15s, 18s or 57s - The ComfyUI Edit Speed Ladder

15s, 18s or 57s - The ComfyUI Edit Speed Ladder

The same edit three ways with a 4-step Lightning LoRA, Flux Kontext and full Qwen. What each trade-off actually costs.

July 26, 2026 · 3 min · Aillex / DIY AI
Combine Two or Three Images Into One Photo, Locally

Combine Two or Three Images Into One Photo, Locally

One node takes three reference images. Person plus product, person plus scene, and the group shot - with measured timings.

July 26, 2026 · 2 min · Aillex / DIY AI
Generate an Image With Every Object on Its Own Layer

Generate an Image With Every Object on Its Own Layer

One generation, seventeen outputs: the flat image, every object on transparency, and a free background plate.

July 26, 2026 · 3 min · Aillex / DIY AI
Inpainting in ComfyUI - and Why a Mask Is Not Automatically Better

Inpainting in ComfyUI - and Why a Mask Is Not Automatically Better

We ran the same edit with and without a mask. The no-mask version won. Here’s when a mask helps and when it costs you.

July 26, 2026 · 3 min · Aillex / DIY AI
Outpainting in ComfyUI - Extend a Photo That's Framed Too Tight

Outpainting in ComfyUI - Extend a Photo That's Framed Too Tight

Add canvas and let the model fill it. The node, the feathering, and the mistake that invents furniture.

July 26, 2026 · 3 min · Aillex / DIY AI
The One Graph Every ComfyUI Image Edit Is Built On

The One Graph Every ComfyUI Image Edit Is Built On

The nine nodes behind every local instruction edit, what each does, and the one node that turns generating into editing.

July 26, 2026 · 3 min · Aillex / DIY AI
12 AI image generators compared

12 AI Image Generators, Honestly Compared (Free, Local & Cloud)

Twelve generators, six prompts, one shot each, no cherry-picking, with the numbers nobody publishes: seconds per image, VRAM required, and the exact cloud price. Six of them run free on your own card.

July 24, 2026 · 4 min · Aillex / DIY AI
Eros 10Eros local text to audio-video

Eros (10Eros): One Local Model That Makes Video AND Audio

Eros is a baked LTX-2.3 variant that generates synced audio and video from a prompt in one model. It’s wild, but it writes its own soundtrack, so it can’t dub your voice. Here’s the honest picture.

July 24, 2026 · 2 min · Aillex / DIY AI
InfiniteTalk local lip-sync

InfiniteTalk: Unlimited-Length Local Lip-Sync (Almost)

InfiniteTalk promises infinite-length talking video from a portrait and audio, running in ComfyUI. It looks very good, but on a 32GB card the ‘infinite’ part isn’t practical yet. Here’s the honest state.

July 24, 2026 · 2 min · Aillex / DIY AI
LTX LipDub audio-driven dubbing

LTX LipDub / LatentSync: High-Res Audio-Driven Dubbing

LTX’s native audio dub is the highest-resolution lip-sync we’ve run locally, but the generative mode invents a made-up language unless you wire the true audio-driven path. Here’s how it works and where it slips.

July 24, 2026 · 2 min · Aillex / DIY AI
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