Here are the results of another method to convert toons/drawings into more photorealistic versions. Once again, the aim was to do so without sacrificing the original artistic vision or making the characters looks too generic. The method can be found below picture gallery.
The first part involved using AI Anime Image Editor to start the process of making the source material a bit more photorealistic with the following prompt to generate an output (file_name_01).
“replace man and young woman with photorealistic versions, add photorealistic texture to skin, hair and clothes, replace background with photorealistic version, young woman has flushed shapely buttocks, remove text, make photorealistic”
The same prompt was used to on the previous output (file name_01) to generate another output (file_name_02) in the same editor. The final output of first step (file_name_02) was then used as input for second part using Free NSFW AI Image Editor with FLUX.2 Klein 4B model and prompt “make photorealistic”. This output was upscaled using AI Anime Image Upscaler.