A Deep Dive into CharGen's AI Editing Features

A Deep Dive into CharGen's AI Editing Features

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Discover CharGen's advanced editing tools—including Face Swap, Inpainting, ADetailer, Upscaler, Background Removal, and more—to perfectly customize and enhance your AI-generated fantasy characters.

Updated March 21, 2025: Detailed explanations, practical examples, and additional use-cases added for CharGen's editing tools.

Creating stunning fantasy characters using AI is impressive, but the true power comes from personalizing your results. CharGen not only generates incredible fantasy art but provides advanced editing tools to help you customize and refine every aspect. Here’s a detailed look at how these editing features can elevate your character creation and significantly enhance your storytelling.


1. Face Swap: Fully Personalize Your Characters

Face Swap enables you to seamlessly replace the faces of AI-generated characters with faces of your choice. Whether it's your own face, a celebrity’s likeness, or a completely original creation, this tool ensures your characters perfectly match your vision.

Face Swap example showing before and after replacing a character’s face.
Customize NPCs with specific faces to create immersive storytelling experiences.

Practical Uses:

  • Create recognizable NPCs resembling players or real-life individuals for immersive gameplay.
  • Customize a villain with a distinctive look to make them more memorable.
  • Quickly produce NPC portraits for recurring characters, maintaining visual consistency.

2. Inpainting: Precision Edits Made Easy

Inpainting allows you to modify specific sections of your character’s image without impacting the entire artwork. It’s perfect for making precise adjustments, like changing clothing colours, adding accessories, or correcting minor errors in the generated image.

Inpainting feature demonstrating targeted edits on a character’s outfit.
Make precise edits to any part of your character without affecting the overall image.

Inpainting works by selecting the specific area you wish to alter, then letting the AI seamlessly blend the new details into the existing image.

Why Use Inpainting?

  • Quickly alter a character's clothing or accessories without regenerating from scratch.
  • Add specific thematic details, like a guild emblem or magical items.
  • Correct small imperfections or unwanted visual artifacts, ensuring a polished final image.

Real-World Examples:

  • Changing a wizard’s robes from red to purple to match your campaign’s lore.
  • Adding detailed battle damage or scars to armour for narrative purposes.
  • Introducing magical glowing runes onto a character’s weapon or armour.

3. Upscaler: Enhance Image Quality Dramatically

CharGen’s Upscaler tool enhances the resolution and overall image quality of your AI-generated characters. It’s ideal when you want crisp, professional-quality images suitable for printing, digital displays, or high-resolution tokens.

Character image shown before and after being enhanced by the Upscaler.
Increase your character image resolution significantly while preserving important details.

Why Use the Upscaler?

  • Improve details and clarity, making your images suitable for high-quality prints or large screens.
  • Achieve professional visual standards for digital assets or print materials.
  • Elevate lower-resolution AI outputs into clear, vibrant character images.

How Much to Upscale?

Typically, images benefit from a 2x to 4x upscale. For most digital uses, 2x provides sufficient clarity, while 4x is excellent for detailed printing purposes.


4. Background Removal: Create Professional Tokens Instantly

The Background Removal feature quickly isolates your characters from their original backgrounds. It’s perfect for creating digital tokens for virtual tabletop platforms (VTTs) or adding characters seamlessly into other images or graphics.

Character image before and after using background removal.
Instantly create transparent character tokens ideal for virtual tabletops and other digital platforms.

Use Cases:

  • Generate professional character tokens for online gaming platforms like Roll20 or FoundryVTT.
  • Easily place characters into custom digital environments or marketing materials.
  • Save significant time preparing digital assets for RPG sessions or publishing.

5. ADetailer: Refine Faces for Maximum Realism

Faces are essential for connecting players emotionally with characters. ADetailer helps refine facial features, ensuring they meet high standards of realism and emotional expressiveness.

Comparison of facial details before and after refinement with ADetailer.
Perfect your characters’ facial features for lifelike interactions and immersive storytelling.

Practical Uses:

  • Fix minor facial inconsistencies or asymmetries for professional-quality portraits.
  • Add subtle emotional cues or specific expressions, enhancing narrative depth.
  • Elevate characters intended for print, publication, or detailed storytelling.

6. Sketch Tool: Convert Sketches into Polished Art

New Feature Alert: CharGen now includes a Sketch Tool, enabling you to guide the AI using your own sketches for highly customized character creation.

This tool takes your rough sketches and transforms them into beautifully detailed, polished character images, offering unprecedented creative control.

Why the Sketch Tool is Powerful:

  • Ensures AI outputs closely match your original character concepts.
  • Ideal for artists who want to leverage AI without sacrificing their creative vision.
  • Streamlines collaboration by clearly visualizing concepts before full AI generation.

Why CharGen’s Editing Suite is Exceptional

Unlike simple AI tools, CharGen provides unparalleled control over your character artwork. The combination of advanced features—Face Swap, Inpainting, Upscaler, Background Removal, ADetailer, and the Sketch Tool—empowers users to transform initial AI outputs into fully personalized, high-quality fantasy art.


Bringing It All Together: A Practical Scenario

Consider creating a primary villain for your RPG campaign. Using CharGen:

  1. Face Swap allows the villain to have an iconic, memorable face inspired by your favourite actor.
  2. Inpainting lets you alter their attire or add symbolic details like a cursed amulet.
  3. ADetailer ensures their expression perfectly captures their sinister intent.
  4. Upscaler prepares a high-resolution image suitable for printed handouts or posters.
  5. Background Removal quickly creates a clean token ready for your virtual tabletop session.

With CharGen, such detailed customisation can be achieved effortlessly and quickly.


Ready to Refine Your Characters?

Explore these powerful editing features today and discover just how effortless creating perfect fantasy characters can be.

Start editing with CharGen now →

Happy creating!

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