Glossary
LoRA
Short answer
A small add-on training file that teaches a model a new face, product or style.
LoRA is the cheap way to teach a model something new without retraining it. It trains on fifteen to twenty images and produces a small file of a few hundred megabytes.
Its three most common uses: teaching your own face (personal avatars), teaching a product (corporate imagery), teaching an illustration style (brand consistency).
The variety of training images determines the result. If they are all from one angle, the model learns that angle rather than the face, and likeness collapses at other angles.
See also
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- Stable Diffusion — Unlimited Generation on Your Own MachineOpen source; installed locally it is free, uncensored and completely controllable.
- Leonardo AI — Generation on Free Credits That Renew DailyFree credits that renew daily, a large model library and dedicated tooling for game assets.
- Flux — The Model That Leads on Photorealism and TextThe strongest open-weight family for photorealistic people and for text rendered inside images.