IL i2i+α
SDXL 1.0 derivatives... Pony honestly has quirks that are too strong, and it's not particularly suited for realistic processing, so I haven't used it for i2i. However, regarding IL, it doesn't have as many quirks as Pony, and it feels like a legitimate successor to SDXL 1.0... so models that can handle realistic processing normally have started to appear, and because of that,
I have created and am now releasing a minor update to the i2i workflow I had been building for heavy-duty models like Flux1.Dev, specifically for IL. It has been a while since I put together a JSON based on SDXL.
I think it's quite good... but since the original image itself was created with Flux1.Dev at the highest quality, honestly, compared to Flux1.Dev, the color capability is slightly inferior if processed as is.
The original image is below. As expected, the color capability is overwhelmingly superior to IL.
So, I added Color Match, which is used in KakudaiV1, as an afterthought. You could call it a bit of a trick, but it works.
I also included FreeU V2 just in case, so I made it possible to tweak and adjust it here as well.
Regarding adherence, I have prepared three ControlNets. As is standard, they are Canny, OpenPose, and Depth. The ControlNet nodes for Flux1 developed by ControlAltAI seem to be usable for SDXL as well. Naturally, I have set it up so that each can be turned ON/OFF.
Download the Union Pro Max for SDXL from the link below.
Since it has been a while since I used SDXL, I will repeat this again: the workflow is built on the premise of 16-step acceleration using PCM.
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As an aside, today, the warning regarding bitsandbytes that previously appeared in Forge appeared in ComfyUI. Please refer to the article below. In the case of ComfyUI, in short, a rollback of the bitsandbytes version occurred during an update of some extension, but as long as you use the latest triton-windows in ComfyUI, the problem that occurred in Forge will not occur at this time.
Also, I have changed the specifications of the Flux1 i2i to match the ControlNet-related logic introduced in the IL i2i.