How To Fix An Old Or Damaged Photo Using Gimp Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- This is part one of how to fix a damaged or old photo using a free program called Gimp.
You can get Gimp free at www.gimp.org/
Here are links to the rest of the lessons. 1,4,5 and 7 are probably the most useful.
Part 1 • How To Fix An Old Or D...
Part 2 • How To Fix An Old Or D...
Part 3 • How To Fix An Old Or D...
Part 4 • How To Fix An Old Or D...
Part 5 • How To Fix An Old Or D...
Part 6 • How To Fix An Old Or D...
Part 7 • Creating Missing Finge...
This video is on how to restore an old photograph using the program GIMP it's a free program that you can download at
gimp.org. So go there and download it and install it. Then scan the photo you want to fix into your computer at a high
resolution and remember where you saved it.
Now start the GIMP program and go to file and open, then find where you saved your photo and open it. Now that we
have it open we can start to work on it.
Okay now that your photos loaded you have to pick an area to start, so start with something easy. We've got a lot of
black right here in the middle so let's choose that come up here choose the magnifying glass and drag an area you
can also just click and zoom in. Now come up here and choose the clone tool, click it and right here is a pacity 0 is
completely see through and 100 is not see through it all put it up to a hundred. Down here is the size and it's a
little too big so if you come over here and you get the black arrow pointing up with two black lines for a shaft and
you can click there and that's how much it'll shrink your brush. That's a nice size, oh yeah I almost forgot over here
on the left under opacity it says brush, to the left of the word brush there's a box, click on that square box and up
pops a menu with all these different brushes in it. You want to choose the one it says hardness 0 5 0 and that's the
brush we will be using for the whole lesson.
Now's a good time to save this because we're going to start actually working on the photo. So click File, click Save,
choose where you want to save it. I'm going to come over here on the left and choose desktop and I have a folder on
the left named GIMP part 1, I'm going to choose that and I'm going to have the name and save it with a .XCF that's
what GIMP saves these projects as until you export them as a photo. So put the name in and click Save.
Now over here choose your clone tool, set your opacity so that its at 100, make your brush the right size for the
photo. Hold the Ctrl key and click the area you want to copy, now move your mouse over here and click and you can keep
moving your mouse and clicking like I'm doing here or drag it and let it go and the circle pops back to the area
originally selected. Now move the mouse up here and drag and then right here and drag. Now you can hold control again
and click select the new area and now I'll copy that area and I'll just drag right here.
Pay attention to wear this thing moves because if it comes up over here while you dragging it will copy that down
here. When you get close to something you don't want to change you can stop dragging and do individual clicks as you
get closer. Then you can click here and drag. What just happened the thing went over an area that used to be white so
I copied it here. So I just stop dragging and started over. Dragnet rid of it, dragon get rid of it. Now I'm going to
come up here and hold control and click and drag. Now come up to view click it then go to zoom and choose fit window
and you can see it already looks a lot better. You pretty much keep using the same tool you once in a while use
another tool that similar to it called heal tool but a lot of it is just going to be using the clone tool like that
but paying attention the angles of the brushes and the opacity of it and the size.
That's the end of lesson 1 for today so go up here click File and click Save.
I hope this works out for you and if it helped and you want to learn more go ahead and subscribe because I will be
doing some more on how I completely did this photo from this to this. I'll try and do a video every 7 to 10 days and
I'll show you how to do a lot more detailed work with that clone tool, this was just a real basic introduction. Hope
it works for you, good luck, bye. 
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Thanks so much! I've done a lot of photo editing with other programs - which the software is out of date - didn't want to re-purchase. Had GIMP, but didn't know how to use its repair tools. Five minutes with your instructions, totally repaired a 50-year-old photo. Appreciate you taking the time!
my dad has been begging my brothers and i to restore photos of him that where damaged when he was in the navy, this video was super helpful and the photos came out great! thank you!
Thank you , i had deleted gimp as far to complicated but this helped so giving it another go :)
Thank you, I just downloaded gimp and have a few old photos I want to fix, this helps a lot.
The cloning worked really well for me. Thanks for the tutorial.
Fixed my baby girl's newborn photo using your video. Thank you!
this video showed me how easy it was, i thought it would be harder to clean up photos, thanks for this vid.
glad to help
brilliant, thanks mate! Gimp for the win!
EXCELLENT VIDEO!
How Can I Fix Flim Burn PLZ help me thanks!
thats awesome thanx
I was ready to start from the beginning and I am stuck. My window with "tools" ends at the squares for foreground and background colors. I do not have "Tool Options" The window is empty after that. It only says "you can drop dockable dialogs here".
So I do not have that "opacity" you talk about.The other window with tools to the right only shows "brushes". Totally different from what I see in the video. I was able to open the file with the photo I want to restore but ... something is not right.
I see I have GIMP 2.8.22. Help!
I was having the same issue but figured it out. Just double click the tool your using to bring up the options for that tool. I know its kind of a late reply but maybe it will help others.
leprachaun69 Thank you so much; better late than never! Life saving!
This is unbelievably frustrating. I'm following every direction and the damn thing will not clone the pixels. WTF?
didn't work for me I am using iMac maybe that's why Oh well thx anyhow. I think it is because I am using a recent edition of Gimp on a mac*(much better computer system imho) and it is now almost 2018 and this was done 2013. Anyone that can send me to a better tutorial I would much appreciate it because I am slow to learn and this darn gimp is complicated as hell for my old brain. I tried to find this olde version so I could benefit from his video, :(
Good video! Very understandable.
thank you
be good if the clone thing worked
your welcome
Gimp would make me crazy. I'll stick with Lightroom & PS5.
What an out of date video! Way too many steps.
It's 9 years old...Of course it's out of date.