models/RAYFLUX - PhotoPlus

RAYFLUX - PhotoPlus

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9/15/2025
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Close-up portrait of an elderly Kenyan woman with medium wavy hair and bright grey eyes, showing a distraught and shell-shocked expression.
Close-up portrait of a woman with eyes closed, illuminated by dramatic red lighting that casts shadows on her face against a dark background.

Recommended Parameters

samplers

dpm_adaptive, ddim_uniform, DPM++ 2S a, DPM2 a, DPM adaptive

steps

12 - 30

cfg

1 - 3.5

resolution

2048x1024, 1536x2560

vae

Baked-in VAE

other models

Rayflux.v2.1_fp8 (a4885ddb6d)

Recommended Hires (High-Resolution) Parameters

upscaler

1x_ITF_SkinDiffDetail_lite, 4xUltrasharp, 4x_Foolhardy_Remacri

upscale

2

Tips

Use sampler combo 'dpm_adaptive' with 'ddim_uniform' for best creativity and photographic style.

Adjust max shift between 1.2 and 1.8, and base shift between 0.5 and 1 to customize image outputs.

Flux Guidance performs best at lower values around 2-3.

Leverage prompts during SD upscaling to direct the style, e.g., adding 'grainy' for grain or 'soft' for smoothness.

Version Highlights

TL;DR: if you want images that look more like real photos PHOTOPLUS is your best choice, if you want more exotic, cinematic images, you can still use RAYFLUXv1.0.

Creator Sponsors

Check out my SDXL Models:
Stylized model: RAYBURN
Realistic model: RAYMNANTS
Painterly model: RAYCTIFIER
Thanks to user @sheerazrazak90434 and awskr for the Draw Things version available on Hugging Face.

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Check out my SDXL Models:
Stylized model: RAYBURN
Realistic model: RAYMNANTS
Painterly model: RAYCTIFIER
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EDIT: thanks to user @sheerazrazak90434 and awskr over on Hugging Face,
you can now find a version of v3 AIO converted for Draw Things here on Hugging.
Shout out to both and a big thank you!
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Introducing RAYFLUX v3 AIO

AIO is the next gen in my RAYFLUX line, where Photoplus was technically v2.
It brings back some of the creativity of v1 to Photoplus, and is now all baked in with T5, Clip and VAE, meaning you can load it and use it with a normal Load Checkpoint workflow in Comfy.

Hope you'll enjoy,

R.

HOW IS IT DIFFERENT?

AIO is a new attempt at a model that good at photography but also performs well on creativity and general non-photo subjects. It is a dataset merge from v1 and Photoplus, with some custom LoRA merge-in and some manual block weight tweaking. I've re-upped the model to FP16 but used some optimizations to keep the full based model which includes the VAE, T5XXL-FP16 and the ViT-L-14-BEST-smooth-GmP-TE-only-HF-format from Zeroint already baked in while keeping the size on the reasonable side. The model isn't without it's quirks but responds actually better than Photoplus in a lot of subjects so I decided to go ahead and share it.

TL;DR: AIO will perform well on basically anything you throw at it, and tries to retain the slightly grain photographic style Photoplus brought, but more creative.

EXAMPLES

  1. A striking, high-fashion close-up portrait of a woman veiled in a black niqab, set against a stark, deep red background. The image is dramatically lit, emphasizing the texture of the fabric and the woman’s piercing gaze

  2. A vibrant and detailed close-up photograph of a juvenile crested gecko perched on a human fingertip, set against a blurred, bokeh-filled urban nighttime background.

  3. RAW photography of a 20yo woman, slim, with an angry look in a rocky mountain peak, pink and purple limited colors.

SETTINGS

AIO shine with a specific combination in my opinion dpm_adaptive with ddim_uniform. All the settings used for Photoplus or v1 will keep working, but the results are just more creative using this specific combo

  • Unlike the other RAYFLUX models, max shift and base shift can be tweaked, with a good range being around 1.2-1.8 on max, versus 0.5-1 on min. Flux Guidance works best at a lower value, 2-3 seems to be the best range.

  • As a reminder, RAYFLUXv1.0 used Heun/beta and Photoplus DPM_adaptive/beta.

  • For steps, AIO works great between 14 and 20 steps.

  • As a note, AIO works great at 2MP resolutions too! (see some examples below)


I usually do a second pass with a SD upscale at 2 steps with denoise at 0.2-0.3. I switch the upscaling model depending on the style I'm looking for e.g. 1x_ITF_SkinDiffDetail_lite for grainy portraits (works great at x2 too!), 4xUltrasharp for generic illustration, 4x_Foolhardy_Remacri for softer, cleaner digital illustration style. The prompt you use on the SD upscale is very important in general, don't hesitate to abuse it to nudge the upscale in the direction you want (i.e. write grainy for more grain, soft for less grain, add details about your protagonist, etc.)

Here's an easy start to Rayflux AIO in Comfy. Few nodes, great results!


KNOWN ISSUES/QUIRKS

  • Nipples, male or female. There's a distinct lack of nudity in my dataset and somehow this version isn't helping much with that. There's a ton of LoRAs out there for it though, so it's not too dramatic.

  • it's slower and more VRAM hungry than the previous versions. With a checkpoing clocking at 21GB (although it includes T5, Clip and VAE so the UNET's footprint stays around 16GB). It takes 50-60s to generate a single 2MP image on a 4090.

  • There's way more variation seed to seed as a result of my tweaking and compared to the previous 2 models, which is a good thing imho, but also makes it a bit more work to domesticate.

