Detailed inpainting technique

[johnbrownlow]

I'm really struggling with the inpainting. Can someone step-by-step me through how I can inpaint a small distorted face? I want to blow up a section of the picture, mask it off, inpaint it a a higher resolution, then zoom back out. However in the current interface I don't see how to achieve that. Also can someone be very explicit about how the white and black paints work exactly, and what the opacity does in a mask layer?

Also the fact that the default extra layer is a paint layer not a mask layer is extraordinarily confusing for new users, as is the fact that mask and paint layers look exactly the same.

[mcmonkey4eva]

The image editor is very much incomplete, sorry.

The easiest way to do that right now is skip the image editor and just generate with a prompt of <segment:face> a beautiful face yadda yadda, which will automatically detect the face and do all the other bits for you

Re how masking works: it's explained in the Mask parameter doc:

[johnbrownlow]

Thank you for for the reponse! It would not have occurred to me to try that!

[mcmonkey4eva]

Also, for when using regular masks / image editor masks, I added Mask Shrink Grow which performs the automatic crop-to-mask-and-then-grow-again-after behavior

(There's a long list of general improvements to the image editor interface still to come)

[arafatx]

I see the UI is getting better and better. When the inpainting feature is completed with 'masked only' inpainting (no comfy backend thing), it would be a great time to stay away from Automatic1111

[mcmonkey4eva]

What do you mean? Isn't "masked only" in auto the same as the "mask shrink-grow" described above?

[arafatx]

Okay, my bad. I think I might have skipped the answer earlier when you mentioned that the image editor is very much incomplete. I'll give that one a try. Thank you