Preset Collection

Preset Collection is Batch Variation Generator with the thinking already done for you. Instead of choosing category and IDs, you pick from five curated lighting sets - key_moments, commercial, artistic, full_day_cycle, wet_night - and the node hands back eight prompt variations tuned for a purpose. It's the pack's "stop fiddling, just render" button, and for product shots especially it's genuinely well-picked.

The presets are hardcoded in the pack's batch processor, and they're worth knowing because they tell you what the author actually considered good:

• full_day_cycle - all DRY lighting modifiers: the complete clear-day progression from sunrise to night.
• wet_night - all WET modifiers: low-light, wet-road, reflective drama.
• key_moments - IDs 1, 7, 8, 10, 18, 20: sunrise, golden hour, sunset, blue hours, and wet night. The "portfolio reel" set.
• commercial - IDs 3, 4, 7, 11: late-morning hard light, midday crisp, golden hour, clean night highlights. Built for product photography.
• artistic - golden-hour family (7–10) plus style transforms for impressionist, minimalist, and art-deco. The only preset that mixes modifiers with styles.

Pick a preset, wire your base prompt in, and var_1 through var_8 come out as STRING lists, ready to fan into eight parallel branches. Same padding caveat as the batch node: presets yield between 4 and 8 real variations, and anything beyond that count is filled with the original prompt, so don't render unused outputs blindly.

Mechanically it's the same orchestration as everything else in the pack - a lookup table feeding the orchestrator, pure string appends, zero dependencies, zero models. Install is identical: ComfyUI Manager → search "Variationator" → install → restart, or cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes && git clone https://github.com/MushroomFleet/ComfyUI-Variationator.git. (The repo's install-portable.bat references a requirements.txt that doesn't exist - you don't need it.) Everything lands under Prompt Orchestration.

My take: commercial and key_moments are the two presets actually worth building a workflow around - they're coherent, they cover the shots that sell, and they're exactly the kind of thing you'd otherwise hand-tune for twenty minutes. artistic is the adventurous one and the most likely to surprise you, because it changes what the subject is drawn as, not just the light. Just don't treat the presets as sacred - once you see which IDs land with your checkpoint, you can reproduce the set manually in Batch Variation Generator and swap in your own. And as with all of Variationator, the outputs are plain text: if your checkpoint doesn't respond to lighting vocabulary well, the presets will all look similar, and that's a model-side problem, not a reason to keep changing presets.