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content of style reference is used instead of solely the style

Forum|Forum|7 months ago
June 27, 2025
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Hello,

I am using firefly for creating storyboard images for quite a long time since it was released.

i use a STYLE reference image (pencil drawing of a room) for converting every other image i upload in the COMPOSITION area into a pencil drawing. so far it was working very well.

a few month ago, the generator started to merge the CONTENT of the STYLE references into the images, which is really annoying. imagine an aerial view of a city from google earth you just want to have as a pencil drawing. NOW you have the curtains or windows from the style image merged into the aerial view of the city. wow- completely useless!
PLEASE FIX THIS!
even when i switch the model to FF3 etc., it won't work. slider settings also don't make a difference. It was just fine a few months ago and really a power tool, but now it is just a pain!

Thank you!

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coopercopterAuthor

Participant

Please fix this. We can't work like this.

Kartika Rawat

Community Manager

Hi @coopercopter!

Sorry about the frustration. I tried one of your images in the Gemini 2.5 Flash model and got the following result

Thanks,

^KR

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coopercopterAuthor

Participant

Still not working. Firefly Image 3 sometimes gets the hang of it but FFI 4 / FFI4 Ultra can't separate and nearly always halucinates the style content into the final image. It is really a pain!

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coopercopterAuthor

Participant

Thank you for getting back!

These are the style references I use. 99% of the time the content of the style is rendered into the final image, regardless which images I use for composition. I tried various slider settings. In the past you could just set both sliders (composition + style) to maximum and you were ready to go and had perfect results: just a photorealistic image converted into a drawing with a few adjustments.

For example if you use a photorealistic image of a power generator as composition, choose on of the above drawings as style, set both sliders to max (or whatever value) and prompt :"storyboard sketch: power generator", you will get people rendered in the image. There weren't any people in the composition image and I didn't mention them in the prompts.

It ist just broke unfortunately. It was working so well a few months ago...