GIMP plugin "Resynthesizer" and "Single Window" mode

[sploshuaproductions]

does anybody know if this will work with gimpthemes?

[FlossBandit]

fuck your linux

[thundercrackergirl]

I have a problem. I downloaded Resynthesizer/smart remove(heal selection) on my gimp which is 2.6.11

When I go to use heal selection I get this, error: eval: unbound variable: plug-in-resynthesizer

What does that mean? Besides, I can't even find resynthesizer on my gimp.

[FalconFetus8]

They used this SAME picture to demonstrate Adobe Photoshop's "context aware filter". Why this picture in particular?

[hheintze1]

Will this be included by default in 2.8?

[PantryExpert]

there's a simple windows installer of this called "Magic Remove" over at SoftwarePantry

[Ulyessaable]

Fantastic stuff! Such a powerful tool even for digital painters, GIMP really is looking a lot brighter.

[sirujarze]

Oh snaaaps! Its maagicc!! xD (i think this is better than using clone tool hhehe)

[ICodeInDreams]

This is a snap to install on Windows, just so everyone knows. Just download the .zip, decompress it, then drag the GIMP-2.0 folder into C:\Program Files and select Merge Folders.

Run GIMP, and bask in the glow of your new plug-in.

[swi3zy]

I'm impressed :]

[woutervddn]

who needs PS now! Make your next move PS!

[scottphotographics]

Excellent stuff!

[violaHIGH]

Hey,

I'm using the new version of GIMP (2.7.1) and I can't get the resynthecizer in. How did you do that? Can anybody help please?

[starclopsofish]

My jaw dropped @ 1:40. I didn't think stuff like this was possible...

[kasuha]

Okay... this image restoration technique is the one single thing why I installed Gimp. Installing the plugin itself was a task which a normal windows user cannot accomplish but to make it actually work took me a few hours and I was about to give up several times. Unless you Linux gurus make this software and its features usable by dumb windows users, they will continue buying Photoshop because it's damn SO MUCH easier to use.

[joshsniper27]

@kasuha lul it's EASIER to do on linux. all you do is go into the software repository and select the stuff you want. it's windows fault it's so complicated. plus it's just as hard to install plugins into photoshop. the only real difference is making sure you have pygtk and python installed for python based plugins. which really isn't their fault either.

[kasuha]

@joshsniper27 I trust you it's easier on Linux but I am not going to install and learn whole new OS just to run one program on it because it's easier there. If developers of GIMP can't do it right on Windows it's their fault, not fault of Windows. I have many programs that work for me on Windows just well.

[flex1grip]

@kasuha This makes no sense. The plugin itself is a one-click install in linux is all he is saying. Not that gimp is some complicated install process. I'm sure you have a lot of great "programs" on windows though.

[kasuha]

@flex1grip All I said is using this Gimp feature is next to impossible on Windows for normal users - so any arguments about Linux make no sense at all.

[ekkkkkknoes]

How can i get single windows mode !?

[sbvitok]

@TheJakeDTH Аwesome vid and gimp looks nice. How you setup the gimp so pretty? How you get all in one window? tools, toolbars, tabs for images, all in one, I liked! How I cant get it?

[sbvitok]

I found it: The single-window mode can be toggled from a checkbox in the Windows menu

But i need install gimp 2.7

P.S. Thanks for video

[realisticHomeboy]

@ActivePigeon "you thick cunt". Who's the mad one here? Searching around youtube for my comments, just to call me a cunt. I can only laugh.

[t3msa]

Resynthesizer is pretty old, I've ported it myself for my own use when switching to Gimp 2.0 to 2.2 (or 2.2 to 2.4), I was running an unstable gimp, 2.1 (or 2.3) , so the plugin wasn't ported yet, and it was not brand new.

I did some pretty fun stuff with it in 2003, including a nice logo involving green lemon pulp in the logo letters.

So I'm sure this plugin has been created before 2003. At this time, it was pretty slow but now with better CPUs and a better algorithm it's way faster.

[hobbified]

@t3msa First version was in 2002, although the Ph.D. work it was based on wasn't published until 2005.

[foo2hp]

photoshop suckssssss!

[foo2hp]

photoshop suckssssss!

[GatlingDDR]

Hey, what settings did you use for these? I'm having a hard time getting Resynth to work right...

[srjones8]

If you look at the output from more of the GIMP resynthesis videos on YouTube VS the content-aware algorithm co-developed by Washington & Princeton university used in Photoshop you can see that Resynthesis is a poor substitute for content-aware. Resynthesis is more about being content wary than it is content aware. It will match surrounding pixels at an areas edge, beyond that, the pattern tracking seems primitive by comparison to content-aware. It's just no way as good unfortunately.

