Krea 2 Realistic Skin Texture

A photorealistic skin LoRA for Krea 2. It brings back real, unretouched skin: visible pores, fine vellus hair, natural subsurface scattering, and honest imperfection, instead of the airbrushed plastic look diffusion models drift into. It is a texture and realism adapter, not a specific person.

Trained on Krea 2 RAW with the Inline Studio Trainer, from 26 images. The LoRA carries over to Krea 2 Turbo for generation.

Trigger words

inline-skin-lora, detailed skin texture

Put these at the front of your prompt, then describe the subject, framing, and light.

Recommended settings

• Base: Krea 2 RAW to train, generate on Krea 2 Turbo

• LoRA strength: 0.6 to 1.0, default 1.0. Lower it to blend the texture in, raise toward 1.0 for full effect. The sample images here are at 1.0.

• Steps: 8, guidance 1 (Krea 2 Turbo defaults)

• Resolution: 1024x1024

Suggested negative prompt: airbrushed, plastic skin, waxy, smooth featureless skin, over-retouched, beauty filter, cgi, 3d render, blurry, soft focus.

Training

• Base: Krea 2 RAW (bf16)

• Steps: 1500, batch size 1

• Epochs: about 58 (1500 steps over 26 images, no flip augmentation)

• Rank / alpha: 16 / 16, full scope (attention + feed-forward)

• Learning rate: 1e-4

• Resolution: 1024px, caption dropout 0.05

• Dataset: 26 image and caption pairs

What it does well, and where it does not

Tested across eight conditions, three in-distribution and five out of distribution. Texture holds throughout, including the cases built to break it: hard midday sun keeps pores resolved inside blown highlights, and deep skin tones keep specular sheen without turning to latex. It also generalises to mature skin and male stubble, neither of which were in the training set.

Known limits, so you can prompt around them:

• Age skews older than asked. Prompt younger than you want.

• Framing pulls toward head-and-shoulders.

• A specific lighting character (like harsh direct flash) can soften toward studio light.

Made with Inline Studio

Trained in the Inline Studio Trainer, a free, open-source app for AI filmmaking on a node canvas: dataset, captioning, training, and the loss curve are all nodes you wire together.

• Website:

• App and source: https://github.com/inlineresearch/Inline-Studio

• Model on Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/inlineresearch/skin-lora-krea-2-raw

• Training dataset (26 image and caption pairs): https://huggingface.co/datasets/inlineresearch/krea2-skin-lora

License

Base model: Krea 2. This LoRA is a derivative and is released under the Krea 2 Community License:

• Fine-tuning and LoRAs are expressly permitted.

• Commercial use is free only under 1,000,000 USD total annual company revenue (trailing twelve months). At or above that threshold you need a separate enterprise license from Krea.

• Derivatives inherit the same license, and attribution is required.

• Do not generate unlawful content, non-consensual imagery, or content that impersonates real people.

Not affiliated with or endorsed by Krea.