diff --git a/nodes/image_nodes.py b/nodes/image_nodes.py
index 0caf324..937ffce 100644
--- a/nodes/image_nodes.py
+++ b/nodes/image_nodes.py
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ try:
     from server import PromptServer
 except:
     PromptServer = None
+from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
 
 script_directory = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
 
@@ -72,6 +73,7 @@ class ColorMatch:
             },
             "optional": {
                 "strength": ("FLOAT", {"default": 1.0, "min": 0.0, "max": 10.0, "step": 0.01}),
+                "multithread": ("BOOLEAN", {"default": True}),
             }
         }
     
@@ -93,37 +95,41 @@ https://github.com/hahnec/color-matcher/
 
 """
     
-    def colormatch(self, image_ref, image_target, method, strength=1.0):
+    def colormatch(self, image_ref, image_target, method, strength=1.0, multithread=True):
         try:
             from color_matcher import ColorMatcher
         except:
             raise Exception("Can't import color-matcher, did you install requirements.txt? Manual install: pip install color-matcher")
-        cm = ColorMatcher()
+        
         image_ref = image_ref.cpu()
         image_target = image_target.cpu()
         batch_size = image_target.size(0)
-        out = []
+        
         images_target = image_target.squeeze()
         images_ref = image_ref.squeeze()
 
         image_ref_np = images_ref.numpy()
         images_target_np = images_target.numpy()
 
-        if image_ref.size(0) > 1 and image_ref.size(0) != batch_size:
-            raise ValueError("ColorMatch: Use either single reference image or a matching batch of reference images.")
-
-        for i in range(batch_size):
-            image_target_np = images_target_np if batch_size == 1 else images_target[i].numpy()
+        def process(i):
+            cm = ColorMatcher()
+            image_target_np_i = images_target_np if batch_size == 1 else images_target[i].numpy()
             image_ref_np_i = image_ref_np if image_ref.size(0) == 1 else images_ref[i].numpy()
             try:
-                image_result = cm.transfer(src=image_target_np, ref=image_ref_np_i, method=method)
-            except BaseException as e:
-                print(f"Error occurred during transfer: {e}")
-                break
-            # Apply the strength multiplier
-            image_result = image_target_np + strength * (image_result - image_target_np)
-            out.append(torch.from_numpy(image_result))
-            
+                image_result = cm.transfer(src=image_target_np_i, ref=image_ref_np_i, method=method)
+                image_result = image_target_np_i + strength * (image_result - image_target_np_i)
+                return torch.from_numpy(image_result)
+            except Exception as e:
+                print(f"Thread {i} error: {e}")
+                return torch.from_numpy(image_target_np_i)  # fallback
+
+        if multithread and batch_size > 1:
+            max_threads = min(os.cpu_count() or 1, batch_size)
+            with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=max_threads) as executor:
+                out = list(executor.map(process, range(batch_size)))
+        else:
+            out = [process(i) for i in range(batch_size)]
+
         out = torch.stack(out, dim=0).to(torch.float32)
         out.clamp_(0, 1)
         return (out,)