How do you use this?

[freshlesh3]

I installed with comfyui manager and can't find openpose editor. Also can you explain how to use the patch.

[Duemellon]

Yes. Some details would be helpful please.

[andreszs]

Here's a guide on how to use Controlnet + Openpose in ComfyUI:
ComfyUI workflow sample with MultiAreaConditioning, Loras, Openpose and ControlNet

Replace the Load Image node with the OpenPose Editor node (right click workflow > Add Node > image > OpenPose Editor) and connect it to your ApplyControlNet image endpoint.

In this workflow openpose is applied twice as a fix for the MultiAreaConditioning plugin. Without this node you must apply it once for the entire image, simply connect the Apply ControlNet CONDITIONING to your KSampler positive directly, and forget about the MultiAreaConditioning node.

[shawn-j]

is there any way to start with a reference image, load that into the openpose editor to tweak the result? that's how it works in A1111. it looks like with this one, you have to manually drag every point for every pose? seems like a bad way to do it?

[andreszs]

The OpenPose editor plugin is limited to manually dragging the points for every pose, just like you said.

Surely there are extensions to extract pose from existing images, however they may or may not work accurately or be compatible with Comfy. You could instead try using pose packs from civitai, or the predefined poses from posemy.art exported as skeleton PNG.

[shawn-j]

That'a how openpose works in auto1111, you have the main openpose model which guesses the pose, then if it gets something wrong you can edit that in the editor.. so not sure what the point is of an addon where you drag every point manually, including fingers & faces?. Is ther a plan to update this one?. There could possibly be a way to save the image from openpose, then load that into the openpose editor?. Roundabout way but it might do it.

[andreszs]

For anyone still landing on this issue: I rebuilt the old extension from scratch as a newer replacement here:

ComfyUI OpenPose Studio

It replaces the old editor and keeps compatibility with the old node’s JSON, so it is a much better starting point now than trying to figure out the obsolete patch-based workflow from this repo.

There is also a demo workflow post showing how it is used in practice:
Building a multi-character ComfyUI workflow with area conditioning, OpenPose control, and style layering