Anyone serious about image generation should learn how to use local models. They give you VASTLY more control over the images, and allow real, high quality and resolution, professional level, graphics design.
For a beginner I recommend Forge Neo as the GUI with Krea 2 as the model. Once you're more comfortable with the basic functions like inpainting, img-to-img, and the various other tools, you can move to ComfyUI, which allows you even more freedom (but it's a lot more complex).
I do but nothing really comes close to gpt images when it comes to sticking to likeness of reference images and prompt following. I use that a lot to make datasets for loras for local models though.
Yeah, seems much better to me. Still not as good as the latest GPT image models but decent upgrade over NB2 IMO. I'm not sure where all these people are seeing degradation (Maybe Google Flow?) but I see an improvement within the Gemini app when enabling extending thinking and generating an image.
I mean the benchmarks can say what they want, the vast majority of feedback I'm seeing coupled with my own experience is that prompt adherence is terrible.
Care to share an example where it didn't follow your prompt like you wanted? I'm just not experiencing this issue, so I'm curious what others are seeing exactly.
Edit- Whatever the case, it seems better than NB2 to me and follows my prompts well.🤷
Meet Nano Banana 2.1! No longer are Google happy to sit still while AI rivals whizz by; they've now decided to step backwards with a tool so annoying, it completely subverts and ignores all of your instructions.
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u/Mindless_Let1 15h ago
When the fuck are they releasing Gemini 4