  • Baking in encoders really did improve a lot model response, and easy of use, but somehow makes GGUF quantization trickier as I'm playing with different precision in the blocks of the base model (which started as a FP8 re-upcasted to FP16 before additional training). User foggyghost0 in the comments also reported some encoding precision issues, so please be patient while I sort this out.

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Model Details

Model type

Checkpoint

Base model

Flux.1 D

Model version

PhotoPlus

Model hash

1b839fe7a7

Creator

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Images by RAYFLUX - PhotoPlus

Close-up portrait of an elderly Kenyan woman with medium wavy hair and bright grey eyes, showing a distraught and shell-shocked expression.
Close-up portrait of a woman with eyes closed, illuminated by dramatic red lighting that casts shadows on her face against a dark background.

base model Images

Photorealistic scene of undead characters including zombies and skeletons walking through a spooky cemetery illuminated by glowing jack-o'-lanterns under a dark, ominous sky.

photorealistic Images

Close-up photorealistic portrait of a mature Bene Gesserit woman with intense gaze, stoic expression, partially obscured by dark grey-black fabric with metallic threading, lit with dramatic chiaroscuro lighting.
A photorealistic anthropomorphic bird with white feathers and green stripes on its chest, bathed in golden sunlight in a lush forest with red leaves.
Young woman taking a playful mirror selfie in a colorful purikura arcade booth surrounded by neon lights, kawaii stickers, and digital heart overlays.
Photo-realistic portrait of a woman with vibrant orange hair styled in double buns and long braids, striking blue eyes, floral face paint, and an ornate black and gold outfit.
A peaceful Japanese pond filled with vibrant koi fish, bordered by a large cherry blossom tree with falling petals. A hand-drawn chibi samurai panda meditates on a rock by the pond's edge, blending realism and whimsical art.
A futuristic oceanic complex comprised of interconnected circular platforms floating on calm sunlit waters, featuring sleek metallic designs, greenery, and domed observation centers with a hydroplane docked nearby.
Riot control police in protective gear with shields facing a fire emitting thick black smoke in a city street surrounded by tall buildings during a tense urban protest.
A luminous butterfly captured mid-flight with detailed wings, set against a softly blurred natural background and dramatic cinematic lighting.
Hyper-realistic portrait of a muscular male soldier wearing futuristic tactical armor with glowing blue cybernetic veins and holding a detailed sci-fi assault rifle in a dark industrial spaceship corridor.
Portrait of a futuristic female android with blue skin, striking red eyes, black straight hair with blunt bangs, mechanical parts on her neck and face, set against a vibrant red background.

realistic Images

A detailed and ultra-realistic oil painting of a large blue-green sauropod dinosaur with a ritual garden growing atop its back, tended by tiny saurian monks amid sacred plants and moss, under a pastel sky with floating spores.
A dino-warlock clad in cracked stone armor with vines stands on rocky ground surrounded by shattered monoliths under a blood-red moon, holding a staff topped with a glowing amber skull.
CGI-rendered anthropomorphic duck with black plumage and large orange beak, styled in Rembrandt-inspired Baroque chiaroscuro lighting on a brown gradient background.
A girl in a school uniform holding a red oil-paper umbrella stands on a snowy Japanese street at night, with cinematic lighting and softly falling snow.
Portrait of a young teen girl with translucent pale skin and white hair wearing a futuristic black corseted dress with intricate biomechanical patterns and red glowing accents, set against a dark background with tentacle-like structures.
A digital painting of a dark-skinned woman with long flowing hair in intricate tribal clothing sitting on a rock cliff, looking contemplative beside a fierce, roaring lion under a cloudy sky with birds flying.
A cyberpunk girl with dark hair wearing pink neon glasses and headphones around her neck, sitting in front of retro computer consoles with green glowing screen and purple-blue neon lights.
A cosmic silhouette of a woman standing on a planet surface with flowing, glowing celestial light spreading behind her, set against a dark space background.
Highly detailed cyberpunk robotic woman portrait with metallic textured skin and colorful abstract spikes emerging from the head.
Side profile of a male figure wearing an animal skull mask with large curved horns and a textured cloth hood against an orange background, featuring a film grain effect.

stylized Images

A tribal woman with white hair, wolf ears and tail, detailed white body paint, and green eyes sits barefoot on a tree stump at a forest camp smoking a carved traditional pipe, surrounded by tents and smoky forest atmosphere.
A stylized illustration of a girl with dark auburn twin braids wearing a flowing white dress standing on a light-colored staircase with flowers below and a dark background.
Stylized Cubist artwork of a woman with a white face, green eyes, and red and black paint on a cracky textured surface, featuring geometric shapes and bright colors.
A goth girl with extremely long black hair and black angel wings plays an electric guitar while standing on a rooftop in a trailer park, surrounded by amplifiers and speakers.
A female wanderer with short hair walks barefoot through knee-deep water in a flooded, abandoned art deco diner illuminated by bioluminescent algae and hanging lights.
A beautiful woman with long wavy hair wearing a long floral dress stands in a sunlit gardener's greenhouse holding a bouquet of colorful spring flowers.
A young woman sitting in a large green leaf shaped like a boat, floating on a turquoise lake filled with water lilies, surrounded by a mystical forest at sunset with fireflies in the air.
Snowy medieval city at night with warm glowing street lamps, a cloaked figure standing on a rooftop, and a grand castle illuminated in the background.
Sharp and focused 8k image of a tiger inside a telecommunications tower with a dramatic spotlight, rendered in a hyperpunk style.
Portrait of a dark-skinned black woman styled as a goddess wearing gold jewelry and a golden outfit with short dark hair.