u/AbolishAboleths

There was a storm moving over Cortona which was doing such weird things with the light.

I'm restoring and recolouring some photos and honestly I've been so blown away with Flux out of the box in the Draw Things app. The photo was very poorly reproduced (I think taken with a flash camera!) so I gave the models a good deal of freedom in my prompting. I think Flux created the most naturalistic, realistic, and lively photo. Qwen Image Edit did a truly abysmal job and took many times as long (I confess I may not have set Qwen up properly). Nano Banana Pro did an okay job but was impossible to fine tune, invented details, and made the photo look really gaudy and unpleasant. A triumph for Flux.

My prompt, if helpful:

> Restore and colorize this photograph of a wedding group into a clean, sharp, photorealistic color image. Keep every person's face, features, expression, and pose exactly as in the original — only repair and colorize. Do not add, remove, relocate, or alter any object, person, structure, or background element; keep the exact same composition, framing, and every item that is part of the actual scene. Never treat anything in the photographed scene as a defect to clean up. Use natural, realistic, period-accurate colors. Keep every person's face, features, expression, and pose exactly as in the original — only repair and colorize, never change anyone's identity.