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Image-to-image

Definition — Generating a new image using an existing image as input alongside a text prompt. The input image anchors composition, pose or subject while the prompt steers what changes.

Where text-to-image starts from nothing, image-to-image starts from a picture: the input provides structure — composition, pose, subject placement — and the prompt plus a strength setting decide how far the output may depart from it. Low strength refines; high strength reinvents within the same bones.

Typical uses in persona work: restyling a good shot into a different mood, changing wardrobe or setting while keeping a pose, adapting one hero image into placement variants, and product-focused edits where the composition is already right. Garment-focused workflows like virtual try-on are specialized forms of the same idea.

It is worth keeping the conceptual line clear: image-to-image is per-image guidance — it borrows from one specific picture, once. Model training is persistent identity — the persona exists independent of any single source image. The two combine well: train the identity, then use image-to-image to iterate on individual results.

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