Filter Styler (Advanced)

Same 11-entry color-grade menu as the plain FilterStyler - Black and White, Sepia, Vintage, Monochrome, HDR, Vignette, Saturated, Warm, Cool, Contrast - in the "Advanced" node that exposes SDXL's two text encoders. For an 11-item filter menu the Advanced wiring is pretty overkill, but if you're already building an SDXL graph around the dual-encoder split, this slots in cleanly.

What "Advanced" means

SDXL runs two text encoders together - the big OpenCLIP-G and the smaller CLIP-L. This node splits your positive prompt into text_positive_g and text_positive_l, one per encoder, plus negative_prompt_to (Both / G only / L only) for the negative. A filter is a whole-image tone, so there's basically no reason to give G and L different text here - feed both the same subject. The split is SDXL-only anyway: SD 1.5 has one encoder, and the 2026 LLM-encoded models (Flux 2, Z-Image, Qwen) don't have this CLIP-G/CLIP-L architecture.

How it works

It's a fork of SDXL Prompt Styler. Each filter is a JSON template with a {prompt} slot; your subject drops in, the filter phrase gets wrapped at a strong weight (~2.0), and rewritten prompt strings come out. Text only - and it asks the model to generate the graded look, it doesn't post-process the output.

Inputs and outputs that matter

• filter - the 11-entry dropdown. No option = off.
• text_positive_g / text_positive_l - your subject, once per SDXL encoder.
• negative_prompt_to - Both (default), G only, or L only.

log_prompt prints the built prompt. The node returns six strings - text_positive_g, text_positive_l, combined text_positive, and the three negatives. Route _g/_l into an SDXL dual CLIP Text Encode, or use the combined text_positive / text_negative.

Installing it

ComfyUI Manager: search ComfyUI_MileHighStyler, install, restart. Or:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes && git clone https://github.com/TripleHeadedMonkey/ComfyUI_MileHighStyler

No models, no dependencies. Nodes appear under ali1234/stylers.

Where people get burned

• Expecting an actual grade. Neither Filter node applies a LUT; both bake a "sepia"-ish suggestion into the prompt that varies per seed. For an exact, repeatable color grade, filter the output image after generation.
• Splitting G/L on a whole-image tone. Pointless. Same text both sides.
• Stacking opposite filters. "Warm" plus "Cool" cancel; a strong "Black and White" overrides any color elsewhere. Pick one.
• Off SDXL the split does nothing. Use the plain node, or just type "vintage, warm tones."
• Reaching for a filter when you want a film stock. For real color control on the SDXL family, naming a specific film stock (Kodak Portra 400 for warm skin, Ilford HP5 for grainy black-and-white) steers the grade far more precisely than a generic "vintage." That's not in this 11-item menu, so type it by hand into the positive alongside the filter.