UPDATED 20.06.2025

Basics:

1) Download ComfyUI portable from:

https://docs.comfy.org/installation/comfyui_portable_windows

Update ComfyUI from Update folder (using update_comfyui_and_python_dependencies.bat) REGULARLY.

2) You will need Node Manager and use it to install some custom nodes.

https://github.com/ltdrdata/ComfyUI-Manager

Remember to update your nodes regularly.

3) Lately, the Get and Set nodes don't seem to be found by the install manager. Since they are very helpful, just go to the repo and install them manually:

https://github.com/kijai/ComfyUI-KJNodes

and unzip it in:

ComfyUI\custom_nodes

To install the requirements, just go into the ComfyUI\custom_nodes\ComfyUI-KJNodes folder and copy the "requirements.txt" file and paste it in the python_embeded folder.

Then, run cmd inside the python_embeded folder (which is the folder that ComfyUI uses for all its dependencies) and run the command:

pip install -r requirements.txt

4) Choose the workflow you need from the top of the Civitai page, and Download the .zip file and unzip it here:

ComfyUI\user\default\workflows 

5) In ComfyUI, Load (or drag) the .json file to open the workflow.

NOTE: Using a picture onto your ComfyUI might load an older version of the workflow. Use the json files instead.

NOTE: The Prompt box has 2 boxes. Do NOT prompt into the clip_l box, it follows prompts poorly and gives weird results.

NODE COLORING:

GREEN Nodes: In these nodes you can freely change numbers to get what you want.

RED Nodes: These are my recommended settings. Feel free to experiment, though.

Blue Nodes: These are loader nodes. Ensure you load your files here (just click on a filename and select one from your options). If you don't see any option, it's because you didn't place any file in the correct path or, if you did, you might need to refresh ComfyUI.

• Press "R" to refresh ComfyUI if you are adding any model, etc. while ComfyUI is running.

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FEATURES:

LORAs

\ComfyUI\models\loras

Wildcards

\ComfyUI\custom_nodes\ComfyUI-Impact-Pack\wildcards

• you can place them in subfolders too.

WILDCARD NODE:

• Populate mode allows you to prompt into the upper box with Wildcards.

• Fixed mode allows you to prompt in the lower box without Wildcards.

LLM

\ComfyUI\models\llm_gguf\

• You can use an LLM AI model to generate a descriptive prompt from a shorter one that you type.

• Link to the model I use (Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3-GGUF)

https://huggingface.co/MaziyarPanahi/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3-GGUF/tree/main

• Choose a quantization level that works for your PC.

ControlNet (CN)

\ComfyUI\models\controlnet

• Best Depth pre-processor: DepthAnythingv2

• Best OpenPose pre-processor: DWPreprocessor

• NOTE: You need to play with settings if you are getting weird results.

ADetailer

\ComfyUI\models\ultralytics\bbox

\ComfyUI\models\ultralytics\segm

If you get a "no Dill" warning, either use a bbox model, or "no Dill" segmentation models that you can find from Anzhc on Huggingface.

If you want to install some more models for Adetailer, just search CivitAI or Huggingface.

Ultimate SD Upscaler

\ComfyUI\models\upscale_models

• Ultimate SD Upscaler takes a lot of system resources! It will generate 4+ tiles that will eventually be merged to create the final image, but enhances the final image with an incredible level of detail.

• As an upscaler model, I have tested many, and the best ones seem to be from the SwinIR category.

Flux Redux (IP Adapter)

Requires two files

flux1-redux-dev:

https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-Redux-dev/tree/main

ComfyUI\models\style_models

siglicp_vision_patch14_384

https://huggingface.co/Comfy-Org/sigclip_vision_384/blob/main/sigclip_vision_patch14_384.safetensors

ComfyUI/models/clip_vision

Flux Infill Inpaint

Requires

FLUX.1-Fill-dev:

https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-Fill-dev/tree/main

ComfyUI\models\diffusion_models

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Workflows:

F.1 img2img

Version 1.1: Added LORA support, as well as the ability to set image resolution.

