>Consider a black speckle that's a square 4 pixels wide and high (for >an >example). > >The selection goes to the edge of the speckle, all round. > >Growing the selection by 2 pixels will make the marching ants meet in >the middle of the speckle - but there are no pixels of it left outside >the selection, it'snow fully selected. > >Shrinking the selection won't create holes, so the tiny speckles are >gone. > >Experiment using 1 pixel instead of 2, or grow by 2, shrink by 1, >feather by 1 or 2, making sure you don't lose too much detail. > >In practice i scan in greyscale, not black and white, so it also >depends on the "threshhold" paraneter in the select-by-colour tool as >to how close the the speckles the selection goes, but i use Curves >first to brighten the hilights somewhat and to darken the shadows. If >you are working with a film rather than something printed in a book, >that may not be appropriate - in that case, it helps to have the image >in Precision 16 integer of 32 floating point (from the Image/Precision >menu) so that you don't lose detail as you work. > >Hope this helps, > >slave Thanks.
What should I do if I only have a .jpg file? In other words,there is nothing to scan. If I remove too many speckles it looks fake. -- Gimp_Noob (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
