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How to edit a photo by describing the change in plain words with Kokon

Install Kokon, let it set up models, then type an edit like 'make it golden hour' and get the result locally.

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  • Content
  • Beginner
  • 30 minutes
  • From the README
  • Any agent

Who it is forA hobbyist or small business owner with a photo to fix, on a Windows PC, Mac or Linux machine with a suitable GPU.

The problemPhoto editors have sliders and layers to learn, and cloud tools upload personal pictures to someone else's servers.

The outcomeAn edited photo at the original size and aspect ratio, produced entirely on the user's own computer.

What you need first

  • Windows 10 64-bit or later, an Apple M1 or newer Mac on macOS 15 or later, or x86-64 Linux
  • A graphics card with 12 GB VRAM or more (NVIDIA recommended), or an Apple Silicon Mac with 16 GB unified memory or more
  • 15 GB of free disk space (25 GB recommended) and about 12 GB of model downloads on first run
  • A photo to edit, or a sentence describing the image to create

Steps

  1. Download the installer for your system from the latest release on the Kokon GitHub page (Windows: the x64 setup .exe; Mac: the Apple Silicon .dmg in beta; Linux: the .deb or .rpm in beta).
  2. Run the installer. On Windows it installs for your user only, so administrator rights are not needed.
  3. On first launch, let Kokon detect your graphics card or Mac memory, accept the recommended preset and wait for the model download to finish and verify.
  4. Drop or paste a photo into Kokon.
  5. Describe the change in a sentence, for example 'Make it golden hour', and press Enter.

Prompt for your agent

Use the Kokon app on this machine to edit the photo at <photo path> with the instruction '<edit description>'. Save the result next to the original and report the output file path. Check that the output has the same width, height and aspect ratio as the input photo.

Caveat. The first setup downloads about 12 GB and needs a GPU with 12 GB VRAM or an Apple Silicon Mac with 16 GB or more; Mac and Linux builds, AMD and Intel GPU paths are marked beta in the README.

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