ApoGalleria

✨ApoGalleria - Visual Aesthetics Library Ideo4✨

ApoGalleria is my powerful custom node suite designed for inspiration on tap. Generate images from a stored library of reference image/JSON captioned pairs. Real-time importing, viewing, and editing of captions right within ComfyUI. Coded specifically for Ideo4, and captioned in Ideo4 structured JSON.

My sibling nodes convert Ideo4 JSON captions on the fly for inference across multiple model architectures.

To satiate my new custom nodes I also built a colossal Visual Aesthetics Library that contains ~60,000 pieces of captioned art inspiration, available directly from me. Both are personal projects created to fill my exact needs.

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ApoGalleria-Ideo4

<ins>My core node:</ins>

ApoGalleria - Visual Aesthetics Library Ideo4

Build up your own libraries of image/JSON pairs, browse them in a split gallery + field-editor UI, lock the fields you like, mix-and-match across multiple saved entries, and pass the finished JSON straight into Kijai's Ideogram 4 Prompt Builder node's import_json input via this node's export_json output.

Split UI:

• Left (Populate mode): grid gallery of stored images, searchable by description, with a nested folder-tree category picker (create categories and grouping folders on the fly, rename/move/delete from the same flyout).

• Right: editable natural-language fields — high_level_description, background, style (photo / art_style), the matching style detail text, aesthetics, lighting, medium, and the raw color_palette / elements JSON blobs.

Field locking: every field has its own lock toggle. Locked fields hold their value no matter which library image you click next — so you can graze across several saved entries, locking one good field at a time, to build a unique combined description.

<ins>Mode toggle:</ins>

• Populate — Library is active; selecting an entry fills all unlocked fields.

• Pass to Output — Library is disabled; the current field state (locked + unlocked mix, plus any manual edits) is assembled into the full schema and emitted on the export_json output.

<ins>Importing into the library:</ins>

Using ApoGalleria-Ideo4 to import images directly:

1. [PNG] Select Import from Image select your desired PNG generated by your Ideogram 4 pipeline, select Save Current Image + JSON and ApoGalleria-Ideo4 will save the image to the library in the current selected folder, and pull the embedded description metadata straight out of it creating a sidecar JSON file — no manual JSON authoring needed.

2. [JPG/WEBP] Require a pre-captioned JSON/txt sidecar file alongside the image. The process to save to the library is as above, but both image and JSON/txt files must be selected and saved together.

3. Drop your folders of Image/caption pairs straight into the main library directory to create your collections quickly.

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<ins>Live editing & Overwriting:</ins>

You can edit any loaded JSON caption in real-time, in node. Once you are happy with the finished description you can either pass to output for inference, 1-click copy the JSON for a manual file save, or you can choose to overwrite the existing JSON/txt file. This is extremely helpful for tweaking JSON/txt captions that are slightly off, correcting little descriptive anomalies, or changing things to suit your needs.

If you choose to overwrite the existing JSON/txt caption, you will be presented with a safety verification warning to avoid accidental overwrite. It informs you that the current selected image is the file which will be overwritten, this is very important to confirm, especially when mixing and compiling unique descriptions from multiple library image/captions.

Schema

{
  "high_level_description": "string",
  "style_description": {
    "style": "photo | art_style",
    "photo": "string",         // present when style == photo
    "art_style": "string",     // present when style == art_style
    "aesthetics": "string",
    "lighting": "string",
    "medium": "string",
    "color_palette": ["#hex", "..."]
  },
  "compositional_deconstruction": {
    "background": "string",
    "elements": [
      {
        "type": "obj | text",
        "bbox": [0, 0, 0, 0],   // [ymin, xmin, ymax, xmax] on a 0-1000 grid
        "desc": "string",
        "text": "string",          // optional, for type == text
        "color_palette": ["#hex", "..."]  // optional, per-element
      }
    ]
  }
}

Storage

Image/caption pairs live under library/<category>/<entry_id>.<ext> + library/<category>/<entry_id>.json (or .txt, fully equivalent) inside this node's own library/ directory. Categories are leaf folders that hold entries; grouping folders hold only subfolders, never entries — both are managed from the flyout picker in the node UI.

Never delete or replace the library/ folder wholesale — this is where your saved image/caption pairs live.

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ApoGalleria-Flux2

A sibling converter node. Takes the export_json output from ApoGalleria-Ideo4 and converts it on the fly into Flux.2's structured JSON prompt schema, ready to feed into Flux.2 conditioning.

This node has no UI, no storage, and no library of its own — it's a pure passthrough-transform.

