Complete ComfyUI Guide for Beginners
notalice
2025-12-14
This free ebook available on the website, will have a low-entry guide which will go over the current techniques of Stable Diffusion.
Here you will learn about getting started with ComfyUI, what is i2i, t2i, masks, control nets, ip adapters, and in more advanced topics we will learn regional prompting.
My goal is to create a go-to resource, which will teach you in one go, all the things that are spread in different areas all over the internet.
Setting up ComfyUI
This will be the first chapter of the ebook, which you'll see the links down below.
I want to make a special notice about this chapter, because of how stable diffusion requires hardware that is unfotunately not available for everyone, I will be mentioning and guiding you through paid services.
These paid services offer you renting of GPU or generation of images. I am not affiliated with any of them.
Do not be worried if setting up Comfy UI seems daunting to you, things are easier now with portable versions. If you can get past this part of the ebook, things will flow much better from here.
Goals of the ebook
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Teach you how to setup ComfyUI locally
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Briefly tell you about services that can help you run stable diffusion without spending much
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Teach you about checkpoints, positive prompts, negative prompts
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Teach you about compositing, shadows and lighting, stylization using prompts
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Many other techniques which focus on stable diffusion in general but with ComfyUI nodes
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Get you into some live service platform. I would prefer if you run ComfyUI locally!
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Train you how to train a model, a lora, image tagging for datasets.
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Teach you the history of Stable Diffusion. This is about using it practically, and I want to keep it short and engaging.
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Unopinionated and impartial. I will tell you what I think about things, I will guide you through a working flow tested by me. There are tons of approaches to stable diffusion available.
Chapters
- ComfyUI setup and introduction to SDXL models
- How to Control Camera Angles in ComfyUI
- How to Control Lighting and Shadows in ComfyUI SDXL Models
- Fix Bad Hands, Eyes & Feet in SDXL (ComfyUI Workflow Guide)
- SDXL Negative Prompts: Complete Guide for ComfyUI
- Image to Image (i2i) in ComfyUI using SDXL models
- How to do HiresFix in ComfyUI
- SDXL Upscale guide: best settings for Illustrious and Pony models
- How to use ControlNets with SDXL: get specific poses, use references, and more