You absolutely do not need to encode and decode the whole image, even in ComfyUI. All you need to do is composite the changed areas back in the original photo.

You absolutely do not need to encode and decode the whole image, even in ComfyUI. All you need to do is composite the changed areas back in the original photo. There are nodes for that and I’m sure that’s what Adobe does as well, if they even encode in the first place. These tools don’t really work quite like inpainting. There’s no denoise value - it’s all or nothing. I’ve used Photoshop’s generative fill many times on singular images and there’s no loss on the ungenerated parts.