[TheJakeDTH]

@srjones8 That might be (I don't think it's true) but Resynthesizer is old, I mean old-old, and it can do the job shown in the Photoshop video, that's all this video is about. Nothing more, nothing less.

[srjones8]

@TheJakeDTH What's the point of getting your violin out for Resynthesizer? It's like polishing a turd. The whole point of this video (considering the chosen) image is to stick a finger at Adobe saying, "Check us Linux guys out, we've been doing this for years". But the reality is, you haven't. Resynthesizer is primitive vs content-aware. It's like a crude prototype. I'm not just talking about speed either, I'm talking about the algorithm itself and it's ability to 'intelligently' fill areas.

[TheJakeDTH]

@srjones8 Prove it! I give this video as proof. And you can't inspect Adobe's code as Photoshop is proprietary software. I've also read many people's writings on the Internet that Photoshop's "Content-aware fill" doesn't work in most cases. Just as Resynthesizer doesn't work for everything.

[srjones8]

Photoshop CS5 RTM will be available May 26 and their are already RCs knocking about in all the usual places. If you really want proof, install each on your machine and test drive them yourself. Do you honestly think the sum total of Princeton & Washington university's extensive research is an algorithm that's inferior to Resynthesis? Where was the commercially funded academic research into Resynthesizer? Oh there wasn't any? Oh right. Come back when you've tried both Linux boy.

[TheJakeDTH]

@srjones8 I don't use proprietary software. Content-Aware-Fill is improved resynthesis. Results are what I see in the end, and of what I've seen Resynthesizer gives better results. Although both Photoshop and Resynthesizer are very random, the results change with the shape of the selection covering the area being removed, which seems similar to texture synthesis, but even Resynthesizer isn't texture synthesis. Resynthesizer uses texture synthesis only to fill it's intelligently generated areas.

[srjones8]

I don't use proprietary software you say? Man I bet you've got a great beard and are a real wizz at Magic: The Gathering.

[TheJakeDTH]

@srjones8 "Magic: The Gathering" is proprietary software.

[srjones8]

@TheJakeDTH I meant the card game that Linux guys play when they're not playing Dungeons & Dragons.

[TheJakeDTH]

@srjones8 Oh. Never heard of it. Only heard of the video game. If you wanna make a joke, you have to imply we are always on our computers using inferior software simply because it is Free Software... Perhaps something to do with Quake II?

[srjones8]

That's right lot's of the free software on Linux is inferior. Also, lot's of it is less secure because the source is open. As was illustrated in Tech TV's server hacking competition... The viewers were invited to hack a Linux box and a Windows box. The Linux box was broken while they were on air. Many many myths and lies surround Linux and the biggest one is that it offers more than Windows. It only does in a few select areas like networking. Otherwise it doesn't. Period.

[TheJakeDTH]

@srjones8 That's better (though false, otherwise Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, U.S. Military, U.S. Department of Defense (SELinux), United States Postal Service, and even NASA, wouldn't be using and developing it), but I've got to end this conversation, YouTube's comments suck. Happy trolling.

[TheJakeDTH]

@TheJakeDTH Sorry, US National Security Agency developed SELinux.

[srjones8]

@TheJakeDTH All that comment does is reaffirm my comment that Linux has gmature network code but sadly that doesn't make it an all-rounder. Open source OSes are more vulnerable these days. Enjoy your vulnverable systems, I'll stick to my proprietary safer ones.

[srjones8]

Single core AMD 1.6GHz processor? Where do you live? Kazakhstan? Or did you upload this clip in the 90s?

[TheJakeDTH]

@srjones8 Actually Debian still runs faster than Windows 7 on this box. Just sayin'. I had it laying around, so I put it to use for compiling and testing the latest software, GIMP 2.7 as seen in this video for example. I use a very low demanding operating system, why through a perfectly good computer away? I am very aware of the environmental damage caused by such selfishness. So I don't do that.

[danielveltin]

@srjones8 you watch too much Borat.

[srjones8]

No Daniel, you're the one who immediately thought of Borat at the mention of Kazakhstan. So that's hypocritical bullshit right there.

[DgMvEcuador]

OK good demostration... XDD

[srjones8]

Hmmm bit on the shit slow side. I'm all in favour of we-did-it-first Linux beard-guy videos, but when your free solution is painfully slow vs the commercial option. I say get a nice cracked copy of CS5 basically.

