Installation and basic workflow

0:00 welcome to episode 26 of our comfy UI tutorial Series today I'm talking about live portrait a tool that lets you bring your portrait images to life and create facial expressions you can take a still photo and add animation to it based on a video or by simply changing settings open comfy UI go to the manager then under custom nodes search for advanced live portrait and install this node wait for the installation to finish then search for video helper if you followed episode 25 you should already have it if not install it then click on restart and press the okay button wait for it to install and comfy UI will open in a new tab now let's build the workflow double click on the canvas and search for load image this node allows you to upload an image that you want to use in the workflow for today's episode the node only works with portraits of people you need a still portrait pick a sharp well-lit photo of a face looking straight at the camera a neutral expression works best for smoother animations next double click again on the canvas and search for expression editor click on it to add it to the canvas now connect the loaded

1:12 image to the source image input after that we need to save the image so add either a save or preview node I suggest adding a preview node since it's generating many images you can then right click on the image and save it when you find the right one as you can see it's a simple work flow when you run it for the first time it will download the necessary models to run however once the download is complete the next time you run it it will generate much faster if it doesn't download make sure you have activated the long path setting in Windows when I run it I get the same image because we haven't made any changes to the settings to easily change any setting click and drag left or right or up and down to adjust the values alternatively you can use the arrows or type the value