🪶 MagicQuill: An Intelligent Interactive Image Editing System

demo480p.mp4

There is an HD video on Youtube.

Zichen Liu^*,1,2, Yue Yu^*,1,2, Hao Ouyang², Qiuyu Wang², Ka Leong Cheng^1,2, Wen Wang^3,2, Zhiheng Liu⁴, Qifeng Chen^†,1, Yujun Shen^†,2
1HKUST ²Ant Group ³ZJU ⁴HKU ^*equal contribution ^†corresponding author

TLDR: MagicQuill is an intelligent and interactive system achieving precise image editing.

Key Features: 😎 User-friendly interface / 🤖 AI-powered suggestions / 🎨 Precise local editing

MagicQuill ComfyUI Custom Node

MagicQuill is now available in ComfyUI!!!

Hardware Requirements

• GPU is required to run MagicQuill. Through our testing, we have confirmed that the model can run on GPUs with 8GB VRAM (RTX4070 Laptop).

For users with limited GPU resources, please try our Huggingface Demo and Modelscope Demo. Also, consider disabling the DrawNGuess automatic prompt filling by clicking the wand icon above if it takes too long time on your machine.

Setup

Follow the following guide to install the custom node. Alternatively, you may install via ComfyUI manager. The MagicQuill workflow is available at MagicQuill.json.

1. clone the repo (comfyui branch) in the custom_nodes directory

   git clone https://github.com/magic-quill/ComfyUI_MagicQuill.git
   cd ComfyUI_MagicQuill
   

2. download and unzip checkpoints

   wget -O models.zip "https://hkustconnect-my.sharepoint.com/:u:/g/personal/zliucz_connect_ust_hk/EWlGF0WfawJIrJ1Hn85_-3gB0MtwImAnYeWXuleVQcukMg?e=Gcjugg&download=1"
   unzip models.zip
   

   If the .zip file is not accessible, download it via browser. All checkpoints are about 25 GB in total. It may take some time to download. Alternatively, check our checkpoints at huggingface. Please merge the models folder with the ComfyUI/models.

3. install the environment

   python install.py
   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

Tutorial

Please read before you try!

I. Three type of magic quills

Use the add brush to add details and elements guided by prompts - express your ideas with your own lively strokes!

"With just a few strokes, a vivid little deer comes to life"

"Adorn the beautiful lady with a necklace"

The subtract brush can remove excess details or redraw areas based on prompts. If there's anything you're not satisfied with, just subtract it away!

"A dolphin with two tail fins? Let's give it a quick 'treatment'!"

"Let's take off Mr. Skeleton's hat and help him cool down."

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Combine the add and subtract brushes to create amazing combo effects!

"Let's give Mona Lisa a pet cat~"

"Let's give this handsome fellow a new tie!"

The color brush can precisely color the image, matching the color of your brush~

"Precise color highlighting - paint exactly where you want to color"

"Don't you think the blue flowers look more dreamy than the pink ones?"

*Please note the color brush and add&subtract brush are mutually exclusive - you can only use one at a time!

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II. Draw and Guess

Our brush is super smart! Look at the examples above - as soon as you finish drawing, it quickly guesses what you want to create and fills in the prompts for you~ Sometimes it might guess wrong though, so feel free to tell it what you actually want to draw~

"Oops! I don't want to draw a vine, I want to create a path!"

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III. Super useful canvas tools!

Click this button to upload the photo you want to edit~

Made a mistake with the brush? Just erase it with the rubber tool!

Drag, rotate, and resize your strokes with the cursor - just like when you're working in PowerPoint!

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Left is ctrl+z, right is ctrl+y - you know what that means! 😊
And for Mac users, left is command+z, right is command+shift+z! 😝

Oops! That doesn't look right 😵 - click this trash bin to delete the stroke

The brush strokes are in my way, how can I see the image😡?! Try clicking this button to temporarily hide your strokes

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These two icons will appear after the image is generated...
I love this generated image 😍, I want to keep editing! ➡️ Click ✅ to continue editing
What is this thing 😡, I don't want to see it! ➡️ Click ❎ to discard the result

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IV. Notes

When you see the spinning icon in the bottom left corner, it means the magicquill is still charging up 💪 Wait for it to disappear before clicking the Run button!

When the magic wand is flashing, our brush is working hard to guess what you're trying to draw 🤔 Please be patient! 🙏

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V. Parameters

If you've made it here, you must really love our work! 😍
If you want to learn how to better control the generation results, don't miss this section! 😘
Next to the Run button, you can select parameters to modify advanced settings 🧐

• Base Model Name: Users can adjust this to select appropriate base models for different editing styles
  • SD1.5/realisticVisionV60B1_v51VAE.safetensors: This generates realistic style images! Use this most of the time.
  • SD1.5/DreamShaper.safetensors: This one is for generating fantasy style images
  • SD1.5/majicMIX_realistic: This one is good at generating portraits 👩
  • SD1.5/MeinaMix.safetensors: This one is good at generating anime images.
  • SD1.5/ghostmix_v20Bakedvae.safetensors: Another model for anime image generation.
  • If there are any models you'd like to add, contact us!
• Negative Prompt: Users can input content they want the model to avoid generating. Whatever you don't want to generate, put it here.
• Fine Edge: Users can enable this option to activate fine edge control.
• Grow Size: Adjust this parameter to set the pixel range affected around brush strokes when editing images, to expand/reduce the brush stroke influence area.
• Edge Strength: Parameter for adjusting the add/subtract brush control strength. Simply put, if you're confident in your drawing skills, you can increase strength. If you're a bad drawer like us 🤦, please keep the parameter as is, or reduce the strength a bit.
• Color Strength: Parameter for adjusting the color brush control strength, can adjust the image's coloring effects.
• The remaining parameters are just some common parameters for diffusion models! You basically don't need to manage these, but if you're in the industry/AI art expert, feel free to try adjusting them~

Citation

Don't forget to cite this source if it proves useful in your research!

@article{liu2024magicquill, 
	title={MagicQuill: An Intelligent Interactive Image Editing System}, 
	author={Zichen Liu and Yue Yu and Hao Ouyang and Qiuyu Wang and Ka Leong Cheng and Wen Wang and Zhiheng Liu and Qifeng Chen and Yujun Shen}, 
	year={2024}, 
	eprint={2411.09703}, 
	archivePrefix={arXiv}, 
	primaryClass={cs.CV}}

Acknowledgement

Our implementation is based on

• ComfyUI-BrushNet
• ComfyUI
• LLaVA
• comfyui_controlnet_aux
• ComfyUI_Custom_Nodes_AlekPet
• fabric.js

Thanks for their remarkable contribution and released code!

Note

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