Zealousmagician
Been using ComfyUI for a little while and my ass is NOT comfy (please send help)
Aug 30, 2023 at 6:24pmWeb
Show threadSweetAI Belle Aug 30, 2023

@Zealousmagician
Definitely not the most intuitive of UI's! I've been playing with it myself, though.

I'd make sure that you install the ComfyUI Manager, and use it to install some Custom Nodes.
https://github.com/ltdrdata/ComfyUI-Manager

NestedNodeBuilder is useful, too.

Also, the dot on the top left of nodes lets you shrink them down, which can be pretty useful.

Another thing that might not be immediately obvious is that you can usually convert settings on a node to inputs...

GitHub - ltdrdata/ComfyUI-Manager: ComfyUI-Manager is an extension designed to enhance the usability of ComfyUI. It offers management functions to install, remove, disable, and enable various custom nodes of ComfyUI. Furthermore, this extension provides a hub feature and convenience functions to access a wide range of information within ComfyUI.

ComfyUI-Manager is an extension designed to enhance the usability of ComfyUI. It offers management functions to install, remove, disable, and enable various custom nodes of ComfyUI. Furthermore, th...

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Show threadZealousmagicianAug 30, 2023

@SweetAIBelle I've got the manager and installed a bunch of extensions and custom nodes to make my setup work- which is why I'm also afraid to touch the nested node builder since so much could go wrong haha. I've definitely not been using the node collapse enough, but I'm also afraid if I condense and minimize too much I'll completely forget how to operate the thing 

I've used the "convert input to widget" feature to do a ton of stuff with this, super handy and makes everything even more customisable. I've got some random number stuff going on with the lora strength input to randomise it's strength per gen which is pretty neat, and it's good for manipulating text prompts as well mid-gen.

Show threadSweetAI Belle Aug 30, 2023

@Zealousmagician
Admittedly, a lot of times you can use custom nodes instead of combining nodes with the node builder anyways.

Changing settings to inputs is mostly useful because you can do things like pulling prompts and, say, width and height to separate nodes.

I mostly collapse nodes I think I'm not going to fiddle with the settings much, like loaders and vae decode.

Actually, my biggest trouble is I generate a million workflows fiddling with things, and they aren't organised at all.

It's definitely fun to play with things, though, like fiddling with XL having up to three positive & negative prompts between the base & refiner, or giving XL two pictures as a prompt.

(Of course, there isn't a pony XL model yet I've seen, though naturally, I can use non XL stuff for that...)

Show threadSweetAI Belle Aug 30, 2023
@Zealousmagician
In case you're curious, here's how you feed XL two images, if you ever want to fiddle with that. The workflow should be in the metadata for the second picture, hopefully.
Show threadZealousmagicianAug 30, 2023
@SweetAIBelle Oh, that's a really interesting feature, thanks for bringing it to my attention! I'm still not sure if I can use XL and the refiner/another model together since I only have 8gb vram, but I definitely want to mess around with it more and do stuff like this at least.
Show threadSweetAI Belle Aug 30, 2023

@Zealousmagician
No problem! Once I heard about it, I just had to try it. You can loop in more than 2 images, too.

For that particular workflow, I ended up not using the refiner, though it did need the clip vision g checkpoint. It's over in the revision folder here (and that's also where official controlnet stuff for xl is):
https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/control-lora/tree/main

I've got 12gb myself. When I started playing seriously with ai, I had to upgrade, because I had a 4gb graphics card, so I went with a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12gb (though they have 8gb versions of that card now too. for some reason...).

stabilityai/control-lora at main

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