NOTE: Using a person's LORA while using img2img will basically work as a face changer by attaching the LORA's face to the body that is being img2img-ed.

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F.1 Style Changer (RF Inversion)

This worflow allows you to input an image, and change its style with FLUX as well as with LORAs.

Then, it takes the output and passes it through Ultimate SD Upscaler and finally to Adetailer to improve hands, etc.

NOTE: Keep the Prompts empty. Use LORAs for styling instead. This work best.

NOTE: You can use a Character LORA + face Adetailer to switch faces at this stage.

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F.1 text2img 4.0

This one does:

1. text2img. It can use wildcards, LORAs, and 2x ControlNet.

2. High Res Fix using Flux.

3. Ultimate SD Upscaler

4. Adetailer (up to 3) with LORA support.

   You should look here on CivitAI for extra models for detection, such as nails, glasses, eyes, etc. It can use LORAs.

For models, see the Suggested Resources section. Those are models I am currently using.

NOTE: If you don't want to use some node or feature, just click on a node (or box select multiple while holding Ctrl) and press ctrl+b to Bypass it (it's a toggle).

NOTE on LLM: At this point I would not use it, since it has become obsolete. Just go to ChatGPT and ask for a prompt from your idea, it will give it to you even on the free version.

PRO TIP!

This workflow generates an image at each stage.

If you get a bad result at any step:

1) CANCEL the process from the queue.

2) Load in ComfyUI the last good image (drag and drop in the interface).

3) Change the options that resulted in things turning bad (in adetailer, for example, you might need either increase or decrease denoise).

4) Generate the image. The process resumes from the image you are using, NOT FROM THE BEGGING, so you don't waste time! (typically valid for Adetailer, as long as it's in the cache, at least).

In this example, I got an insufficient hand fix. So I stopped the process, re-loaded the last good image, increased denoised in the hand detailer node, and the process resumed from the last step (the hand fix, in this case ADetailer #2) without having to re-do everything.

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F.1 text2img LLM (Upcoming update)

While an interesting concept to have "all in one" where a simple concept prompt is transformed into a verbose one, it is far easier to get it from ChatGPT, which will deliver the result without taking up your resources or needing extra models.

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SD TO FLUX Ultimate

NOTE: This workflow requires SD ControlNets (not flux)!

This one does:

1. STEP 1: SD txt2img (SD1.5 or SDXL/PonyXL),

   ControlNet is at this stage, so you need to use the correct model (either SD1.5 or SDXL).

   It has Wildcards, and SD LORAs support.

2. STEP 2: Flux High Res Fix

   Has SD LORAs support

3. STEP 3: Flux USDU. One for upscaling and one for enhancing.

4. STEP 4: Adetailer(s) (up to 6, I typically use Face and Hands)

   Important, the denoise value needed depends on the image. If you get a bad result at any stage, use the PRO TIP above.

   Here, I added 3 Flux Adetailers (face, hands and feet) since they to the best job, and up to 3 SD Adetailers (for NSFW support, since SD is much better at doing these, especially in non photographic styles).

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F.1 Fill Inpainting

1. Press "choose file to upload" and choose the image you want to inpaint.

2. Right-Click on the image and select "Open in Mask Editor". There, you'll be able to paint the mask.

3. When you are done with the inpainting, press "Save ".

• NOTE: This is slower than inpainting, since the whole image is re-calculated, but tends to work better.

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F.1 Inpainting (with Sampling from another image)

1. Press "choose file to upload" and choose the image you want to inpaint.

2. Right-Click on the image and select "Open in Mask Editor". There, you'll be able to paint the mask.

3. When you are done with the inpainting, press "Save to Node".

4. Sampling: You can use elements from either the same or a different image to inpaint. The second image can be any image at all (but must be same size, or resized to that). Just load it in the second Load Image Node, and mask the part you want to be used as "source material" to inpaint your first image.

• If you don't want to use this option, just disable the 2nd image node (ctrl+B)

• This is FAST. Only the inpainted area is re-calculated.

