{"id":23530,"date":"2025-07-05T21:49:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T21:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=23530"},"modified":"2025-07-05T21:53:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T21:53:19","slug":"perfecting-11-watercolour-in-flux-kontext","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2025\/07\/05\/perfecting-11-watercolour-in-flux-kontext\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfecting 1:1 watercolour in Flux Kontext"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s Ronk figure and his snail. Obviously, one would spend <em>a lot<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/newronk-with-poser-background.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/newronk-with-poser-background.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-23534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/newronk-with-poser-background.png 1024w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/newronk-with-poser-background-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/newronk-with-poser-background-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/newronk-with-poser-background-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pretty ugly from Poser (Comic Book mode lineart and a bright light preset helps it along, but like all 3D it&#8217;s desperate to go &#8216;dark and grungy&#8217;). Yet Kontext handles it nicely. Note the new word at the start of the prompt, &#8216;Filter &#8230;&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/final-workflow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/final-workflow-1024x539.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"337\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-23533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/final-workflow-1024x539.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/final-workflow-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/final-workflow-768x404.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/final-workflow-1536x809.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/final-workflow.jpg 1814w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;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&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/final-with-background.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/final-with-background.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/final-with-background.png 1024w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/final-with-background-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/final-with-background-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/final-with-background-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And since it&#8217;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&#8230; then Poser can also supply the masks needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companion-software","category-poser","category-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23530"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23537,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23530\/revisions\/23537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}