ApoGalleria-Ideo4 (export_json) --> ApoGalleria-Flux2 (ideo4_json)
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                                     flux2_json --> [your Flux.2 conditioning]

Inputs:

• ideo4_json (STRING, required) — the export_json string from ApoGalleria-Ideo4
• pretty_print (BOOLEAN, optional, default True) — indent the output JSON

Output:

• flux2_json (STRING) — Flux.2-structured JSON prompt

Schema mapping

Flux.2's structured-prompt schema (per Black Forest Labs' official prompting guide) is flatter and more loosely typed than Ideogram 4's strict nested schema — no bounding-box/coordinate concept, and no art_style/photo mutual exclusivity concept.

| Ideo4 field | → | Flux2 field | |---|---|---| | high_level_description | → | scene | | style_description.aesthetics | → | folded into style ("Aesthetic: ...") | | style_description.medium | → | folded into style ("Medium: ...") | | style_description.art_style or .photo | → | folded into style ("Art style: ..." / "Photo style: ...") | | style_description.lighting | → | lighting | | style_description.color_palette | → | color_palette | | compositional_deconstruction.background | → | background | | compositional_deconstruction.elements[].desc | → | subjects[].description | | compositional_deconstruction.elements[].bbox | → | dropped — no plain-English position is fabricated | | compositional_deconstruction.elements[].text | → | subjects[].text (only if present on the source) | | compositional_deconstruction.elements[].color_palette | → | subjects[].color_palette (only if present on the source) | | (no Ideo4 source) | → | mood, composition, camera — omitted entirely, never fabricated |

If a field has no value in the source, it is left out of the output rather than written as an empty string or null.

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ApoGalleria-NL

A shared sibling converter node. Takes the export_json output from ApoGalleria-Ideo4 and composes it into a single natural-language paragraph, for architectures that prompt with descriptive prose rather than a structured schema.

Covers

• Z-Image Turbo | Krea2 | Qwen-Image | Flux (1) | WAN 2.2 | Magic WAN
• Flux2, when used in its natural-language prompting mode (as opposed to Flux2's JSON mode, which ApoGalleria-Flux2 handles separately)

These architectures all share the same target format — flowing, descriptive sentences, not comma-separated tags and not a JSON structure — so one shared converter serves all of them rather than building five nearly identical nodes.

Like ApoGalleria-Flux2, this node has no UI, no storage, and no library of its own. It's a pure passthrough-transform.

ApoGalleria-Ideo4 (export_json) --> ApoGalleria-NL (ideo4_json)
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                                     nl_prompt --> [your text encoder / CLIP node]

Inputs:

• ideo4_json (STRING, required) — the export_json string from ApoGalleria-Ideo4
• preset (dropdown, required) — subject-first (default) or scene-first

Output:

• nl_prompt (STRING) — a single flowing natural-language paragraph

Dual Ordering presets

<ins>This node has two presets</ins>: Both carry the same underlying detail and end the same way, in style then lighting — they differ in narrative shape, not just which sentence leads:

• subject-first (default): opens with the people/objects in the image as one flat listed clause, then background, then style, then lighting.
• scene-first: establishes the scene first (overall description, then background), then places the subject(s) within that already-established setting ("Within this setting, a young woman..."), then style, then lighting — a genuinely different narrative flow, not a reordering of the same flat clauses.

Try both against the same caption — which reads better tends to depend on whether the image is more about an overall scene or a specific subject. Basically like an extra seed, great for experimenting and variation!

Color palette handling

Ideo4 captions store color_palette as hex codes, which don't read naturally in prose. This node resolves each hex value to its nearest named color (e.g. #F4E1C1 → "warm cream") and folds them into a clause like "in tones of warm cream, sage green, and burnt terracotta." Hex values never appear directly in the output.

Schema mapping

| Ideo4 field | → | Role in the paragraph | |---|---|---| | high_level_description | → | opening sentence in scene-first; not used in subject-first | | compositional_deconstruction.elements[].desc | → | opening clause in subject-first (flat list); "placed within the scene" clause in scene-first | | compositional_deconstruction.elements[].text | → | folded into that element's clause as the text "…" is visible [in the <position>] — casing preserved exactly as written in the source, never altered | | compositional_deconstruction.elements[].bbox | → | used only to derive the text clause's position phrase above (e.g. "upper-left", "centered"); omitted entirely — never guessed — when bbox is missing or malformed | | compositional_deconstruction.background | → | second sentence, both presets | | style_description.medium | → | folded into the style sentence | | style_description.art_style or .photo | → | folded into the style sentence | | style_description.aesthetics | → | folded into the style sentence | | style_description.color_palette | → | folded into the style sentence, as a named-color clause | | style_description.lighting | → | closing sentence, both presets |

Missing fields are simply skipped — nothing is fabricated to fill a gap.

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Ideo4 Ground Truth & conversion node output examples

All comparison examples were run from the same Ideo4 image/caption, with a locked seed.

