I am sharing the new Qwen Image Edit 2511 ComfyUI workflow. I finally fixed the plastic skin problem and I will show you how to run it on low VRAM with GGUF files.
Qwen 2.5.1.1 just did something that should be impossible for a 2D AI model. Most models just guess pixels but this thing builds a mental 3D map of a house from a single photo.
But when this dropped everyone on Reddit immediately started complaining. They said it looks like plastic and the details are fake. And they are one hundred percent right.
Every model comes with some problem but we finally fixed that waxy skin with just a single node. So I am going to show you how to anchor this picture to reality so you can actually use this for professional work.
Testing the Texture Swap
I am loading this photo in the workflow. It is a guy in a deer mascot suit next to a man. I want to turn the man on the right into a realistic woman and I want a natural realistic image.
So for that I just write this prompt. Since this model understands texture very well I just write Change the man on the right to a realistic woman. Ensure her skin has natural pores fine detail and realistic texture that matches the lighting of the scene.
This model understands texture very well now so no need for any extra LoRA for that. I just hit run.
Look at that result. It did not just paste a woman face onto a man body. It re rendered the entire structure perfectly.
But here is the killer detail that fixes the biggest problem about this model. You can zoom in on her face. Look at the skin because it does not look plastic. It is not waxy because it has pores and natural imperfections. I will show you how to fix this later in the article.
Changing the Mascot
And one more thing because we are not done yet. Check this out.
In the same image I just gave another prompt. I said to replace the deer mascot with a monkey mascot and the monkey mascot must have the exact same fur on its head.
You can see the result. The mascot changed to the monkey but look closely at the texture. The fur is mostly identical to the original deer.
It is not one hundred percent but it tried to match the fur with our original image because the deer fur and monkey fur are a little bit different.
This proves that this model handles realistic human skin and specific artificial texture in the same workflow.
The Technical Fix for Pixel Drift
So why has the plastic problem come up. It happened because of pixel drift. The AI tries to help you by smoothing out the noise so we need to tell it to stop that.
In my ComfyUI workflow when you go to this node it usually defaults to offset. Just change it to the index time step zero.
What does this do. This forces the AI to anchor the generation to the original pixel at the very first step. It keeps the pores the wrinkles and the real textures.
This one click is the difference between waxy skin and a real human so just one change fixes that problem.
Files You Need to Download
First we will talk about the files you need to run this model. You have three choices for the main model.
- One is BF16 which is the uncompressed version so if you have a high end PC with more than 16GB of VRAM you can use this model.
- And if you have less memory there is another model named FP8 which is a compressed version of BF16 that is way faster and takes less memory and the result is mostly identical.
- Now there is another model which you can use called Q5KM GGUF so if you have a low VRAM card like 8GB and FP8 is not working you can use this model because it is highly optimized for low VRAM or CPU.
- Now you can see the text encoder and VAE are the same files used in our previous Qwen workflow so you do not need to change that file.
- There is also a Lightning LoRA available where you can use BF16 or FP8 LoRAs because it will cut your steps from 20 down to 4 and you have to use only CFG 1.
https://huggingface.co/lightx2v/Qwen-Image-Edit-2511-Lightning/tree/main
Qwen-Image-Edit-2511-FP8_e4m3fn.safetensors · 1038lab/Qwen-Image-Edit-2511-FP8 at main
https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen-Image-Edit-2511-GGUF/tree/mainunsloth/Qwen-Image-Edit-2511-GGUF at main
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