One of the things they seem to be emphasizing here is the UX around being able to place specific elements where you want them in an image. If the positions of the components in the overall composition are very important, this seems to make that a lot easier and kind of reminds me of InvokeAI.
Ideogram V4, an open-weight model released back in June can also do this [1], but you have to use a relatively cumbersome JSON structure to describe all the different bounding boxes. So it’s definitely a bit of a hassle.
I'll probably be waiting until it goes open-weight (hopefully soon) like they did with Flux.2 / Klein.
I always hated Comfy's node based UI, but agents make it tolerable. Now I just have them set up a workflow and I go in and tweak it manually if the results aren't where I want them. I even have agents cherry doing multiple runs and cherry picking the best outputs, models have gotten good enough that it's a real time saver, assuming you have references they can and a rubric to check against.
As someone with general experience with some generative AI tools I started exploring Comfy last week and it was the easiest to pick up by far. This is not meant in a troll way, it just reflects how you do it programmatically the most, which I've seen the most before. The other UIs are always opinionated layouts on top of the actual logic where you constantly have to look up/sift through menus for what you want to do. In Comfy, you just use the searchbar and get the right node.
That being said: defining composition made me immediately think that someone probably made a gui like this with easy to move bounding boxes, and I'm happy they did.
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Ideogram V4, an open-weight model released back in June can also do this [1], but you have to use a relatively cumbersome JSON structure to describe all the different bounding boxes. So it’s definitely a bit of a hassle.
I'll probably be waiting until it goes open-weight (hopefully soon) like they did with Flux.2 / Klein.
[1] - <a href="https://docs.ideogram.ai/using-ideogram/getting-started/prompting-guide/4.-json-prompting-ideogram-4.0" rel="nofollow">https://docs.ideogram.ai/using-ideogram/getting-started/prom...
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That being said: defining composition made me immediately think that someone probably made a gui like this with easy to move bounding boxes, and I'm happy they did.