Niji men XL

This LoRA is designed for a semi-realistic Niji style.
It was trained on images from Niji Journey, with 90% of the dataset focused on male characters.

For warm color tones, use tag: “warm theme” (highly recomended)
For cold and blue tones, use tag: “cold theme”

To achieve a more realistic look, use the following tags:

(realism, photorealism, cinematic lighting, volumetric lighting:1.2)

Recommended strength: 0.6-0.8
Lower CFG values produce better results, recommended CFG 1–5

Tip: if the result looks oversaturated or too glossy, simply lower the CFG scale, this usually gives a much better result.
It’s also best to avoid checkpoints that have a strong built-in glossy-AI style.

I recommend using this LoRA with anime checkpoints.

The best results are achieved when paired with NOOBAI checkpoints, since they have a much better understanding of painterly textures.

In contrast, Illustrious tends to suffer from a plasticky look.

I do NOT recommend using this LoRA with bara checkpoints (homosimile, xavier, etc.), as they can heavily distort facial structure and produce strange features due to the baked-in bara style.

V2:

• Stronger style effect

• Improved dataset

• Network DIM increased to 96 (potentially better textures)

I recommend using this LoRA with the models listed below.

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