Picture Editing

[Bruce Marshall]

On Wednesday 11 August 2004 08:44 pm, Alan Jackson wrote:
> For a one-off it would be worthwhile to spend some time and do a lot by
> hand.
>
> Zoom in real close and use combinations of the paintbrush, copy&paste
> (as you suggest), airbrush, and smudge. Another trick is to select a
> region by color, maybe adjust it a little by growing and shrinking the
> selection, and then airbrush or smudge inside the selection. Keeps
> things under control.
>
> I have some old photos (like 100 years old) that are in rather poor shape,
> and I have spent hours meticulously airbrushing and cleaning them up
> in gimp.
>
> You can always use the eye dropper to grab a color. For very careful work
> use the airbrush with a small brush size and a lot of transparency so that
> it fills in slowly. And always work in a layer so if you mess up too badly,
> you can just delete the layer and start over. I often have 5 or 10 layers
> open, each with one component I'm working on.
>
> Recommended : Grokking the Gimp - available online or from Amazon
> (or your favorite bookseller)

Doesn't gimp have something akin to a 'clone' brush?   I think that would be 
what he wants..    It can copy nearby pixels over the date and in most cases 
does a good job of it.

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+ Bruce S. Marshall  bmarsh at bmarsh.com  Bellaire, MI         08/12/04 08:47  +
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