Flux Kontext

Flux Kontext by Black Forest Labs is a next-gen AI image editing model that unifies text prompts and reference images for precise contextual editing. It excels at character consistency, local edits, style transfer, and text replacement—ideal for creators, designers, AI developers. Try it now.

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Flux Kontext x Labubu

Flux Kontext x Labubu: Change Labubu's outfit color from white to sky blue. Replace the red heart with a fluffy blue one. Add a soft plush keychain loop on top of the head. Keep Labubu's facial features, expression, body posture, and the snowy winter background exactly the same.

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What is Flux Kontext

Flux Kontext, developed by Black Forest Labs (BFL), is a professional model for editing images. It transforms images into new ones using a deep understanding of the image content, allowing for accurate visual changes.

It supports various edits: altering objects, changing styles, swapping backgrounds, maintaining character likeness, and adjusting text—all without needing complicated instructions.

The main advantage of Kontext is its strong context recognition and the ability to maintain consistency in characters. This helps critical features like faces and the overall image structure stay consistent, even when edited multiple times.

Key Capabilities:

  • Object Alteration
    Precisely modify objects while preserving the overall image context
  • Style Transfer
    Apply different artistic styles while maintaining image integrity
  • Character Consistency
    Maintain character likeness across multiple edits and iterations
  • Text Editing
    Seamlessly replace and modify text within images
Technical Innovation

Innovation Behind Flux Kontext

Flux Kontext pioneered the use of Flow Matching architecture, breaking the independent design pattern of traditional "text encoder + diffusion model".

Unified Text-Image Input

Seamlessly integrates text prompts and reference images for contextual editing guidance

Visual Logic Understanding

Grasps image structure and semantic relationships for intelligent editing decisions

Multi-Round Consistency

Maintains high quality and character consistency across multiple editing iterations

What You See Is What You Get

True WYSIWYG experience, completely predictable editing results

Key Features of Flux Kontext

Flux Kontext distinguishes itself from other image editing software due to its context-aware editing capabilities, reliable character likeness, pixel-precise localized adjustments, versatile style transformation, and exceptionally fast speed.

Combined Input

Accepts both textual commands and reference images, enabling you to exert granular control over the output.

Profound Contextual Comprehension

Doesn't just copy styles or match pixels superficially; it deeply grasps image content and the purpose behind your edits.

Adaptable to Iterations

Edits can be built upon prior outcomes, preserving the high quality and consistency of key elements throughout iterations.

Rapid Performance

Produces results much quicker than most prevalent models (like GPT-Image).

Target Audience

Who Will Love This Tool?

Discover how Flux Kontext empowers different creative professionals and businesses with advanced AI image editing capabilities.

Creative Professionals

Including designers and artists, in need of a potent and adaptable tool to fuel their imagination.

Content Producers

Like advertisers and social media personalities, who require speedy production and refinement of top-tier visual content.

Businesses and Developers

With high demands for visual quality and smooth operation: Seeking to add sophisticated image manipulation functions into their offerings or work processes.

Perfect for professionals who demand excellence
Problem & Solution

Common AI Image Editing Frustrations

Many users of AI-powered image editing tools experience these prevalent issues that make the editing process frustrating and time-consuming.

Unwanted Complete Regeneration

You attempt to edit a specific element in a picture, but the AI regenerates the entire picture, losing your original composition and style.

Inconsistent Character Appearance

You want a character's look to be consistent in varied scenes, but the character's appearance keeps shifting between edits.

Complex Multi-Step Workflows

With conventional tools, achieving the desired results requires intricate fine-tuning or an exhausting multi-step approach—consuming time and causing frustration.

The Solution

Flux.1 Kontext: The Solution

Flux.1 Kontext is designed to tackle these issues, providing an image editing experience that is intuitive, adaptable, and highly efficient.

Character Steadfastness

Character Consistency Across Multiple Edits

Flux Kontext is designed with sophisticated context comprehension and character stability functions. It precisely recognizes and maintains the primary visual aspects of an image—like a character's face details, posture, and arrangement.

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Spring Scene

Character in spring environment with consistent facial features

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Summer Scene

Same character in summer setting, maintaining appearance

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Autumn Scene

Character in fall landscape with preserved identity

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Winter Scene

Character in winter backdrop, features remain constant

Key Features

  • Facial Feature Preservation
    Maintains precise facial details, expressions, and character identity across edits
  • Compositional Stability
    Preserves overall image composition and character positioning
  • Multi-Edit Consistency
    Ensures visual coherence through multiple editing cycles

Seasonal Transformation

Transform scenes across seasons while keeping character perfectly consistent

Local Refinement

Precise Local Image Editing

Flux Kontext lets you make changes to specific parts of a character – like their clothes, hairstyle, or how they're posed – without changing things like their face, the background, or the whole picture.

