AP Workflows for ComfyUI

AP Trainer 1.0
Train
AP Plot 2.0
Evaluate
APW 12.0
Generate
AP Workflows allow you to build your own, private, Midjourney.

AP Workflows are used by organizations all around the world as a blueprint to develop enterprise and consumer applications.

Here are some of the use cases these organizations use AP Workflows for:

  • Fast idea prototyping for interior/industrial/game design
  • AI Cinema image generation for film storyboarding
  • Light and weather generation for location scouting
  • Creative upscaling of images for fashion photography
  • Remote model casting for fashion collections, ads, or TV commercials
  • Face swap for stunt scenes
  • Vintage film restoration
  • Virtual try-on for e-commerce and retail point of sale
AP Workflows can be adapted to any use case that requires the generation or manipulation of images and videos, as well as text and audio.
Whether you are:

  • a fashion brand
  • an e-commerce giant
  • a photography studio
  • an ad agency
  • an interior design or architecture studio
  • a gaming company
  • an AI-first startup
  • or an innovative artist
if you want to incorporate AI in your creative process, and you want to scale, you need automation.
When you need to automate media production with AI models like FLUX or Stable Diffusion, you need ComfyUI.

  • Individual artists and small design studios can use ComfyUI to imbue FLUX or Stable Diffusion images with their distinctive style in a matter of hours, rather than days or weeks.
  • Large organizations can use ComfyUI to generate or modify images and videos at industrial scale for commercial applications.
  • AI-first startups can use ComfyUI automation pipelines to create services similar to Midjourney or Magnific AI.
But ComfyUI is not easy to master.
To extend the core functionalities of ComfyUI, the AI community has built over a thousand custom nodes.

Many of them are invaluable for specific tasks, but some are duplicative, some are outdated, and a very small portion of them can be malicious.

How do you know which nodes:

  • are the best to solve for your use case?
  • have been maintained for a long time so you can count on them for your production needs?
  • are safe to use?
It can take months to answer these questions with confidence. The good news is that you don't have to.
AP Workflows are the ultimate jumpstart to automate synthetic media generation with ComfyUI.

They contain all the building blocks necessary to turn a simple prompt into one sophisticated image or video. Or thousands of them!

AP Workflows are not just carefully designed workflows. They also are carefully curated sets of the best nodes available from the AI community.

AP Workflows allow you to build your own, private, Midjourney.

AP Workflows allow you to design and prototype an automation pipeline for media production at a fraction of the complexity required to build a custom application.

AP Workflows do not require you to hire a software developer.

AP Workflows are also free.

AP Workflows for ComfyUI

AP Trainer 1.0
Train
AP Plot 2.0
Evaluate
APW 12.0
Generate

AP Trainer 1.0

+ AP Trainer 1.0 Early Access 1

Jumpstart

Installation

Extras

Jumpstart

How to Download AP Trainer

AP Trainer is currently available in the following versions:

Version
Focus
Access
Support
New Features
Next Release
1.0
Stability
Free for everyone
No
What’s New?
In 2-3 months
1.0 EA1
Support for the newest AI models and bleeding-edge new features
Early Access Program members
Not guaranteed, on Discord
What’s New?
In 1-2 weeks

To Download AP Trainer 1.0

Not released yet.

What’s new in AP Trainer 1.0

Not released yet.

To Download AP Trainer 1.0 EA1

  1. Join the AP Workflows Early Access program.
  2. Join the Discord server for Early Access program members (you'll receive an email with invite)
  3. Download the AP Workflows Nodes Snapshot for ComfyUI Manager from the Discord server.
  4. Download the AP Trainer 1.0 EA1 json file from the Discord server.
  5. Follow the installation steps.
  6. Open AP Trainer 1.0 EA1 from ComfyUI Manager with CTRL/CMD+O.

What's New in AP Trainer 1.0 EA1

AP Trainer 1.0 EA1 early access features available now:
  • [EA1] First pre-release of the first release.

Early Access Program

Get an Early Access membership via Patreon or Ko-fi, and you'll have access to a dedicated Discord server where Alessandro shares the pre-release versions of all AP Workflows as he progresses in its development.

Pros

  • You'll gain a competitive edge at work!
  • You'll be able to provide early feedback on AP Workflows' design and potentially influence its development.
  • You'll support the future development of the AP Workflows.
Cons

  • There will be no documentation.
  • Things might change without notice.
  • There is no guarantee you'll receive support.
Stay In The Loop
Sign up to to receive notifications when a new Early Access pre-release is available.

Work with Alessandro

AP Workflows are provided as they are, for research and education purposes only.

However, Alessandro can assist your company on a wide range of activities:

  • Workflow Design Workshop
  • LoRA Training & Model Fine Tuning Workshop [coming soon]
  • Customized Workflow Design
  • Remote Consulting
Learn more here.

Where to Start?

Soon.

Installation

Required Custom Nodes

AP Workflows depend on multiple custom nodes to work. You must download and install ComfyUI Manager, and then install the required custom nodes suites to be sure you can run this workflow.

Instructions:

  1. Install ComfyUI in a new folder to create a clean, new environment (a Python 3.10 venv is recommended).
  2. Install ComfyUI Manager.
  3. Shut down ComfyUI.
  4. Download the snapshot.
  5. Move/copy the snapshot to the /ComfyUI/custom_nodes/ComfyUI-Manager/snapshots folder.
  6. Restart ComfyUI.
  7. Open ComfyUI Manager and then the new Snapshot Manager.
  8. Restore the APW Nodes Snapshot.
  9. Restart ComfyUI.

Required AI Models

The SDXL fine-tuned models compared in AP Trainer 1.0 can be found on the Civitai website or on the Hugging Face website.

AP Trainer only compares models that are publicly available and free to access.

Should a model become paywalled, it will be removed from AP Trainer.

Node XYZ failed to install or import

Occasionally, AP Workflow users can’t install or import a custom node suite necessary to run AP Workflow. This happens when you try to use AP Workflow in a pre-existing ComfyUI environment that you have installed loooooooooong time ago.

If you have a similar problem, be sure to:

  1. Have all your packages up to date in your Python virtual environment for ComfyUI.

    To do so:

    1. Terminate ComfyUI.
    2. Manually activate its Python virtual environment with source /venv/bin/activate.
    3. Run pip install -U pip to upgrade pip.
    4. Run pip install -U setuptools to upgrade setuptools.
    5. Run pip install -U wheel to upgrade wheel.
    6. Run pip install -U -r requirements.txt to upgrade all the packages in the virtual environment.
  2. Check the installation instructions of the custom node suite you are having troubles with.

If you have installed ComfyUI in a new environment and you still fail to install or import a custom node suite, open an issue on the GitHub repository of the author.

Extras

Special Thanks

AP Workflows wouldn’t exist without the dozen of custom nodes created by very generous members of the AI community.

In particular, special thanks to:

@kijai:

  • His Set and Get nodes enable the modular design of AP Trainer.
  • His ImageGridComposite node generates a convenient XY Plot image.

@rgthree:

  • His Fast Groups Muters node powers AP Trainer control panel.
  • His Image Comparer node is critical to inspect and compare the behavior of the models in AP Trainer.

@ltdrdata:

  • His ComfyUI Manager is critical to manage package and model dependencies in AP Trainer.

Thanks to all of you, and to all other custom node creators for their help in debugging and enhancing their great nodes.

Full Changelog

1.0

  • Initial Release.