[TheJakeDTH]

@srjones8 The speed for the operations are about the same as in the Photoshop demonstration video. And this is done on my single-core AMD 1.6GHz processor, with an old 256MB nVidia 6200 video card. Don't blame Resynthesizer for my slow computer. Even though the speed is pretty much the same as the Photoshop video, if not faster.

[alvaronarutosasuke]

genial lo que ase esto  como se descarga ???

[Dilophodd]

Take THAT adobe!

[adivinelady]

hi can you show me how to instill resynthesizer to gimp i have windows vista ty

[xxxcoolboyxxx]

lol I dont know how you did this, I had the same "options" selected as you, version 2.6 GIMP with newest synthesizer, using ubuntu, but it doesnt properly do the selection the tree removes as random white/black blobs!

wth!

[whiternoise2]

That's excellent, the only thing that the Photoshop plugin seems to have is that it's perhaps slightly more "aware" of when it reuses a texture - for instance in the road image it's fairly clear that the bushes to the right have been cloned. That said, the results from the panorama were easily as good as PS as was the bench scene (although the sky blending was slightly off).

Still, it's a still from a youtube video and GIMP is free which equals epic win.

[oldmangaming]

Great vid man. Didn't know my GIMP could do that.

[GIMPtricks]

I had the same problem many here mention, that it was just filled with part of the sky.

Turned out I needed an updated script. (I found the link in another youtube video about resynthesizer) Now when I go to enhance - heal selection it works great.

I'm using windows.

[stingermann]

Care to share how to install the plug-in for newbies? :)

[TheJakeDTH]

@stingermann GNU/Linux, Windows, or Mac? P.M. me.

[SIGTERMer]

epic set of pictures. this'll shut up those photoshop fanbois

[talveer2]

gimp sucks dick

[TheJakeDTH]

@talveer2 I think this video shows otherwise.

[talveer2]

@TheJakeDTH I think it doesnt.

[milkkart]

@talveer2 i think you're an ignorant motherfucker

[Gnometower]

i cannot get it to work, it seems to be completely bugged. i either get a missing dlls message, a invalid number of arguments message or ugly blue blotches. with both the 0.13 and 0.16 versions. nothing works, gimp is a piece of shit... and no documentation or tutorials anywhere. fuck this im getting cs5

[TheJakeDTH]

@Gnometower Ah, the typical Windows user complaint, just because something doesn't work for you, means it doesn't work at all. FYI, I simply opened "Debian Software Center" and installed Resynthesizer, and everything works just fine, proof: this video. Maybe your Windows needs re-installing, as Windows can't go more than a few months without needing a re-install. Maybe you're on Windows Vista or Windows 7 and GIMP hasn't been compiled for that yet, as Windows is proprietary, it gets things last.

[Deadgye]

@TheJakeDTH Ah, the typical retard. You can see here he makes baseless claims, and while the person he's responded to is also clearly retarded, his actions are nonetheless still just as daunting.

For the record, I've been running windows XP for over 6 years now and I haven't reinstalled once. I expect the same performance out of my computers running 7. Gimp is not shit, and neither is windows.

[TheJakeDTH]

@Deadgye I have called no software shit, I simply offered some suggestions on what might be causing the problems he's having, because I am not seeing the same problems on my friends Windows system. That's all.

[sliver37]

@TheJakeDTH Windows doesn't need reinstalls, simple/auto maintenance and it's perfect. Linux has no purpose in life, other than server applications or media streaming ect. Nothing worth while is supported in linux, no creative suite, no games ect... WINE is abysmal for most tasks. I really like the idea of linux but it's just not practical, at least for now.

[TheJakeDTH]

@sliver37 GNU/Linux is used in many more things than just that. Maybe the Amazon Kindle comes to mind, all Android phones, TiVo, webOS, Google, YouTube, a Motorcycle runs it, 1% of all computers world-wide.

And for the record, Windows does need "reinstalls" maybe not so much for Vista or 7, instead you lose performance (it's a fact Windows 7 demands more than XP) you might not notice it because it slowed down long ago, or you have expansive hardware that can handle Windows getting more sluggish.

[enslaven00bs]

@TheJakeDTH Don't blame the operating system for The GIMP's lack of support.

[TheJakeDTH]

@enslaven00bs Don't blame a 3+ years old GIMP plugin not working with a proprietary operating system on GIMP. Perhaps it's time for a switch to Debian.

[enslaven00bs]

@TheJakeDTH Again, lack of support. The operating system, any operating system, has nothing to do with the fact that software can't keep up with the times. I'm not saying which operating system is better but the cheap shot at Windows is really uncalled for in this case. Also, I'm more of a Red Hat person.

