How can I modify only a specific clothing area on an uploaded photo (keep everything else unchanged) – best settings?

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Hi everyone, I'm working locally in Stable Diffusion (Automatic1111, RTX 3060 GPU) and I would like to modify only a selected clothing area on an uploaded image, while keeping: the face unchanged body proportions unchanged pose unchanged lighting unchanged background unchanged Basically I want high-quality localized editing, not regeneration of the whole image. My current idea is to use: img2img → Inpaint masked area only low denoise strength ControlNet (maybe depth / openpose / softedge?) But I'm not sure what the optimal workflow is for best realism.