ernie-image

# ERNIE-Image / ERNIE-Image-Turbo Workflows ## What this is (read first) **ERNIE-Image is Baidu's open-weight TEXT-TO-IMAGE model** — an ~8B single-stream Diffusion Transformer (DiT), Apache-2.0, released April 2026, repackaged for ComfyUI by Comfy-Org. It is **not** an instruction-based image editor. - **ERNIE-Image** (base): ~50 steps for peak quality. - **ERNIE-Image-Turbo**: distilled (Distribution Matching Distillation + RL), high-fidelity in **~8 steps, cfg 1**. The downloaded pack uses **Turbo** (`ernie-image-turbo-*.gguf`). **Pick ERNIE when** the job is: precise text/typography rendering (multilingual, including Chinese), posters/signage/UI mockups, manga/anime storyboards and multi-panel layouts, or structured multi-object scenes from a complex prompt. **Do NOT pick ERNIE for** "edit this photo / change the shirt / swap the background" — that is instruction-grounded editing, which ERNIE does **not** do. Use `qwen-image-edit` or Flux Kontext for those. ERNIE's "image-to-image" here is plain denoise-based refinement (style pass / detail pass), not reference-grounded editing. > Niche vs siblings: ERNIE = best open-weight **text rendering + layout** T2I. Qwen-Image-Edit = instruction editing. Flux Kontext = reference editing. Z-Image Turbo = fast general T2I (and this same pack pairs the two — see Combo pipelines). ## Separated packs (render-verified) The original `ernie` monolith was a single toggle-template graph (every pipeline shipped bypassed; you activated ...