From 0ba02e4cd121baeb3039d06c9ac0be5d7b1e4383 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: CalamitousFelicitousness <iowasovereign@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 10 May 2026 16:50:45 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] docs(i18n): clarify denoising strength step-count behavior

Closes #4839
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 html/locale_en.json | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/html/locale_en.json b/html/locale_en.json
index fb5dbca1a..b82399c62 100644
--- a/html/locale_en.json
+++ b/html/locale_en.json
@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@
     {"id":"","label":"Denoising batch size","localized":"","hint":"","ui":"script_demofusion"},
     {"id":"","label":"Dilate tau","localized":"","hint":"","ui":"script_freescale"},
     {"id":"","label":"Draw legend","localized":"","hint":"","ui":"script_xyz_grid_script"},
-    {"id":"","label":"Denoising strength","localized":"","hint":"Strength of img2img modification when an init image is supplied.<br>Higher values move further from the init image and rely more on the prompt; lower values stay closer to the original.<br><br>At <b>0.0</b> the init image passes through unchanged.<br>At <b>1.0</b> the model builds a fresh image from scratch and effectively ignores the init image.<br>The actual number of denoising steps is reduced proportionally: with strength 0.5 and 30 sampling steps, only ~15 steps run.<br><br>In the Control tab this only takes effect when <b>Use init image</b> is set to one of the init modes; with Control only it is ignored.<br>Default 0.30.","ui":"img2img"},
+    {"id":"","label":"Denoising strength","localized":"","hint":"Strength of img2img modification when an init image is supplied.<br>Higher values move further from the init image and rely more on the prompt; lower values stay closer to the original.<br><br>At <b>0.0</b> the init image passes through unchanged.<br>At <b>1.0</b> the model builds a fresh image from scratch and effectively ignores the init image.<br><br>Effect on step count is model-dependent:<br><b>SD 1.5</b> and <b>SDXL</b>: the configured Steps value is honored as the actual loop count; strength only controls how much noise is added to the init latent.<br><b>Flux</b>, <b>SD3</b>, <b>Hunyuan</b>, <b>Sana</b>, <b>Qwen</b> and other DiT models: loop count is reduced proportionally; with strength 0.5 and 30 steps, only ~15 actually run.<br><br>In the Control tab this only takes effect when <b>Use init image</b> is set to one of the init modes; with Control only it is ignored.<br>Default 0.30.","ui":"img2img"},
     {"id":"","label":"Denoise start","localized":"","hint":"Override denoise strength by stating how early base model should finish and when refiner should start. Only applicable to refiner usage. If set to 0 or 1, denoising strength will be used","ui":"img2img"},
     {"id":"","label":"down","localized":"","hint":"","ui":"script_outpainting"},
     {"id":"","label":"Decode chunks","localized":"","hint":"","ui":"script_video"},