diff --git a/frontend/src/features/options/AdvancedOptions/Inpainting/BoundingBoxSettings.tsx b/frontend/src/features/options/AdvancedOptions/Inpainting/BoundingBoxSettings.tsx
index 40360275eb..0af706896c 100644
--- a/frontend/src/features/options/AdvancedOptions/Inpainting/BoundingBoxSettings.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/features/options/AdvancedOptions/Inpainting/BoundingBoxSettings.tsx
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { Flex } from '@chakra-ui/react';
 import { createSelector } from '@reduxjs/toolkit';
 import _ from 'lodash';
 import { ChangeEvent } from 'react';
@@ -18,6 +19,7 @@ import { roundDownToMultiple } from '../../../../common/util/roundDownToMultiple
 import {
   InpaintingState,
   setBoundingBoxDimensions,
+  setShouldLockBoundingBox,
   setShouldShowBoundingBox,
   setShouldShowBoundingBoxFill,
 } from '../../../tabs/Inpainting/inpaintingSlice';
@@ -32,6 +34,7 @@ const boundingBoxDimensionsSelector = createSelector(
       shouldShowBoundingBoxFill,
       pastLines,
       futureLines,
+      shouldLockBoundingBox,
     } = inpainting;
     return {
       canvasDimensions,
@@ -40,6 +43,7 @@ const boundingBoxDimensionsSelector = createSelector(
       shouldShowBoundingBoxFill,
       pastLines,
       futureLines,
+      shouldLockBoundingBox,
     };
   },
   {
@@ -56,6 +60,7 @@ const BoundingBoxSettings = () => {
     boundingBoxDimensions,
     shouldShowBoundingBox,
     shouldShowBoundingBoxFill,
+    shouldLockBoundingBox,
   } = useAppSelector(boundingBoxDimensionsSelector);
 
   const handleChangeBoundingBoxWidth = (v: number) => {
@@ -73,6 +78,10 @@ const BoundingBoxSettings = () => {
     dispatch(setShouldShowBoundingBoxFill(!shouldShowBoundingBoxFill));
   };
 
+  const handleChangeShouldLockBoundingBox = () => {
+    dispatch(setShouldLockBoundingBox(!shouldLockBoundingBox));
+  };
+
   const handleResetWidth = () => {
     dispatch(
       setBoundingBoxDimensions({
@@ -169,13 +178,22 @@ const BoundingBoxSettings = () => {
             }
           />
         </div>
-        <IAICheckbox
-          label="Darken Outside Box"
-          isChecked={shouldShowBoundingBoxFill}
-          onChange={handleChangeShouldShowBoundingBoxFill}
-          styleClass="inpainting-bounding-box-darken"
-          isDisabled={!shouldShowBoundingBox}
-        />
+        <Flex alignItems={'center'} justifyContent={'space-between'}>
+          <IAICheckbox
+            label="Darken Outside Box"
+            isChecked={shouldShowBoundingBoxFill}
+            onChange={handleChangeShouldShowBoundingBoxFill}
+            styleClass="inpainting-bounding-box-darken"
+            isDisabled={!shouldShowBoundingBox}
+          />
+          <IAICheckbox
+            label="Lock Bounding Box"
+            isChecked={shouldLockBoundingBox}
+            onChange={handleChangeShouldLockBoundingBox}
+            styleClass="inpainting-bounding-box-darken"
+            isDisabled={!shouldShowBoundingBox}
+          />
+        </Flex>
       </div>
     </div>
   );
diff --git a/frontend/src/features/tabs/Inpainting/InpaintingCanvas.tsx b/frontend/src/features/tabs/Inpainting/InpaintingCanvas.tsx
index ff60baa216..14624ae9bb 100644
--- a/frontend/src/features/tabs/Inpainting/InpaintingCanvas.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/features/tabs/Inpainting/InpaintingCanvas.tsx
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ const InpaintingCanvas = () => {
     stageScale,
     shouldShowBoundingBoxFill,
     isDrawing,
-    isBoundingBoxTransforming,
+    isTransformingBoundingBox,
     shouldShowBoundingBox,
   } = useAppSelector(inpaintingCanvasSelector);
 
