Image Widget Cannot be Used as Input

[bit-9]

After selecting "Convert image widget to input" in the right-click-menu:

The provided node cannot be used:

I anticipate this feature could be useful for more robust workflows.

[coreyryanhanson]

I dug a little into the code earlier. It doesn't actually read images as starting points for the pose manipulations. It has a set of preset coordinates to use as a starting point and it creates an image from them. The image box refers to the intermediate image that is generated directly into the "inputs" folder.

Basically the reason why is that it's much easier to create an image from points than to create points from an image.

In the short term, if you want to modify an existing OpenPose output from ComfyUI, I posted a temporary workaround modified from instructions from the creators of the comfyui_controlnet_aux repo in a related issue here:
#5

[andreszs]

This compatibility issue is already solved in the new replacement:

ComfyUI OpenPose Studio

https://github.com/andreszs/ComfyUI-OpenPose-Studio

I rebuilt it from scratch and made it use proper, standard OpenPose JSON. The only added field is canvas_size, which is editor metadata so the pose can be reopened with the correct working area. The actual pose structure remains valid OpenPose JSON rather than a weird custom format.

That makes it much easier to reuse, inspect, export, and keep compatible with OpenPose-based workflows.

It is still new and not in ComfyUI Manager yet, so stars are very appreciated:
https://github.com/andreszs/ComfyUI-OpenPose-Studio

Workflow article:
https://www.andreszsogon.com/building-a-multi-character-comfyui-workflow-with-area-conditioning-openpose-control-and-style-layering/