V2.0 is in the works

Still has some smaller problems. Will be fixed in future versions. Feedback right now is still appreciated

Extremely structured aswell as UX-friendly image generation, upscaling, (face) detailing and post-processing workflow.

Includes basic Image2Image functionality.

Compatible both with SDXL and Pony

Intro

Hi!

Since I have already been asked by multiple people, if I could share my workflow for basic generation and image upscaling, I decided to finally do so.

But I don't want to just release a workflow with all the things chucked in.

Most workflows from other people I saw are very chaotic or cluttered and (for most use-cases) overly complex. I wanted my workflow to include order and ease-of-use aswell as on the fly adjustments.

This is why I split the workflows pipeline into 14 separate sections. Every section is labeled with its task and tries to be as comprehensible as possible. In addition, I added 4 extra sections to control everything about the pipeline. That way you don't have to search for the specific place to enable or disable elements of the pipeline and can stay in just the area for control. For adjustment of specific nodes, manual adjustments are still required though.

Yes, I use a lot of custom nodes, so be prepared to install a lot of them when using this workflow. I like custom nodes, so I use them. They help me to be as concise as possible.

Installation

Prerequisites

• Install ComfyUI or a different UI, which supports ComfyUI as backend

• at least 8GB VRAM is recommended (The workflow was created and tested on 12GB VRAM)

• Install ComfyUI Manager (makes the installation a lot easier)

Installation (kept very brief)

• Download the workflow

• Drag and drop the workflow file into ComfyUI

• See all the missing nodes popup

• Open ComfyUI Manager

• Press Install Missing Custom Nodes
  If you do not have ComfyUI Manager installed, you will have to search for every custom node and install them manually. (Will be very tedious)

• Download needed models

  • Any SDXL or Pony model of your choice
    Personal recommendation: Pony Realism v2.1

  • Any SDXL VAE of your choice
    Personal recommendation: SharpSpectrumVAEXL

  • Any Upscale Model of your choice
    Personal recommendation: 4xNMKD Siax 200k

  • Any ControlNet Tile
    Personal recommendation: TTPLanet SDXL Controlnet v2.0 Realistic rank256

  • Any BBOX Detector of your choice
    Personal recommendation: yolo v8m face

  • Any SAM model of your choice
    Personal recommendation: Segment Anything vit b 01ec64

  • Any LUT of your choice
    Personal recommendation: Film_0987

  • Optional: Any Positive/Negative Embeddings of your choice

Navigating the workflow

This workflow has been created for the use of SDXL/Pony models. It may work with different models, but will very likely need manual adjustments.

There are 10 prepared shortcuts, so you can navigate every important area just by pressing your keyboard buttons 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0.

1 - Loader

2 - Prompt

3 - Sampler Settings

4 - Quality Tools & Saving

5 - Generator Image (1. Sampler)

6 - Upscaler Image (2. Sampler)

7 - Detailer Image (3. Sampler)

8 - Final Image (Post-Processed)

9 - Save Image

0 - Information

Examples and comparisons

By the way: Faithful means with ControlNet Tile enabled, Creative means with ControlNet Tile disabled

Example 1 (Pony Realism v2.1)

Example 2 (Pony Realism v2.1)

Example 3 (Pony Realism v2.1)

Example 4 (AutismMixXL DPO)

Example 5 (AutismMixXL DPO)

My personal settings

Sampler: DPM++ SDE

Scheduler: GITS

VAE: SharpSpectrumVAEXL

Positive Perturbation: Disabled

Negative Perturbation: Disabled

Positive Embeddings: Disabled

Negative Embeddings: Enabled

Generator:

• Steps: 10

• CFG: 4

• Denoise: 1

• Image Width: 1024

• Image Height: 1024

Upscaler:

• Steps: 10

• CFG: 2

• Denoise: 0.6

• Image Upscale Factor: 2

Upscale Model: 4xNMKD Siax 200k

Tile ControlNet: Disabled

ControlNet Model: TTPLanetSDXL ControlNet v2.0 rank256

Detailer: Disabled

• Steps: 5

• CFG: 2

• Denoise: 0.4

Quality Tools:

• FreeU v2: Enabled

• Perturbed Attention Guidance: Enabled

• Self-Attention Guidance: Enabled

• Dynamic Tresholding: Enabled

• Automatic CFG: Enabled

• U-Net Temperature: Disabled

• HiDiffusion: Disabled

• Tiled Diffusion: Enabled

• Low VRAM for Tiled Diffusion: Disabled

Post-Processing:

• Artificial Upscale: Enabled

• Levels Adjustment: Enabled

• Color Correct: Enabled

• Adaptive Sharpening: Enabled

• Color Modification: Enabled

• Vignette: Enabled

• Film Grain: Enabled

• HDR: Enabled

• LUT: Enabled (Film_0987)

Known problems (fixed in next version)

• Resize image2image option does not use the value given, but the width/height of the set generator image size

• When the Upscaler is disabled, Artificial Upscale only works if the Image Upscale Factor is set to 1

• ConditioningPerturbation nodes are not automatically installed by ComfyUI Manager. If you want to manually install them: https://github.com/thderoo/ComfyUI-_topfun_s_nodes
  Will be removed in the next version to make the installation easier

Version History

Version 1.0

• Released workflow