Generation Journeys

All the output images are that are run through the save image node are saved in the output folder. Where can this be found? In the same directory as the Model folder we found in the last step! It is towards the bottom of the folder, aptly named "Output". Double click and all the images that have been saved will be found here. They are saved as .png files, and can be edited in photo image software. Remember to resave them back as .png if you want to put them back into Comfy UI. And one really cool thing, if you like the look of a output image but cannot remember how you generated it, just drag the image back into the Comfy UI web interface, and it will reload all the nodes, prompts and settings that created the image! Have fun!

Checkpoints are the main models that the AI engine uses. These are trained on images to produce a specific look. Pretty much all asthetics are catered for. Be aware they are large files, starting around 2gb in size, all the way up to 8gb, and soon I expect them to get even bigger. There is one main website at the moment that you can download from, but I cannot stress enough how NSFW images that are contained there. It seems safe, but naked ladies and men are pushing the boudaries which can only be good. www.civitai.com Go there and along the top there will be a filter for Base Models. This will load the checkpoints available. There are many, and you will download many more. I will go into detail about the other types of files in a later post. Once you have found a checkpoint you like the look of, go ahead and download it. Now, where to put it? Open your comfyUI root folder where you have saved it (usually ComfyUI_windows_portable), and click on the top link, ComfyUI. This is the folder...

 What you see when you start Comfy UI are the basic building blocks of the interface. There are more complicated, more diverse, more niche case options, but we will come to those later. Lets take a look at what we have now. This is the basic screen that you will see when you click the load default button.     What does all this mean? Lets start from the left hand side:   Load Checkpoint:   This is the node that loads the Checkpoint, or model, that the ComfyUI engine will use to genereate images.  The three coloured dots on the left hand side are the outputs that this node uses. Model goes to KSampler, Clip goes in to the conditioning prompts, and the VAE is used to decode things. The colours will all match the corresponding inputs. Click the right arrow will pull up a menu with all the Checkpoints that you have installed. Clip Text Encode (Prompt): These nodes are the basic building blocks of ComfyUI. You tell the engine here what you want, in the top box...

Whilst it is quite simple to install the program, I am going to point you to the way of Youtube for the installation of ComfyUI. You have to type into the CMD screen, and if you are not to tech savvy you will feel like you are hacking your computer. Now you are back you should all be looking at a screen like this:     Now click the Queue Prompt button:   And see what you generate! These are the images that I generated: Pretty cool eh? And the images that you generated are the only one of that in existence. Next time we talk about some of the things on the screen that you can see.

This is going to be place where I can share my journey with AI image generation. It is cutting edge technology, and it will be the future, might as well learn how to us it then had we not? This is almost starting from scratch, I have been messing for a few weeks now but now it is time to writing up what I am learning and how I am going about things, hopefully inspiring a few people along the way.