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Dresses the person in your photo in the outfit from a second photo and leaves the face, pose and background untouched

Virtual try-on demos have been around for a while, and most of them cheat a little: the result comes back a few pixels shifted, the face a touch softer, the room behind you repainted. This small add-on for Qwen Image 2.1 is built to stop exactly that.

MODELQwen-Image-2.1 Outfit Swap
PUBLISHEDOctober 8, 2026
READ TIME3 min
CATEGORYIMAGE

Field notes

01 What it does

You give it two pictures: a person and an outfit. It returns the person wearing that outfit in the same frame, with the same face, hair, hands, pose and background. Only the clothes change.

Qwen Image 2.1 can already do an outfit swap on its own, but the author counted what goes wrong: of their first 47 swaps about half were unusable, and usually the outfit was not the problem. The camera pulled back to fit the whole outfit in, trousers got pushed into a shot that had no legs, or the whole picture drifted a few pixels so it no longer lined up with the original. The add-on (a LoRA, a small set of extra weights loaded on top of the base model) was trained on swaps corrected by hand to sit on the original pixels. On sixteen swaps it had never seen, the result moved 0.1 pixel from the source instead of 3.6, and the share of face pixels that changed dropped from 14% to under 2%.

It does not draw clothes better than plain Qwen does. Buttons, belts and patterns come out the same with or without it. Its job is to leave the rest of the picture alone.

02 How to try it

The Outfit Swap demo Space runs in your browser. Upload a photo of yourself and a flat product shot of a jacket or dress, then compare the result with your original: the face and the wall behind you should match pixel for pixel, and only the clothes should differ. Then try a swap where the new outfit covers less than the old one, say a short sleeve over a long one, and see whether the old sleeves come off. It runs on Hugging Face's shared free GPUs, so a free account gets a limited number of runs. Running it yourself means ComfyUI with the Qwen Image 2.1 weights and a GPU with enough memory for a two megapixel edit; the author's workflow file is in the repo.

03 Caveat

It is a swap, not a fitting: the outfit is drawn onto the pose, so it will not show how a size sits on you. Pieces the new outfit does not cover, such as boots under a dress, sometimes stay on, and adding "Replace everything they wear" to the request helps only some of the time. The bigger limit is the license: the base model is released for research use only, so any commercial use needs a separate agreement with Alibaba's Qwen team.

04 What you can do with it

  • Show the same model photo in five different outfits without a reshoot.
  • Try a jacket from a shop listing on a photo of yourself before ordering.
  • Keep one character consistent while changing their costume across a set of images.
  • Make before and after pairs for a lookbook that line up exactly.
  • Update old team or profile photos with a new uniform.

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