Prompt Composer Effect (deprecated!)

The display name says it outright: "Prompt Composer Effect (deprecated!)". The pack's own README is just as blunt - Effect "is deprecated and will not receive future updates." It's still in the pack, still fully functional, and still sitting in the node menu under AI WizArt/Prompt Composer Tools/Deprecated rather than the main folder. It just isn't where the author is putting further work.

What it does: a single dropdown of 49 built-in photographic and artistic effect presets - ASCII Art, Black and White, Chinese Painting, Color Inversion, Color Splash, Comic Book, Cross Process, Day to Night, Double Exposure, Duotone, Edge Detection, and dozens more - plus a weight slider and the pack's usual active/chain-input pair.

How it works

Same mechanism as every other picker in this pack: choose an effect from the dropdown, and if effect_weight sits anywhere other than 1, the node wraps the chosen phrase in (effect:weight) before handing it out as text_out. Leave the dropdown at - and it contributes nothing.

The inputs and outputs that matter

• effect (enum, 49 choices, default -) - the preset to apply.
• effect_weight (0 to 1.95, step 0.1, default 1) - weight for the chosen effect.
• active (boolean) - bypass switch.
• text_in_opt (optional string) - chain input from upstream.
• text_out - the resulting string.

Should you actually use it?

If you're starting a fresh workflow, I'd reach for Custom Lists or the List Folders category nodes instead of Effect. My honest read on why it's frozen: those newer nodes pull their choices from external .txt files rather than a list baked directly into the node's code, which means the author (or you) can add or fix entries without touching the node itself - Effect's 49 options are fixed for good. If you've already got Effect wired into a working graph, there's no urgency to rip it out; deprecated here means frozen, not removed.

How to install it

ComfyUI Manager: search florestefano1975, install, restart. Manual:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/florestefano1975/comfyui-prompt-composer

restart ComfyUI. No models to fetch, nothing heavy - it comes along with the rest of the pack either way, deprecated or not.

Common issues & troubleshooting

Can't find it in the add-node menu. It's tucked under the Deprecated subfolder of AI WizArt/Prompt Composer Tools, not the main category - easy to miss if you're browsing rather than searching by name.

Weight slider does nothing. The (effect:weight) syntax it builds is CLIP-only. It's live on SD1.5, SDXL, Illustrious, NoobAI and similar checkpoints, and inert on LLM-encoded ones like Flux, Z-Image and Anima - the parentheses just become literal punctuation in your prompt there.

You want an effect that's not in the list. The 49 choices are fixed and can't be extended the way Custom Lists' file-driven categories can. Either type the effect you want directly into a Single Text node and chain it in, or add it to a Custom Lists .txt file instead.