Manuela ⁘ Reimagined

Pair with a realism LoRA. Can produce artistic nudes pretty well on its own. Works well for img-2-img with denoise 0.2–0.6.

Trained using AI Toolkit following this official tutorial, but the learning rate seemed to be too low so I continued rerunning with additional steps until it was something over 20,000, I think? At some point in the training, I also recall changing the linear rank from 16 to 32 and some other adjustments.

The dataset included 44 diverse images—different settings, hair styles, emotions, etc.—with almost all being upper body or closer and about one-fourth nudes. The captions were drafted mostly by Mistrel Le Chat—which didn't seem to mind the nudity—and Qwen at about 100 words, including the trigger word ATRX_MANUELA_QWEN, although the LoRA seems to respond without it. The captions described all of the elements not associated with the character or of temporal nature (e.g., hair style and clothing).