GIMP :: How To Edit Out Smudge And Scratches From Photo
Aug 28, 2013
There's a smudge of chocolate or something right above my head (the kid on the left). The yellow/red marks are from when my brother tried to scratch it off with his fingernail and exposed the background. How do I get this to look presentable?
there are a lot of plug-ins available to "clean-up" and perfect images...does anyone know if there are any real good filters for making a photo "dirty" ie dust, scrathes, light leaks, grain, distortion,blurring, vignetting, anything like that?
I am looking for the proper way to go about fixing this Image, I tried using the clone stamp healing brush method but the results are horrible at best.
I recently re-installed Gimp onto my MacBook Pro after doing a clean install I was hesitant because I did not want to install X11 again. So now that Gimp is Mac native I am happily working with it again. My problem is that every time I try to edit a high resolution photo that I have taken with my Canon Rebel T3i Gimp crashes.
My MacBook specs are:
2.7 GHz i7 16GB 1333 MHz DDR3 Intel HD Graphics 3000 512 MB OS X 10.8.3 (12D78)
How do I edit a photo so the background appears out of focus?
My pal here at work has a photo of his father in law running a Marathon and wants to get it framed for his upcoming birthday, unfortunatley the runner just behind him (in the photo) is quite prominent so he wants to try and remove/edit.
I am not quite sure what happened, but now my smudge brush (I have CS version) will not smudge, it only colors. I'm not quite sure how to fix it short of reinstalling photoshop again, and I'd rather not do that if I don't have to.
I created a smudged brush stroke using several stokes with the same paint brush on one layer. I would like to change the color of the smudge but the bucket fill keeps filling each stroke. Is there a way to make all of those strokes one image now? So I can bucket fill with one click?
When I try to use the smudge tool in gimp (2.6.2). I click on it and I try to smudge the image. But gimp seems to ignore the tool. So I decided to play with the Opacity, Rate and even the scale. No luck.
So then I thought, ok maybe the changes are to small for me to see. So I decided to zoom all the way in and try the smudge tool. No change at all.
The odd thing is it is a single layer image. I just tried an experiment, I opened the photo I wanted to smudge with clicked on the tool and tried blending the area. Then I closed it, it didn't ask me if i wanted to save the "changes" I just made.
The smudge tool does not have an circular with an line across it saying I cant use it. Here is the image I am trying to fix up .
I am trying to access the edit original (edit with) option to edit a photo that has not been edited yet. I right click and go through the edit menu and does not appear or is not available? Would I have to reopen it manual in photoshop or is there a way around this to access that setting? it sometimes does not appear on my already edited photos.
I would prefer not to open each photo again, as some files i do not have and were imported into the document with another computer.
there's a way to setup a keyboard shortcut to adjust pressure and rate for airbrush and smudge tools? I swear I've been up and down the whole shortcuts list... and perhaps I'm just missing something...
Using the 64-bit extended CS6 version under Win 8/64. Am I not using the filter correctly, or is this a limitation regarding its use?
I duplicate a layer and apply the filter. I then add a white mask and invert it to get black. I change the layer blending mode to either darken or lighten, depending on the requirements at hand. I use the paint brush to remove the spotting and it works. However, if I add a new layer and then go back to the Dust and Scratches layer, the paint brush further modify the layer. I need to create a new layer and start all over again.
I am finding that if I convert the layer for smart filter use, I cannot use the paint brush. The layer needs to be rasterized, again.
I am running Photoshop CS6 with all updates on a Windows 8 system. I have several keyboard shortcuts set up that all work fine but when I assign a keyboard shortcut for the dust & scratches filter it will work until I close Photoshop - when I then open Photoshop again this shortcut is gone but all my other shortcuts remain.
I have tried going back to the default keyboard shortcuts and then adding just the shortcut for dust & scratches (I have tried ctrl-F8 and several others) and then closing Photoshop and opening it again with the same results. I was able to add back all of my other shortcuts and they work fine.
For some reason I can assign a keyboard shortcut to anything except the dust & scratches filter.
when I select an area of a photo and attempt to use the 'dust and scratches' filter, Elements 11 jumps to the 'Hand Tool' and locks up. This is on a Windows 8 machine.
I want to import a photo, trace geometric shapes over the photo like circles and lines, and then remove the photo. I have a very basic understanding of LAYERS. I have viewed a few tutorials. But I don't know how to import a photo or how to get rid of it once I have drawn the geometric shapes over it.
I took some photos with my Canon camera, downloaded them and opened it in Photoshop 7
I can edit the picture with Levels, colors, cropping, paint bucket etc but the tools such as eraser, clone tool, pen, smudge doesnt seem to work.
It registers that I am using the tool but no results are showing up.
Ive been able to get the eraser to make a thin line as im erasing, but changing the size of the eraser doesnt make the erasing area larger only the brush size-indication gets bigger.
The mode is RGB , 8 bits and the layer is not locked.
How do I edit a photo like this? Like, making the edges of the pictures fade away/transparent? how to make stuffs like this one?I think paint.net can't open gifs, but still.. how do I do that awesome thing? Doing that kind of an edit? By using adobe photoshop?
I use LightRoom 3 to simultaneously modify multiple photos. For example, I will use the "grid" vew to show hundreds of photos. I will then select the ones that I want to modify (i.e. maybe they are under exposed). I will then adjust the exposure setting to modify all the selected photos. I might then select a different set of photos and change some other parameter.
Is this same functionality available in CS6? I wasn't sure if you could simultaneously modify multiple photos or if it was intended more for one photo at a time.
I am using photoshop cs2 on windows xp. I intend to edit a photo which is a gif file.
I open the photo File-->Open--> <<file name>>. It opens but everything is locked/disabled. Only the tools menu like crop/select etc are enabled. Even the layer is locked and it is disabled.
Please suggest what could be the problem and how can i edit it. It is not a read only file and it does not have any permission issues.