When using image-to-image generation, the model currently overlays the reference image, causing it to shimmer through, even in photo-realistic images. The user wants the model to generate a new image based on the character reference, rather than just overlaying.
Image 1 Prompt With reference Character (Image 2), Image 3 without reference character and the exact same prompt. So while standalone generations seem great, image to image generations seem to just overlay over the reference image, letting said image shimmer through (as clearly visible in Image 1). This is not exclusive to painterly, fantasy or artsy styles but as dominant in photo realistic images (I first thought it was an overkill countermeasure against deep fakes). Pretty disappointing to me, since the model is great with character consistency. I was wondering about the experiences others have made with this, if you encounter the same issues or have advice about how I can counter this or what I might be doing wrong. I already tried prompting to create a new image from the ground up, only using the character itself as reference for the character in the resulting image. I also tried not mentioning the reference character at all (basically trying to avoid overprompting). All to no avail of course.