Still wishing on a local editing model that can compete with NBP

In exactly two months, it will be 1 year since the release of Nano Banana Pro, and we still don’t have a comparable local model when it comes to editing.

Google really nailed its reference capabilities. You send a good face reference to it and it can generate a totally different photo of the person with great coherence and flexibility, almost like it was able to instantly create a lora of the person. Its spatial representation for humans and human individuality is incredible.

Now look at GPT2 and Qwen2.1 (it’s incestuous Chinese son). It’s almost like they just copy-pasted the person in the new scenario, looking more like a collage than an actual recreation. You can improve this a bit by prompting, but the end result always tends to look rigid or artificial, for both background and poses.

For T2I, Krea 2 is basically perfect. It’s incredibly capable, fast, and it has the best training capacity I have ever seen. If it doesn’t do something great, I can easily create a lora and it learns it without basically any degradation (unlike ZIT). It honestly supplies all of my needs, and I’ll be forever grateful for it.

Now we just need a NBP equivalent for I2I. Let’s hope Krea 3 can be it, because Qwen2.1 certainly isn’t.

Prompt for all 3 edits:

Generate a new 3:4 image of the woman. She is now taking a mirror selfie in her bedroom, standing relaxed. She is framed from the waist up. Bright sunlight comes from the right side of the frame. 

Image reference: random one I generated with Krea 2.