Repairing Moderate and Heavy Damage - Beginning Photo Retouching and Restoration Using GIMP - page 174

Repairing Heavy Damage
Over the years, it seems that most of the restoration work that comes my way results from damage like that
on the image shown in Figure 7-28 (or worse). Heavy damage such as this requires extensive use of the
Healing and Clone tools, and in this case, you'll also be using the Resynthesizer plug-in to quickly repair the
larger cracks. This can be very helpful, by automatically blending in surrounding texture and tone. It can be a
huge time-saver.

Figure 7-28. An image with heavy damage

Tutorial 28: Repairing Heavy Damage
To correct this image, follow these steps:

Open the image ( Ch7_cracks and creases ) found in the Practice Images folder.

1.

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

(or Repair) Layer. You'll use this layer mostly for the Healing tool and the
Resynthesizer plug-in.

3. Create a new layer (Shift + Control + N) and name it Clone Layer. I find it

helpful to have an extra layer available to work on when the damage is this bad.
Sometimes, the first cloning attempts don't work the way you want, so it's useful
to be able to erase and try again if necessary (Figure 7-29 ).