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ const InpaintingCanvas = () => {
           !scaledCursorPosition ||
           !maskLayerRef.current ||
           isMovingBoundingBox ||
-          isBoundingBoxTransforming
+          isTransformingBoundingBox
         )
           return;
 
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ const InpaintingCanvas = () => {
         );
       }
     },
-    [dispatch, brushSize, tool, isMovingBoundingBox, isBoundingBoxTransforming]
+    [dispatch, brushSize, tool, isMovingBoundingBox, isTransformingBoundingBox]
   );
 
   return (
diff --git a/frontend/src/features/tabs/Inpainting/components/Cacher.tsx b/frontend/src/features/tabs/Inpainting/components/Cacher.tsx
index 086f197623..30ad59b9fe 100644
--- a/frontend/src/features/tabs/Inpainting/components/Cacher.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/features/tabs/Inpainting/components/Cacher.tsx
@@ -27,6 +27,12 @@ const Cacher = () => {
     imageToInpaint,
     shouldShowBrush,
     shouldShowBoundingBoxFill,
+    shouldLockBoundingBox,
+    stageScale,
+    pastLines,
+    futureLines,
+    needsRepaint,
+    isDrawing,
   } = useAppSelector((state: RootState) => state.inpainting);
 
   useLayoutEffect(() => {
@@ -52,6 +58,12 @@ const Cacher = () => {
     imageToInpaint,
     shouldShowBrush,
     shouldShowBoundingBoxFill,
+    shouldLockBoundingBox,
+    stageScale,
+    pastLines,
+    futureLines,
+    needsRepaint,
+    isDrawing,
   ]);
 
   return null;
diff --git a/frontend/src/features/tabs/Inpainting/components/InpaintingBoundingBoxPreview.tsx b/frontend/src/features/tabs/Inpainting/components/InpaintingBoundingBoxPreview.tsx
index 5b81e73bf7..ebba337065 100644
--- a/frontend/src/features/tabs/Inpainting/components/InpaintingBoundingBoxPreview.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/features/tabs/Inpainting/components/InpaintingBoundingBoxPreview.tsx
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import Konva from 'konva';
 import { KonvaEventObject } from 'konva/lib/Node';
 import { Vector2d } from 'konva/lib/types';
 import _ from 'lodash';
-import { useEffect, useRef } from 'react';
+import { useEffect, useLayoutEffect, useRef } from 'react';
 import { Group, Rect, Transformer } from 'react-konva';
 import {
   RootState,
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ import {
   InpaintingState,
   setBoundingBoxCoordinate,
   setBoundingBoxDimensions,
-  setIsBoundingBoxTransforming,
+  setIsTransformingBoundingBox,
   setIsDrawing,
   setShouldShowBrush,
 } from '../inpaintingSlice';
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ const boundingBoxPreviewSelector = createSelector(
       stageScale,
       imageToInpaint,
       isMovingBoundingBox,
+      shouldLockBoundingBox,
     } = inpainting;
     return {
       boundingBoxCoordinate,
@@ -47,6 +48,7 @@ const boundingBoxPreviewSelector = createSelector(
       dash: DASH_WIDTH / stageScale, // scale dash lengths
       strokeWidth: 1 / stageScale, // scale stroke thickness
       isMovingBoundingBox,
+      shouldLockBoundingBox,
     };
   },
   {
@@ -157,6 +159,7 @@ const InpaintingBoundingBoxPreview = () => {
     strokeWidth,
     stageScale,
     imageToInpaint,
+    shouldLockBoundingBox,
   } = useAppSelector(boundingBoxPreviewSelector);
 
   const transformerRef = useRef<Konva.Transformer>(null);
@@ -166,10 +169,12 @@ const InpaintingBoundingBoxPreview = () => {
     if (!transformerRef.current || !shapeRef.current) return;
     transformerRef.current.nodes([shapeRef.current]);
     transformerRef.current.getLayer()?.batchDraw();
-  }, []);
+  }, [shouldLockBoundingBox]);
 
   const scaledStep = 64 * stageScale;
 
