Reference-image strength and prompt phrase weighting for Qwen Image 2.1 in ComfyUI.

Adjust the influence of individual reference images and emphasize selected parts of a prompt. The two nodes can be used independently or together.

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/capitan01R/ComfyUI-qwen_img_2_1_enhancer.git

Restart ComfyUI after installing or updating.

Requires ComfyUI with native Qwen Image 2.1 support and a working model, text encoder, and VAE setup. No additional Python packages or ComfyUI core-file edits are required.

Place Qwen Image 2.1 Reference Strength after your model and LoRA loaders, then connect its MODEL output to the sampler.

Load Diffusion Model -> LoRA loaders (optional) -> Reference Strength -> sampler

Connect your reference images and VAE to Text Encode Qwen Image 2.1 or the included Phrase Weights encoder.

Reference selection follows the encoder's connected-image order; empty inputs are skipped. The adjustment applies to the whole reference image.

Chain nodes to adjust multiple references. Repeating an index replaces its earlier strength. Setting that index's strength to 1.0 removes its adjustment.

Use Qwen Image 2.1 Edit — Phrase Weights in place of the native Text Encode Qwen Image 2.1 node.

Connect your Qwen Image 2.1 CLIP, reference images, and VAE. Send the positive, negative, and latent outputs to the sampler. The model follows its normal path to the sampler; this encoder does not require a MODEL connection.

Wrap a word or phrase in parentheses followed by a colon and a nonnegative weight:

Add (warm lighting:1.3) and (soft shadows:1.1).

Positive and negative prompts have independent weights. Only the marked occurrence of a phrase receives the adjustment. Use complete words or phrases in separate, non-nested sections.

Connect Reference Strength to the sampler's MODEL input and Phrase Weights to its conditioning and latent inputs:

MODEL -> Reference Strength -------------------------> sampler MODEL

CLIP + VAE + images -> Phrase Weights
                           |------------------------> sampler positive
                           |------------------------> sampler negative
                           `------------------------> sampler latent_image

Adjust one control at a time while keeping other settings fixed to compare its effect.

Both nodes adjust attention scores inside the native Qwen Image 2.1 transformer. For a positive weight w, the selected scores receive log(w) before softmax, changing their relative attention priority while retaining normalization.

Reference Strength selects reference-image keys. Phrase Weights selects the text keys belonging to marked phrases and carries their weights with the conditioning. Text embeddings and reference pixels are not rescaled or composited into the output. Native prefix caching is preserved.

Weights control attention priority, so a value of 2.0 does not imply twice the visible effect. Large values can dominate other instructions or references and reduce editing flexibility.

• Requires the native Qwen Image 2.1 implementation.
• Attention backends must support additive masks.
• Phrase mapping requires whole tokenizer pieces and does not support textual-inversion embeddings.
• Changes to conditioning token rows after phrase encoding can invalidate the mapping.

MIT.