage treatment.</li>
<li>Quiet interiors and street scenes — old cafes, bookshops, corridors, courtyards, wet asphalt.</li>
<li>Works on both photographic and 2D / anime prompts (see the anime samples in the gallery); on anime prompts it acts as a warm, faded colour grade rather than a redraw.</li>
</ul>

<h3>Honest limitations</h3>
<ul>
<li>Prompt style wins over the LoRA. If your prompt already declares a strong art style ("seinen manga illustration", "flat colour comic", "smartphone UI screenshot"), the LoRA only shifts texture and colour; it will not override that declared style.</li>
<li>Best with content-only prompts. Describe subject / scene / framing and let the LoRA supply the look. Writing your own style words dilutes it.</li>
<li>Occasional trigger text. With short prompts the model can sometimes render <code>AURORAL Retro</code> as lettering inside the image (about 20% of generations in our short-prompt tests; 0/30 on long third-party prompts). Adding <code>text, watermark, AURORAL, Retro</code> to the negative prompt removes it in our tests.</li>
<li>Weak on hard-styled or crowded scenes: decorative flat graphics, anime character sheets and busy multi-subject compositions keep their own look.</li>
<li>Extremes of the strength slider degrade: at 1.5+ a soft scene can lose micro-detail; if that happens, drop to 1.0 – 1.2.</li>
</ul>

<h3>Training details</h3>

Base modelKrea 2 (original raw bf16)
TypeStyle LoRA
Networkrank 64 / alpha 64 (scale 1.0)
Resolution1024 (bucketed)
Steps3000 (batch 1)
Learning rate1e-4
Optimizeradamw8bit, gradient checkpointing
Schedulerflowmatch
Dataset135 images, captions: plain content description + trailing trigger phrase
Toolai-toolkit 0.13.19, single RTX 4090 D 48G
File sha256f76dd5cdef0e352c1e62adf2… (main) · f72a0af527188743f4b15f44… (×2)


<h3>Notes</h3>
<p>All sample images in the gallery were generated with this LoRA. Photographic samples: 1024×1536, 8 steps, CFG 1 (local krea2 Turbo) and upscaled 2× with RealESRGAN. Anime samples: prompt declared <code>anime style illustration, cel shading</code>. The last gallery image is a strength guide: no LoRA / 1.0 / 1.5 on the same prompt and seed.</p>

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<p>中文速览：唯美复古老照片风格 LoRA，底模 Krea 2。触发词写在提示词结尾：<code>AURORAL Retro</code>。权重建议 1.0（设计强度）或 1.3~1.5（复古感更浓）；提示词只写「内容 + 构图」，不要再写风格词，否则会把 LoRA 稀释。若画面偶尔出现 <code>AURORAL Retro</code> 字样，把 <code>text, watermark, AURORAL, Retro</code> 加进负向提示词即可。文件含主档与 ×2 预缩放档。</p>

AURORAL Retro — Vintage Aesthetic Style (Krea 2)

<p>AURORAL Retro is a soft, nostalgic vintage-aesthetic style LoRA for Krea 2. It washes a scene with warm faded colour, gentle contrast, fine film-like grain and a quiet, dreamy mood — while leaving the content of your prompt where you put it.</p>
<p>It is tuned for people and quiet everyday scenes: portraits, old rooms, rainy streets, courtyards, still life. It is a mood layer, not a subject changer.</p>

Trigger word
<p>Put <code>AURORAL Retro</code> at the end of the prompt (that is the form it was trained with).</p>

Recommended strength
<ul>
<li>1.0 — the designed strength. Balanced and clean.</li>
<li>1.3 – 1.5 — clearly stronger vintage / film feel. On our own test sets this scored best on average (1.5 was the top setting on 6 of 10 library prompts, and on all 3 anime test prompts).</li>
<li>0.8 and below — not recommended: the style fades and the base model's own texture comes through more.</li>
<li>On Turbo / quantized checkpoints (e.g. krea2 Turbo nvfp4) the effect is a little weaker than on the original raw bf16 base.</li>
<li>A ×2 pre-scaled file is included in this version: load it and set 1.0 to get the same result as 2.0 on the main file.</li>
</ul>

Example prompts
<pre>a photograph of a young woman sitting beside a large window in the morning, holding a ceramic cup, wearing a cream knit sweater, half body shot. AURORAL Retro</pre>
<pre>a photograph of a young woman turning her head over her shoulder on a wet street at night, wearing a dark coat, city lights behind her. AURORAL Retro</pre>
<pre>a quiet courtyard with a wooden bench and hanging paper lanterns at dusk. AURORAL Retro</pre>
<p>Suggested negative prompt (see the note below): <code>text, watermark, signature, letters, AURORAL, Retro</code></p>

What it does well
<ul>
<li>Portraits and half-body shots of a single person; skin, fabric and light get the vintage treatment.</li>
<li>Quiet interiors and street scenes — old cafes, bookshops, corridors, courtyards, wet asphalt.</li>
<li>Works on both photographic and 2D / anime prompts (see the anime samples in the gallery); on anime prompts it acts as a warm, faded colour grade rather than a redraw.</li>
</ul>

Honest limitations
<ul>
<li>Prompt style wins over the LoRA. If your prompt already declares a strong art style ("seinen manga illustration", "flat colour comic", "smartphone UI screenshot"), the LoRA only shifts texture and colour; it will not override that declared style.</li>
<li>Best with content-only prompts. Describe subject / scene / framing and let the LoRA supply the look. Writing your own style words dilutes it.</li>
<li>Occasional trigger text. With short prompts the model can sometimes render <code>AURORAL Retro</code> as lettering inside the image (about 20% of generations in our short-prompt tests; 0/30 on long third-party prompts). Adding <code>text, watermark, AURORAL, Retro</code> to the negative prompt removes it in our tests.</li>
<li>Weak on hard-styled or crowded scenes: decorative flat graphics, anime character sheets and busy multi-subject compositions keep their own look.</li>
<li>Extremes of the strength slider degrade: at 1.5+ a soft scene can lose micro-detail; if that happens, drop to 1.0 – 1.2.</li>
</ul>

Training details

Base modelKrea 2 (original raw bf16)
TypeStyle LoRA
Networkrank 64 / alpha 64 (scale 1.0)
Resolution1024 (bucketed)
Steps3000 (batch 1)
Learning rate1e-4
Optimizeradamw8bit, gradient checkpointing
Schedulerflowmatch
Dataset135 images, captions: plain content description + trailing trigger phrase
Toolai-toolkit 0.13.19, single RTX 4090 D 48G
File sha256f76dd5cdef0e352c1e62adf2… (main) · f72a0af527188743f4b15f44… (×2)


Notes
<p>All sample images in the gallery were generated with this LoRA. Photographic samples: 1024×1536, 8 steps, CFG 1 (local krea2 Turbo) and upscaled 2× with RealESRGAN. Anime samples: prompt declared <code>anime style illustration, cel shading</code>. The last gallery image is a strength guide: no LoRA / 1.0 / 1.5 on the same prompt and seed.</p>


<p>中文速览：唯美复古老照片风格 LoRA，底模 Krea 2。触发词写在提示词结尾：<code>AURORAL Retro</code>。权重建议 1.0（设计强度）或 1.3~1.5（复古感更浓）；提示词只写「内容 + 构图」，不要再写风格词，否则会把 LoRA 稀释。若画面偶尔出现 <code>AURORAL Retro</code> 字样，把 <code>text, watermark, AURORAL, Retro</code> 加进负向提示词即可。文件含主档与 ×2 预缩放档。</p>

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