+  console.log(shouldLockBoundingBox);
+
   return (
     <>
       <Rect
@@ -184,11 +189,11 @@ const InpaintingBoundingBoxPreview = () => {
         onTransformStart={() => {
           dispatch(setIsDrawing(false));
           dispatch(setShouldShowBrush(false));
-          dispatch(setIsBoundingBoxTransforming(true));
+          dispatch(setIsTransformingBoundingBox(true));
         }}
         onTransformEnd={() => {
           dispatch(setShouldShowBrush(true));
-          dispatch(setIsBoundingBoxTransforming(false));
+          dispatch(setIsTransformingBoundingBox(false));
         }}
         onTransform={() => {
           /**
@@ -230,6 +235,7 @@ const InpaintingBoundingBoxPreview = () => {
         }}
       />
       <Transformer
+        enabledAnchors={shouldLockBoundingBox ? [] : undefined}
         ref={transformerRef}
         rotateEnabled={false}
         anchorSize={15}
@@ -245,6 +251,9 @@ const InpaintingBoundingBoxPreview = () => {
         onMouseDown={(e: KonvaEventObject<MouseEvent>) => {
           e.cancelBubble = true;
         }}
+        onMouseOver={(e: KonvaEventObject<MouseEvent>) => {
+          e.cancelBubble = true;
+        }}
         anchorDragBoundFunc={(
           oldPos: Vector2d, // old absolute position of anchor point
           newPos: Vector2d, // new absolute position (potentially) of anchor point
diff --git a/frontend/src/features/tabs/Inpainting/components/KeyboardEventManager.tsx b/frontend/src/features/tabs/Inpainting/components/KeyboardEventManager.tsx
index bf26065837..c087cb08e7 100644
--- a/frontend/src/features/tabs/Inpainting/components/KeyboardEventManager.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/features/tabs/Inpainting/components/KeyboardEventManager.tsx
@@ -11,19 +11,24 @@ import { tabMap } from '../../InvokeTabs';
 import {
   InpaintingState,
   setIsMovingBoundingBox,
-  toggleIsMovingBoundingBox,
   toggleTool,
 } from '../inpaintingSlice';
 
 const keyboardEventManagerSelector = createSelector(
   [(state: RootState) => state.options, (state: RootState) => state.inpainting],
   (options: OptionsState, inpainting: InpaintingState) => {
-    const { shouldShowMask, cursorPosition, isMovingBoundingBox } = inpainting;
+    const {
+      shouldShowMask,
+      cursorPosition,
+      isMovingBoundingBox,
+      shouldLockBoundingBox,
+    } = inpainting;
     return {
       activeTabName: tabMap[options.activeTab],
       shouldShowMask,
       isCursorOnCanvas: Boolean(cursorPosition),
       isMovingBoundingBox,
+      shouldLockBoundingBox,
     };
   },
   {
@@ -40,9 +45,9 @@ const KeyboardEventManager = () => {
     activeTabName,
     isCursorOnCanvas,
     isMovingBoundingBox,
+    shouldLockBoundingBox,
   } = useAppSelector(keyboardEventManagerSelector);
 
-  const isFirstEvent = useRef<boolean>(true);
   const wasLastEventOverCanvas = useRef<boolean>(false);
   const lastEvent = useRef<KeyboardEvent | null>(null);
 
