SDXL_controlnet_hires_face-detailer

SDXL ControlNet ×4 (Canny / Depth / Scribble / DWPose) + Hires + FaceDetailer

A simple, switchable ControlNet workflow for SDXL. Four ControlNet types are placed in separate groups, and you toggle them ON/OFF from a single panel (Fast Groups Bypasser by rgthree). Turn on one, or stack two or more.

Pipeline 1st pass (with ControlNet) → Latent upscale 1.5x + 2nd pass (Hires) → FaceDetailer (Impact Pack) ControlNet is applied only to the 1st-pass KSampler. Hires and FaceDetailer use the original positive/negative prompts, so the control map is never applied to the face crop.

ControlNet groups (bypass by group)

• CN_01 Canny — outlines

• CN_02 Depth — MiDaS depth

• CN_03 Scribble — hand-drawn / sketch

• CN_04 DWPose — body, hands, face keypoints

Models used

• Checkpoint: Nova Anime XL (any SDXL checkpoint works)

• ControlNet: xinsir controlnet-canny-sdxl-1.0 / controlnet-depth-sdxl-1.0 / controlnet-scribble-sdxl-1.0 / controlnet-openpose-sdxl-1.0

• DWPose: yolox_l.torchscript.pt + dw-ll_ucoco_384_bs5.torchscript.pt

• FaceDetailer: bbox/face_yolov8m.pt + sam_vit_b_01ec64.pth

Required custom nodes

• ComfyUI's ControlNet Auxiliary Preprocessors (comfyui_controlnet_aux)

• ComfyUI Impact Pack (FaceDetailer, UltralyticsDetectorProvider)

• rgthree-comfy (Fast Groups Bypasser, Seed, Image Comparer)

• ComfyUI-KJNodes (Get/Set nodes)

• Pixel Perfect Resolution / Resolution Selector (comes with controlnet_aux and Derfuu/Comfyroll — check "Install Missing Custom Nodes" in Manager)