Preview Image Pixaroma

Preview Image Pixaroma is what you reach for when the stock PreviewImage is too dumb and a full SaveImage is too much. It shows your result right on the node - single images and whole batches - and then goes further than the native preview ever does: save buttons, a real save mode that replaces SaveImage, and a preview that survives you switching workflow tabs.

If you iterate on images all day, this is the one preview node you'd actually keep in your graph. It does the "look at what you made" job better than the built-in, and when you're happy it saves the file without you having to swap in a different node.

How it works

Wire any IMAGE source into the image input - a VAE decode, a Load Image, anything that produces an image - and every frame renders as a thumbnail strip in the node body, with an i / N counter. Click a thumbnail to open it large inline. Arrow keys flip through a batch, clicking the open image advances, Esc or the ✕ collapses. The node is a passthrough: its image output hands your image through unchanged, so you can drop it mid-wire to peek at the result without breaking the flow.

The parts that make it more than a preview:

• Save to Disk - pick any folder on your computer, with an auto-incrementing suggested filename.
• Save to Output - writes to ComfyUI's output/, and supports subfolder syntax like SDXL/portrait in the prefix.
• Copy - puts the currently selected frame on your OS clipboard as PNG, so you can paste it straight into a paint app or another message.
• Open - shows the selected frame full-size in a new browser tab.

Both save modes embed the full workflow into the PNG, which is ComfyUI culture at this point: drag the file back in later and the whole graph rebuilds.

The settings that matter

• save_mode - the toggle that decides whether this node writes files at all. preview (default) writes each frame to ComfyUI's temp/ folder, which auto-clears on restart - perfect for iterating without cluttering your output folder. save makes it a drop-in SaveImage replacement: every batch frame is automatically written to output/ on each run, with workflow metadata embedded.
• filename_prefix - the file stem, default img. Supports subfolder syntax, date tokens like %date:yyyy-MM-dd%/img (the Video Helper Suite style), native tokens like %year%, and node references such as %Seed Pixaroma.seed% that print another node's value into the name.

Install and gotchas

This pack installs with no required dependencies - ComfyUI Manager (search "Pixaroma") or:

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

Restart and you're set. No model files needed for anything in this pack's core.

One thing that trips people up: after you update the pack, a "broken" or blank node is almost always the browser serving a cached copy. Hard-refresh with Ctrl+Shift+R (Cmd+Shift+R on Mac) before you go digging. And if you leave the node in preview mode and wonder where your files went, remember the temp folder - that's by design, not a bug.