Developer has a beginner train their first character LoRA, then writes a 7-point postmortem

Ill-Ant-9489 · reddit · 2026-11-01

The developer of LoRA Dataset Studio had a complete beginner train a character LoRA end-to-end and recorded it: 23 images, Krea 2 Raw with a LoKr adapter (factor 4, full rank), 1024px, 2,300 steps on an RTX 5090 rented at $0.53/hr on Vast.ai. His 7-point postmortem covers identity-consistency screening, face-similarity scoring and auto-triage, framing diversity, caption review after crops, challenging preview prompts with fixed seeds, picking checkpoints by testing rather than loss, and reading loss trends over spikes.

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