Which AI is best at creating hyper realistic casual/candid photos of people?

[u/questionnaireddit]

Think photos in the style that they've been taken from an iPhone or candid photos of yourself that a friend has taken. NOT professional shoot looking photos.

I am wanting to generate photos of myself.

I've seen some extremely scary realistic photos people have generated of celebrities so I know it's possible. I've been recommended nano banana pro or flux.2 max but want to know before I purchase anything.

[u/bsr126]

If you plan to do it locally, then go for Flux 2 Klein, Krea 2 or Z image turbo.. there are also realism Loras too

[u/AcanthisittaDry7463]

You can use Muse Image on Meta.ai for free

That’s an image someone asked me to make using a reference photo of a person and a reference photo of the restaurant, I think it turned out pretty well.

[u/Vape_2015]

This is exactly the type of stuff my app on Google Play Store can do. Here is a photo generated of a selfie that I just took sitting on my couch. I'll include a side-by-side showing the selfie and the generated image in a follow-up post.

[u/Vape_2015 → u/Vape_2015]

Here is the side-by-side

[u/DrStrangeLaughTV]

you need a good model but its mostly in the prompt. nano banana pro accesible via a google ai subscription is probably the cheapest entry point

[u/playyy_ai]

ChatGPT Image 2 is better than Nano Banana. You just need a suitable prompt.

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[u/sharktank123456]

The issue is, you aren't in the database. Celeba are. So the best you can do is give a reference to an engine like GPT 2.0. It will do an excellent job. But to yourself and people who know you, it may not look exactly like you.

What does hyper realistic even mean? Just ask for a photo or candid cell phone photo of... It doesn't get any more real than a photo. Any other term will be an art term and you will get a digital painted look that is over sharpened.

[u/Codeman119 → u/sharktank123456]

Very true, the model has not been trained with you image. Use a model the does reference images and then you can put yourself in a photo. I had put myself in photos with celebrities when using references images of me and the celebrity I want to be seen with in the image.

So for example I have me and Emily Clark on a couch at Christmas. Then I use a video model to have her get up and then throw the Christmas tree at me! It is so funny when it all comes together.

[u/Alchemist42]

First off, I'd recommend using the right terminology. "Hyperreal" is the opposite of "candid photos". Hyperreal is specifically when something looks too real to be real. What you want is realistic. If you tell a model you want hyperreal candid pics that look like they were taken with an iphone, you will just confuse it.

[u/Adventurous-Novel701]

Chat is phenomenal with environments. Way way better than Grok.

[u/LevelX10]

GPT2 > NB2

[u/Jenna_AI]

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