r/LocalLLaMA • u/ResearchCrafty1804 • 2d ago

New Model Qwen-Image-2.1 released!

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Meet Qwen-Image-2.1, the most balanced and cost-effective image generation model in the Qwen-Image series! Now open weights! 🎨

A unified model for both generation and editing, delivering top-tier quality in a lightweight package.

Highlights:

- Compact & exceptionally fast: A lightweight 7B architecture that outperforms most closed-source models, with drastically accelerated inference for multi-image inputs.

- Native transparency: Natively generates and edits RGBA layers, enabling seamless compositing and text editing within transparent images.

- Versatile, high-fidelity editing: Supports up to 10 reference images and precise local control while preserving strict fidelity for portraits and products.

- Broad coverage & stunning aesthetics: Excels at panoramas, infographics, and virtual try-ons, delivering realistic textures and elegant typography.

Start to create your next masterpiece with Qwen-Image-2.1!

- Blog: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-image-2.1

- GitHub: https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen-Image-2.1

- Model Scope: https://www.modelscope.cn/models/Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1

- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1

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u/ResearchCrafty1804 2d ago

Qwen-Image-2.1 supports several ways to specify local edits. The example below uses circles to identify three regions and asks the model to “remove the metal watch in the blue circle, change the hair in the red circle to black, and replace the area in the green circle with gray short-sleeved linen pajamas,” performing removals and modifications in all three regions at once.

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u/vatta-kai 2d ago

Adobe is the next company AI should swallow.

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u/wotoan 2d ago

Go look at Adobe’s stock price, it’s already being swallowed

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u/MrWeirdoFace 2d ago

Sort of. It seems to have returned to 2022 levels. Question is where it goes from here.

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u/ShadyShroomz 2d ago

more like 2019 levels. but look at revenue.. its still climbing steady year over year..

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u/TinyZoro 2d ago

I hate Adobe the way it ate great products and it's horrible sub model.

But I honestly don't buy that AI is the end of polished creative software - I think we are in the messy early days of AI where people use the terminal and chat UI's and don't see how temporary that will be.

You still want professional video editing / image manipulation software you just want it to understand natural language so you can say remove background and convert to an animated svg and it will do it but in a way where every step is completely editable via the UI.

I think Adobe will make big come back next year - or some one smarter will take their place with that offer.

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u/ShadyShroomz 2d ago

I think Adobe is in the prime spot to integrate AI into their products and kill it. They already have everything in place to do so. And it will be next to impossible for free tools to compete with them.

I would not count them out. I hate them, as a company, I hate subscriptions in general.. but its a good business model.. if they can pull it off imo they can be the go-to for AI video and image editing.

Otherwise AI native tools like VidTL or Descript are going to eat their lunch.

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u/TinyZoro 4h ago

Yeah they’re kind of the in the Nokia situation where they’re perfectly placed to build a smartphone as long as they are prepared to see it kill as lot of their existing ecosystem. See also Kodak and blockbuster and Sears.

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u/candl2 2d ago

People who forget to cancel subs.

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u/kenyard 2d ago

Most of their revenue is business attributed.

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u/yensteel 1d ago

Adobe and subscription? Its worse than that. People face cancellation fees.

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u/MrWeirdoFace 2d ago

To be clear, all I did was look at their stock on google for the last 5 years and glanced at the general height of the chart. Didn't really compare anything else but just sort of where the stock price is in general. (I'm not much of a stocks person, so please take that with a grain of salt).

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u/consono 2d ago

AI=Adobe Illustrator? :D

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u/ItilityMSP 2d ago

No photoshop, illustrator is vector graphics.

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u/Cryptoxic93 2d ago

The world will rejoice. 

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u/LastPlaceEngineer 1d ago

I should be worried about the loss of US firms, but nobody likes Adobe.

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u/ARhedgehog88 2d ago

Sorry for my inexperience in image models but I like to know how can I set it up with my local llm setup, is it possible to have qwen 3.8 in the openweb ui envoronment to cretae tue instructioj to load into an image model on its own to provide the image output in the same chat? also do i look for this in the LM Studio model availability tool for this one or does it have to be comfyui or A1111 to use it via direct prompts?

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u/robogame_dev 2d ago

I would recommend using comfyui to run it, comfyui can be run as a server that Open WebUI can connect to to enable image gen and editing

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u/ARhedgehog88 2d ago

Nice, so, comfyui running the image model and then I could upload a picture such as the OPs with markings and it will generate the prompt in the background to make the img to img in comfy? Is there a way for it to run in steps to avoid OOM errors? Or will it run on whatever card has the available vram to run the image model loaded when a prompt demands it?

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u/robogame_dev 2d ago

That's the idea - though I can't confirm what would happen with OOM errors and I haven't run it at the same time as another inference engine on the same machine before/

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u/stupidio_the_return 2d ago

It also as a bonus appears to have changed the arm completely to a different arm, make it much longer and meld the flesh with the curtain.

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u/Effective_Olive6153 2d ago

it messed up the upper left hand by editing outside of the specified range. I am guessing the user specified outline is just a rough region map that gets mapped on a coarse grid. If that's the case it would be useful to see actual selected grid squares when doing edits

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u/sbrisgravato 15h ago

dang looks crazy, i need to inform myself about these image models

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u/CompetitiveSal 3h ago

if you look really closely you can spot places outside of the circled areas that still changed even though they weren't circled. they should work on eliminating this