L1: Using ComfyUI, EASY basics - Comfy Academy 

5months later and still BY FAR the best guide for comfyUI. Going to watch through your playlist. Thanks g

My absolute favorite feature of ComfyUI is that the whole workflow, from prompts to control nets to seed values, is stored inside the final rendered image. I recently learned some new composition techniques from this channel, and I could just load up an old image I wasn't completely happy with, improve it using this new knowledge, and create a new render -- no need to mess around with json files for configuration settings.

For other beginners that follow: 1. To make your learning much, much easier, it is not clearly stated, but absolutely essential that you have some working knowledge of how stable diffusion works or some experience of working with A1111 before getting into this. Of course, you can choose to learn this on the go side by side as well (but that may become overwhelming!) 2. Things that you need to know and should set up at the backend to follow along this series: a) Installing Comfy UI, b) Downloading models/ checkpoints, VAE, All controlnet models (Hint: SD1.5 and SDXL use different controlnet models), LoRAs, etc., (Note that in this video, it is explained how to link your existing A1111 downloaded models to ComfyUI). 3. This course follows SD1.5 in general. When using SDXL, workflow for how you provide the CLIP inputs changes slightly, so do check that out seperately.

I love the organization/visualization tips here. For a suggestion if you ever update this series with a new redone series I highly recommend to have episode 1 cover the basic interface such as KSampler, Load checkpoint, etc. and actually engage in a generation. Then, in the following video after you dive into tips like organization, ComfyUI features, tips and tricks, and more. This way they have a basic knowledge foundation before overwhelming them with tips they might otherwise forget afterwards.

Finally! I've been interested in ComfyUI for months now but was initially intimidated by it complexity. This will help us get familiar. Thank you!

Despite knowing comfyui rather well, i plan to watch through these. Its great to see a tutorial that is not locked behind a paywall. Thank you for making these.

Thank you, this has been so helpful. ComfyUI is very user friendly once you get past the learning curve (which you have shown me), and you have absolutely made that curve so much shorter. On to L2!!!

This was such a great walk through! Slow enough to follow without being drawn out. Then you!

I was really hesitant to using ComfyUI these past few months, until Flux. After watching your tutorial, I feel like I been missing out.

Excellent starting point, thank you! I really appreciate tutorials that concisely but thoroughly explain the ins and outs of a tool. Super helpful.

I came back to your series bc I've been working in llm. But img-gen is where my heart is. I'm glad you made this and it's still here.

Thank you for this comprehensive tutorial. Love the fact you speak slowly so I have time to understand what you are saying. 💋

my guy is cable managing the software instead of the hardware, cute. Love your explanation man keep it going.

Thank you so much Olivio. I never knew how much I needed you until now.😊

Perfect explanation for beginners! Could not be better at all. Not to short and not to long. Understood and ready to take your full course...

Very nice tutorial and very clear! Although as someone starting with SD, it would be handy to have a lesson where the basic terms are explained, such as models, lora, VAE, cfg, etc

Best Teacher Ever 😀

Clear, precise, and easy to follow along - thank you! :)

sweet. ComfyUI works so much better than a1111 or forge for very specific workflows. Pinokio makes everything easy to manage too.

Thank you so much for this. I can't find, like we can see at 3:45, ComfyUI_Comfyroll_CustomNodes , maybe it was replaced for Comfyroll Studio?

Hey Olivio! I'm one of your 'bonehead' followers! LOL LOL. Well, I've been avoiding Comfy due to me NOT wanting to learn something new but my latest SDXL project and the out of CUDA memory errors (using Nvidia 4500 GPU with 20Gb of VRAM) hampered me so much (GAAA!!!) I've decided to give Comfy a try. Well! Since you took so much time putting out these tutorials, I'm going to take advantage. :) Thank you sooo, sooo, much! Keep doing what you're doing; we appreciate it.

hi Olivio, I cannot find the ComfyUI_Comfyroll_CustomNodes in the manager page

So clear in your instruction. Thank you!

Reroute node for clarity 10.24 very clever. I like that concept!

Fantastic video! I'm still very new to ComfyUI and SD, and videos like this are helping me so much. :)

Thank you!

Thanks alot! Another way I personally like to think of Comfy is its a program sandbox. Daily i find new use cases for this and to be honest its not all generating images too. Edit: Also, thank you!

Great tutorial, thank you for your effort. I appreciate it.

Excited for this series.. Have been struggeling to motivate myself to learn comfy ui but this guide series is really gonna help with that. Looking forward to it!

Thanks for most easy basic lesson on comfyui

Amazing mate. Loving confyui. Look forward to the next lesson.

Thank you very much!

Thank you so much!!! Really cool you explain all the little things from the beginning.

A little more advanced, but apart from the "sticky group areas", you can also select multiple nodes and click "create group node". This combines all I/O & values into a SINGLE widget. You can integrate reroutes to create extra inputs & outputs as well. Drawback is that if you create a "wrongly wired" widget it will be hard to debug, but it can be very useful to visually simplify very complex workflows.

This is excellent to see, it has bought me back to watching your content instead of just watching you talk about how great comfy is. It's great to see you showing people who have never used it before how to get going from day 1 interactions with it. I watched Scott Detweilers videos to learn comfy. He has some interesting opinions about the negative prompt box.

Love that you are working to get others involved in comfy.

wow there is so many useful tips, thanks!!!

Ive been waiting for this. Thank you so much. You have so much to share.

ComfyUI for the win!

some really handy tips in this lecture.....Thanks Olivio 👍

Thank you, Master 🙏✨

thx very usefull and clear, Very well done . thx for sharing and for the time and effort .

Thanks for your lesson, it helps a lot, thanks !

