The Case of the Beautiful Sweater

Introduction Another comparison blog. I was inspired by @MrUnick and his post: BudgetPixel Portrait in Ash and Pearl (Inspired by @Sonny00... | MrUnick on BudgetPixel Portrait in Ash and Pearl (Inspired by @Sonny001 and his creation with the same title.)😎 - Created with BudgetPixel AI budgetpixel.com As I understand it, his images were inspired by @Sony001 and his post: BudgetPixel Portrait in Ash and Pearl | Sonny001 on BudgetPixel Portrait in Ash and Pearl - Created with BudgetPixel AI budgetpixel.com I fell in love with the images in @MrUnick's post, and decided I wanted to do something similar. I wasn't prepaired for my GPT 1.5 image to look almost identical to his. I ended up taking this prompt through most of the models again. I am always curious about the varied results I get. Contents - GPT Image 1.5 - Flux 2 Flex - Flux v1.1 Pro Ultra / Flux v1.1 Pro - Flux 2 Klein - Imagen 4 Ultra / Nano Banana / Nano Banana Pro - Flux Krea / Flux Schnell Ultra - Seedream 4.5 / Seedream 3 - Qwen / P-Image / Z-Image Turbo - Wan 2.6 - HiDream Dev / Ideogram v3 Balanced / Lucis Origin Standard The Images GPT Image 1.5 As usual, I love the images that GPT 1.5 creates, so I ended up making more than I should have. Here they are: Flux 2 Flex As different as these are from the ones above, I liked how they turned out too: Flux v1.1 Pro Ultra / Flux v1.1 Pro The backgrounds don't come out with the right texture, but Lady Flux is in the house. On the left is Pro Ultra , and on the right is Pro . It amazes me how many different ways she can look, and yet still look the same. On another platform, I did a collection called The Many Faces of Lady Flux . I would love to bring that over here at some point. Looking at thee two images, I am reminded of the recent blog by @ PabloArtStation (the link to that article is below these two pictures.) BudgetPixel Who is Fluxia? The Mystery Behind the World’s Most Famous Non-Existent Face Ever noticed that “The Woman” follows you from BudgetPixel to NightCafe? 🧐 We’re diving deep into the history of Fluxia—the digital ghost haunting Flux Pro. budgetpixel.com Flux 2 Klein Just arrived at budgetpixel.com , this very new model is fantastic. It's really inexpensive, yet does a great job reproducing. Then, for the second image, I used the first as a reference, and told it to " open her eyes ". For my third magic trick, I pro mpted " make her cup her cheeks with her hands and look surprised ". I'm pretty impressed by the model (I've played with is a bunch at BFL, and it's fantastic). Imagen 4 Ultra / Nano Banana / Nano Banana Pro I love how these three turned out also. Flux Krea / Flux Schnell Ultra The image on the left isn't too bad, all things considered. Flux Krea does a decent job adding style to Flux Dev. Schnell is giving us exactly what I've come to expect from it: a pretty face with second hand clothes. Seedream 4.5 / Seedream 3 Seedream left me feeling a little unsatisfied. I'm not loving these. Qwen / P-Image / Z-Image Turbo I'm always confused by the relationship between Qwen and P-Image and Z-Image Turbo. As I understand it, the other two are both built on top of Qwen, and have a reduced size to improve their performance, and Z-Image Turbo is also supposed to have some additions to make it produce nicer images, which it some times does. Often, P-Image gives me the same output as Qwen does, just faster. Then other times, P-Image produces something magnificent. The same goes for Z-Image, except it does better a little more often. I don't know that there is a point here, other than I can't tell at any given time, what each model will output. Wan 2.6 Wan did a nice job here as well, producing a couple of slightly more seductive images. HiDream Dev / Ideogram v3 Balanced / Lucis Origin Standard I feel a little meh about these. They aren't blowing my skirt up. HiDream seems to be the closest, but it's boring. The other two just don't resemble what I was going for at all. Final Thoughts I hope you enjoyed the comparisons, and thanks again to @MrUnick for the inspiring piece, and to @Sonny001 for inspiring him.