| Remove | Owned or synthetic scene with a named obstruction | Object silhouette plus the pixels it occludes | Other subjects, perspective, crop, signs, surfaces, and color grade | Continue the existing light direction, texture, and shadow logic | Reconstruct believable background detail through the former boundary | Clean full-resolution scene at the original aspect ratio | Ghost edges, repeated texture, shifted people, or global redesign |
| Replace | Owned or synthetic portrait, product, or room | Named background, garment, object, or surface | Subject identity, pose, scale, camera, silhouette, and protected copy | Match direction, color temperature, reflections, and contact shadows | Respect hair, glass, fabric, and occlusion boundaries | Production-ready edited image with source-equivalent resolution | Identity substitution, haloing, inconsistent depth, or changed protected regions |
| Retouch | Consented synthetic portrait or owned object photograph | Named glare, blemish, reflection, stain, or skin distraction | Natural texture, anatomy, expression, material, labels, and scene | Preserve highlight roll-off, skin tone, material response, and shadow density | Blend at local texture scale instead of smoothing the whole frame | Natural correction suitable for close inspection | Plastic skin, lost pores, erased structure, fabricated restoration, or broad blur |
| Outpaint | Synthetic image placed within a larger fixed canvas | The padded canvas outside the source-image boundary | Central image pixels, horizon, perspective, subject identity, and color grade | Extend weather, light direction, atmosphere, and shadow continuity outward | Continue lines and textures seamlessly across every source boundary | Filled landscape canvas with the central source preserved | Stretching, mirrored seams, duplicated subjects, horizon breaks, or center regeneration |