I'd recommend using a symlink type folder structure instead of altering the extra_model_paths.yaml. This way you can easily point anything to the same e.g models folder without worrying about specifics for each software.

Thank you so much! I really like how you explain everything

thanks! thats sooo easy with your explanation.

bro... how do I use it?! Way to deep for a beginner overview.

Thanks so much for these Olivio :)

I was expecting this video from you.😀

Great start. I still think it should be called ClutterUI but that's me. A request if you haven't already filmed it. Would you think about doing a tutorial on customising filenames on output, the same as A1111 does it. I'm not talking about simply changing the name but adding the checkpoint name, the prompt, the date and any other information someone might want. It took me many hours to figure this out and I'm still not sure how it works. Documentation is almost non existent for it, so others may find it really useful too. Cheers.

Olivio 감사합니다~!

Great Lesson, Thanks u

if you comfyui-manager doesn't show up be sure your folder structure matches: ComfyUI_windows_portable\ComfyUI\custom_nodes\ComfyUI-Manager then restart comfyui and it will install the required dependencies and work

11:45 How create this Seed Node.??? Need install before..?

Awesome tips!

As an absolute beginner, it would help if you went through the process of getting the initial ComfyUi interface up (I'm guessing it is via GitHub but would still appreciate it). Also, if you have never used A1111 then how do you get the models installed and which do you recommend . Also what hardware requirements are required. If you have another video covering these points perhaps you could provide link. Cheers

Thank you!

Efficiency Node is broken currently idk why? Failed to install.

Thanks for the tutorial, but you shoulded start with How to Install it comfyui first and how to install a1111. its kind of a pain not knowing the previous steps you have to take before even looking at this tut. Thanks for all the videos btw.

Honest question, just install focus also, does comfy just allow for more customization or still better outputs? I like the simplicity of focus. Thanks!

Thank you

thanks a lot

11:45 Everything should be input by default and if nothing is input then it would show the manual controller, if some cable is input it should hide the manual, this is how its done in Node based software like UE5 or Blender. It be nice if they added this

You don't doodle, you *noodle!*

Great video Olivio! One question though: my main menu on the right side seems to be stuck, without no option to undock or those little dots that indicate that it's movable/dockable. I have the manager installed and some new nodes, but nothing that I think could have influenced in that behavior.

How to not understand anything about ComfUI. Well done!

What is A1111 compared to comfy UI and does Comfy UI have it inside or do i have to find it and install it

I don’t know why but my queue prompt box is fixed to side it doesn’t move like yours… any idea why?

It would be better to call it artificial trouble.

ok but i just want to generate an image

How to know the execution time? Thank you!

ok but how do i generate an image

Phenomenal

I just started learning COMFYUI and I followed your method and linked the A1111 models in Yaml file but COMFYUI does not show them and the manager does not refresh, even when I cleared the view and added a simple check-point, I could not see the A1111 models

I'm so frustrated with A1111 so i want to learn how to use Comfy.

Praise the ComfyUI videos!

Thanks for your video. Is it possible to install Manager option when working with Mac M1?. I did download it, and working throu url but dont have Manager option. Thanks again!

can you make a video comfyui prompts from file or textbox auto1111has this built in

What about amd gpu users? I have comfyui working but i dont think the comfyui manager will work for me.

Thanks Olivio. But I still prefer A1111 as it's much easier to use. Inpainting, img2img, etc are better in A1111 without having to read 100 guides and install 100 addons like in comfy and then to discover that you did something wrong with the installations with error messages about some missing custom nodes. Comfyui is just hard and impractical for advanced stuff no matter how much the average person tries to learn it.

0:05 - missed chance to start the video with "Today I want to take you on a journey - and it's not mid"

There're so many nodes, it's a challenge to remember the nodes where they stay.

Thx a million Olivio, this is a super clear and useful ComfyUI Tutorial ever, luv ya v much 💕

Can you make it so we can have recommended/minimal specs for AMD/Nvidia graphics for comfyui.

I have a question, I use Fooocus and ComfyUI and they are in 2 different folders. How do I do to share the same models folder for both ? How do I identify the base_path on my SSD ?

Thanks. I was unable to find any sample files in my installation. Installed with Pinokio on mac. Not sure how to link files from my A1111. Any thoughts for mac users?

Merci pour tes videos 😄 Que penses-tu de chaiNNer ?

2023: In the future AI will do everything and we will be useless. 2024 - the future: remember all those node based tools you had to learn in the past? Here is another one, but this time for AI.

Thank you Sir, I will surely ask for referrals

Cannot find that A1111 directory. where is it??? why dont explain it clearer for beginners? thanks

I don't see a manager option :(

Made a ComfyUI setup for batch img2img processing new sprites for a game. Found some of it in WSO module for prompts and for images - it seems to work as long as you use only one instance of the module for batch image load and for "next text line loader" for prompts. It took me ages to figure out the quirk about only 1 instance, did not have fun.

Has ComfyUI_Comfyroll_CustomNodes been removed? Suzie1 only lists Comfyroll Studio in the custom nodes.

If I link the model path via the .yaml file to another application folder like A1111, will ComfyUI take that folder additionally and also use the models installed in the ComfyUI folder or will it use the model path instead of the models installed in ComfyUI folder?

is there a video on your channel that explains how to install comfy ui?

how come my Element 1:10 is fixed solid (docked) at the right side of the UI?

hi! beginners question. So if I run a software like ComfyUI locally, does that mean that all AI art, music, works that I generate will be free to use for commercial purposes?or am I violating terms of copyright? I am searching more info about this but I get confused, thanks in advance

Thanks

Is there a way to apply a theme to comfy UI to look as pleasing to the eyes as the node system of InvokeAI?

Hello, is it possible to use this method to add jewelry?