[Taedirk]

@TheJakeDTH Which would make this the typical Linux user comment. Just because someone gets angry over a bad experience with OSS, it's everyone else's fault. There's obviously no merit to his complaints of poor external support because he cursed and there's always room to take a pot shot at Windows.

[TheJakeDTH]

@Taedirk We do not support proprietary software. This video shows how we don't need Photoshop on GNU/Linux. Also, I have not experienced the problems some are talking about in these comments with my friends Windows box.

[ADFX01FALKEN]

:V i wish i could do this thing with GIMP T_T!!!

[ZequeZ1]

Gimp win :P.

But still need better layer effects xD.

[nickmarinho]

You can just google it and seach for any images as you like and train it.

[realisticHomeboy]

No matter what I try to replace, it always gets replaced by sky, even though it's far from any sky. I can't get this to work at all.

[TheJakeDTH]

@realisticHomeboy Which version of GIMP are you using? It has to be 2.6 or higher.

[realisticHomeboy]

@TheJakeDTH Newest version.

[ChristopheSterkens]

@TheJakeDTH

3.0

[realisticHomeboy]

I've been trying this out in GIMP and it does not work at all. Not once has it done it properly. It puts some background from some completely different area of the picture. Like if I try to remove something on a building, it will put a piece of the sky in the middle of the building.

[DarknessssenkraD]

boom take that fotochop!

[gcerpa1980]

Take that photoshop! haha

[Xion100]

Gracias, deberas te guillaste. :)

[AzraelKans]

where can I get the plugin for the windows version?

[Viropol]

Google.

[tmhurley27]

If it wouldn't be too much trouble, would you mind sharing the exact settings you're using for the plugin in the video? I've had good results on some images, but not always. Thanks!

[My2b]

In the first example, my Resynthesizer Plugin settings are, in "option" tab should be only mark "Fit output to bordering pixels". In "Tweaks" tab, from up to down: 30 - 200 - 0.12

[tmhurley27]

@My2b Ah, so pretty much default. It's working much better now. I guess I never tried default consistently after unchecking the tiling options, and it seems if you tweak the others even slightly you start getting arbitrary blocks from around the image inserted in your selection. =P

[xylitol88]

Seriously, this addon sucks.

It just takes a random tile from the picture and pastes it into the selected area. I have tried all the settings possible.

When i try to remove an ugly sheep from the grass, it takes replaces it with blue sky, wtf?

[malimbar04]

my first impression was "that's not as good as what they showed in photoshop". Then I re-watched the photoshop video; then I considered you pulled the picture off a youtue video (definately not as good as their source). This is very impressive.

[My2b]

You should be aware that they are working on images captured from a video, and not over images of good resolution as the originals.

[vectoron]

I have the exact same issue as well, I am using windows 7, when I try to remove the black dot on the grass, I get a grey blob, like it is sampling the sky. I grabbed the pictures from YouTube.

[Oxter]

I had the same problem until I went to Filters>Enhance>Heal Selection. This only appears once you install the Resynthesizer plugin as far as I can make out, and works well.

[ZgmodK]

I'm having the same problems

YourTaciturnFriend is having it just shows up with a random part of the picture

[KrapikMastah]

Is there some pictures to compare Gimp's and PS's final results for this photos?

[YourTaciturnFriend]

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?

[TheJakeDTH]

@YourTaciturnFriend Try not setting "Make horizontaIIy tileabIe" and "Make vertical tileabIe" and adjusting "Sensitivity to outliners"

[q00u]

Adjust sensitivity in what way? I couldn't get this to work properly either, even using the Smart Delete Object instead of Resynthesizer directly. For the dot on the grass, I get a grey blob instead of green.

[TheJakeDTH]

@q00u What operating system are you using? I need to know this. And where did you get the images you are working with?

[bbrainmonkey]

I'm having similar problems on Windows Vista, and doing all the adjustments you suggested did not help at all. Instead I got the same result as q00u, a grey blob.

[zhays21]

@TheJakeDTH its linux...probably ubuntu

[PinoyDel]

how to install that plug?? pls help..!

[TheJakeDTH]

@PinoyDel You should have read the InaTux article... Here's how...

To get the plugin in Debian: Open gnome-terminal, type 'su', hit enter, type your password, hit enter, then type the following (without quotes) and hit enter:

"apt-get update && apt-get install gimp gimp-resynthesizer"

I can't quite help if you're using a proprietary OS like Windows or Mac OS X, but there appears to be information on the resynthesizer website.

logarithmic . net/pfh/resynthesizer

Compiled Windows Version