Ideogram 4.0’s Understanding of Characters and IP is Crazy for an Open Model

Like I said in the title, Ideogram 4.0 has the absolute best character and IP knowledge I’ve seen in an open model without loras.

I hated on Ideogram 4.0 when it first came out because of the initial workflow issues and the safety filter, but now that both of those things have been sorted out, I’m having some of the most fun with a model I’ve had in years.

These were generated locally in Comfyui at 1.5 megapixels – 1440×1024, specifically.

I am using the INT8 versions of the Ideogram 4.0 models and Kijai’s Ideogram 4 Prompt Builder KJ node from his KJ Nodes custom pack. Workflow being used is SilverOxide’s which you can find here.

If you don’t know, or haven’t tried it, Ideogram 4.0 also does very well with inpainting. It makes it easy to generate at lower megapixels and then mask and inpaint areas like faces to clean up and correct detail. I use the Comfyui-Inpaint-CropAndStitch custom node found here, personally, but most of the time Ideogram 4.0 doesn’t need it.

If anyone wants prompts for a specific image, just ask in the comments below and I’ll provide them there to avoid cluttering the main post with a wall of JSON text.