<p>Image generation for blog post headers and other visual content.
Both local (ComfyUI) and cloud-based (DALL-E, Flux) pipelines.</p>
<h2 id="comfyui-local">ComfyUI (Local)</h2>
<p>ComfyUI runs on macOS with MPS acceleration. Key workflow: IP-Adapter
for character consistency across images. Exposes an API for programmatic
generation.</p>
<ul>
<li>Platform: macOS M2</li>
<li>Backend: PyTorch with MPS</li>
<li>Key plugin: IP-Adapter for reference image conditioning</li>
<li>API mode for automated batch generation</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="cloud-services">Cloud Services</h2>
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Service</th>
<th>Strengths</th>
<th>Used For</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>GPT Image 1.5</td>
<td>Text rendering, instruction following</td>
<td>Blog headers with text</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Flux 2 Max</td>
<td>Photorealistic, fast</td>
<td>General illustrations</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>DALL-E 3</td>
<td>Good prompt adherence</td>
<td>Automated blog images</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h2 id="blog-image-pipeline">Blog Image Pipeline</h2>
<p>The blog build script (<code>scripts/generate-images.mjs</code>) checks for posts
with <code>imgprompt</code> frontmatter but no existing image file. It generates
images via API and saves them to <code>public/images/</code>.</p>
<h2 id="related-blog-posts">Related Blog Posts</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="/ai-image-gen-bakeoff.html">AI Image Generator Bakeoff</a>: cloud service
comparison</li>
<li><a href="/oss-img-gen.html">ComfyUI on M2</a>: local setup with IP-Adapter</li>
<li><a href="/ai-generate-blog-images.html">Automating Blog Images</a>: build pipeline</li>
</ul>


Image generation tools: ComfyUI for local generation with character consistency, and cloud services (DALL-E, Flux, GPT Image) for blog images.

Kyle Pericak

"It works in my environment"

AI Image Generation

ComfyUI (Local)

Cloud Services

Blog Image Pipeline

Service	Strengths	Used For
GPT Image 1.5	Text rendering, instruction following	Blog headers with text
Flux 2 Max	Photorealistic, fast	General illustrations
DALL-E 3	Good prompt adherence	Automated blog images