Tim: >> Are there Gimp add-ons specifically for making it easy to repair or >> modifiy photos? I've played around with manually airbrushing over some >> things in photographs (e.g. overhead powerlines ruining a scene), but >> not managed to do it invisibly, just make things look less worse. Anne Wilson: > The problem is that with photographic images you rarely have any significant > group of pixels of exactly the same colour. Depends on the circumstances. In the latest case, it was model shots against a miniature cyclorama, where I wanted to paint out power cords running to equipment being photographed. I did it manually, and it was a chore, nor too brilliantly done (I'm no painter), playing with the airbrush, and soft edged painting tool, picking nearby background colours and painting (rinse, lather, repeat). I have seen the technique I'd like to use, used on expensive film restoring systems, where you play with a virtual pantograph - as you brush over a section, it pulls in the imagery nearby, and feathers it in. Very quick to do things like I was trying, or painting out birds in the sky, grit and random sparkles on films, etc. Just wondering if someone's seen a plug-in for the Gimp that works in a similar way. > One of the good things about Gimp is the ability to undo any change Yes, been doing a lot of undoing... ;-) > Sometimes it helps to drastically zoom in - you can see even > individual pixel detail. Been doing that, too. I've spent ages painting out the backgrounds around objects, so I can fake a white-background studio shot of some object. Sometimes I've even done a half-decent job of it. -- (Currently testing FC5, but still running FC4, if that's important.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