@@ -52,7 +57,8 @@ const KeyboardEventManager = () => {
         !['Alt', ' '].includes(e.key) ||
         activeTabName !== 'inpainting' ||
         !shouldShowMask ||
-        e.repeat
+        e.repeat ||
+        shouldLockBoundingBox
       ) {
         return;
       }
diff --git a/frontend/src/features/tabs/Inpainting/inpaintingSlice.ts b/frontend/src/features/tabs/Inpainting/inpaintingSlice.ts
index 2417ce808f..94d2c5ce25 100644
--- a/frontend/src/features/tabs/Inpainting/inpaintingSlice.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/features/tabs/Inpainting/inpaintingSlice.ts
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ export interface InpaintingState {
   boundingBoxPreviewFill: RgbaColor;
   shouldShowBoundingBox: boolean;
   shouldShowBoundingBoxFill: boolean;
-  isBoundingBoxTransforming: boolean;
+  isTransformingBoundingBox: boolean;
   lines: MaskLine[];
   pastLines: MaskLine[][];
   futureLines: MaskLine[][];
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ export interface InpaintingState {
   isDrawing: boolean;
   shouldUseInpaintReplace: boolean;
   inpaintReplace: number;
+  shouldLockBoundingBox: boolean;
 }
 
 const initialInpaintingState: InpaintingState = {
@@ -67,7 +68,7 @@ const initialInpaintingState: InpaintingState = {
   boundingBoxPreviewFill: { r: 0, g: 0, b: 0, a: 0.7 },
   shouldShowBoundingBox: false,
   shouldShowBoundingBoxFill: false,
-  isBoundingBoxTransforming: false,
+  isTransformingBoundingBox: false,
   cursorPosition: null,
   lines: [],
   pastLines: [],
@@ -83,6 +84,7 @@ const initialInpaintingState: InpaintingState = {
   stageScale: 1,
   shouldUseInpaintReplace: false,
   inpaintReplace: 1,
+  shouldLockBoundingBox: true,
 };
 
 const initialState: InpaintingState = initialInpaintingState;
@@ -310,8 +312,8 @@ export const inpaintingSlice = createSlice({
     setShouldShowBoundingBoxFill: (state, action: PayloadAction<boolean>) => {
       state.shouldShowBoundingBoxFill = action.payload;
     },
-    setIsBoundingBoxTransforming: (state, action: PayloadAction<boolean>) => {
-      state.isBoundingBoxTransforming = action.payload;
+    setIsTransformingBoundingBox: (state, action: PayloadAction<boolean>) => {
+      state.isTransformingBoundingBox = action.payload;
     },
     setIsDrawing: (state, action: PayloadAction<boolean>) => {
       state.isDrawing = action.payload;
@@ -329,6 +331,9 @@ export const inpaintingSlice = createSlice({
     setInpaintReplace: (state, action: PayloadAction<number>) => {
       state.inpaintReplace = action.payload;
     },
+    setShouldLockBoundingBox: (state, action: PayloadAction<boolean>) => {
+      state.shouldLockBoundingBox = action.payload;
+    },
   },
 });
 
@@ -357,13 +362,14 @@ export const {
   toggleTool,
   toggleIsMovingBoundingBox,
   setShouldShowBoundingBoxFill,
-  setIsBoundingBoxTransforming,
+  setIsTransformingBoundingBox,
   setIsDrawing,
   setShouldShowBrush,
   setShouldShowBoundingBox,
   setClearBrushHistory,
   setShouldUseInpaintReplace,
   setInpaintReplace,
+  setShouldLockBoundingBox,
 } = inpaintingSlice.actions;
 
 export default inpaintingSlice.reducer;
diff --git a/frontend/src/features/tabs/Inpainting/inpaintingSliceSelectors.ts b/frontend/src/features/tabs/Inpainting/inpaintingSliceSelectors.ts
index 65dcd29311..634bb4077d 100644
--- a/frontend/src/features/tabs/Inpainting/inpaintingSliceSelectors.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/features/tabs/Inpainting/inpaintingSliceSelectors.ts
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ export const inpaintingCanvasSelector = createSelector(
       stageScale,
       shouldShowBoundingBoxFill,
       isDrawing,
-      isBoundingBoxTransforming,
+      isTransformingBoundingBox,
       shouldShowBoundingBox,
     } = inpainting;
     return {
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ export const inpaintingCanvasSelector = createSelector(
       stageScale,
       shouldShowBoundingBoxFill,
       isDrawing,
-      isBoundingBoxTransforming,
+      isTransformingBoundingBox,
       shouldShowBoundingBox,
     };
   },