Create Your First Image in ComfyUI

Before you begin this tutorial:

1. Ensure that you have ComfyUI installed.
2. You should have at least one checkpoint model in your ComfyUI.

And you should be familiar with its basic operations. If you haven’t installed ComfyUI yet, please follow the ComfyUI Installation Guide to install it, and the corresponding sections have also explained the details of the first image generation.

This tutorial will take the Windows version of ComfyUI as an example.

Step One: Open ComfyUI

How to Launch ComfyUI with the QiuYe Launcher

Click the bottom right blue icon ▶︎One-Click Launch on the launcher’s home page to start ComfyUI with one click. If it runs correctly, it should automatically open the console for you to run the relevant scripts.

As shown in the figure above, when you see

Starting server
 
To See the GUI go to: http://0.0.0.0:8188  // The URL here may vary depending on the device display

It means that ComfyUI has been successfully started. If the browser does not start normally, you can visit the URL after To See the GUI go to: directly through the browser, such as in the example above it should be http://0.0.0.0:8188.

How to Launch ComfyUI with the Official Portable Version

If you are using the official ComfyUI Portable Version, you should be able to find the following files in the corresponding folder

ComfyUI_windows_portable
├── ...Other files are omitted
├── run_cpu.bat                                 //  Double-click to run it to start ComfyUI when your graphics card is A card or only CPU
└── run_nvidia_gpu.bat                           // Double-click to run it to start ComfyUI when your graphics card is N card (Nvidia)

As shown in the figure above, when you see

Starting server

To See the GUI go to: http://0.0.0.0:8188  // The URL here may vary depending on the device display

It means that ComfyUI has been successfully launched. If the browser does not start normally, you can directly access the website after To See the GUI go to: through the browser, such as in the example above, it should be http://0.0.0.0:8188.

By default, the ComfyUI’s default workflow will be automatically loaded after the start, as shown in the figure below.

If the interface is blank or the default workflow is not loaded, please click on the Load default / Load default in the lower right corner menu to load the default workflow.

First Image Generation

1. First, you need to confirm that the model file loaded in the Load checkpoint in your workflow has been loaded normally.
2. If there are no errors, you can click on Queue Prompt.
3. Wait for the operation to be completed. If everything goes well and the image is generated, congratulations! You have completed the installation of ComfyUI and related basic content.

If you want to continue exploring, you can visit the following content to continue learning about the basic operations of the ComfyUI interface.