Repairing Moderate and Heavy Damage - Beginning Photo Retouching and Restoration Using GIMP - page 152

Chapter 7

Repairing Moderate and Heavy
Damage

In This Chapter
Repairing Moderate Damage •

• Repairing Heavy Damage

Repairing Moderate Damage
GIMP is a very capable program for restoring and repairing damaged photographs. Of course, like anything
else, photo restoration takes practice and patience to master. The tutorials in this chapter may be a bit
challenging if you're a beginner, but stick with it! If your first attempts aren't as good as you'd like them to be,
try again. You'll get the hang of it before you know it—if you apply yourself.

Covering Up the Damage
The vast majority of digital restoration is simply “borrowing” from good parts of an image and covering up
the damaged portions. Of course, the cover-up must be seamless, to avoid detection. In the tutorials that
follow, you'll be patching large areas of damage, as well as using the Clone and Healing tools for the majority
of your work. You got a feel for these tools in two of the previous tutorials—now you'll use them to repair
damage on a much greater scale.

Tutorial 26: Patching Damaged Areas
The following photograph was stuck to the glass of a picture frame (a fairly common issue) and, as you can
see, resulted in some nasty torn areas (Figure 7-1 ).