L1: Using ComfyUI, EASY basics - Comfy Academy

In this first Part of the Comfy Academy Series I will show you the basics of the ComfyUI interface. What are Nodes? How to find them? What is the ComfyUI Manager? How to Link Models from Automatic 1111 into ComfyUI? How to connect Nodes? How to create Node Groups? and much more.

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[SuparNerd]

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

[divye.ruhela]

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.

[odw]

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.

[thObserver]

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!

[niccolandau]

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

[GamingDaveUK]

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.

[icedzinnia]

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.

[chrishillery]

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

[CalladsEssence]

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

[tonyblack]

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

[sendorian]

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...

[icedzinnia]

@olivio this video deserves so much more. All your your step by step videos are fanTAStic.
Ive been an img-gen fan of yours since the beginning of you doing this.
I have been away from img-gen due to politics and irl wars taking up my free-time.
BUT!
You are my go-to when I have real, substantial free time to make things!
I am going through your vids for the third time to refresh myself after many months of non image creative stuff I've been tasked to do. It feels like a year of hiatus from img-gen, , , for LLM learning and implementation. BOARIING. But necessary to know. le-sigh.

I guess... i am just noting this to you, here, so you know that your work, you lessons, are SO valuable, even if there might be a pause in viewership like mine and others.

I can't wait to see what you do next!

[celiaa]

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?

[windwalker]

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

[skurtyyskirts]

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

[Injaznito]

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.

[aaronkoller]

So clear in your instruction. Thank you!

[demirbasaran]

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

[Make_a_Splash]

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

[reapicus]

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