Aspect focus
-
A recipe's focus field studies one named aspect of its image - "the clothing and garment style, not the person" - and demonstrably leaves the rest behind.
+
A recipe's focus field studies one named aspect of its image - "the clothing and garment style, not the person" - and demonstrably leaves the rest behind. The built-in style and lighting recipes ship focuses of their own (visible on the stack report).
Starter recipes + Builder
@@ -602,9 +602,10 @@ layers: [0.25, 0.35, 0.45, 0.6, 0.8,
Starter recipes included: custom_recipes/starter-pack.yaml
- ships enabled with three render-validated examples - borrow the
+ ships enabled with five render-validated examples - borrow the
weather, borrow the clothing style (a focus
- recipe), and cinematic color grade. Copy from them, or delete
+ recipe), borrow drawing medium, borrow photo finish,
+ and cinematic color grade. Copy from them, or delete
the file to remove them from your dropdown.
What each control really does (render-verified)
@@ -614,8 +615,10 @@ layers: [0.25, 0.35, 0.45, 0.6, 0.8,
palette wash (structure-safe: the source's shapes are
destroyed, so its subject cannot leak in). Layout:
grayscale
blur. Silhouette:
shape wash. The actual subject:
-
normal. Careful with
soft/strong blur - the
- source's forms survive and tend to appear at working strengths.
+
normal. Careful with
soft/strong blur alone -
+ the source's forms survive and tend to appear at working strengths;
+ the shipped style and lighting recipes tame strong blur with a cap
+ plus a de-selecting focus - copy their pattern.
2. shape is the volume knob - the one
channel that moves pixels on Krea 2 (anchors in the table above).
3. layers fine-tunes WHICH bands are
@@ -925,6 +928,7 @@ Studies: 7 encoder passes this run;
| A card seems to do nothing. | Read its stack report line: the feel curve, a recipe cap, or the guard is usually named there. Appearance recipes are tuned to land from about strength 0.6 - below that they whisper by design. |
| A custom recipe does nothing at any strength. | Its shape is too low (below ~0.5 the card is effectively off on Krea 2) or its study too fine. Raise shape toward 0.7-1.0; raising global will not help on this model. |
A focus seems ignored. | The stack report prints each card's focus - confirm it arrived. Focus is strongest on object-bound aspects (clothing, props); broad moods ride the image itself. Rephrase to name what to skip - de-selection is the reliable move. |
+ | Style results look soft or out of focus. | Make sure you are on the current tuning: suggest the visual style ships an anti-blur focus (printed on its stack-report line) that stops the recipe's deliberate reference-softening from being copied as the style. If soft-medium references (watercolor, hazy photos) still read soft, that is the medium arriving - lower the card below 0.6 or add crispness words to the prompt. |
| Away card makes the image muddy or empty. | Lower it below 0.30 and make sure something positive says what you do want. |
| Many cards fight each other. | Turn on gentle balance, or lower the two strongest cards. The report shows the applied scale. |
| Style card drags its subject in. | Check the prepared-references preview; if the subject is visible there, lower detail or strengthen the treatment. In manual mode, lower Structure layers pull. |
diff --git a/docs/krea-v10-user-guide.md b/docs/krea-v10-user-guide.md
index 2589762..fc8bbe8 100644
--- a/docs/krea-v10-user-guide.md
+++ b/docs/krea-v10-user-guide.md
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ V10 controls). Saved V9 workflows keep working unchanged.
| `copy the camera framing` | card | Framing-only quick recipe (was manual-only in V9). |
| `mood board only` | card | Loose-inspiration quick recipe (was manual-only in V9). |
| Custom recipes | card | Your own YAML/JSON recipe files appear in `Use image for` as first-class choices. |
-| `focus` recipe field | recipe file | A recipe can study **one named aspect** of its image - clothing, props, a setting - and skip the rest. |
+| `focus` recipe field | recipe file | A recipe can study **one named aspect** of its image - clothing, props, a setting - and skip the rest. The built-in style and lighting recipes ship focuses of their own. |
| Starter recipes | shipped | `borrow the weather`, `borrow the clothing style`, and `cinematic color grade` load out of the box from [starter-pack.yaml](../custom_recipes/starter-pack.yaml). |
| Recipe Builder | `web/` | A single HTML page that turns three plain-language questions into a validated recipe file. |
| `Guide direction` | card | `toward this image` (V9 behavior) or `away from this image` (counter-example). |
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ and seed are directly comparable - the only change between them is the card.
| `copy the camera framing` | slot6 pose/layout | `0.30` | `972103` | [PNG](assets/krea-v10/demos/copy-camera-framing.png) | Camera distance, crop, and viewpoint - subject and palette stay the prompt's. |
| `avoid copying text/logos` | slot5 text/logo guard | `0.50` (clamps to `0.03`) | `972116` | [PNG](assets/krea-v10/demos/recipe-avoid-text-logos.png) | Nothing readable: the guard clamps the card and rewrites the prompt toward blank surfaces. |
| `suggest the color palette` | slot2 style reference | `0.65` | `972101` | [PNG](assets/krea-v10/demos/suggest-color-palette.png) | The reference's color relationships, as soft color fields - composition identical to the no-card baseline. |
-| `suggest the visual style` | slot2 style reference | `0.65` | `972101` | [PNG](assets/krea-v10/demos/recipe-suggest-visual-style.png) | Same inputs and seed as the palette row: a broader, softer overall grade - the look, not the source's shapes. |
+| `suggest the visual style` | slot2 style reference | `0.65` | `972101` | [PNG](assets/krea-v10/demos/recipe-suggest-visual-style.png) | Same inputs and seed as the palette row: true style transfer - the medium, palette, and finish energy arrive with the subject kept crisp (an anti-blur focus keeps the recipe's own softening out of the result). |
| `copy lighting and mood` | slot4 lighting/mood | `0.65` | `972113` | [PNG](assets/krea-v10/demos/recipe-copy-lighting-mood.png) | The reference's light color and tonal mood as a scene-wide cast. |
| `suggest material or texture` | slot3 material/texture | `0.55` | `972114` | [PNG](assets/krea-v10/demos/recipe-suggest-material-texture.png) | The material's surface finish and pattern energy, with source structure kept quiet. |
| `use the background/setting` | slot8 background/environment | `0.65` | `972102` | [PNG](assets/krea-v10/demos/use-background-setting.png) | The setting's palette and room mood; the model builds a coherent place around the prompt's subject. |
@@ -396,13 +396,18 @@ guarantees - keep `subject: avoid` and a job-appropriate treatment, and
render-check like everything else. The stack report prints each card's
focus so you can confirm it reached the encoder.
