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This beginner tutorial covers face restoration in ComfyUI with CodeFormer and the facerestore_cf custom node by mav-rik. The speaker installs the node through ComfyUI Manager, restarts ComfyUI, refreshes the browser, then explains model installation through the model manager; CodeFormer is already installed in his demonstration.
The workflow uses four nodes: Face Restore Model Loader, Face Restore CF with Model, Load Image, and Preview Image. The image and model outputs feed the restoration node, whose output connects to the preview. The speaker warns that the loader's model name must be set to CodeFormer or the workflow will fail, and says this custom node supports only CodeFormer.
The fidelity setting lets viewers adjust the result. Restoration applies to the face rather than the whole picture, so a blurry source can still have a blurry body and background after processing. Examples cover pixelated faces in older footage, face damage after upscaling, and cleanup within a Stable Diffusion generation workflow. The speaker describes improved clarity in the examples; these demonstrations do not establish that every image will produce the same result.
For viewers exploring local AI image repair, the tutorial provides a small workflow and practical placement advice. The speaker reports running it on an RTX 4060 Ti 16GB, which is the demonstrated hardware rather than a stated minimum requirement.
