Introducing Fluxtrait - the definitive Checkpoint for artists who demand realism.
I created FLUXTRAIT to solve a core problem: achieving truly photorealistic portraits and lifelike skin with the base models. This is a meticulously trained fine-tune of flux1-dev, engineered to move beyond digital perfection and into the realm of hyperrealistic, cinematic portraiture.
If you're tired of "plasticky" or "waxy" skin and want to create characters with genuine texture, depth, and emotion, your search is over. This is a professional-grade tool designed for high-end character art, fashion photography, and concept design.
🎯 Exceptional Prompt Understanding
Highly flexible and decoupled. Change outfits, environments, and lighting freely without concept bleed.

🔬 Micro-Detail Preservation
Trained at high resolution to ensure photorealistic skin textures, pores, and natural lighting interactions.

⚖️ Stable & Clean Outputs
Precisely calibrated to prevent color-burning, over-sharpening, or anatomical distortion, even at 1.0 weight.

Core Specializations
✨ Hyper-Detailed Skin Texture: Say goodbye to flat, doll-like skin. Fluxtrait is trained to generate natural pores, subtle textures, and realistic light diffusion that brings your subjects to life.
👁️ Flawless & Expressive Eyes: Fine-tuned specifically to create eyes with incredible depth, sharp reflections, and natural clarity without complex prompting.
🎬 Innate Cinematic Quality: The model has a deep understanding of dramatic and moody lighting. Prompts like cinematic lighting and film grain are rendered with stunning, authentic results out-of-the-box.
🔧 Simplified High-Quality Prompting: fluxtrait is biased towards high quality. You can achieve professional results with simpler, more direct prompts, letting you focus on creativity instead of a long list of quality modifiers.
Checkpoint
Training Configuration:
GPU: A6000
Dataset Size: 1500 images
Batch Size: 1
Optimizer: AdamW
Learning Rate: 1e-04
Total training steps: 30k
Training Duration: 17h+
Please note that all my checkpoint models are still experimental, so you might encounter some issues. If you do, please let me know in the comments section. Your feedback is valuable for future improvements!
Recommended Parameter :
Flux
Recommended Parameter :
Sampler : euler
Steps : 30+
CFG : 1
Minimum Parameter :
Sampler : euler
Steps : 20+
CFG : 1
Z-Image
Recommended Parameter :
Sampler : euler
Steps : 8+
CFG : 1
Minimum Parameter :
Sampler : euler
Steps : 4+
CFG : 1
Flux 2 Klein
Recommended Parameter :
Sampler : euler
Steps : 10+ (max 15)
CFG : 1
Minimum Parameter :
Sampler : euler
Steps : 5+
CFG : 1
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Comments (11)
The cover video is kind of repulsive - nothing more irritating than a duck face.
I keep having an issue that no matter what I generate, there's always swirls geometric oily looking artifacts in the pictures. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, I've spent hours already trying to troubleshoot. I’ve ruled out my LoRAs (swirls are there even on bypass) and I’ve tried the Q4, Q6, and Q8 quants with the same result. Settings are at your spec (Euler, 25 steps, CFG 1) for flux 2.
Idk if this matters but I have a 4060 ti 16gb card
for flux 2 max steps should be 10
check para for flux 2 below. dont go above 10
@The_Midnight_Lab tried that but still swirls. I downloaded the v1 fp8 instead, and now it works fine. Maybe just something with the quantization?
What VAE/Text Encoder I need to use in webUI Forge neo?
for VAE small decoder https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-small-decoder , TE qwen3-8b Comfy-Org/vae-text-encorder-for-flux-klein-9b at main
Amazing face and skin texture detail! Is there any way this model can be merged with one that can do NSFW anatomy? Because that's the only place where it fails.
fp8 klein pls <3
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