How to use Heal Selection and heal transparency tools in Gimp (formerly Resynthesizer)

Before image: With heal selection, we can remove elements such as the tree branches.

After image: I used the heal selection tool to remove some elements of this photo. The heal transparency tool allowed me to elongate the image.

The heal transparency and heal selection tool allows you to easily remove elements from your image or fill in missing areas from your image. They are Gimp tool found in Filters>Enhance. These tools were formerly done using the plugin "Resynthesizer" (Resynthesizer now no longer works the way it should in some versions of Gimp).

These tools are similar to Photoshop's "Content aware."

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Draw a sunset with tree silhouette landscape scene using Inkscape and the Gimp

My very first tutorial on this website was drawing a tree in the sunset (similar to the image you see above). That tutorial shows signs of me not really being experienced in tutorial making... it is not very detailed. So I decided to redo the tutorial. This tutorial will be doing the same thing, but with much more detail and instruction. Ideally, someone with no prior Inkscape or Gimp experience (and a lot of patience) could complete this tutorial. (Note: This tutorial was done using Inkscape version .48)

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How to remove the background from an image using the Gimp

Perhaps the thing I most often use the Gimp for is to remove a background. It is quite simple and fast once you are familiar with how to do it. This tutorial will focus on just the basics. It will show how to remove a single color background (this is the easiest way to remove a background).

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Cheesy Valentines - The History

Another Valentines day (or "single awareness day" as many people like to call it. It is this time of year that I make cheesy Valentines and hand them out to whoever will accept them. Each year (I would like to think) I get better and better at making Valentines, so I thought I would like to document my progress and give a little history of my Valentine making.

If you would like to attempt to make your own Valentine similar to mine, I have created a tutorial. It is a bit outdated, but the concepts are still basically the same:

Making Valentines day by swapping your face on the face of a celebrity

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Use the Gimp to create color photos from black and white photos

The Migrant Mother photo colorized

Recently I have been seeing a bunch of black and white photos being colorized. I thought it looked pretty neat, so I set out to see how to do it using The Gimp. Below is the tutorial for how I did it.

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Old Photo Restoration using the Gimp (How to Remove a Moiré Pattern)

For this past Father's day, I worked with my brothers to create a slideshow of our awesome dad. My older brother scanned old photos from slides and photos, I did some of the photo restoration and my younger brother put the photos together and made a fun slideshow.

For this tutorial, I will show you how I did some of the restoration techniques; specifically, I will talk about how to remove Moiré other patterns on the photo. (A Moiré pattern is the dot pattern you see on many old photos. Click here to read the Wikipedia article on Moiré patterns)

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Best Collection of Gimp Brushes

This is ongoing collection I am creating to make it easier to download brushes for the Gimp. I have included the link to the source as well as the direct download. Please note that most of these brushes have different restrictions. Please visit the site link to know the proper usage.

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GIMPons - Gimp tutorial website

I just discovered a new Gimp tutorial website. The site is called GIMPons. The site is in French, but if you are using Google Chrome, you can easily translate the website. This page is full of many great Gimp tutorials, many of which I have never seen before. You should definitely give the site a look!

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Portrait Photography in Linux - An Extensive Guide

Right now Windows and Mac dominate the professional photography world. That does not mean though that Linux does not have the tools available for professional photography.

While most photography software is designed to run on Windows or Macs, there are a lot of great software that runs on Linux. The purpose of this guide is to show what tools are available to someone wanting to do photography using only Linux tools.

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Create a Celebrity Wallpaper using the Gimp - Jimmer Fredette

Jimmer Fredette has been a Utah celebrity for a while now, but has slowly worked his way into the national spotlight. I thought it would be fun to show everyone how to use the Gimp to do a Jimmer wallpaper. These concepts can be used for any celebrity wallpaper you may want to do.

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Fake Depth of Field in Gimp - DOF Explained

Before Fake DOF

After Fake DOF

This tutorial will be discussing depth of field and how to create this effect in the Gimp.

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How to do HDR photography with a single image

HDR photography is done using 3 or more bracketed images. There are some instances though where taking three bracketed photos is not possible; for instance, action shots. In this tutorial I will show you what you can do if you only have one photo to work with.

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Gimp Resynthesizer Explained - Texture Transfer and Input and Output

Note:
As was mentioned in a comment on this post, Resynthesizer no longer does what this blog suggests; if you want the functions shown in this blog, please use Filters > Enhance > Heal selection Click here for the tutorial.

In a previous post I talked a bit about the Gimp plugin Resynthesizer. Someone posted a comment asking for a bit more explanation; more specifically, what the elements of the plugin mean. This actually is not easy to find out. The Resynthesizer website shows what the program can do, but does not really say how. It took me a while to figure it out, but I finally did and will be showing all of the ins and outs of the Resynthesizer plugin.

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Create a grunge business card using the Gimp

A while back I did a tutorial for making a business card using Inkscape. This will be basically the same, but use the Gimp instead.

A business card is a great way to represent yourself and your talent level (especially if you are a designer and you designed your own card). Creating a business card in the Gimp is fairly fast and easy.

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How to create a winter landscape scene using the Gimp

This week I went skiing with my family and took a picture I thought would make a nice winter scene. I will show you how to do it in the Gimp.

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2010 Review - 11 Best tutorials for learning Gimp

This list is not necessarily the best Gimp tutorials per se, but this is a list that will help someone become an expert using the Gimp. If you are a beginner just starting to use the Gimp, completing these tutorials will help you understand a great variety of the tools that the Gimp has to offer.

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Enhancing the colors of your photos

There are many different ways to enhance the colors of your photos using the Gimp. In this tutorial, I will show you the basic process for color enhancement, then I will show you differences in each method so you can decide which way is best for you.

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How to remove elements from your photos without using the clone tool

NOTE: Resynthesizer no longer seems to work well in newer versions of Gimp. It has been replaced with the tools Heal Selection and Heal Transparency. I did a tutorial on those tools here. Frequently, you will have a need to take an element out of a photo. In the past, I have always used the clone tool, but recently, I discovered the Gimp plugin called Resynthesizer. When I first used it, my mind was totally blown! In this tutorial, I will show you how to use it, and why you want to.

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Edit Movie Poster Text Using Gimp - Chronicles of Narnia

Yesterday I had a friend ask me for help editing a movie poster for Chronicles of Narnia. This will be a long and in-depth tutorial that will focus a lot on replicating existing text.

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Taking advantage of Facebook's new layout to make a cool screenshot using the Gimp

Facebook's new layout has a bit more pictures on it, which makes it handy if you want to make a creative screenshot. This will be a quick and easy tutorial.


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