Clothing Modification

Change outfits, colors, and clothing styles without affecting other elements

Pose Adjustment

Modify character poses while preserving facial features and background

Selective Enhancement

Apply edits to specific image regions with surgical precision

Perfect for situations requiring visual consistency alongside targeted changes

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Style Transfer

Advanced Style Transfer

Flux Kontext features strong style transfer functionality. Users can upload a reference image, allowing the model to extract its visual style and apply it to newly created content.

Style Transfer

Prompt Template:

Transform the image into a 【desired style】, while preserving the subject's facial expression, pose, composition, and background elements.

Note: Replace 【desired style】 with your desired specific style, such as "Ghibli animation", "oil painting", "cyberpunk", etc.

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Original Image
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Styled Result

a single photo of a woman

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1Add a veil to her head
2Add necklace and earrings
3Replace flowers with basketball
4Change background to church
5Apply style transformation

Apply style transformation

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Throughout each step, Flux Kontext maintains character consistency and blends lighting and background seamlessly—a true demonstration of its advanced contextual understanding and multi-step editing capabilities.

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Photo Restoration

Powerful Old Photo Restoration

Flux Kontext is outstanding at repairing aged or flawed photographs, achieving exceptional clarity. It smartly completes absent features, eliminates imperfections and artifacts, and improves the picture's overall quality.

Damage Repair

Damage Repair

Fix tears, scratches, and physical damage to old photographs

Quality Enhancement

Improve clarity, contrast, and overall image quality

Missing Detail Recovery

Intelligently reconstruct missing or damaged portions

Artifact Removal

Remove unwanted artifacts while preserving authentic appearance

Text Editing

Smart Text Recognition & Replacement

Flux Kontext makes it easy to swap out text in posters or images. It correctly identifies the existing text and swaps it for your custom words, automatically adjusting to the original font, arrangement, and lighting.

Poster Text Editing

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Professional poster text replacement with preserved styling

Simple Text Replacement

Simple Prompt:

Change the text in the picture to "ZhiShe".
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Auto Recognition

Automatically detect text in images

Auto Recognition

Automatically detect text in images

Style Preservation

Maintain original font, size, and styling

Layout Respect

Preserve original text positioning and alignment

Natural Integration

Seamlessly blend new text with existing design

Hairstyle Change

Easy Hairstyle Transformation

Flux Kontext lets you easily alter a character's hairstyle, leaving other aspects—such as face details, posture, and setting—unchanged.

Example Commands

"Give the character a ponytail."

"Change the current hairstyle to short, wavy hair."

All facial features, expressions, and background elements remain perfectly preserved during hairstyle changes.

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Before

Original hairstyle photo

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✨ New Style

After

AI-generated new hairstyle

Professional Headshots

Generate Professional Headshots

Flux Kontext produces excellent, professional headshots using diverse input pictures. No matter if you're improving a casual photo or perfecting a face created by AI, the model offers consistent facial characteristics and professional quality.

AI Professional Headshot Generation Showcase

Flux Kontext generates excellent, professional headshots using diverse input pictures. Whether you're improving a casual photo or perfecting an AI-created face, the model provides consistent facial features, clean backgrounds, well-balanced lighting and composition, and authentic expressions.

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Before

Casual lifestyle photo Casually taken photo

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✨ AI Professional

After

Professional business headshot Suitable for resume, LinkedIn

Ghibli Style

Ghibli-Style Image Generation

With Flux Kontext, you can change your images into the classic Ghibli animation style. It recreates the warm colors, gentle lighting, and fantastical feeling seen in Studio Ghibli movies.

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Original vs Ghibli Style

Transform any image into beautiful Ghibli animation style

Example Prompt

Make the image a Ghibli-style scene, keeping the original character and composition.

Ghibli Characteristics

Warm, soft color palettes
Gentle, diffused lighting effects
Fantastical and magical atmosphere
Hand-drawn animation aesthetics
E-commerce Applications

E-commerce Product Visualization

Flux Kontext is a potent resource for producing top-tier product visuals for e-commerce, eliminating the need for costly photography and post-processing.

Product Photography Prompt

Picture a perfume bottle centrally positioned on delicate, crinkled white silk. Several flower petals are scattered artlessly nearby. Gentle sunlight bathes the scene, producing soft, hazy shadows, thus establishing a warm, serene mood. Capture this with an ultra-realistic, close-up shot using soft, natural daylight.

Lifestyle Photography Prompt

Envision a man holding that same bottle of wine.

Flux Kontext Advantages

Eliminate expensive photography equipment
Quick A/B testing of product visuals
Consistent lighting and quality effects
Batch generation for product catalogs

Product Display Effect Comparison

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Product Photography

Professional product display effects

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Lifestyle Photography

Contextualized product display

Flux Kontext ensures accurate handling of lighting, shadows, and product consistency, perfect for product displays, A/B testing, or creating compelling advertising content

Frequently Asked Questions About Flux Kontext

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