Install OpenLayer
Download openlayer-v0.9.0-alpha.zip from the release and unzip it. In the UXP Developer Tool, click Add Plugin, select the unzipped manifest.json, then Load. The panel appears under Plugins > OpenLayer in Photoshop.
Alpha v0.9.0 · testers wanted
Five minutes to
your first AI layer.
OpenLayer is an alpha. It works on the author's machine, and that is exactly the problem — one machine, one GPU, one Photoshop install. What it needs now is the five minutes between downloading it and getting one generated layer into a document, and an honest report of where those five minutes went wrong.
- ~5 minutes
- No account needed beyond GitHub
- Nothing is uploaded from the plugin
- Failures are the useful reports
Before you start
What you need on the machine.
Photoshop 2024 or newer (the plugin manifest requires host version 25.0.0), a running ComfyUI with at least one SD 1.x or SDXL checkpoint installed, and the UXP Developer Tool to load the panel. If you do not have a checkpoint yet, the setup pack attached to the release lists every model OpenLayer's presets need, with download URLs and the exact folder each one belongs in.
The five-minute path
Install, connect, generate, import, report.
Connect ComfyUI
python main.py --listen 127.0.0.1 --port 8190In OpenLayer, open Settings and click Check ComfyUI. If the port is different, click Find ComfyUI Active Port instead. You should see your checkpoints appear.
Generate one image
Open a document in Photoshop. In OpenLayer go to Text to Image, pick a checkpoint, type any prompt, and click Generate. Leave every other setting alone.
Import one layer
When the result appears, click Import to Layers. A new layer should land in the document you started from. That single layer is the whole test.
Send the report
Open the tester report form and fill it in — whether you got the layer or not. In Settings, Copy Diagnostics fills in most of the technical fields for you.
Stop wherever it breaks and report from there. A report that says "step 2, Check ComfyUI never returned" is more useful than a completed run, because the failure is the thing that cannot be reproduced on the author's machine.
What to report
Specifics, not opinions.
"What do you think?" produces answers nobody can act on. The form asks for these instead, and every field exists because it has already explained a real bug — a model in the wrong folder, a port collision, a mask read from the wrong layer.
Your setup
- Operating system
- Photoshop version
- GPU and VRAM
- ComfyUI version
- OpenLayer version
- Workflow preset used
- Model / checkpoint
What happened
- Did installation succeed?
- Did generation succeed?
- Did the Photoshop import succeed?
- Which stage failed, if any: install, ComfyUI connection, generation, preview, or import
- How many minutes from opening these instructions to a layer in your document
What it felt like
- The first moment you were confused
- One feature you expected and could not find
- Would you use it again?
Privacy
The plugin sends nothing anywhere.
OpenLayer has no telemetry, no analytics, and no crash reporting. It talks to your ComfyUI server and to nothing else. Copy Diagnostics prepares a text report locally and puts it on your clipboard — you read it, you decide what to paste, and you can delete anything you would rather not share. Everything the project knows about how testing went is what testers choose to send.
Ready?
Download the build, spend five minutes, and tell us where it went wrong. If you would rather talk it through than file a report, the discussion board has a Setup Help category.