Hello and welcome to yet another tutorial by
Davies Media Design my name is Michael Davies, and in today's tutorial I'm gonna show you guys
how to use the GIMP Resynthesizer plugin - more specifically the Heal Selection tool within that
plugin to get rid of objects in an image. This is a tool that's very similar to the Photoshop
Content Aware Fill feature, and in my opinion it actually works a little bit better than that
feature. And so here is the photo that I worked on as an example and here is the top layer. And
if I hide that layer this is what it looked like before - so we have this chicken in here that this
guy is throwing up in the air - and then here's after - and this literally took me like less
than five minutes to do. And so this is a very effective tool, and I'm using GIMP 2.10.6 which at
the time of this tutorial is the latest version of GIMP. But of course before we get into all that
I want to direct you guys over to my website at DaviesMediaDesign.com. As always we have tons
of GIMP video and text tutorials on here, as well as project translate. You can watch one
of our GIMP playlists, support us on Patreon, or view our poll of the week results - so
definitely check those items out. You can also enroll in our GIMP Photo Editing Course:
From Beginner to Pro Photo Retoucher, which is now a best-seller with over 500 students. And I'll
include a link to this as well as all the relevant links from this tutorial in the description of
the video. So we're going to be using that photo of the guy throwing the rooster up in the air,
but we're also going to be using this photo - and they're both from Pixabay. And I'll include links
to both of these in the description of the video. Just click "free download." And if you want to
follow along I believe I used the 1280x746 version of this - I might have used the 1920 - and then
just click "download" right here. And here is the Resynthesizer plugin we're going to be using, and
you could download it on Mediafire. So I'll just click this "download" button here, and you should
see your download pop-up right here. This will be a zip file - just click on this arrow right here,
and then click "Show in folder." And so here we have our plugin. Right-click on this and go to
"Extract all," and it's going to ask you where you want to extract the files to, and this is
just going to be right in my downloads folder, so I'll hit extract. And here are all your scripts
for this plugin. And so here is my plugin folder for GIMP, and you can see this is where you need
to navigate to get to this folder. So each of these are different folders you need to enter.
So we have the C: Drive, and then Program Files, GIMP 2, lib, which is short for library, GIMP,
2.0, and then plugins. And so plugins is the last folder and it'll take you here. And then what you
need to do is highlight all of these scripts that you want to include in your GIMP. So these are all
of the scripts or all the features that come with this plug-in. Each one of these is a different
Python script which represents a different tool or a different feature. And all you've got to
do is click and drag these into this plug-in folder. I've already done that. They're down here
at the bottom, so I'm not gonna do it again. And then you've also got two other folders here -
so one is for Windows 32-bit and the other is for Windows 64-bit. This just depends on which
operating system you're using - in my case I'm using Windows 64, so enter that folder, highlight
those two application files, and then drag and drop them into your plug-in folder as well, which
I've already done here. And so these are both for the Resynthesizer tool, which we're not going
to be going over today. And we're really only going to be going over the Heal Selection tool
today as that's similar to the Content Aware Fill tool in Photoshop. But I'll have an article up on
DaviesMediaDesign.com on what all of these other tools do within GIMP. So after you've dragged
those files into your plug-in folder you're gonna have to close down GIMP and reopen it, which
I've already done. So if I come to Filters>Enhance here you'll see the tools that come with
it. So Heal Selection, Heal Transparency, Sharpen by Synthesis, and Uncrop. And if I go
to Map I've also got Resynthesize and Style. And again we're gonna go over these in an article
on my website. But for today we're just going to go over the Heal Selection tool. And so I'm going
to delete this top layer here and I'm gonna start back with my original image. And I'm gonna grab
my zoom tool and I'm gonna zoom in here on my rooster. And the way I use this tool is I grab a
selection tool - so in this case I'm gonna grab my Free Select tool, and make sure the mode is set
to either "Replace the current selection" or "Add to the current selection." And then I'm going
to loosely outline the object I want to erase in my photo - so in this case the rooster - and I
do want to leave a little bit of room around the actual object itself just so the Heal Selection
tool can pull pixels from the surrounding area and sort of blend those pixels in with this
border that's going on around the object. So I close that loop right there using my Free
