Repairing Moderate and Heavy Damage - Beginning Photo Retouching and Restoration Using GIMP - page 172

Figure 7-25. Adding some noise to replace the lost texture

17. Apply the Blur filter ( Image Menu ➤ Filters ➤ Blur ). This will blur the noise just

enough to create a match to the texture in the surrounding image area.

18. Hide the background layer and merge the visible layers (Right-click in the layer

palette and choose Merge Visible Layers from the drop-down menu). Turn the
background layer's visibility back on.

19. The finishing touch is now to boost the contrast just a little. Open the Curves

dialog ( Image Menu ➤ Colors ➤ Colors ➤ Curves ). Make a slight “S” curve, as
shown in Figure 7-26 .