1. A method comprising: (a) establishing a graphic edit process to be applied to a digital image; (b) establishing in dependence upon at least the graphic edit process a uniformity criterion; (c) defining a tool impression in the digital image, the tool impression including a first region encompassing a set of pixels; (d) sampling pixels in the first region to determine a first distribution of a pixel property of the pixels in the first region with a computer system; (e) determining whether the pixel property of the pixels in the first region satisfy a uniformity criterion with the computer system; (f) applying with the computer system the graphic edit process to the pixels within the first region upon determining that the uniformity criterion has been satisfied; and (g) executing with the computer system a graphic process region upon determining that the uniformity criterion has not been satisfied.