RefControl FLUX.2 Klein 9B – Reference Canny LoRA
📝 Short description
A LoRA for FLUX.2 Klein 9B Base that fuses a reference image (identity) with a canny edge map (structure / contours).
It preserves identity and style from the reference while following the shape and composition from the canny control map.
Trigger word: refcontrol
📊 Examples
Each preview is a single combined image from ComfyUI: Canny → Reference → Result (left to right).
| Canny → Reference → Result |
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📖 Extended description
This LoRA was primarily trained on humans, but it also works with stylized characters and some objects.
Its main purpose is to preserve identity — facial features, hairstyle, clothing, or object details — from the reference image, while adapting the subject to the structure and contours defined by the canny edge map.
FLUX.2 Klein 9B Base already handles reference + edge-guided transfer reasonably well with the right prompt alone. This LoRA builds on that capability — it improves consistency and better preserves character identity and edge fidelity than the base model without LoRA.
Part of the RefControl family: reference + control fusion for consistent, controllable generation on FLUX.2 Klein 9B Base.
⚙️ How to use
- Use the first image as the canny edge map (structure / contours).
- Use the second image as the reference (character, person, or object).
- Add the trigger word
refcontrolin your prompt. - Adjust LoRA weight (recommended 0.8–1.0) depending on how strongly you want to preserve identity.
ComfyUI requirenments
Canny extraction in the included workflow uses CannyEdgePreprocessor (via comfyui_controlnet_aux):
https://github.com/Fannovel16/comfyui_controlnet_aux
You can disable the built-in canny preprocessor if your input is already a canny/edge image.
Base model
Trained on and recommended with black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-klein-base-9B.
The undistilled Base variant is intended for LoRA training and custom pipelines (~50 inference steps, guidance_scale ~4.0).
The LoRA also works with the 4-step distilled black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-klein-9B for faster inference (~4 steps, guidance_scale ~1.0), but quality may be slightly lower — especially for identity and edge fidelity — compared to the Base model.
✅ Example prompt
refcontrol
🎯 What it does
- Preserves character or object identity across generations.
- Adapts the subject to a new structure or composition defined by the canny map.
- Works best when the edge map has similar proportions and scale to the reference.
⚡ Tips
- Best results when the canny map is not drastically different in body scale or framing from the reference.
- Combine with text prompts to refine background, lighting, or mood.
- Canny edge maps on a black background work well as control input.
📌 Use cases
- Character restyling while keeping identity and edge-defined structure.
- Consistent character design across different compositions.
- Illustration and storyboard generation with edge-guided layout.
- Object transformations with contour-guided placement.
📦 Files
- Weights:
flux2_klein_9b_refcontrol_canny.safetensors - ComfyUI workflow:
refcontrol_canny_flux_klein_9b.json - Repo: thedeoxen/refcontrol-FLUX.2-klein-9B-reference-canny-lora