Could Flux Kontext Dev handle a backdrop as well as a character, thus bypassing the need to composite later? To find out I threw together a basic garden around Nursoda’s Ronk figure and his snail. Obviously, one would spend a lot more time constructing a garden that was destined to appear in many scenes in a storybook or comic. But this is just for a workflow demo.
Pretty ugly from Poser (Comic Book mode lineart and a bright light preset helps it along, but like all 3D it’s desperate to go ‘dark and grungy’). Yet Kontext handles it nicely. Note the new word at the start of the prompt, ‘Filter …’
The problem is then the garish day-glo nature of the colouring on the new image. But because we have 1:1 registration with the Poser source-image, we can easily lay the colours back in by using it as a colour blending layer in Photoshop. Here that’s been done. Then just a little of the Kontext colour has been brought back in. The layer was then flattened and auto-contrast applied, then desaturated slightly to take account of the colour-boost caused by the auto-contrast. The final result…
And since it’s come from Poser, we can have easy-select masks galore via a clown pass / toonID render, should any further postwork be needed. And if a holding-line around the character, or a blurring or fading of the background, is needed… then Poser can also supply the masks needed.