Gimp Lesson 5 | Using Clone and Heal

welcome to another tutorial in this video we're going to be looking at the clone and the healing tools these are really powerful tools in and they're not incredibly difficult to use I'm gonna bring in some images to illustrate how these work we can either go to file open and I can find them on my computer but I'm going to bring in three at once I'm going to just navigate to the location which is on my desktop I'm gonna left click and hold and select all three then left click and drag all three of them just into this project area what that's gonna do is import all three of these images and I can toggle between which one I'm working on just across this top selection bar up here and so the first one I want to show is the clone tool so this is a picture just me standing in the snow and if I wanted to use the clone tool I can actually clone multiple copies of myself is standing here so the clone tool if we hover over as the see is the shortcut key to select it we found so just left-click on it and it has a lot of the same options that we'd be familiar with other tools we can change the size of the brush the aspect ratio all these different things but what we really want to do I'm gonna size it to be about the size of my leg maybe that's about good enough right there and then to use this tool now does it tell us here what we do is we hold down the ctrl key and then left-click one so I'm gonna hold down the ctrl key and left-click at my foot down here and that creates a dotted circle around my foot and now I can click anywhere else in the image and my foot will start to be drawn right there I'm just left clicking and holding and it's just redrawing myself here I'll do ctrl Z because to make this more realistic I'll keep that selection there and again to make that selection you have to hold the ctrl key and then left-click to choose this you're starting selection and then if I left click and hold right here for example I can sort of put my foot right here and just draw this very quickly a clone of myself standing in the snow over here and the more time I take I can get it pretty looking pretty good and with notice over on the left hand side it's showing me where I'm at on the source I guess the source part of the image and then over here I'm just drying so I can sort of try to make sure I feel like a feather on this tool right now which means that the edges are sort of a faded kind of fade out it's not like a hard drawn line anyway there we go that's not too bad so I've got a clone of myself and as long as I keep holding down the mouse the left mouse button I can come over and retouch up any of these areas if I unclick the mouse button and then I try to click again it's going to start my source at that same point that I was at so I'll do ctrl Z to undo that that's a very quick look at this and you notice if we zoom in here a little bit we can see it doesn't look exactly right the colors are off a little bit on this side and that sort of fades into there's some missing data there kind of but not too bad for just illustrating how that clone tool works a lot of times people will use this to do face swaps they'll select one person's face and then go over to the next area and an add in you know replace just the face of a person I want to show you another tool we can do so we could do the clone tool you could imagine erasing a part of an image we could clone these rocks by holding down the ctrl key while we're still on the clone tool and then we could clone myself out and put some rocks here but the problem is you get some strange-looking things so if i zoom in now it's kind of hard to see here but we're really getting you can't really see all the detail in the rock and especially with the trees it might look kind of strange the point that the trees overlap with each other it just doesn't look actually it looks pretty good but a better tool to use in this case is the healing tool so I'll do ctrl Z the healing tool is right next to the clone tool has this band-aid icon on it all I want to mention your icons may look different I can mention if the start of this I'm using a different version of so if your icons look different it doesn't really matter different operating systems and different versions display the icons differently anyway I'll select this healing tool and the healing tool works very similarly we hold down the ctrl key to select an area I'm gonna select this area right here ctrl and then left click and that selects a pattern so this area is the pattern on to use and now it behaves the same way as the clone tool where I can left-click and then I can come and just sort of paint this out one thing I want to be careful of I should show this with a clone tool if I go to the clone tool it's a lot more pronounced with the clone tool if ever I go too far so if I start erasing this but I go too far it's going to start cloning over my mouth again even though it's not really there it still remembers that old part of the image so you have to be careful of where you set your reference point because if you're not careful like the sky here if I start cloning down here and then move up I'm gonna get the sky at a point I don't really want it so it always just stays relative to where you're at I don't I don't have a touch on the healing very much but the healing what it really does is take a pattern and then it uses a lot more processing power so it's a lot slower but it sort of heals and it sort of it sort of eliminates that overlap so you don't get that look of like part parts of the images are overlapped if there's a pattern background or like grids or something more complex and it's a solid color that's a good application to do the healing but play with healing and clone and you'll notice a difference another good example of something we could do is these clouds if we made ours the size go down it's really easy to just get rid of a cloud make this bigger so if we wanted to we choose this as our reference point we maybe just go to clone again for this one and then we can just kind of erase that cloud but we're using this background but again if ever we get into our point if I start erasing this cloud but I go down it's going to redraw the cloud lower so just be aware of how that works if your point is too close to what you're working with you may have to select the point and then you know make sure there's nothing in the way like this mountain here or we accidentally dry it up as you play with that more you'll get more familiar one more example I want to show you is this picture here and this is one where the healing tool makes a lot of sense this is just an old image that has some lines if I hold down the shift and plus key on my keyboard I can zoom in here and we can see these lines where it's like a fold and like some tears in the image well we can we could clone directly but let me come over here and take the size down a little bit and then we can grab our healing tool and we'll select this area right here hold down ctrl and left click so this is our target area our source target and then as I left click here I can heal oh I forgot this one has an interesting issue with it this particular image down here at the bottom it says healing does not operate on indexed layers that's because I'm using a black and white image it doesn't have a color doesn't have color channels so if you run into this problem what you need to do is go to image mode and go to RGB it's on indexed right now that doesn't happen often this happened to be a scanned image and it's black and white and so for that reason that it's an indexed mode anyway now I can change this so I can click here and I can left-click and erase this tear line I have an example of this several years ago in an older version of I'll show you that now this is repairing an old image and kind of applying a little bit of color adjustment but for the most part using the healing tool to get rid of some of the tears and blemishes in this old kind of battered image well hopefully you found that informative guys go ahead and play with the clone and healing tool there's a lot that you can do between between getting rid of things on an image and repairing parts of images and even just cloning over there's quite a bit you can do with just these without ever having to dive into selection which we're going to cover in future videos and some of these more advanced techniques go ahead and leave your question in the comments below if you have any and I look forward to catching you in the next video

Channel: TJ FREE

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Length: 8min 31sec (511 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 09 2019