Simple Image

The lean version of RiceRound's image input. Pick a file from ComfyUI's local input/ folder - same dropdown widget core LoadImage uses - and you get back one thing: an IMAGE. No mask, no second output socket to wire or ignore. If your workflow doesn't need an alpha channel, this is the node that gives you exactly what you're using and nothing you have to route around.

Where it fits

ComfyUI_RiceRound doesn't do any generation itself - it packages a workflow you've already built so riceround.online can turn it into a public page and a callable node, and RiceRound Publish figures out what belongs on that page by scanning your graph for RiceRound's own Input-category nodes. RiceRoundSimpleImageNode is one of those: whatever image you pick locally becomes the default, and (per the wider publish flow the README describes) the field an end user of your published page can supply their own image into.

The pack's other image node, RiceRoundImageNode ("Image & Mask"), does the same file-pick but also splits out the alpha channel as a separate MASK output. Use that one if you actually need the mask. Use this one if you don't - it's one less socket to think about.

The input and output that matter

• image (required) - a file-picker dropdown pulling from whatever's in ComfyUI's input/ directory, defaulting to a sample file like example.png. This is what you set while testing locally.
• Output: value (IMAGE) - wire it straight into whatever expects an image, the same way you'd use a core LoadImage node's image output.

Installing it

ComfyUI Manager: search "RiceRound," install, restart. By hand:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/RiceRound/ComfyUI_RiceRound

then restart ComfyUI. The README documents no Python dependencies or model downloads for this pack - it's a workflow-packaging layer, not a generation one, so there's nothing large sitting between you and using it.

Common issues & troubleshooting

The file picker is empty or doesn't list the image you want. Same behavior as core LoadImage: it only shows files already sitting in ComfyUI's input/ folder, so put the file there (or upload it through ComfyUI's own UI) before it'll appear in this dropdown.

You're not sure this is the right node and grabbed RiceRoundUploadImageNode instead. Worth double-checking the category before you build around either. Simple Image is Input-category and outputs an actual IMAGE, safe to leave in a workflow you publish. RiceRoundUploadImageNode looks similar - same file-picker widget - but it's filed under Output and returns a STRING, not an image; that one's a debugging aid for RiceRound's upload pipeline, not something you wire into your generation graph.

Your published page needs to let someone upload their own image and this static picker clearly can't do that live. That's expected - this node's file picker is for your local testing default, not the end-user upload mechanism itself. The README's screenshots suggest the generated page handles that through the wider publish flow rather than through this specific node's widget.