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SDXL inpainting (with Sampling from another image)

Why this workflow here?

As of right now, I am not getting certain "image details" from LORAs, so this is a workaround.

1. Just generate your images with FLUX, and then inpaint nipples and other stuff using SDXL or Pony or SD1.5 models to get your desired results.

2. Why not adetailer? Simple, it's faster to generate many times only the details you want rather than regenerating the whole image each time and hope the details are right. Especially in ComfyUI.

Sampling: Now you can use elements from either the same or a different image to inpaint. The second image can be any image at all (but must be same size, or resized to that). Just load it in the second Load Image Node, and mask the part you want to be used as "source material" to inpaint your first image.

• If you don't want to use this option, just disable the 2nd image node (ctrl+B)

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Outpainting:

Not 100% super duper, but you can get some decent results by extending by up to 256 pixels per side. You might need a bit of RNG though.

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DEPRECATED: aka no longer supported

High-Res fix 1.3 LITE (deprecated)

Basically, this workflow works in 2 stages:

• text2img: Here I added a node that allows you to select Flux safe resolutions by clicking the dimensions button in the Green Node.

• img2img: This regenerates the image at a higher resolution, the Green Node is where you select the upscaling factor, similar to A1111.

Version 1.1: Added a preview for each stage of the process.

Version 1.2: Added the dedicated Flux node for prompting. It includes the Guidance scale, but only use the T5XXL box (the lower one).

Version 1.3: Removed the secondary upscaling. It was added as a separate workflow.

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High-Res fix CN (Wildcards, Loras, ControlNet) (deprecated)

NOTE: Please use version 1.6+. Previous version were not working with LORAs properly.

2-Pass workflow:

1. Flux txt2img

2. Flux High Res Fix

This has everything High-Res fix 1.3 LITE has, plus Wildcards and LORAs support.

High-Res fix CN + Upscale (ControlNet, Wildcards, Loras, Ultimate SD Upscaler) (deprecated)

3-Pass workflow:

1. Flux txt2img

2. Flux img2img

3. Ultimate SD Upscale

This workflow offers everything that High-Res fix does, but also has the Ultimate SD Upscaler (upscales by creating one tile at a time of the final image).

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text2img CN (ControlNet, Wildcards and Loras) (deprecated)

1-Pass workflow:

1. Flux txt2img

text2img with Wildcards and LORA support. This one has no High-Res fix.

Now includes Resolution Chooser (see the high res version above for explanations).

text2img CN + Upscale (ControlNet, Wildcards, Loras, Ultimate SD Upscaler) (deprecated)

2-Pass workflow:

1. Flux txt2img

2. Ultimate SD Upscale

Just like text2img but also with Ultimate SD Upscaler.

text2img Adetailer (Wildcards, Loras, Adetailer) (deprecated)

Up to 3-pass workflow:

1. Flux txt2img

2. Adetailer #1

3. Adetailer #2 (disable nodes with CTRL+B if not needed).

Each Adetailer pass supports its independent prompting and LORA.

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SDXL to FLUX CN (ControlNet, Wildcards and Loras)

Works with SDXL / PonyXL / SD1.5

2-Pass workflow:

1. SD txt2img

2. Flux High Res Fix

This allows you to generate images in any of your favorite style and automatically send them to img2img with FLUX. You might need to play with the denoise value to get best results.

SDXL to FLUX CN + Upscaler (ControlNet, Wildcards, Loras, Ultimate SD Upscaler)

Works with SDXL / PonyXL / SD1.5

3-Pass workflow:

1. SD txt2img

2. Flux High Res Fix

3. Ultimate SD Upscaler

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Upscaling: Just like the "EXTRA" Tab in A1111 / Forge

\ComfyUI\models\upscale_models

Not such a great way to upscale images IMO, but I included it here if you want it.

• Upscaling:

  The math is a bit weird. If you are using a x4 upscaler, that x4 will be applied automatically, so you need to multiply that number by the factor you want to get the final scaling factor.

  Example: 4 x 0.25 = 1 (no upscaling)

• Just use any upscaler you want.