in the form of specks and scratches (see attachment). Q: What are possible ways (if more than one) to approach mitigating the damage.
My current workflow is based on a Pat David process that uses Wavelet Decompose to create scale layers isolating image detail, creating a dup of the scale layer, then manually (!!!) painting over the damage (spot, scratch), and using SelectByColor to select the painted areas to create a selection to which Heal Selection is applied. I do this for the five scale layers and even to the Residual layer (usually using the Healing Brush there). Note that this works very well, but is incredibly time-consuming the more damage an image has. The image from which the attached extract is taken might require *weeks* of work it is so damaged. I have Ctein's Image Restoration book and he talks about creating masks using Photoshop Find Edges, etc. to isolate the damage. I'm not being very successful mapping the Photoshop options/steps against GIMP options/steps. Attachments: * http://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/565/original/2017-05-04_15_04_00-2016-08-16-0001.tif_-_Windows_Photo_Viewer.png -- gstalnaker (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: [email protected] List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