Select tool and hit the "enter" key. And so now this object has been selected, and now I'm going
to use my Heal Select tool. So I'm going to go to Filters>Enhance>Heal Selection, and we're gonna
get this Python Fu script dialog box here for the Heal Selection tool. And so the first line is
"Content sampling width," and this is in pixels, and what this does is it's basically allowing
you to choose how far outside of the selection area here - the selection area of course denoted
by these marching ants - so how far beyond this line right here the Content Selection tool is
choosing pixels to fill in within the selection area. So basically right now it's set to 50
pixels, so it's going to grab pixels from about right here and it's going to use those pixels
to determine what should be inside this area. And so basically it's trying to form continuity
here between the object that this is blocking. So it's trying to fill in the pixels and guess what's
gonna come next here. So you can make this larger or smaller if you want. I'm gonna keep it at 50
for now. And then "Sample from" is where you're grabbing those pixels from. So right now it's
set to "all around" which means it's going to grab pixels from around the entire selection area
we drew. You could change this to "sides" so it only grabs from the left and right side, or you
could change this to "above and below" so it'll only grab pixels from the top and the bottom. I'm
going to keep this set to "all around." And then the "filling order" just determines in what order
those pixels are filling in the selection area. Right now it's set to "random" which means it's
just going to randomly fill pixels in. "Inwards towards the center" means it's going to start at
the top or it's going to start at the selection line here and it's going to move inwards. And
then there's also "outwards from the center" which means it'll start from the center and move
towards the selection line. So I'm just going to choose "random" and I'll click "OK." And now our
object has completely disappeared. And I'll hit ctrl+shift+a to "select none." And for the most
part it's really hard to tell that there was an object here but what we can do is grab our heal
tool and hit ctrl to grab a source area and then you could just heal the lines right here where
you could see sort of a seam, and just go around anywhere and I'll hit ctrl again and just sort
of heal that area to try to minimize any seams. And then if I grab my zoom tool and zoom out
you can see this didn't do a perfect job. So let me just increase the Heal tool brush, hold
ctrl and just work on further healing that. And I'll just zoom out a bit more. And so now
it's really hard to tell there was an object there. And you guys can work on this a little bit
more using the Heal tool or using the Clone tool, but I'm going to show you another example here
with this light post here. And so I'm gonna do the same thing I'll zoom in a little bit, and
let me just zoom out a little bit more there, grab my Free Select tool, and what I need to do
is outline this object again. So I'll just go ahead and outline this and then I can release,
and I just need a straight line here. So I can just drag the straight line all the way towards
the bottom, loop around here, drag this all the way until we're connected there. So we have
another closed loop. I'll hit the "enter" key, and now I'll go to Filters>Enhance>Heal Selection,
and we have the same options here and I'll click "OK." And now that object has been erased. I'll
grab my zoom tool and just zoom in a little bit here. There's a little bit of a color here that
was used to sort of - if I hit ctrl+z - emulate the light that was shining from this lamppost.
So I can either grab my Free Select tool again, make sure the mode is set to "Add to current
selection," and just add any parts of that light inside of the selection area and hit "enter." And
then just run that again. So Filters>Enhance>Heal Selection and click "OK." Select>None. So there's
still some pixels here on the outside. The other option is to just grab the heal tool, hold ctrl,
choose a source and just try to paint away any of that glow that's showing up from where the
light used to be. And I'll grab my zoom tool, hold ctrl and zoom out. And so now you can see
it looks like there was never any lamppost there, and it's completely erased that with really
minimal displacement of any of the pixels here despite this being a pretty complicated
background. So as you can see this plugin is super effective and I've seen some people say
that they're not sure whether or not it works with GIMP 2.10. Again this is GIMP 2.10.6 I was
using and this plugin works fine for me in this version of GIMP. And so I think it really rivals
that Content-Aware Fill tool found in Photoshop. So that's it for this tutorial thanks for watching
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also visit our web site at DaviesMediaDesign.com, and you can enroll in our GIMP Photo Editing
Course: From Beginner to Pro Photo Retoucher, and I'll include a link to that as well as
all the relevant links from this tutorial in the description of the video. So thanks
for watching and we'll see you next time.
