Paper Marbling Flux - v1.0

This is a Flux LoRA that puts marbled paper patterns into your image generations. The patterns are waves/swirls and dots/blobs. Generally the dots & blobs get added to background things, and the waves & swirls get used for items and edges. If your subject matter is naturally swirly or dotty then this LoRA will enhance that look. Your image generations will be pushed towards a drawn/painted style.

Wikipedia - Paper Marbling:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_marbling

This model is part of a series, starting with a TI embedding for Stable Diffusion v1.x:

https://civitai.com/models/69768/marblingti

Then a TI embedding for Stable Diffusion XL:

https://civitai.com/models/154898/marblingtixl

Then a LoRA for Stable Diffusion XL:

https://civitai.com/models/290258/paper-marbling-lora-sdxl

The TIs are tiny files (a few kb) that produce a simplistic version of paper marbling, but they are pretty good for some fancy illustrative work. Note that the effect of TIs can vary a lot between checkpoints because TIs leverage existing content in the checkpoints.

LoRAs add to checkpoints so they should not vary quite so much across different checkpoints. In the case of paper marbling, both this LoRA and the SDXL version produce more realistic patterns like actual vintage marbled paper.

This time, since the target is Flux, I have made a LoRA using CivitAI’s trainer. It uses mostly the same dataset as my SDXL Paper Marbling, but with some reprocessing and basic captioning. The effect can vary from subtle to stupidly strong depending on a number of factors. Part of the issue here is that Flux.1.DEV can be difficult to control - I’m told that that is because it is a “distilled” model.

I have tried to build in an “intensifier” trigger phrase. Flux doesn’t seem to like triggers the way SDXL does, but it is possible to make a usable token sequence. For this LoRA, the intensifying trigger is “marbled art paper” without the quotes. Note that in Flux most marble related words cause stone-type marble effects. Flux doesn’t seem to “know” much about paper marbling. I think/hope that putting “marbled art paper” into the captions of all my training images should push Flux harder towards paper marbling instead of stone marbling.

In this initial version, the LoRA and/or trigger phrase will produce a painterly effect. Occasionally it does too much, so you may need to weight-down the LoRA sometimes.

Below are a few grids showing some with-without images. They are XYZ grids made in Forge. For each grid of 4 images:

top left: LoRA + “marbled art paper”

bottom left: LoRA only

top right: “marbled art paper” only

bottom right: neither

Each grid uses a fairly simple prompt followed by the with/without variations.

Hopefully the grids will help you decide whether you want to try this LoRA or not.

The showcase images use more complex prompts to push the LoRA a bit further. They’re all made in Forge and may use Hires.fix, but nothing else: no other LoRAs, ControlNet, detailer/FX plugins or post-processing.

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