Civitai-LoRA workflow vs Apatero hosted persona lock. Setup cost, identity score, edit speed, ecosystem. The honest decision tree for solo creators.
Comic pages punish drift more than any other format. Six panels, one hero across all of them, and a workflow that scales to a forty-page issue.
Generic AI prints saturate Etsy. A locked character as a recurring star turns one-off prints into a collectible series buyers come back for.
Two characters in one frame is where most workflows collapse into identity soup. The regional-prompt-plus-dual-IPAdapter trick that holds both.
Faceless YouTube is exploding but stock-clip channels are saturating. Use a locked AI character as the on-screen face and the niche reopens.
One face, three completely different looks. Editorial, anime, comic. The style-LoRA-on-top trick that lets one character live in three universes.
Most 78-card AI tarot decks die at card twelve. The lock-once, generate-everything workflow that ships a coherent deck in two days, plus the quality pass.
The LoRA-vs-IPAdapter decision tree, the page-by-page prompt template, and the rescue strategy for the inevitable page-eight drift in AI children's books.
The exact phrasing that swaps outfits in Flux Kontext while keeping the face and background locked. The one phrase that always breaks it, and the rescue.
Build a complete AI character from one selfie, generate fifty post-ready images, ship a week of content in one afternoon. Real timing, real outputs.
LoRA alone caps near 85 percent identity match. Stack IPAdapter FaceID v2 on top and you cross 95. The exact node graph and the failures to avoid.
The IPAdapter weight that holds identity at portrait range breaks at full body. Here is the 100-image grid that shows the safe range per shot type.
Turn one selfie or render into a full turnaround sheet the AI can lock to. Front, three-quarter, side, back, plus expression strip. Real workflow.
A real workflow for getting the same face, same outfit, same vibe across an entire image set. Without character drift, without re-prompting fifty times, without two paid subscriptions.