Hello, everyone. Rodney here with Kleebz Tech,
and today I'm going to cover the mixing of AI with real photos and editing real photos
using Fooocus. These techniques, of course, will also work with editing your generated
images as well. The inpainting engine of Fooocus is really one of its best features and the
primary reason why I started using it. And yes, you can use it to edit real photos as well.
If you need instructions on getting started with Fooocus, I do have videos that
cover that, but it is extremely simple. Now, if you're not familiar
with the inpainting in Fooocus, I do recommend watching my other inpainting
video to familiarize yourself with the basics. Now, one of the big questions I'm going to
cover first is, I see a lot of people asking, "How do you remove something from images?"
I'll cover that first. I'm going to show it with a real photo, but this will work with
generated images as well. First, I'm going to be running this just as the standard run.bat.
I have turned off all styles, and I'll explain why in a moment. I'm just using the standard
Juggernaut. I find it's a good general purpose. Now, the reason I prefer not to use styles,
especially at first, you can always use them later, but especially when you're removing
stuff. As I had somebody asking about how to remove earrings from something, and they kept
inpainting, and it kept putting earrings. Well, it turns out that they had the Masterpiece style
turned on, and the problem is when you're running certain styles, you may not always know what's
in those styles and what's causing that problem. Well, as we can see here, if I pull up the
Masterpiece style, listed in here is earrings. So, every time they were regenerating, they keep
getting earrings because that's what's listed in here. So, be aware of that, and it's best to
work without styles, especially at first, or if you're having any issues. If you're not having
any issues, then fine, use the styles, it works. We're going to also be turning on the input
image area here. We're going to be using the inpaint section, as I mentioned.
One of my biggest questions I get is, "How do you remove something?" And besides
what I mentioned before, if you're having problems with the styles, a lot of times, it's
how you're doing it and how you approach it. So, I'm going to use this image here.
It's an actual image I found stock photos, and a lot of times, people just want to
remove a person, for example. So in this one, they'll mask over, let's say, the person.
So let's go over and mask this person out. What a lot of people will do at this point
is they might go down and hit the modify content and then they'll say remove.
That's not going to do anything. Erase, that's not going to do anything either because
that's not how that works. All I'm going to put in here is "empty beach" because I want it to be an
empty beach. I don't need to mention these other people because it's not generating that area.
So, by putting "empty beach" in there, that's going to be probably the best way to actually get
what I want. So I'll go ahead and generate that. Okay, and we have our empty beach now. I will
mention, I did not resize this image or anything like that. Actually, the original image is, well,
yeah, the original image is like 5,000 by 2,845, which is not an issue because what happens is
Fooocus is just working on that area there. So that's not actually an issue with the image, but
sometimes you may want to resize it a little bit to get things to match better. Let's pull up
that image to see how that came out. Overall, it blends in pretty well. You can see
that it's not quite as clear now. What I can do is resize that image before I do
it to get a better match on some of that sort of stuff. A little bit of trial and
error, but overall, that's how that works. Now, something that a lot of people will try to
do is to use the modify content instead to remove, but that doesn't always work. Now, I'm
going to show you, just to give you an idea, let's say we actually went to the modify content
and I put "empty beach" here. This is probably not going to do what I expect because I don't
totally prep ahead of time on all these things. I don't make everything go perfectly for myself.
Probably should; it would make things a lot easier when I'm editing these videos. But okay, well, I
think you see the results that we're getting. So, using that modify content doesn't work well
for certain things like that. I do add that adding things, it can work, but removing
things, it doesn't really work well for that purpose. Like I said, your best bet is
put the actual prompt of like an "empty beach" or an "empty table" if you want to remove
something from a table, something like that. The other thing you can do, if
you wanted to in this example, is if we couldn't get it to do that
sort of thing, is in the image prompts, I could just put a picture of an empty beach here
and use that as a guide to influence the removal. Okay, so now that I've covered the
removal of things from pictures, let's cover adding things to pictures. So, for
this one, I'm going to use a photo that I took a couple of years ago up in Vermont. It's
inside of an old abandoned house of a piano, and so this one has black and white.
