krea2-identity-edit

1# Krea 2 Identity Edit — local outfit swap
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3## Reach for this when
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5Someone wants **the clothing changed on a specific person, with that person preserved**:
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7- "put this jacket on her" / "dress her in this outfit"
8- "clothes swap" / "outfit transfer" / "virtual try-on" / "change his shirt"
9- "make her wear the outfit from this other image"
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11**Do NOT reach for it** just because a request is identity-*preserving*. Background swaps,
12relighting, expression or age changes, and object removal all keep the person, and none of
13them is what this model is trained for. It is called "identity edit" upstream because it
14*preserves* identity while changing clothing; the clothing half is the qualifying part.
15Send the others to a general image-edit workflow.
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17**Use this instead of:**
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19| Instead of | Because |
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21| an API / cloud edit node | this runs locally — no key, no per-image cost, nothing leaves the machine. Prefer it whenever the models are installed. |
22| generic img2img | img2img re-rolls the whole frame at any denoise high enough to change clothes; the face goes with it. |
23| inpainting a masked region | works, but the user has to mask, and the result has no reference for *what* the garment looks like. |
24| a face-swap / IP-adapter pipeline | those transfer the FACE. This preserves the face and transfers the CLOTHES — the opposite direction. |
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