SDXL Inpainting

SDXL inpainting is best suited for replacing specific objects, swapping clothing and wardrobe pieces, changing background scenery, and fixing visual flaws within native 1024x1024 images. Because it leverages the high-resolution SDXL architecture, it preserves the lighting direction, photographic grain, and color palette of surrounding unmasked pixels to ensure natural blending.

Use a high-contrast binary mask where white defines the region to regenerate and black preserves existing pixels, with slightly feathered edges along the boundary. Inpainting an area slightly larger than the target object allows the model to properly blend contact shadows and ambient light reflections into the surrounding image.

The model struggles with rendering crisp, high-resolution text, preserving minute micro-textures at very low strength settings, and executing detailed edits on tiny regions under 512 pixels without prior upscaling. For best results, use clean high-resolution inputs and focus on photographic or illustrative subjects.

The image strength parameter controls how much of the original image data is modified, where higher values replace the masked pixels entirely based on the prompt while lower values retain more underlying structural information. Guidance scale dictates how strictly the model adheres to your text prompt, with a default setting of 7.5 providing a balanced alignment.