Krea 2 RedNode Settings (Advanced)

The advanced control surface for Krea2RedNode. One node, no image inputs, no conditioning - it just emits a KREA2_SETTINGS object that you plug into the RedNode's settings input, and the moment you connect it, the preset is replaced entirely. Every dial on Krea2RedNodeSettings wins.

What makes it worth a page of its own is that it names the fiddly technical parameters in plain language. The underlying nodes call things extract, indirect, budget_px, grounding_px, ref_boost. This one calls them transfer, hide_style_refs, style_detail_px, likeness_vs_obedience, reference_fidelity - and the tooltips tell you both the plain meaning and the technical parameter behind it.

The dials

• transfer - what the style references contribute: style (palette/lighting/texture/mood) or subject (composition/content, with your prompt controlling the look). This is the extract mode.
• reference_processing - full image, quadrant crops (2x2), or fine tiles (4x4). Crops and tiles scramble composition so only style survives from the references.
• style_directive - adds the "style from the refs, subjects from the text" sentence next to the references.
• hide_style_refs - ON by default, and this is the one worth understanding. Style references are deleted after encoding, so the image model never actually sees them; style transfers through prompt re-contextualization, and poses or people in the refs structurally cannot leak. That's the indirect mode from the moodboard nodes. Leave it on unless you specifically want the refs' content to transfer.
• style_detail_px - resolution budget per style reference fed to the vision encoder (budget_px). 384 default; lower keeps token count down with lots of refs.
• likeness_vs_obedience - the face-vs-instruction tradeoff (grounding_px). Lower = follows the instruction more; higher = preserves likeness more. 768 is balanced, 1024+ when the subject is a face.
• reference_fidelity - pull toward the identity reference's appearance (ref_boost on the subject ref). 1.0 = off; 2–6 recommended with the v1.2 edit LoRA. The default here is 2.5, which tells you the author's opinion on how much boost the face usually wants.
• scene_fidelity - the same dial for the scene reference in two-source setups (ref_boost_a). 1.0 = off.
• fit_mode - fit is the v1.2 pixel-space geometry (blur-proof, any aspect ratio); crop (legacy) is the v1/v1.1 behavior for older LoRA weights.

How to use it

The workflow is: build your Krea2RedNode as normal, then add this node and connect its settings output to the RedNode's settings input. Everything you set here overrides the preset. Pair it with the RedNode's output_latent connected to your empty sampling latent so the fit geometry actually engages, and you've got the full manual identity-edit experience without touching the legacy building blocks.

It's also a genuinely good teaching tool: because each dial names its technical counterpart in the tooltip, you can use this node to learn what ref_boost or grounding_px actually do, then go back to the raw nodes with a clue.

Installing

Same pack, same one-line install - no third-party deps, GPL-3.0:

git clone https://github.com/RedNodeAI/ComfyUI-Krea2Moodboard ComfyUI/custom_nodes/ComfyUI-Krea2Moodboard

or via ComfyUI Manager ("Krea2Moodboard") and a restart. It needs the standard Krea 2 stack (ComfyUI 0.25.0+, qwen3vl_4b via CLIPLoader type krea2, qwen_image_vae) and a krea2_edit LoRA at 1.0 for anything identity-related. If the presets on the RedNode are 90% of what you want but one thing bugs you, this node is the smallest possible way to fix just that thing.