Photometric error distributions for CR affected stars (top) and galaxies (bottom) from full frames. The left column displays scatter plots of magnitude difference (measured—true magnitude) vs. true magnitude for CR-contaminated sources processed with inpainting techniques. Points are color-mapped by local density (blue: sparse, red: dense) with overlaid binned statistics (5th/50th/95th percentiles) shown as gold error bars. The right column compares percentile trends across four CR handling methods: traditional photometry without correction (blue), masked photometry (pink), inpainted photometry (orange), and CR-free reference data (black). Shaded bands represent 5th–95th percentile ranges and lines indicate medians.