Inpainting & masks
How the pipeline cleans artwork, and how to mask and preserve zones by hand.
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Inpainting removes the original text from the artwork so translated text sits on clean background. It runs as a pipeline stage after translation — and you control it manually from the editor’s Cleanup mode whenever the automatic result is not good enough.
The automatic pass
When dispatched, each page is masked from the OCR metadata — bubble shapes, text areas, background colors — and the inpainting model rebuilds the masked regions at full resolution, with soft-edged blending. Solid-color bubbles are flat-filled directly; artwork backgrounds go through the model.
Retrying inpaint on a page is free of surprises: only the masked regions are re-processed, the rest of the artwork is untouched.
Manual masks in Cleanup mode
In Cleanup mode (2 in the top bar), the Inpaint brush paints masks over any text the automatic pass missed — sound effects, signage, handwritten notes. Auto mode fires per stroke; Manual mode (shift+R) lets you paint the whole mask first and erase once.
- 1Open the page in the editor and switch to Cleanup mode
- 2Paint over the text you want removed with the Inpaint brush (I)
- 3Fire the inpaint (auto per stroke, or shift+R for the whole mask)
- 4Not happy? Adjust the mask and run it again
Preserve zones
Preserve zones (S in Cleanup mode) shield parts of the page from inpainting entirely — screentones, signatures, art you never want rebuilt. Anything inside a zone is excluded from automatic masks and manual runs alike, so two people cleaning the same page never fight over the same artwork.
Inpainting consumes 1 credit per page, including manual runs from the editor.