🎨 ArtGallery_Zho

The whole ComfyUI-ArtGallery pitch is "see the style before you prompt it." ArtGallery_Zho is the exception that proves the rule: it's the text-only node for when you already know exactly what you want and don't need a preview to be convinced. Pick an artist, optionally a camera, and it hands you a ready-to-paste weighted token. It's the fastest way to use this pack once you've moved past browsing.

Why this node exists

The author, Zho, built the pack around one idea: when you're staring at thousands of unfamiliar style names, text is a terrible selection UI and images are a great one. That's the gallery nodes' job. But the reverse is also true - when you do know the name, scrolling through previews to find it is busywork. So ArtGallery_Zho is the short-circuit. The pack's own V1.0 workflow (for SD 1.5 or SDXL) uses this node as the workhorse; the preview nodes are the browsing layer, this is the "just give me the string" layer.

What's in the dropdowns

• artist - 5,116 choices, default -. This is the full list from Rikkar's SDXL 1.0 Artistic Studies, the empirically tested collection of thousands of art prompts. Note the contrast: the Artists gallery node offers a curated 280 with previews; this one has everything, no thumbnails.
• artist_weight - 0 to 1.75, step 0.05, default 1.5.
• camera - 48 camera/lens combos like "Canon EOS 5D Mark IV with Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II", default -.
• camera_weight - same range, default 1.5.

Both default to -, so you can use just the artist, just the camera, or both, and the node won't force anything on you.

Outputs and how it works

It's a lookup plus a formatter. You get three STRING outputs:

• prompt - the combined, weighted token(s), formatted like (Artist:1.5), (Camera:1.5), ready to splice into your positive prompt via a text-concat or straight into a CLIP Text Encode.
• artist and camera - the raw names, unweighted, in case you'd rather do your own formatting or put them in different parts of the prompt.

No image output here, and that's fine - this is the node for people who don't need to be shown.

Where people get burned

The 5,116-choice dropdown is genuinely unwieldy in the ComfyUI UI; on older frontends there's no search box, so you scroll. And watch the default weight. 1.5 is hot for an artist token. SDXL generally likes artist names around 1.2–1.5, and past ~1.6 the style starts crowding out composition - if output looks overcooked, pull it back to 1.2–1.3. The gallery nodes default lower (1.2) for a reason.

Install

ComfyUI Manager, search "ComfyUI-ArtGallery", or manually:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/ZHO-ZHO-ZHO/ComfyUI-ArtGallery.git

Then restart ComfyUI. No pip installs, no model downloads, no API keys - the whole pack is Python plus bundled preview images, so it's light and fully offline. If previews anywhere in the pack don't show after the first restart, restart again; that's the author's own noted fix.

Troubleshooting

• No previews after install → restart ComfyUI a second time.
• Old pack, old code → ArtGallery is from early 2024 (V1.0) with only test-image updates since. On a 2026 ComfyUI, if the UI misbehaves right after you install it, it's a reasonable first suspect - one r/comfyui user in early 2024 traced a broken "Load Image" node to this pack (plus other ZHO plugins) and fixed it with a clean reinstall. Not a confirmed general bug, just history worth knowing.
• Previews look wrong → remember every reference image was rendered with SDXL 1.0. On an SD 1.5 model the same token will land differently; on Flux it's a different game entirely.