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The beta candidate. No new tools: features are frozen until the beta. This release fixes what broke when OpenLayer was checked against the newest ComfyUI (0.44) and a fresh install: Live Painting on a starter install, Workflow Health hiding working presets, Comfy Desktop's port, and machines without a graphics card. What the beta still needs is in the beta gate.

Testers wanted

Everything so far has been tested on one Windows 11 PC with Photoshop 2025. If you are on Photoshop 2024, on a Mac, or installing ComfyUI from scratch, ten minutes with this build helps the beta more than anything else: follow the five-minute test and send a tester report, whether it worked or not.

Install

  1. Start ComfyUI. The panel looks for it on 127.0.0.1:8188, and Settings › Find ComfyUI Active Port also finds Comfy Desktop on 8000.
  2. Double-click openlayer-v0.41.0-alpha.ccx. Creative Cloud installs it and Photoshop lists it under Plugins › OpenLayer.
  3. If double-clicking does nothing, unzip openlayer-v0.41.0-alpha.zip and load its manifest.json in UXP Developer Tool (Add Plugin › Load).
  4. New to ComfyUI models? Open Setup and press Download starter.

The Adobe Exchange listing can trail this release.

Tested versions
Manifest minimum Photoshop 25.0 (2024)
Verified Windows 11, Photoshop 2025, RTX 4070 Ti (12 GB), ComfyUI 0.44.0. Full UXP smoke checklist recorded on this code, plus a separate Live Painting check after its fix
Photoshop 2024 Not run for this release; reports welcome
macOS Untested

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What's new

The beta candidate. No new tools: features are frozen until the beta, and this release fixes what
broke when OpenLayer was checked against the newest ComfyUI and a fresh install. What a beta needs,
and where each item stands, is in the beta gate. The remaining items need
testers on Photoshop 2024, on macOS and on a clean install.

Fixed

  • Live Painting works on a starter install. Its live tier runs SD 1.5 with the LCM LoRA, but it
    borrowed the model selected on Text to Image, which is FLUX.2 Klein on every starter install since
    v0.39, so every live cycle failed. It now uses the Text to Image model only when that is an SD 1.5
    checkpoint, and otherwise picks epicRealism or the first SD 1.5 checkpoint ComfyUI has, saying
    which. With no SD 1.5 checkpoint at all, it says what to install instead of starting. Text to
    Image's own selection is not changed.
  • Workflow Health no longer hides working presets on current ComfyUI. Against ComfyUI 0.44 it
    marked 13 presets "Missing ComfyUI node", among them every crop-and-stitch Inpaint preset, both
    Remove object presets, Select by Text, the Klein and Qwen edit presets, Layer Maps, Camera Angle,
    Unflatten and Multi-Reference. Every input it named was there; ComfyUI lists it as optional, and
    Health only read required inputs. Generating was never affected.
  • A ComfyUI without a graphics card is no longer read as a high-end one. ComfyUI reports a CPU
    device's memory as the machine's system RAM, and OpenLayer read that as VRAM: a 32 GB machine
    with no graphics card was ranked as a workstation card, and VRAM limits were sized from it.

Added

  • Comfy Desktop's port, 8000, is part of the port scan, right after 8188. Find ComfyUI Active
    Port and the first-run check now find a Comfy Desktop install without typing a port.
  • A clear message when ComfyUI runs on the processor alone. Check ComfyUI says "ComfyUI is
    online, but on CPU only." with the reason underneath, and Detect Hardware reports No GPU.
    Checked against a real Comfy Desktop instance started with --cpu.
  • Every preset is checked against a recorded ComfyUI. npm run object-info records the parts
    of ComfyUI's /object_info that OpenLayer uses, and a test checks every node, input and fixed
    choice of all 39 presets against it, so a renamed node fails the build instead of an artist's
    run. Recorded from ComfyUI 0.44.0: everything matches. npm run object-info -- --check compares
    any running ComfyUI against it.

Changed

  • The tester report and setup-failure forms describe the .ccx install, and no longer name
    8190 as the port to check.
  • The beta gate defines what has to pass before the beta, and the full
    UXP smoke checklist has a recorded run on this code.

Known limitations

  • Tested on Windows 11 with Photoshop 2025, an RTX 4070 Ti (12 GB) and ComfyUI 0.44.0. Not run on
    Photoshop 2024 or macOS; that is what the beta tester call asks for.
  • Upscaling a captured layer imports a full-resolution smart object that Photoshop places at 25%,
    so the layer is not visibly larger.
  • Importing the first result into a new document removes its empty Layer 1.
  • A "Prompt required" message stays on Text to Image after a prompt is loaded from the Prompt
    Wallet, until the next action.
  • No tool has been timed on a CPU-only ComfyUI, so the CPU-only message names the cause and what to
    check rather than which tools stay usable.
  • The Adobe Exchange listing can trail this release.
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