Load Image Mini Pixaroma

Some nodes are workhorses and some are furniture. Load Image Mini Pixaroma is the furniture version of the full Load Image: same engine, same file handling, but the face is a compact toolbar, a file picker and a preview instead of a wall of resize controls. It exists for the exact reason the pack says it does - "for when you want a small, uncluttered node on the canvas." In a workflow with four images feeding different branches, four full loaders is a lot of visual noise; four Minis barely registers.

How it works

It's Load Image under the hood. Upload, drag-drop, Ctrl+V paste, the ◀ ▶ arrows and thumbnail file picker, full Open in Mask Editor and Copy/Paste (Clipspace) support - all the same. The difference is where the controls live: every resize option (max megapixels, longest side, scale by, fit inside, crop to fill, match aspect ratio) plus snap, resample and the upscaling guard tucks away behind the gear settings panel, so the node stays small until you actually need to configure something. You can even recolor the node's buttons per node if you want your loaders color-coded.

It outputs just two things:

• image - the loaded image, after any resize you set in the gear.
• image_info - a small bundle holding the mask, width, height and filename, in a custom PIX_IMAGE_INFO type.

The trade-off is real and the pack is upfront about it: that second output is a bundle, not four loose wires. To unpack it you add an Image Info Pixaroma node and wire image_info into it - that hands back IMAGE, MASK, WIDTH, HEIGHT, FILENAME, and shows the size and filename right on its own face. The design philosophy is that you only pay for the extras when you need them: most of the time a Mini + a preview is all a branch needs, and the loader itself stays small. If you always need the mask and dimensions loose, the full Load Image is the better pick and you shouldn't downgrade out of fashion.

Install

Part of the Pixaroma pack:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/pixaroma/ComfyUI-Pixaroma

or ComfyUI Manager → Pixaroma → install, restart. No dependencies; works in both the classic and the new node interface. The usual update rule applies - if a Mini looks broken after a pack update, hard-refresh the browser (Ctrl+Shift+R) before troubleshooting, since cached visuals are the pack's number one false alarm.