Flux1-DEV

Flux2-DEV

Z-Image Turbo

WAN 2.2 & Magic WAN

Proof of concept examples for the architectures I currently have.

Installation

1. Clone into your ComfyUI custom_nodes folder:

   cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
   git clone https://github.com/ApoloniArt/ApoGalleria ComfyUI-ApoGalleria
   

2. Install dependencies:

   # Windows portable:
   python -m pip install -r ComfyUI-ApoGalleria\requirements.txt
   
   # Standard install:
   pip install -r ComfyUI-ApoGalleria\requirements.txt
   

3. Restart ComfyUI.

4. All three nodes appear under the ApoGalleria category in the node menu: ApoGalleria-Ideo4, ApoGalleria-Flux2, ApoGalleria-NL.

5. <ins>Comfy Manager Install:</ins>

   My nodes have absolute minimal requirements, so you can confidently & safely install via Comfy Manager, without the fear of dependencies breaking your entire Comfy. After installation, rename the folder to ComfyUI-ApoGalleria

6. Updating my nodes:

  cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes/ComfyUI-ApoGalleria
  git pull

Typical workflow

                                  +--> ApoGalleria-Flux2 --> flux2_json
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ApoGalleria-Ideo4 --(export_json)-+
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                                  +--> ApoGalleria-NL --> nl_prompt

Build and curate your caption library once in ApoGalleria-Ideo4, then wire its export_json output directly to Ideo4, or whichever sibling node matches your target model — or both at once, if you generate across multiple architectures from the same library.

Visual Aesthetics Library

Looking for a ready-made reference library to drop into ApoGalleria-Ideo4? See my Visual Aesthetics Library for a colossal ~60,000 image/caption reference library.

Available directly from me via my Discord 👉 ApoloniArt 👈

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Unavoidable Annoyance & Comfy Anomalies

Display/operational disparity between normal ComfyUI and Nodes 2.0 sigh 😔 [My nodes function perfectly in both, but due to Nodes 2.0 being a pain in the ass to code for, there are differences in display & operation] Both have their benefits, and I honestly can't decide which I like best. See which you prefer

<ins>Normal Comfy mode:</ins> Scrolling in-node is automatic via mouse wheel, but visuals disappear when you zoom out to under ~57%. I've no idea why that now happens, I'm sure it wasn't like that before.

<ins>Nodes 2.0 mode:</ins> Scrolling in-node is manual via scroll bar, but visuals do not disappear when zooming out. Pass to Output renders a different look due to Nodes 2.0 coding. Not any issue at all, just looks unsightly to me.

PRO TIP: Spawn my main node, select an image, then click on Live JSON Preview to open it. Doing this will keep the node to it's minimal size and not require manual resizing time and again. If you resize my node before opening Live JSON Preview, opening it will expand the node further, and you'll keep resizing it back down. Just an annoying little display issue that doesn't really bother me 🤷‍♀️

Attribution

You are very welcome to fork ApoGalleria and augment my work to fit your own requirements if you feel the need to do so, but please have the kindness to credit & link me as the original creator, in accordance with the MIT license That would mean a lot to me, and is the decent thing to do 🤗

See NOTICE for the full attribution request.

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Changelog

v1.0.3 — 2026-09-17

• Corrected: Toml file repository URL corrected, ApoGalleria republished with correct URL for Comfy Manager install.

v1.0.2 — 2026-09-09

• Fixed: ApoGalleria-NL silently dropped any elements[].text field from the source Ideo4 JSON, so images with on-image text (signs, titles, labels) rendered without that text at all. Text is now correctly folded into the generated prose as the text "…" is visible [in the <position>].
  • Casing is preserved exactly as written in the source (never lowercased or otherwise altered) — rendered text needs its literal casing to produce the correct visual.
  • Placement is derived from the element's real bbox coordinates when present (translated into a coarse position like "upper-left" or "centered") and simply omitted — never guessed — when bbox is missing or malformed.
  • Applies to both ordering presets (subject-first and scene-first).

v1.0.1 — 2026-09-09

• Fixed: the logo header font (Bitcount Ink) failed to load on current ComfyUI frontend versions, silently falling back to a plain system font. Root cause: newer ComfyUI frontends enforce a strict default Content Security Policy that blocks any cross-origin font/stylesheet request, including the previous fonts.googleapis.com link. The font is now self-hosted and served same-origin via a dedicated backend route (/apogalleria/font/…), matching the same explicit-Content-Type pattern already used for serving the widget's JS.

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Made with love by ApoloniArt because I wanted inspiration on tap. With ApoGalleria and Visual Aesthetics Library, I never have to worry again. Neither will you 💜 Questions, feedback, or requests? Hit me up on Discord, I'm very friendly 😘