Comments on: Even Better ‘Healing’ Without the Magic Tool

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 09 May 2009 02:29:41 +0000

Holy cow, I can’t believe how that worked! I wish I knew what I was doing instead of just following directions but…

Thank you very much.

By: eva

eva — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:05:17 +0000

Try –
open Gimp
File – Area code – Management windows and rebuild location – then restart Gimp. Then you wil have a layers panel.
Sorry my english.
Ahoj

By: Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 30 May 2008 04:19:55 +0000

How do you even get layers in GIMP?
When I start it, all I get is a toolbar thing on the right with different types of brushes and stuff.
I’m so confused!! =(

By: brianbyproduct

brianbyproduct — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:41:03 +0000

Taunya – I’m not sure exactly what you have done. Do not use the selection tool for the despeckle; despeckle the whole layer. Once you have done the cloning make all the layers visible, you can merge the texture and shape layers if you like.

By: Taunya

Taunya — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:50:47 +0000

Ok, I did everything step by step, I remain with 3 layers and the layer that has the clone wk on it is so blurry. Am I suppossed to only select with the selection tool when we do the despeckle? And after you are done with the cloning, do you merge all the layers ? Im confussed. Help. Trying to get rid of wrinkles in a pic.

By: reinhard

reinhard — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:51:04 +0000

sorry, I found out what I did wrong. In step 3, I set the layer mode to grain extract instead of grain merge… thanks for your help

By: brianbyproduct

brianbyproduct — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:26:40 +0000

Apply the Despeckle to the top layer. That layer should become distorted and lose its fine detail. The image in step number 2 shows the result of the despeckle in the lower left side of the preview, the upper right shows the original.

When you set that layer to Grain Extract, you should see, only the fine detail (including the blemishes).

By: reinhard

reinhard — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:28:51 +0000

How are you applying Despeckle function ? Are you applying to the whole image or just to certain areas

When I applied these steps to the same image, I am able to get rid of the blemish, but the image is distorted

By: capnhud

capnhud — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:53:04 +0000

LOL:
Perhaps you are not using the clone tool properly, see
Gimp documentation
or
A cloning tutorial

It helps if you do not have your clone tool set to registered

By: brianbyproduct

brianbyproduct — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:55:16 +0000

Capnhud, You are cloning the texture layer. Perhaps you have the texture layer visible but it is not the active layer. You will need to make sure it is active by clicking on it in the layer window. Perhaps you are not using the clone tool properly, see Gimp documentation or A cloning tutorial Hope this helps.