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ComfyDeploy: How ComfyUI Old Photo Restoration works in ComfyUI?

What is ComfyUI Old Photo Restoration?

Perform Bringing-Old-Photos-Back-to-Life

How to install it in ComfyDeploy?

Head over to the machine page

  1. Click on the "Create a new machine" button
  2. Select the Edit build steps
  3. Add a new step -> Custom Node
  4. Search for ComfyUI Old Photo Restoration and select it
  5. Close the build step dialig and then click on the "Save" button to rebuild the machine

ComfyUI Old Photo Restoration

This is an Extension for ComfyUI, which allows you to perform Bringing-Old-Photos-Back-to-Life natively.

<p align="center"> <img src="workflow.png"><br> <code>example workflow</code><br> <i>(You can drag this image directly into ComfyUI)</i> </p>

Original Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.09484

Original Repo: https://github.com/microsoft/Bringing-Old-Photos-Back-to-Life (includes some example images)

Requirements

  1. Install the packages in requirement.txt
  2. Download global_checkpoints.zip from Releases
  3. Extract and put the checkpoints folder (not just the files) into ~ComfyUI/custom_nodes/comfyui-old-photo-restoration/Global
  4. Download face_checkpoints.zip from Releases
  5. Extract and put the checkpoints folder (not just the files) into ~ComfyUI/custom_nodes/comfyui-old-photo-restoration/Face_Enhancement
  6. Download shape_predictor_68_face_landmarks.zip from Releases
  7. Extract the .dat file into ~ComfyUI/custom_nodes/comfyui-old-photo-restoration/Face_Detection

The Releases page includes the original links, as well as the backups mirrored by myself

Another mirror: Google Drive

How to Use

Simply connect an image to the Global Restoration node to process; if the image contains scratch artifacts, use the Global Restoration with Scratch Processing node instead.

To improve the faces, connect the image to the Face Detection node then the Face Enhancement node, then connect the enhanced output and the image both to the Face Align node in the end to merge the results.

Settings

  • HR: Use some higher parameters during the processings
  • GPU_ID: Specify the GPU to use. Set it to -1 to use CPU, or if you don't have nVidia GPU.