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ComfyUI: Tiled upscaling with Ultimate SD Upscale

Demo summary

A detailed demo of the Ultimate SD Upscale node, showing how tiled upscaling generates significantly higher facial detail than standard upscaling.

Step-by-step

  1. Delete the K Sampler and Latent Image nodes from your workflow.
  2. Add the Ultimate SD Upscale node and connect the Model, Positive Prompt, Negative Prompt, and VAE inputs.
  3. Add a Load Image node and connect it to the Image input of the Ultimate SD Upscale node.
  4. Add an Upscale Model Loader node, select a model like 4x-UltraSharp, and connect it to the Upscale_Model input.
  5. Set the Upscale by value (e.g., 2) and adjust the Denoise strength.
  6. Set the Tile Width and Tile Height to match the dimensions of your original input image.
  7. Add a Preview Image node to the output of the Ultimate SD Upscale node and click Queue Prompt.

Options

  • Chain multiple Ultimate SD Upscale nodes together to upscale in stages (e.g., 2x then 2x again).
  • Adjust Mask Blur and Tile Padding to improve how tiles blend together.
  • Use Ctrl+Shift+V to paste a node while maintaining existing input connections.

Watch out for

  • When chaining upscalers, you must update the Tile Width and Tile Height in the second node to match the dimensions of the image being passed to it (e.g., 1024x1024 if the first node already doubled a 512x512 image).

Tips

  • Set the Denoise strength to a relatively low value like 0.15 or 0.2 to retain the original image structure while adding detail.
  • If you see obvious lines between tiles in the final image, try adjusting the Mask Blur and Tile Padding settings.
  • Tiled upscaling is significantly better for generating fine details like hair and facial features compared to a standard model upscale.

Highlights

you can literally just customize the workflow to whatever you want... and I'll show you the insane quality that this can generate

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  3. 43:496:52Tiled upscaling with Ultimate SD UpscaleCurrentA detailed demo of the Ultimate SD Upscale node, showing how tiled upscaling generates significantly higher facial detail than standard upscaling.AI Search
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