I would like to experiment with image editing. Idk, brush up my vacation photos, remove some of the other tourists, make it look like I've been somewhere I haven't... Swap my face onto someone or change my clothes, change the weather/sky... Draw me as a character in some artist's style... If it works well enough, take some of the blurry images from my potato phone camera from 15 years ago and clean them up... The stuff I've seen people on YouTube do with AI.

What's a good and recent model or "editor" to do that? Open-weights please and preferably something I can just use straight away without fiddling 3 hours with some ComfyUI nodes. Bonus points for being efficient and running on my laptop 😅

And is there some Free Software UI / software to make it easy? I mean I'm perfectly able to learn how to provide it with stencils(maybe they don't need that anymore in 2026?) and whatever stuff it needs as input, run it on the commandline... But maybe there's a nice interface like an image editor?

Edit: I forgot: I mentioned different use-cases... Seems to me there are different models for like regular image editing (which gets one image and a prompt as input) and models which get two images as input? Like a picture, and another picture and the instruction to draw this person onto that picture?

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Why all the downvotes? General AI hate drive-by nastiness? Or did I do something wrong?

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i think so, yes. i believe that FOSAI is mooostly about language and embedding models and such and less about image, video and audio gen.

and also yesssss, the community is on lemmy world, so many people will see the post, see image gen and dislike. that's just how it be.

i don't got an answer to your question, sorry. am not an image gen kinda person.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Thanks for your kind answer. Maybe I'll ask in the stable-diffusion community in case I don't get any answers. I just figured I'm massively into open source and maybe I'll find some similar-minded people here. And/or people who don't do it all day as a hobby and have a beefy graphics card and super elaborate setups... Because I don't, I just want it as a tool 😅

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

Because Lemmy.

This is the corner of the internet where you’ll find people who hate AI with a burning passion. Apparently, some of them were scrolling local or all, and stumbled upon your post. Some people just downvote without even checking which community the post is in.