I thought merging two photos with AI would be a weekend project. Nope

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At a friend's gathering, someone mentioned wanting to add her late father into a family photo. I figured this would be trivial — modern image models are powerful, just send two photos and ask the AI to merge them. She said she'd tried, but the results were weird and unstable, and she didn't know how to describe what she wanted.I went home and tried it myself. With a well-written prompt and two good photos, it works. But real-world use cases aren't two good photos — it's a modern family photo plus a damaged old portrait, or two old photos from different decades. That's when things fall apart.I looked at existing tools. Most showcase merges between clean, well-lit, modern photos. Nobody was so

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