[crystal_revenge]

I've had a similar experience, incredible at generating a very specific style of image, but not great at generating anything with a specific style.

I suspect we'll see the answer to this is LoRAs. Two examples that stick out are:

- Flux Tarot v1 [0]

- Flux Amateur Photography [1]

Both of these do a great job of combining all the benefits of Flux with custom styles that seem to work quite well.

[0] https://huggingface.co/multimodalart/flux-tarot-v1 [1] https://civitai.com/models/652699?modelVersionId=756149

[vessenes]

I like those, and there's an electroshock lora that's just awesome out there. That said, Tarot and others like it are "illustrator" type styles with extra juice. I have not successfully trained a LoRa for any painting style, Flux does not seem to know about painting.

[davidbarker]

I'm curious to give this a go. I've been training a lot of LoRAs for FLUX dev recently (purely for fun). I'm sure there must be a way to get this working.

Here are a few I've recently trained: https://civitai.com/user/dvyio

[spython]

This looks really good! What is your process to get this kind of high quality LoRAs?

[davidbarker]

Thank you!

A reasonable amount of training images (50 or so), and then I train for 2,000-ish steps for a new style.

Many of them work well with Flux, particularly if they're illustration-based. Some don't seem to work at all, so I didn't upload those!

[stavros]

How long does this take, and on what equipment? It's amazing to me that you can do this from just 50 images, I would have thought tens of thousands.

[davidbarker]

It's very impressive. I aim for around 50 images if I'm training a style, but only 10 to 20 if training a concept (like an object or a face).

I have a MacBook Air so I train using the various API providers.

For training a style, I use Replicate: https://replicate.com/ostris/flux-dev-lora-trainer/train

For training a concept/person, I use fal: https://fal.ai/models/fal-ai/flux-lora-fast-training

With fal, you can train a concept in around 2 minutes and only pay $2. Incredibly cheap. (You could also use it for training a style if you wanted to. I just found I seem to get slightly better results using Replicate's trainer for a style.)

[vessenes]

@davidbarker -- please do, that sounds awesome! I did not have good results.

[davidbarker]

It's trickier than I thought it would be.

Here are a few in Degar style I made after training for 2,500 steps. I'd love to hear what you think of them. To my (untrained) eye, they seem a little too defined, perhaps?

https://imgur.com/a/sqsQLPg

[vessenes]

Yep absolutely nothing like degas well I take that back. I think it picked up some favorite colors/tones. But it has no concept of the materials or poses or composition. So plasticky! Compare to https://images.app.goo.gl/JiDRYNNKUP9tczkQ7

[davidbarker]

I suspect it really needs more training examples. The problem I found when I looked for images to use was that 60% were of dancers, and from past experience, it will end up trying to fit a dancer into every image you create. But of course, there are only a (small) finite number of Degas images that you can train with.

A possible solution may be to incorporate artificial images in the training data. So, create an initial LoRA with the original Degas images and generate 500 images. From those generated images, pick the ones that most resemble Degas. Add those to the training set and train again. Repeat until (hopefully) it learns the correct style.

[davidbarker]

Out of curiosity, what do you think of these? https://imgur.com/a/8p7RlMe

[vessenes]

Significantly better - they feel like watercolor more than degas but if that’s flux I am impressed!