Inpainting is a technique which fills a section of an image. This is useful for removal of unwanted objects such as wires, markers or blemishes. Integrated Roto tools create shapes and multiple algorithms are available to automatically fill-in the specified regions with information surrounding them. To create a seamless result, the detail (texture) from another part of the image or other image can optionally be composited over the inpainted area using the Detail controls.

Go to the Inpaint tutorials to see how it works.

Image.

The opacity of the inpainted area.

Sets the thickness of an open shape. When used on a closed shape, an outline is created.

Sets the end cap style for open shapes. You can choose from Flat or Round styles.

No inpaint algorithm is used. When None is selected, you can still use the Stretch controls.

Copies pixels from the area defined by the source shape (dashed outline) to the target shape (solid outline).

Smoothly propagates colors from the surrounding areas using lines drawn through areas of equal brightness.

Fills the region starting at the boundary and then moving inward.

Blurs the input prior to inpainting. This can reduce flicker in images with large contrast differences.

The smoothness of the inpainted area.

Softens the edge the inpainted area.

Stretches the edges in the direction set by the angle.

Sets where the stretch color sampling occurs. The higher the value, the farther inward the sampling occurs from the inpainted edge.

The angle of the stretching when Amount is set to a value larger than 0. Use Angle to align straight features in the inpainted area.

The smoothness of the stretched area.

The detail (texture) from another part of the image or other image can be composited over the inpainted area.

Detail is used from the main input.

Detail is used from the detail input.

The amount of detail.

Determines the detail frequency. 0 is coarse, .5 is medium and 1 is fine.

The Transform parameters set the offset for either Detail or Clone.

To set the Offset, Shift-click-drag starting from within the shape and then release on the desired location. Adjust the Offset by clicking and dragging the edge of the source shape (dashed outline).

The horizontal position of the offset.

The vertical position of the offset.

Rotates the detail. Positive values rotate clockwise and negative values rotate counter-clockwise.

The size of the detail. To set the Scale, Shift-click-drag the edge of the source shape (dashed outline).

Chooses the filtering method when transforming the clone source. Mitchell is the default.

The Point filter is not the highest quality, but fine for scaled images.

Quadratic is like Point, but more blur with fewer artifacts. It offers a good compromise between speed and quality.

Cubic is the default filter in Photoshop. It produces better results with continuous tone images, but is slower than Quadratic. If the image contains fine details, the result may be blurrier than desired.

This produces good results with continuous tone images which are scaled down, producing sharp results with fine detailed images.

Gaussian lacks in sharpness, but is good with ringing and aliasing.

A good balance between sharpness and ringing, Mitchell is a good choice when scaling up.

Keeps small details when scaling down with good aliasing.

Displays the transform overlay. When using multiple shapes, it can be useful to hide the Transform overlay so that it does not interfere with drawing new shapes.

The Grade controls are available when using the Clone algorithm.

The clone source is automatically graded to match the target.

Multiplies red values.

Multiplies green values.

Multiplies blue values.

Adjusts red gamma values.

Adjusts green gamma values.

Adjusts blue gamma values.

Adds red values.

Adds green values.

Adds blue values.

Adjusts hue.

Adjusts saturation.

Determines the output alpha.

Outputs the input alpha.

Outputs the combination of the input alpha with Inpaint’s shapes.

Outputs the alpha generated by Inpaint’s shapes.