<p>Lifts night scenes so the surroundings don't fall into black, and gives skin a matte finish with visible pores. It does not darken the face — it raises the scene around it.</p><h1 id="how-to-use-it">How to use it</h1><p>Put mttnght at the start of the prompt, describe the subject and name the single light source. That's it. You don't need a paragraph about exposure — the LoRA does that work, and in testing a long "nothing falls into pure black" instruction actually made results worse than a plain prompt. Recommended strength 1.0, which is what all testing was done at.</p><p>Example: mttnght, a man in his thirties with brown skin and close-cropped hair, dressed, in a stairwell at night, lit only by the lamp on the half landing above</p><h2 id="training">Training</h2><p>FLUX.2 Klein 9B, 2000 steps, LR 1e-4, network dim 32, 489 images. This is epoch 10.</p><h3 id="measured">Measured</h3><p>48 images, 3 hard night scenes x 4 seeds, compared against the same prompts without the LoRA:</p><p>Face-to-scene brightness ratio: 1.59 with, 1.73 without (lower is better — the face sits closer to the exposure of everything around it)</p><p>Worst case: 1.87 with, 2.00 without</p><p>Scene brightness: 86.8 with, 72.9 without</p><p>Epochs 6, 8 and 10 were within noise of each other; epoch 10 won on worst case and on paired same-seed comparison, 9 of 12.</p><p></p>

Matte Night Light

<pre><code>Lifts night scenes so the surroundings don't fall into black, and gives skin a matte finish with visible pores. It does not darken the face — it raises the scene around it.

Trained on FLUX.2 Klein 9B, 2000 steps, LR 1e-4, dim 32, 489 images. This is epoch 10.

Measured on 48 images (3 hard night scenes x 4 seeds):
- face/scene brightness ratio: 1.59 with LoRA vs 1.73 without
- worst case: 1.87 vs 2.00
- scene brightness: 86.8 vs 72.9

Recommended strength 1.0 (that's what all testing was done at).
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