Leo's Linux: Gimp Resynthesizer (Free Content Aware Fill)

[grzegorzwronkowski]

It's useless feature - better to use stamp

[daruu222222]

nice tutorial, how did you get your window menus (File, Edit, Select) to show up in your top panel?

[leodamascus]

@daruu222222

I use a program called gnome2-globalmenu. The easiest way to get it is to download Ubuntu Tweak from ubuntu-tweak(dot)com, open the source center inside Ubuntu Tweak, and check off GNOME Globalmenu PPA. Then if you press the refresh button you'll see in the bottom right corner, it'll give you a prompt about installing GNOME Globalmenu for you, and you can add it to your panel just like any other panel item.

[mollemannen]

i don't know if it's just the low resolution but i can clearly se a line were the selection was. but then again i'm pretty sure people are gonna be disappointed with content aware fill aswell.

[Hehosworld]

Just to say it: used the plugin for years... poor photoshop users they still have to wait a few days...

[MisterZizzy]

I installed GIMP and the plug in and didn't have good results. Top half of photo was sky, bottom half was trees and other stuff. I could remove some of the trees from the sky, but when I tried to remove objects in the lower half of the photo, I got big holes withe sky peeking through. A little searching revealed that there is a problem with the script and/or plug-in, but nothing I tried to seem to fix it.

[leodamascus]

@MisterZizzy

I don't know what to tell you. It works fine for me. Did you try using the Filters > Map > Resynthesize menu option? I discovered that option after I made this video, and it seems like it does the same thing using a different algorithm.

[madjunir]

thx for the demo

i like gimp a lot more every day

with the new 1 window option coming along people will have nothing to complain about

it;s about to explode with followers

btw nice desktop. what dock ?

[leodamascus]

@madjunir

That would be Cairo Dock. It's far and wide the most feature-rich dock I've seen on any operating system period.

[BlackHairedGoon]

@leodamascus

What version of Ubuntu are you using?

Also, what are your appearence preferences?

Thanks

[LeodimeII]

It's essentially the same thing as Photoshop CS5's filter but of course Photoshop does it much better. Hell, did you watch the demo? They removed an entire tree from the image and it was incredibly clean.

[leodamascus]

My demo isn't as dramatic as the Gimp Resynthesizer is capable of doing. After making this video, I also removed the the bone in that picture, and I went and removed myself from a picture standing on top of a mountain.

There's also a demo site where somebody created the same pictures as the photoshop demo using the Gimp resynthesizer. I'll put a link in the sidebar.

[ASCII808]

I completely agree, the photoshop filter was amazing, they made a whole mountain!

[deathsmileyinc]

@LeodimeII lol, that statement is based on nothing

[YourTaciturnFriend]

Thanks for a narrated video... everyone else's is creepy and silent. However:

I can't get this to work right. I've installed the plugin, and it seems to be there and working correctly. But it doesn't give good results. Instead of filling the selection with something well-matching, it fills the selection with random patterns taken from other parts of the picture. For example, removing a blob from grass, the selection is filled with bits of blue sky.

Why is this? How do I get it to work?

[leodamascus]

It kept getting the dog's foot for me when I did it using the default radius. Play with the radius thing until it captures the right area. If it's getting things too far away like you describe, try lowering the radius first. Also, try to keep your fill area as small as possible.

Also, don't be afraid if you have to do it more than once. Even the Adobe demo needed to repeat the content-aware fill when removing the tree. Try circling the patch of sky that it filled in and cutting again.

[88552]

Can you demonstrate on something a little more complicated than a patch of homogeneous fabric?

[leodamascus]

Unfortunately no. I've only been using this plugin for one day and am inexperienced with it (and photo editting at all for that matter), and don't have many photos I can use for illustration purposes (nor do I have the time and resources to get new photos).