Ino Load Image

ComfyUI's built-in Load Image is fine until you need to load a file programmatically - because another node just saved it, because the filename is dynamic, because you're building an automated pipeline. That's exactly what Ino Load Image is for. Instead of picking from a dropdown, you give it a folder and a filename as strings, and it loads the image into an IMAGE tensor (plus an alpha MASK), with a clean success/failure signal you can route on.

It's part of ComfyUI Ino Nodes (nobandegani/ComfyUI-InoNodes), the 125+-node V3-schema pack. It belongs to the file-family pattern the pack's README is proud of: every file-related node uses the same parent_folder / folder / filename inputs and the same success / message / rel_path / abs_path outputs, so this node's interface carries over to the pack's save, remove, and copy nodes unchanged.

How it works

Three inputs:

• parent_folder - a dropdown with input, output, or temp. This scopes the path to ComfyUI's standard directories, so you never type an absolute path.
• folder - the subfolder inside that parent, e.g. jobs/run_01.
• filename - the file, with or without extension.

The mechanism has two friendly touches. First, if you give a filename without an extension, it probes .jpg then .png and uses whichever exists - handy when a filename is being passed around without a suffix. Second, the README notes image loading handles EXIF rotation to match native ComfyUI behavior, so phone photos and camera exports don't come in sideways.

Six outputs: the standard success, message, rel_path, abs_path quartet, then the goods - image (IMAGE) and mask (MASK). The mask comes from the image's alpha channel; a JPEG with no alpha gives you an empty mask, which is normal.

Common issues

• File not found returns a blank image, not an error. If the path is wrong you get success: False, a message like "File not found", and an empty 512×512 placeholder image. That's deliberate: it keeps the workflow running so you can debug, but it means you must check success if the downstream result matters.
• filename is required. Empty filename → success: False immediately.
• Paths are relative to the parent folder. Don't type /home/user/...; use the dropdown plus subfolder. The abs_path output shows you the absolute path if you need to verify.

Installing it

ComfyUI Ino Nodes installs like any custom node pack:

• ComfyUI Manager (easiest): search for "ComfyUI Ino Nodes", install, restart.
• Manual:

  cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
  git clone https://github.com/nobandegani/ComfyUI-InoNodes.git
  cd ComfyUI-InoNodes
  pip install -r requirements.txt

  Then restart ComfyUI.

Requires inopyutils and a current ComfyUI (V3 schema). It's a niche pack with little community chatter, but when the filename isn't a constant - when it's coming from a node or a loop - this is the loader you want.