And this is the reason I used it, to give you an idea of how this works. So I'm
just going to inpaint a certain area here. Now, for what I'm doing here, there are two
different options of doing this, and a lot of times, you're going to try both of them because
sometimes it works better than others. It's hard to say exactly why one works better than the other
on different images. So for this image, I'm going to actually have a skeleton hand—oops—playing
piano. So, "skeleton hand playing piano." Now, if I just hit generate, most likely, what's
going to happen is it's not going to blend it in perfectly with the black and white, although
the inpainting engine does a pretty good job of blending things in. You do, I find, want to
mention that sort of stuff. I'm probably asking for trouble since I'm putting a hand in here, but
I like to make things difficult for myself. Okay, and these two came out, well, pretty bad. Ha, but
it did get the general style, which is what I'm trying to show here. I did get actually much
better images earlier when I tried it. Now, know these weren't perfect, but much better. And
as you can tell, Fooocus does a pretty good job at blending things in. When it doesn't mess up, just
like normal generation when you're doing stuff, it's not going to be any different
when using real images or generated in inpainting. It's the same idea. So, you'll
obviously need to try several attempts, but as you can see, it does a pretty good
job at getting it blended in pretty well. Now, another image, so let's say in here we
have this old abandoned house. I don't think it's the same one. We're going to go ahead
and remove this prompt here. And this one, I'm going to go ahead and use the modify
content, a ghost looking out the window. Okay, and we have our ghost in the window now. I'd
probably regenerate these a little more to get a better... I probably would describe it a little
bit better as well down here and get that to blend in and look better. You get the idea of how
that works. You could do it in the prompt up here, but you're probably, in this sort of circumstance,
going to get better results using the modified content because that's only a very small part.
So if you were to put it up here, you probably wouldn't get it as many prompts. It probably
would take me a few more tries to do that. I'm going to go actually back to this original
image, so this is the original image that we actually removed the person from. Same idea. I'm
going to go in here, and I'm going to put modified content, and that's all I'm going to add into
here. I'm going to go ahead and hit generate. Okay, now we have our new images with our dog,
which, well, that's a pretty good-sized dog, I would say. But there we go, that one's
much better. Now, the other option here, we could do the same thing and do
it here and go ahead and generate. Okay, now we have our dog with the people. Now,
I do find, in my experience, usually this method will blend things in, sometimes better, as far
as the size of the dog, where we saw with the previous ones, the size was different with using
the modify content. But experiment to see which ones you get the results that you like with. They
both have their advantages and disadvantages, but they do both work. So when you use the
modify content down here, you do want to, I find, remove anything from the top
prompt because it does intermix. So to get best results, this is how I would
be doing it. Leave this prompt alone. Okay, so one thing also that I do like, as I've
mentioned about the Fooocus inpainting engine, is it's very good at usually blending
things in. And so, for example, we can take this old photo here. I have fun
with these old family photos sometimes. And so, I'm going to just mask out an area here, just to
show you. I'm going to drop a car in here. Now, I'm actually just going to use the main prompt
up here, and I'm just going to put "Put in a Ford Model T, black and white photo, old
photo, faded, scratches, dull, blurred, vintage, damaged photo." I've added some extra
weights in there. Play around with that to try to get the results. I mean, the inpainting
engine does a decent job, but you do need to kind of influence it with the prompt as well.
Some of these don't work as well as I'd hope, but I can always add scratches or something to
the photo afterwards if you want to blend that in. So with this one, let's go ahead and give that
a shot. I'm still trying to find the best way myself to get the old look. I do get it sometime.
As we can see here, it did a pretty good job with some of these, blending them in. You might
want to go in, if you really wanted to make it perfect, with some photo editing, add some
scratches and things like that. Like I said, sometimes I do get those, and if you find
the right prompt, that might work as well. I haven't found any LoRAs that can help with that
yet, but I haven't done a lot of digging. I, of course, could add a UFO in the background as well,
which I did earlier. That's actually, honestly, what I do mostly: UFOs and monsters in the back
of old photos. Those are my big ones. So, really, you can manipulate photos just like you would any
of the other generated images, for the most part. You can also use it as well for
variations afterwards, but obviously, that's going to change the image. If you're
trying to actually get some pretty interesting stuff and you're not as picky about that,
you can use the inpainting to get a start, get something like this, then bring it
over the variation and do what you want to do with the variations at that point
to get the final picture that you want. Well, hopefully, this gets you started with
using Fooocus on your photos and having some fun. Don't forget, I do have plenty of other
videos on Fooocus and AI as well. Do check those out. If you found this video helpful, please
consider hitting that like button. It does help, at least that's what I've been told. And
keep on creating, and have a wonderful day.
