ComfyUI Starter Guide: How and Why to use it + OpenArt $13000 Contest

This ComfyUi Starter Guide shows you how to install everything and get started. Learn ComfyUI with easy Workflow examples. Build and Sell powerful Workflows in no time.

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00:00 Intro
00:13 OpenArt Contest
02:56 Making money with ComfyUI
03:42 ComfyUI Artistic Examples
06:19 Install ComfyUI Setup Guide
11:45 Easy Beginner Workflows
12:33 A1111 vs ComfyUI

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Just a BIG THANKS for this video! I started using Comfy two days ago after using AE1111 for almost a year and I will not go back, the start was a bit rough, but the longer I am working with Comfy the broader my grin gets. So many possibilities, I already love it. Still struggling with some inpaint workflows, but I am getting much better and have a much greater percentage of usable images compared to AE1111. The fact that the complete workflow is stored in each image is super handy. Comfy is also much faster and more efficient in loading different models. Keep up on making your AI videos, well done so far! 💖

[bradloflin]

Nice. Great idea just for ComfyUI. I am finally using it instead of A1111 as much especially for Video!

[USBEN.]

Comfy is great fot automating and batch processing.

[davidwootton]

I decided to try ComfyUI and it's really not as bad as I thought when I first looked at it. I also see how easy it is to do things that I can't see any way at all to do in automatic1111.

One extension I found which I think really helps clear up the mess of connections between nodes is the 'Use Everywhere' extension that can be found in the ComfyUI custom nodes manager panel.
One thing I did with it is create a checkpoint loader node and an Update Everywhere node and connect checkpoint node outputs to Update Everything inputs. Then I don't have to drag connections all over the place in my workflow to connect up model, clip and vae. Other nodes which expect these inputs that don't have anything connected hook up transparently to the Update Everything node.
If I want to override this 'default' behavior for a node input, I just connect that input to something that can feed it.

I haven't done this, but you can also filter what the Update Everything node hooks up to by node color and by specifying a regular expression .
This makes cleaner work flows in my opinion.

[SlizenDize]

The anxiety of finally getting the hang on A1111 and then seeing all of these videos explaining the potential of ComfyUI.
I know I should take the plunge, I just need to find a deep enough breath first.

[STARSKREAMHDPLAYS]

Amazing! We literally decided to make the move as of yesterday. Can’t come at a better time 🎉

[erikmortensen]

any chance you could share the change background workflow? looks very interesting

[KriGeta]

how can we use comfy UI with control-net to make desired poses of our favourite anime characters with correct hands and faces and effects because automatic1111 in-paint feature is not much of an amazing tool for me till now, my goal is to replicate my favourite anime characters in the desired poses with effects, please make a tutorial on it if it is possible

[kylequinn]

I have no idea why but the results I get from ComfyUI vs 1111 using the exact same models is absolutely unreal.

[Ghsty.]

Very cool! I finally took the plunge last week and am really glad I did. It was a bit intimidating at first but I just started off with the default workflow and then slowly would add things in as I went and it all started making sense pretty quickly. Would you happen to have that workflow at 4: 50 posted anywhere?

[misternegative]

comfy ui manager and life became easy thx maan

[thyagofurtado]

I haven't watched it fully yet, but I was definitely looking for more videos on ComfyUI.

It's a great concept but it's so finicky. There are 1000x improvements that could be made to the interface and user flow, as well as making it robust and less dependent (cuda must be the correct version, must have certain chips, when importing workflows must have all dependent files, same version, etc)

So it could use more attention and user base to solve those kinks

[hleet]

I’m interested in your background changer. will you share a video tutorial about that ?

[fourwindbadger]

It might be a failure on my end (not searched for the right keywords) but I'm still looking for an in-depth tut that shows me what the different nodes does and what the different text means and does( with text I mean those inside the nodes like cfg and so on)
like what is the bare minimum to render images and such as well ( I'm neurodivergent so sometimes its hard for me to understand and do stuff if I don't have the background for it)

[micbab-vgmu]

Great I installed it - thank you for tips

[spearcy]

Why did you choose to apply the general comfy manager link rather than the link for the portable version?

[dracon]

for yaml it says you only need to change base_path, there was no need to change all the others

[christophermoonlightproduction]

9:33 for some reason this isn't working for me. I used your example and connected all the folder pathways but when I open up ComfyUI it just says undefined when I try to bring my models in.

[jannekallio]

Will save this video for later.. I guess in few days you just need a prompt to create comfy UI workflows..

[willardp]

Aloha from Hawaii my friend :) Thanks to your video introducting ComfyUI many months ago, it has become my latest addiction. I haven't used A1111 in months now. I've managed to duplicate all of my A1111 workflows to ComfyUI. I am a photographer also and incorporate a lot of my work into my Ai creations. The example you show in the video of replacing the clothing and surroundings caught my eye. Paused the vid and managed to recreate it HOWEVER I think there's something I've missed. I keep getting a black face. I think it has to do with Set Latent Noise Mask node. I can't tell where the sample (latent) connection is coming from. If it's possible, could you post the workflow? Thanks again (or as we say in Hawaii, Mahalo!!). addition info: I'm on a Mac Studio M2 Ultra. Hopefully that is not the issue.