Infill/Fill with surrounding color

[a-lobsterman]

[attachment=6929]Working with a TIFF file of aerial orthoimagery from the State of Maine. Because the passes I'm using were only for land-forms (tide levels) portions of the imagery were omitted. The attachment shows a white space in the aerial runs which I would like to try to fill to more or less match the surrounding color/patters. Been struggling with the Fill with Pattern but perhaps this is not the right tool? Pointers to examples or tutorials very welcome.

[zeuspaul]

Sometimes I make a free select and then move the selection and copy the better image and paste it back to where I want it.  Then use clone and heal tools to blend it in.  I spent a little time on this but it would need a lot more work  I am sure there is a better way.

   

[rich2005]

@ a-lobsterman That is a screenshot, does that mean you have a larger image, the tiff ?

Not knowing what it actually looks like makes it an artistic interpretation for me. You might have a better idea from other images.

Rather than the clone tool, using the warp tool to push the texture in. Finish off with resynthesizer / heal transparency . see https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-Plug-i...2#pid26252 for MacOS info.

This in 40 seconds, obviously needs more time and consideration. https://i.imgur.com/OQVTvvh.mp4

[a-lobsterman]

Yes, it's a screenshot and I do have the original TIFF file. Thanks for the pointers.