😺NKD Inpaint Crop

The best inpainting in ComfyUI doesn't render the whole image - it cuts out the part you care about, renders that at the resolution the model likes, and pastes it back. The mask-anywhere pattern (Inpaint Crop → model → Inpaint Stitch) became the community standard for a simple reason: the unmasked pixels never touch the VAE, so they stay bit-identical while a 64px eye gets a full 1024px of generation budget. 😺NKD Inpaint Crop is the first half of that pattern, and it's the friendliest version of it I've seen.

Crop takes your image and mask and hands back everything your sampling pipeline needs - prepared, resampled, and ready. What makes it more than a crop:

• Mask cleanup built in. Invert, fill holes, expand (default 20px), and soften (default 10px) all happen here instead of a chain of four nodes before it. The same softness is used when compositing back, so what you tune is what you get.
• resize_mode decides the working resolution. Automatic keeps the original resolution and only rescales when the crop falls outside the min/max limits; Megapixels gives a fixed budget (1.0 ≈ 1024×1024); Longest Side an exact size. min_resolution (768) and max_resolution (2048) are the fences for Automatic.
• Connect model and vae (both optional) and Crop hands back a prepared model and a ready-to-sample latent, so nothing sits between it and your sampler. The model output applies the soft-mask denoise schedule inline - the same behavior as core's DifferentialDiffusion - so the regenerated area follows the mask softness for a cleaner inpaint, with no extra nodes.
• separate_regions - detail several areas in one go. Each separate blob of the mask gets its own crop, the sampler runs once per area automatically, and 😺NKD Inpaint Stitch composites them all back in one pass. Filter by region_min_area, cap with max_regions, order with region_order.

Outputs

model, image, mask, and latent (all list-typed, one entry per region) - plus crop_data, which you feed to Inpaint Stitch so it knows where everything goes back. The node previews the mask and crop region on itself, and its play button runs just that branch, so you can frame the crop without running the whole graph.

Install and gotchas

Install via ComfyUI Manager (search ComfyUI-NKD-Basic-Tools) or:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/Nekodificador/ComfyUI-NKD-Basic-Tools

Restart after. Pack dependencies are onnxruntime and huggingface_hub; neither is needed here. The community's standing advice applies: detail at native resolution first, upscale after; lock your seed while tuning; and composite after every inpainting pass (this node pair makes that structural rather than a discipline). For a small fix, don't overdo padding - 32–64px of context is the classic range, and more just spreads the generation budget thinner.