Stitch Inpaint takes an RGB patch over an RGBA picture and keeps the
picture's own alpha, instead of stopping on a channel mismatch. The halo
fix spreads colours only.
Image Compare keeps alpha in a preview that has see-through parts and
flags it, so the panel shows them over a checkerboard (Slide, A/B and
Erase). The Erase mix lays the top picture over the other, the saved PNG
is RGBA, and the PSD carries each layer's transparency plus a merged
alpha, its flat colours stored over white as Photoshop does. A see-through
B is resized premultiplied. Align measures over gray and warps all four
channels. Solid pictures give byte-identical files.
Refs #232
The node gets a second output, image_b: the B batch, untouched, the
way image_a already passes through. image_a stays the first output, so
saved workflows keep their wires. The slider, its resting side, Erase
and Save are unchanged.
Help page, tooltips, README line and CHANGELOG say so; the node API
snapshot gains the one new output.
The four mode buttons become one switch, Slide | A | B | Erase, whose
marker slides to the choice. In Erase the brush's two jobs and the
picture on top are switches of the same kind, and PSD is a plain
off | on.
Save moves to the bottom right of the node, larger, with a disk icon,
in a row of its own with the name of the files and the PSD choice.
The files can be named. A Name field on the node takes letters,
digits, spaces, dots, dashes and underscores; the server checks the
same rule and refuses anything else, so a folder is never part of a
name. A new optional filename input takes a wired name, such as the
source picture's file name: its folder and extension are dropped. The
save route still names no file to read.
Size and Soft scrub from their label and from the unit inside the box
as well as from the number (the scrub control gains handle() for this).
Workflows saved before load as they were: 60 that use the node were
opened (the pack's examples, published workflows, the oldest saved
shapes), 72 nodes kept their size, mode and links. The node is one
input socket taller.
A fourth mode beside SLIDE, A and B. One picture lies on top of the
other and a brush rubs the top one away, so the other shows through.
ERASE and RESTORE pick what the brush does; Alt or the right mouse
button paints back. Size and Soft set the brush, which shows around the
pointer in teal with its soft edge. It takes Photoshop's keys: [ and ]
for the size, Shift with them for the edge, and Alt with the right
mouse button dragged across for the size or up and down for the edge.
SAVE writes the mix to the output folder as compare_00001.png without
running anything again. With PSD lit it also writes a PSD with both
pictures as layers and the paint as a layer mask on the top one, and
the mask as its own PNG. After a save the row under the picture links
each file for download.
The node keeps the strokes, not a painted picture. The panel draws
them, and the save draws them again on the server at the picture's full
size. The save route takes no file name: a run remembers where its two
previews are and gives the panel a key, Save sends the key back, and
the files get a fixed name. The PSD is written by a small writer of the
pack's own, with no new dependency.
SLIDE is still what the node opens on. The node's inputs and output are
unchanged.
Five things surfaced by release testing.
Node search: ComfyUI's search dialog cuts at 64 results and ranks by
[match tier, global popularity, name length], where tier 1 needs the name
to START with what was typed. Popularity is a fixed global table in which
every node from a new pack scores zero, so tier is the only lever. As
"Refine Mask" this node came 121st for "mask" and was never on screen.
Renamed to Mask Refine, which is 15th, and kept "refine mask" as an alias.
The mapping key is untouched, so saved workflows are unaffected. Aliases
alone cannot fix this: the frontend indexes them but drops them from the
tier scoring because they are a list rather than a string, so they decide
whether a node is findable, not where it lands.
Previews: Mask Refine, LaMa Inpaint and Select Frame showed whatever fed
their input, which is nothing when a segmentation node is upstream - Mask
Refine's panel was blank however the mask turned out. Each now returns its
result as a preview and the panel shows that, falling back to the input
before the first run. A node does not need to be an OUTPUT_NODE for this;
returning a ui payload is enough. ComfyUI's own preview for these nodes is
stood down so the picture appears once, in the panel, rather than also
underneath the node. That also fixes LaMa finishing a single image with an
empty panel: frame previews were only attached for batches over one frame,
on the assumption that one image would preview through the output path,
which a non-output node does not have.
Mask Refine opens on expand and blur with the other five behind MORE.
Hidden widgets keep their values and their saved positions. AUTO sets both
from the mask's size, scaled off the 8/4 hand-tuned for the watermark
workflow at 576px, because a feather is a fraction of the picture rather
than a fixed pixel count.
Save Video gains nvenc h264/h265, webm av1, ProRes mov, lossless ffv1 mkv,
gif and webp, plus pingpong and save_metadata. Every format is encoded and
read back in the tests rather than trusted from its table row. fps steps in
whole frames but stays FLOAT: an INT would refuse Load Video's fps link and
round 29.97 to 30, drifting picture off audio. mov files now carry the
embedded workflow, which they silently did not. The reload button is gone -
it only re-fetched what was already on screen.
Not done: Select Frame's preview updates on a run, not as the number
changes. Seeking to a frame needs the source fps, which the browser never
learns, so live scrubbing needs a server route - the surface Frame Chooser
was just demoted for.
An OUTPUT_NODE that saves temp previews of each batch's first frame
and renders them stacked in a DOM panel: slide mode clips B to the
pointer with a seam line, hold mode flashes B while pressed. image_a
passes through unchanged so the comparison can sit mid-graph. Pure
clip and mode logic lives in js/shared/compare.mjs under node:test.
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