Krea 2 Identity Edit

v1.2 (recommended): krea2_identity_edit_v1_2.safetensors — better face likeness on restaged subjects and higher fidelity across every skill, from a 1024 high-resolution pass (v1.1 had none). New capabilities: character reference-sheet use and creation, head / face / eye / person swap, outpainting, inpainting, and virtual try-on. With the v1.2 nodes it also gains the FIT reference geometry — mismatched source/output aspect ratios are handled automatically, so no more stretched or blurry results — and a ref_boost fidelity dial (how hard the edit holds the reference; ~4 is a strong-likeness starting point). Requires the v1.2 nodes.

Head / face / eye / person swap is trained on stablellama's MIT-licensed change_eye_face_head_person dataset — thank you for making it available.

Low-VRAM variants: ..._v1_2_r128.safetensors (0.91GB) and ..._v1_2_r64.safetensors (0.46GB) — SVD rank-reduced from v1.2 (>99% of the weight energy retained), near-identical quality.

Prior versions remain available: ..._v1_1.safetensors (+ its _r128/_r64 variants) and the original ..._v1.safetensors.

What it does

• Person re-staging with likeness: "create a photo of this person at a night market" — same face, same outfit down to individual moles and marks, fully relit to the new scene. New camera angles and poses included.
• Local edits: recolor, add/remove/replace objects, attribute and outfit changes, with near-pixel preservation of the rest of the frame.
• Replace-with-reference: "replace the woman with a big orangutan" — the replace verb is trained, locality holds.
• Full-image restyles: global style with preserved composition.
• Two-input edits: scene + person as separate references — "create a photo of this man next to the tractor." Input order matters and is fixed: the scene is always image 1 (source_latent/image), the person is always image 2 (source_latent_b/image_b). Swapping them sharply degrades results (this matches the training layout).
• Composes with your LoRAs: character/body/style LoRAs stack on top and steer the prior — something closed editors structurally can't offer.

Recommended settings

• ref_boost (v1.2 nodes) is the fidelity dial — ~4 gives strong face/body likeness (the example workflow ships at 4); >10 starts breaking removals; <1 loosens toward creative freedom.
• Aspect ratio: with the v1.2 nodes' fit geometry (default) a mismatched source/output aspect ratio is handled automatically. On v1/v1.1 weights or crop (legacy), match the source AR — otherwise preservation degrades.
• Generate at ≤2MP (source bleed / duplication above). For v1.1 two-person edits, prefer ~1–1.5MP — at higher resolutions the two identities may blend together; generate lower and upscale instead.
• Step count is a mild dial too: fewer steps (8) favor composition adherence, more (12) favor face detail; ~10 is a good balance.
• grounding_px is a real dial. Lower values = stronger edit adherence and more uniform scene changes; higher = stronger identity/likeness. v1.1's trained range is 384–768 (768 default); 1024 often still works nicely. If you get duplicated/split compositions ("double pictures"), lower grounding_px — running far above the trained range is the most common cause. (v1's trained range was 512–1536.)
• At CFG > 1, ground the negative too (empty prompt + same image).
• LoRA strength 1.0.

Known limitations (honest list)

• Likeness is texture-faithful, proportion-conservative. Moles, skin character, hair, and lighting adapt beautifully; strongly distinctive facial geometry (unusual nose, eye spacing, face length) regresses toward typical proportions. People whose identity lives in texture and structure transfer best; geometry-defined faces read as a "close relative."
• Two-person inputs keep outfits distinct but faces drift toward each other. Workaround that works today: chain single-ref inserts (place person A, then a second edit pass adding person B from their reference).
• Removal works but is not yet reliable — always use the Raw/CFG 3 recipe; expect occasional re-renders instead of deletions.
• Outfit swaps are hit-or-miss — changing what a person wears sometimes works cleanly and sometimes doesn't apply; reroll or rephrase.
• Local edits aren't always perfectly local — add/remove/replace operations can sometimes alter other parts of the frame or shift the overall color grade (substantially improved in v1.1). If preservation matters, compare against the source and reroll.
• Highly unusual visual content (extravagant hairstyles, extreme body types) can drift toward the base prior — a subject LoRA stacked on top fixes this.

License

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v1.1

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Contributors & thanks

• stablellama — the MIT-licensed head/face/eye/person swap dataset behind those capabilities in v1.2.
• CeciliaXCIX — tireless, high-quality community support in the discussions.
• akashzeno — node engineering: diagnosing the ComfyUI compatibility break and contributing the regression test.
• SubtleShader — testing the training code and consumer-GPU feedback.
• Mark (sogni.ai) — support, a GPU-fund donation, and getting the word out.

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