Resume from image: noisy!

[lazerozen]

Hey aphantasia experts,

I am trying to run IllusTrip locally and resume from an image. It kind of works, but my initial image has a noise overlay, so it immediately loses a lot of saturation and brightness. I can't find a parameter to tweak. It might be the --colors parameter, but I can't find a 'neutral' setting. Has this been solved?
I'd love to start a trip with the exact source image.

Edit: the answer seems to lie somewhere within un_rgb in clip_fft.py, but I just can't find it.