Fooocus KSampler Custom Node for ComfyUI SDXL

Recently I tried Fooocus by Lyumin Zhang (Illyasviel) which fulfills its promise to allow one to “Focus on prompting and generating” - it is certainly easy to use! But shortly after its release, someone has “ported” the code to ComfyUI as a Custom Node! So of course it’s time to test it out… ...

17 Aug 2023

SDXL 1.0 with SDXL-ControlNet: Canny

The Stability AI documentation now has a pipeline supporting ControlNets with Stable Diffusion XL! Time to try it out with ComfyUI for Windows. ...

13 Aug 2023

Scale and Composite Latents with SDXL

In this post, I experiment with latent scaling and latent compositing with SDXL 1.0 using ComfyUI. That is to say, increasing / decreasing the size of the image, and combining multiple images into one à la green screen (chroma key) compositing. ...

5 Aug 2023

Two Text Prompts (Text Encoders) in SDXL 1.0

SDXL 1.0 uses two text prompts used to guide image generation. In my first post, SDXL 1.0 with ComfyUI, I referred to the second text prompt as a “style” but I wonder if I am correct. I have no idea! So let’s test out both prompts… ...

3 Aug 2023

CLIPSeg with SDXL in ComfyUI

Onward with SDXL and ComfyUI! Sometimes I want to tweak generated images by replacing selected parts that don’t look good while retaining the rest of the image that does look good. Rather than manually creating a mask, I’d like to leverage CLIPSeg to generate a masks from a text prompt. ...

31 Jul 2023

SDXL with Offset Example LoRA in ComfyUI for Windows

Yesterday I mentioned in passing that my Nvidia RTX 2060 with 12GB could not run both SDXL 1.0 Base and Refiner models in a single ComfyUI workflow. Today, I show you my workaround and also experiment with adding the SDXL 1.0 Official Offset Example LoRA to the workflow. ...

30 Jul 2023

Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0 with ComfyUI

Stability.ai has released Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) 1.0 (26 July 2023)! Time to test it out using a no-code GUI called ComfyUI! ...

29 Jul 2023

Configure a mouse for macOS trackpad-like gestures

A short post about setting up a mouse on macOS to mimic trackpad gestures. ...

16 Jul 2023

My Blacktron Star Fighter MOC 40580

May I present to you: my second LEGO Space MOC, the Blacktron Star Fighter! This is an alternate build using only parts from set 40580: Blacktron Cruiser. ...

17 Jun 2023

Running Steam in Game Porting Toolkit

In my previous post, I managed to get Whisky, with Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit, working on macOS Ventura without Homebrew. Here I manage to get Steam running after jumping through hoops. ...

14 Jun 2023