ControlNet and IP-Adapter: controlled image generation
Text prompts are expressive but imprecise. 'A person standing with arms raised' describes thousands of different poses. If you need a specific composition — a character in an exact pose, a room with a specific depth map, a face with a known identity — text alone cannot deliver it. ControlNet and IP-Adapter solve this by adding structural or visual conditioning on top of the existing Stable Diffusion pipeline.