🛠️ Purpose & Design Philosophy
This workflow is a high-fidelity environment built for Illustrious. It prioritizes stability and professional texture over generation speed. It follows an "all-in-one" philosophy: configure your prompts, hit queue, and let the workflow handle the multi-stage refinement from start to finish.
Not for Speed: This is a heavy-duty refinement tool. If you want 2-second previews, use a basic workflow.
Personal Use: Built for my specific production needs. It is shared as-is for those who want a "set-and-forget" pipeline for Illustrious. Adjust the settings and models to fit your needs. The defaults on v19+ will be what I used for the sample images.
All-in-One Logic: The workflow handles generation, detailing, and upscaling in one continuous pass.
If you're needing something with more features: Try checking out Silly All-in-one, Multiple Characters With Regional Loras which is on civitai.
⚠️ Disclaimer & Compatibility
Install at Your Own Risk: Custom nodes can break your environment. I am not responsible for troubleshooting your specific installation.
ComfyUI: Built and tested on the non-app version. Desktop app users may face additional hurdles.
The "Your Version" Factor: Your node versions and environment are 99.9% likely to differ from mine.
Nodes 2.0: I do not recommend using Nodes 2.0. It creates unpredictable UI behavior; I will not provide support for issues involving this feature.
🤝 Support & Boundaries
I have not and never will monetize my workflow. CivitAI is the only platform I am maintaining this workflow on. If you find a version of my workflow posted and/or monetized anywhere and use it, then whoever posted it is responsible for providing you any support. This is the main reason why I don't monetize this: I don't want to be or feel obligated to provide support.
No DMs: DMs are disabled due to repeat spam. Please check the Discussions tab below; most questions have already been answered.
Modifications: You are free to hack this workflow apart. However, you are responsible for fixing it if it breaks.
Custom Requests: I do not make private workflows. If you need a custom solution, post a Bounty on CivitAI. There are many talented creators ready to help you for a fee.
Description
v11:
Rebuilt the workflow from scratch (again). This version isn't necessarily better than v10b, but is faster and uses less nodes.
This workflow took some inspiration from one of Olivio Sarikas' workflows as mentioned in this video. Namely, the Image Filter Adjustments node from was-node-suite-comfyui.
I made heavy use of this node throughout the workflow. If you find your image results to be way too sharp, these nodes can be bypassed without issue (confirmed).
This has effectively made the Detailer nodes pointless for me, but I have kept them in the workflow just in case.
Dropped Detail Daemon Sampler from the workflow.
Multiple Sigmas (stateless) is still there and can be bypassed with no issues.
Fake Iterative Upscale group is not present in this version. (Yay for faster speed!)
I stopped using comfyui-art-venture with this version of the workflow.
After updating it to the latest version, I kept having issues with it not loading after restarting comfyui, even after a clean install of the custom nodes.
I switched over to ComfyUI-post-processing-nodes which has the same Color Correct node.
One of the reasons this workflow came about was that I was looking for alternative upscale methods. I looked into SUPIR and APISR. USDU, our old friend, is still in the workflow.
SUPIR was a total flop for me, probably because I don't really do realistic images.
APISR is aimed at anime upscaling, but turns out the upscale models it uses works just fine without special nodes. (At least 4x_APISR_DAT_GAN_generator does).
Overall, the generation speed is faster (for me it takes about 3 minutes from start to finish on a 5060 16GB) and I am happy with the results.