A week or so ago I took some photos of my Mum in a patch of bluebells. I've been editing them today as I want to print one out and frame it for her birthday. This is how it looks once I finished editing the raw file and I'm pretty happy with it apart from the "luggage tag" from her top, which I didn't notice at the time, else I'd have tucked it away and re-taken the photo.
I've tried to clone out the tag using GIMP, which isn't something I've properly tried before. At the size I'm planning on printing out (8x10), it seems to look OK, but if you zoom in to the level I had it at when I did the cloning, it looks quite messy. DO you think it's acceptable to leave it like this? Or would you do something slightly different? Is there any way of making the cloning less obvious when it's viewed massive or am I just being overly fussy right now?
Looks fine to me. I zoomed in and I can't tell that it was cloned.
I haven't really used GIMP so I don't know if they have the following options. Sometimes I lower the opacity of the clone tool to soften it. And sometimes I use the patch tool or healing brush to fix any messiness I'm unhappy with.
@magentarose Thanks. I just went over the area I was unhappy with using the healing tool and it looks better now. That's another tool I hadn't used before.
I close quite a lot and this looks pretty good to me as well. But something I do is this - Once I have covered the original blemish (with a fuzzy edge brush) I reduce the opacity of the brush to about 40% and just go over it again with a clone of a different area (if there is one). Somehow that blends it in better.
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I haven't really used GIMP so I don't know if they have the following options. Sometimes I lower the opacity of the clone tool to soften it. And sometimes I use the patch tool or healing brush to fix any messiness I'm unhappy with.
Thanks, I guess I'm just being overly fussy then. :-)