On 20.09.12 at 9:51 pm David Holland wrote:

I tried to remove a dust spot using resynthesize but I can still see where it was, although it looks a lot better. I was using this tutorial.

http://dodonov.net/blog/2009/12/29/cleaning-dust-on-photos-or-in-gimp-we-trust/ Any ideas?

Hi David,

this is easy:
1. Create a new transparent layer above the image layer and activate it. 2. Use the Clone tool, enable 'Sample merged' and use a soft brush for cloning.
3. Select the source region. It should have the same or a very similar color and structure as the destination region. 4. Clone the dust spot away. Use the Healing tool and layer opacity to refine your work.
5. To make the outline softer, you can blur it with the Gaussian blur filter. To undo some cloned parts and uncover the original image use the Eraser tool on the upper layer.

This is based upon a tutorial in Michael Fryes book 'Digital landscape photography'.

Kind regards,

Sven

David Holland wrote

Hi All,

I tried to remove a dust spot using resynthesize but I can still see where it was, although it looks a lot better.I was using this tutorial. http://dodonov.net/blog/2009/12/29/cleaning-dust-on-photos-or-in-gimp-we-trust/ Any ideas?Here is the original
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14586608@N08/8007061865/in/photostreamthe modifiedhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/14586608@N08/8007047321/in/photostream

Thanks a lot in advance

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Hi, David.

Assuming you have Resynthesizer + Heal Selection plugin installed (if not, find it in Plugin Registry),
use the latter (Filters>Enhance>Heal Selection). You can see the difference here
http://i1249.photobucket.com/albums/hh513/nikomul1/testingHealSelection_zps3b856d5f.jpg

Heal Selection beats Resynthesize, Clone Tool and Healing Tool at removing even much
bigger than dust particles objects (for demonstration purposes I removed two birds (pelicans?) as well ^)
;)

Cheers,

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Hi David,

All this is too complicated. Just use the Healing Tool.

Elmer

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 10:47 PM, scl wrote:

On 20.09.12 at 9:51 pm David Holland wrote:

I tried to remove a dust spot using resynthesize but I can still see where it was, although it looks a lot better. I was using this tutorial.

http://dodonov.net/blog/2009/12/29/cleaning-dust-on-photos-or-in-gimp-we-trust/ Any ideas?

Hi David,

this is easy:
1. Create a new transparent layer above the image layer and activate it. 2. Use the Clone tool, enable 'Sample merged' and use a soft brush for cloning.
3. Select the source region. It should have the same or a very similar color and structure as the destination region. 4. Clone the dust spot away. Use the Healing tool and layer opacity to refine your work.
5. To make the outline softer, you can blur it with the Gaussian blur filter. To undo some cloned parts and uncover the original image use the Eraser tool on the upper layer.

This is based upon a tutorial in Michael Fryes book 'Digital landscape photography'.

Kind regards,

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On 21.09.12 at 07:17 am elmer 44m wrote:

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 10:47 PM, scl wrote:

this is easy:
1. Create a new transparent layer above the image layer and activate it.
2. Use the Clone tool, enable 'Sample merged' and use a soft brush for cloning.
3. Select the source region. It should have the same or a very similar color and structure as the destination region. 4. Clone the dust spot away. Use the Healing tool and layer opacity to refine your work.
5. To make the outline softer, you can blur it with the Gaussian blur filter. To undo some cloned parts and uncover the original image use the Eraser tool on the upper layer.

All this is too complicated. Just use the Healing Tool.

Hi Elmer,

your right in the point that the Healing tool has just one step while the other way as five. It's a very easy and smart way, but doesn't offer a possibility to edit or revert the changes later at any arbitrary time. Many roads lead to Rome and I described the nondestructive one. It has the benefit of being able to edit or revert the work later (see steps 4 and 5), even after having gone a few steps further in the meantime. As you stated correctly, it has more steps and thus looks more complicated. So, David now knows three methods (the Healing tool, the nondestructive way and content-aware fill) and it's up to him to prefer one or to decide for each scenario.
Hopefully GIMP will combine the power of nondestructive editing with the ease of using just a single tool one day. With respect to the roadmap it's yet a future milestone, but the first steps are currently being gone with the GEGL port.

Kind regards,

Sven