ComfyUI beginner asks how to separate pose, identity and background references

butterfly--1313 · reddit · 2026-09-29

A ComfyUI Cloud beginner details two use cases on Reddit: recreating a Pinterest reference photo with herself as the subject (preserving pose, composition, lighting, and realistic skin texture), and a harder variant adding separate environment and clothing references.

Experiments with Qwen Image Edit 2511 suffer identity drift, proportion changes, and over-smoothed "AI glamour" results. She suspects a workflow/conditioning problem rather than a prompting one, and asks: best current model combo (nano banana pro? Flux Kontext?), whether FaceID/InstantID/PuLID or identity LoRAs are still the right approach, how to transfer pose without inheriting the original person's identity, and whether references can be explicitly role-assigned. Includes a basic workflow screenshot.

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