Using gimp for digital photo scratch repair

[Vaughn Treude]

On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 22:27, Hap Hap wrote:
> After you open your image click the zoom tool(looks like a magnifing
> glass)  to zoom in on a section of your wire-like object. Then hit c
> to select the clone stamp tool. Choose a fuzzy circle brush in the
> clone stamp options....play with more settings in that pallet.....like
> reduce opacity 5%  and fadeout 5 pixels. Then move the clone tool
> close to an area you think will make a good paste over the wire. Hold
> ctrl and click to pick up that area. Let go of the ctrl key and click
> the area over the wire. This works easy and it's a lot easier to do it
> than to tell you how. When the surounding area changes you'll need to
> redo the ctrl click to match to new area. Scroll over to finish the
> job and reselect the zoom tool. Now just ctrl click to zoom back to
> normal size and inspect your handy work. If it looks semi okay zoomed
> in, it should look great zoomed out. Keep up the good work and soon
> you'll be putting horns and a tail on your least favorite politician.
> This group is good for photoshop/gimp
> http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/forum.asp?forum=1006
>                               hap
> 

Hap,

Thank you very much for the detailed instructions.  I've become
super-busy for the next couple of days, but when I get a chance to get
back to it I'll let you know how it works out.

Vaughn

> On 11/1/05, Vaughn Treude <vltreude at deru.com> wrote:
> > The title pretty much says it.  Can anybody point me to a good how-to
> > guide for this purpose?  I've found references that say the Gimp can do
> > this but no good explanations yet.  (In my particular case the problem
> > is actually not a scratch but a wire-like object across the field of
> > view.  It's a bit wider than a scratch would be but I'm hoping there's
> > some way I can trace the "scratch" and have the program merge in the
> > surrounding colors.)
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Vaughn
> >
> >
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