-One built-in uses it too: `suggest the visual style` ships an anti-blur
-focus ("...not the image's blurriness or soft focus, and not its subject or
-scene layout"). The recipe softens the reference before study on purpose -
-that is its safety guarantee - and the focus keeps that deliberate blur from
-being read back as the style, so subjects stay crisp while the palette,
-medium, and brushwork arrive. You will see it on the card's stack-report
-line; that is expected.
+Two built-ins use it too, and their focus lines appear on the stack report -
+that is expected:
+
+- `suggest the visual style` ships an anti-blur focus ("...not the image's
+ blurriness or soft focus, and not its subject or scene layout"). The
+ recipe softens the reference before study on purpose - that is its safety
+ guarantee - and the focus keeps that deliberate blur from being read back
+ as the style, so subjects stay crisp while the palette, medium, and
+ brushwork arrive.
+- `copy lighting and mood` ships a de-place focus ("...not the place,
+ objects, or scene layout"), so a dramatic sky's mood arrives without the
+ reference's location taking over.
A complete example (the shipped template - render-validated values):
diff --git a/docs/nodes/kg-krea-2-image-guide-card-v10.md b/docs/nodes/kg-krea-2-image-guide-card-v10.md
index 82f206a..6b18e64 100644
--- a/docs/nodes/kg-krea-2-image-guide-card-v10.md
+++ b/docs/nodes/kg-krea-2-image-guide-card-v10.md
@@ -14,7 +14,12 @@ Guide packets stay V9-compatible: a V10 card plugs into a V9 stack (which ignore
## Everything The V9 Card Has
-The first fifteen rows repeat the [V9 card](kg-krea-2-image-guide-card-v9.md) exactly: strength, `Use image for`, and the manual tuning levers behave identically.
+The first fifteen rows repeat the [V9 card](kg-krea-2-image-guide-card-v9.md) exactly: strength, `Use image for`, and the manual tuning levers work the same way. Four of the shared recipe labels, however, resolve to **V10-only retuned bundles** on this card (the V9 card keeps its own tuning):
+
+- `suggest the visual style`: true style transfer - strong-blur prep with a finish-heavy layer table and an anti-blur `focus` so the medium, palette, and brushwork character arrive while subjects stay crisp and the source's scene stays out. Capped at `0.65`; lands clearly from about `0.55`.
+- `suggest material or texture`: surface character (weave, glaze, relief energy) rather than a recolor; capped at `0.65`, and `0.55` is the safe point when the object's form must not move.
+- `copy lighting and mood`: strong-blur prep with a de-place `focus`, so dramatic light and sky moods actually land (a storm reference delivers the storm, not a flat sunny field) without the reference's location taking over.
+- `copy big shapes only`: a structure-only layer table, so the silhouette guides the composition without the recipe's gray study muting your colors.
## New Quick Recipes
diff --git a/docs/testing.md b/docs/testing.md
index 629a1e9..263ae1f 100644
--- a/docs/testing.md
+++ b/docs/testing.md
@@ -46,8 +46,9 @@ Then load the example workflows and replace placeholder Load Image filenames wit
- The prepared-references contact sheet (Preview Image) shows one treated frame per active card.
- A second queue with only a strength change reports zero new encoder passes when `Reuse image studies` is on.
- The counter-example workflow's away card is marked in the report with negative targets.
-- The three starter recipes (`borrow the weather`, `borrow the clothing style`, `cinematic color grade`) appear in `Use image for` out of the box, and the starter-recipe workflow queues cleanly.
-- A recipe with a `focus` prints `Focus: ...` on its report card line.
+- The five starter recipes (`borrow the weather`, `borrow the clothing style`, `borrow drawing medium`, `borrow photo finish`, `cinematic color grade`) appear in `Use image for` out of the box, and the starter-recipe workflow queues cleanly.
+- A recipe with a `focus` prints `Focus: ...` on its report card line - including the built-in `suggest the visual style` and `copy lighting and mood` cards, which ship focuses of their own.
+- The V10 recipe overrides resolve on the V10 card: `copy lighting and mood` resolves to `strong blur` (not the V9 palette wash) and `copy big shapes only` resolves the structure-only layer table.
- The Recipe Builder is served at `/extensions//recipe-builder.html` and its downloaded files validate (drop one in `custom_recipes/`, refresh node definitions, confirm it appears).
## V10 Demo Renders (release checklist)
diff --git a/web/recipe-builder.html b/web/recipe-builder.html
index b022bcd..85a47d6 100644
--- a/web/recipe-builder.html
+++ b/web/recipe-builder.html
@@ -230,13 +230,16 @@