**Note:** `black-forest-labs/Flux.1-Depth-dev` is _not_ a ControlNet model. [`ControlNetModel`] models are a separate component from the UNet/Transformer whose residuals are added to the actual underlying model. Depth Control is an alternate architecture that achieves effectively the same results as a ControlNet model would, by using channel-wise concatenation with input control condition and ensuring the transformer learns structure control by following the condition as closely as possible.  
```python
# !pip install git+https://github.com/huggingface/image_gen_aux
import torch
from diffusers import FluxControlPipeline, FluxTransformer2DModel
from diffusers.utils import load_image
from image_gen_aux import DepthPreprocessor

pipe = FluxControlPipeline.from_pretrained("black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-Depth-dev", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16).to("cuda")

prompt = "A robot made of exotic candies and chocolates of different kinds. The background is filled with confetti and celebratory gifts."
control_image = load_image("https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/robot.png")

processor = DepthPreprocessor.from_pretrained("LiheYoung/depth-anything-large-hf")
control_image = processor(control_image)[0].convert("RGB")

image = pipe(
prompt=prompt,
control_image=control_image,
height=1024,
width=1024,
num_inference_steps=30,
guidance_scale=10.0,
generator=torch.Generator().manual_seed(42),
).images[0]
image.save("output.png")
```  
Depth Control is also possible with a LoRA variant of this condition. The usage is as follows:  
```python
# !pip install git+https://github.com/huggingface/image_gen_aux
import torch
from diffusers import FluxControlPipeline, FluxTransformer2DModel
from diffusers.utils import load_image
from image_gen_aux import DepthPreprocessor

pipe = FluxControlPipeline.from_pretrained("black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-dev", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16).to("cuda")
pipe.load_lora_weights("black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-Depth-dev-lora")

prompt = "A robot made of exotic candies and chocolates of different kinds. The background is filled with confetti and celebratory gifts."
control_image = load_image("https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/robot.png")

processor = DepthPreprocessor.from_pretrained("LiheYoung/depth-anything-large-hf")
control_image = processor(control_image)[0].convert("RGB")

image = pipe(
prompt=prompt,
control_image=control_image,
height=1024,
width=1024,
num_inference_steps=30,
guidance_scale=10.0,
generator=torch.Generator().manual_seed(42),
).images[0]
image.save("output.png")
```
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