Gimp is the one of most popular free image editor that claimed have features like Adobe Photoshop. The document follow will teach you how to restore old photos using gimp. Digital image manipulation is a subject area that reaches far beyond web banners and movie magic. The GIMP provides the tools necessary for quality photo restoration. There are a number of complex tricks that can be used to rebuild damaged images, but the most common trick is to simply clone similar areas as replacements for the damaged areas.

The GIMP provides a Clone tool that allows using brush strokes, In this tutorial, we’ll look in depth at the copy/paste method of fixing heavily damaged images. We’ll include discussion on when to use large selections to patch large areas and when to break a blemish into pieces to fix independently. As you can see, this image has numerous large blemishes. Working on too large an area can cause colour and contrast problems. So we’ll break some of these into smaller sections and address them a piece at a time. Use
obvious delimiters in the image to choose sections to work on. In this image the area between the arms and midsection offer natural boundaries, as do the hair and bridge of the nose. We start with some basic image enhancement. We need to fix the white and black points for the scan. We use the Auto-Levels option in the Levels dialog to produce a higher quality image – the contrast is better and the image is clearer. Next we note that the image has taken on some brown tint as it has aged. We clear this by desaturating the image. Finally, as with most scanned images, a little image sharpening is required.

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