Oh, gosh, I've started working on outpainting and image-to-image. I remember back when I first started with AI images, I was using that service (pornpen...now gone) and it had this feature that at the time I didn't understand was outpainting, where I could take an image I generated on their app and kind of zoom out to bring in more scene. Then I would re-do the image (forgot what they called it) which was basically image-to-image to make a more detailed version, but with slight changes to the overall image. It was give and take.
I watched some YouTube videos of workflows for this and basically recreated the same things based on the nodes I saw on the screen. Working out well! My gripe to myself for quite some time is that most models that were NOT Z-Image Turbo that I had could not create
widescreen images, say 1024x576, 1280x720, or 1920x1080 without stretching out the women to take up most of the horizontal image space. This meant while at 1080 women looked stretched and deformed (mostly two heads and upper bodies. No matter how I prompted. Now, there may be a way I'm sure to prompt correctly to place the subjects in the center of these frames, but I didn't come across them or come up with one.
Now that I Frankensteined an outpainting and an image-to-image workflow I can take 1024x1024 images that I really like and change them to basically 16:9 images at 1822x1024, but once I throw them into Wan 2.2 to bring them to life it will resize and crop the video to create the correct 16:9 1024x576. I think the slight changes from the image-to-image passes aren't that bad. I generate 3 or more and pick the one that looks the closest to the original. Sometimes...the overall picture is almost better.
Models Used:
juggernautXL_versionXInpaint for the outpainting
gonzalomoXLFluxPony_v40UnityXLDMD for the image-to-image, basically the same model used to create the original images