So when Qwen 2.1 came out recently it got a lot of general buzz for being the best-in-class local image edit model. I ran some of my guro collection through it with a "make it photorealistic" pass to see how it did and... it was alright, but not amazing. It often struggled a lot around any aspect of nudity and isn't amazing at gore.

Well, I saw this reddit post about a new local model called "HunyuanImage 3.0" with image edit capabilities and it looked impressive so I gave it a shot and yeah... I heavily prefer.

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1wzclz5/hunyuanimage_30_80b_running_natively_in_comfyui/

I'll upload a few comparison images so you can see just how much better it is. The qwen images were generated with the standard qwen 2.1 workflow, with steps cranked to 40 and cfg to 2.0 like everyone recommends. The hunyuan images are the workflow from the reddit post with the lightest version of the model (4-bit instruct-distil).

The prompts are slightly different, I couldn't be arsed to go redo the qwen ones with exactly the same prompt. The core of the prompts are just "Make the image a real photo", but sometimes I added a little extra description to help the models in areas where they were struggling. But I promise each image is the best representation I pulled out of around 5-10 images for qwen, and 1-4 images for hunyuan (most of them are the first shot, unless there's more to the prompt than just the base "make it a real photo")