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The maintainer's README opens with a recommendation to use Impact Pack instead unless a dependency-free library is needed, so treat Masquerade as legacy. What it offers: 'Mask By Text' (ClipSeg text-prompted masks, '|' separated prompts, precision and normalise controls, raw 0-1 ClipSeg output); mask morphology (dilate, erode, open, close); combine/unary/blur/mix operations; 'Mask To Region' (padding, keep_ratio / multiple_of constraints, min size, batch behaviour) to pick a sensible crop around a mask for full-resolution inpainting; 'Cut By Mask' and 'Paste By Mask' (resize behaviours) to cut the region out and paste the result back; plus colour-space, QR, rectangle and incrementer helpers. For a maintained alternative that crops, resizes and stitches back, see Inpaint Crop and Stitch (C3-B579-08). Failure modes. Cut-and-paste of non-rectangular masks relies on alpha; with batches the README advises keep_ratio to avoid distortion; ClipSeg masks are text-prompt dependent and can be inconsistent (the README suggests turning normalise on only when the prompt is known to be present). Limitations. README and licence only; no code or weights read; ClipSeg model licence unchecked. Version and date. 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