Superside Skin Intensity Dial

Skin texture is the hair-shirt problem of portrait retouching. Too little, and the result looks like a mannequin; too much, and you've traded a smooth face for an over-detailed one that reads as fake in the other direction. The Superside Skin Intensity Dial exists to make that a one-control decision: pick a level, and it hands you the exact prompt fragment, LoRA scale, and inpaint strength the author settled on for that amount of skin detail.

How it works

Like its sibling the Scene Realism Dial, it's a curated lookup table - no model, no API call, no api_key, instant and free. Each of the five levels maps to a prompt fragment written specifically for skin-texture language. Level 1 is gentle - "subtle skin detail, soft natural texture" territory - while level 5 goes all-in on "extreme macro skin detail, heavily pronounced pores, deep skin texture, raw unretouched skin." Alongside the fragment you get a lora_scale and a strength that were tuned to go with that fragment, so the three values stay coherent as you move the dial instead of each drifting independently.

It targets the pack's re-skin pipeline specifically: the same base model family (Z-Image Turbo) and the same masked inpaint node, so the fragment's language and the strength number are guaranteed to play well together.

The inputs and outputs that matter

• level - five presets, default 3 - medium. The only input.

Outputs, and the intended wiring, straight from the node's description:

• prompt_fragment (STRING) - into Superside Combine Prompt's part2.
• lora_scale (FLOAT) - into Superside Z-Image Turbo Inpaint+LoRA's LoRA slot.
• strength (FLOAT) - into the same inpaint node's strength, which is the actual denoise amount applied to the masked skin area.

Installing it

It's part of the comfyui-superside-nodes pack:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/Superside/comfyui-superside-nodes.git
cd comfyui-superside-nodes
pip install -r requirements.txt

Restart ComfyUI and it's under the Superside category. Nothing to configure, nothing to download.

Where people get burned

Two common misreads. First, "extreme" is not a quality setting - it's a texture setting. If your goal is "professional retouched portrait," extreme will bury the result in pores and read as unflattering macro photography. The dial's own scale makes the intent clear ("very subtle" to "extreme"), so aim lower than you think, and use the medium default as your honest starting point. Second, people treat lora_scale as independent and crank it while leaving strength alone, then wonder why the skin looks "off" - the whole point of the dial is that these three numbers are a matched set; if you override one, expect to retune the other two.

It's a tiny node with a narrow job, and it does that job well: replacing three fumbling knobs with one setting you can flip between shots and batches. If you're already hand-tuning your re-skin pass and it feels like guesswork, this is the shortcut the author built for exactly that pain.