📂 IG Load Images

IG Load Images is the pack's batch loader: point it at a folder and it reads every supported image file in it, sorted, and hands you a single batched IMAGE tensor, a stacked MASK tensor, and a count. It's the standard ComfyUI "Load Images from folder" workflow, which is why this is one of the few IG nodes with any search impressions at all - people find it while looking for exactly that.

The useful twist is the extras. Three optional inputs control which images you get:

• image_load_cap - stop after N images (0 = no limit).
• skip_first_images - drop the first N from the sorted list.
• select_every_nth - keep every Nth image (1 = keep all). Combine this with the cap and you've got a quick frame-sampling tool for a video dump.

Sorting is lexical, so the usual advice applies: zero-pad your filenames (frame_001.png, not frame_1.png) or the order will surprise you. It honors EXIF orientation on load, and if a file has an alpha channel, that alpha becomes a proper mask - 1 - alpha, which is the ComfyUI mask convention where the mask marks what to inpaint or remove. Images without alpha get a dummy 64×64 zero mask so the batch shapes always match. Outputs are IMAGE, MASK, and an INT count of how many were loaded.

One gotcha to file away: the output is a single batched tensor, not a list of tensors. Several other nodes in this pack - the stitchers in particular - declare INPUT_IS_LIST and want a Python list of images. If you feed them a Load Images batch directly you'll get a type error, so plan to split the batch first. That mismatch has bitten more than one person, and the README being literally :) doesn't help.

It also does a couple of things under the hood that matter for re-runs: IS_CHANGED hashes every file in the folder, so ComfyUI re-executes the node when the folder's contents change, and it raises a clear FileNotFoundError if the folder doesn't exist or has no images - which is the failure mode to check first when nothing loads.

Install is the pack standard:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/IDGallagher/ComfyUI-IG-Nodes
cd ComfyUI-IG-Nodes && pip install -r requirements.txt

Or via ComfyUI Manager - search "IG Interpolation Nodes" and Install, then restart. No model downloads; this node is pure image I/O. It pairs naturally with IG Folder (to build the path) and IG Analyze SSIM (to chart the frames you just loaded).