Repairing Moderate and Heavy Damage - Beginning Photo Retouching and Restoration Using GIMP - page 153

Figure 7-1. Torn areas, resulting from sticking to the glass of a picture frame (Image courtesy of the
Martin family)

Sometimes, in these editing situations, using the Clone tool in the larger areas results in a soft,
detectable repair, because of the grain and texture in the surrounding image area. In such cases, creating a
patch will offer a good repair solution.
To correct this image, follow these steps:

Open the image ( Ch7_torn background ) found in the Practice Images folder. 1.

2. Duplicate the background layer (Shift + Control + D) and rename it Edit

(or Repair) Layer (Figure 7-2 ) .