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How to remove red patches of skin in GIMP?! - Krikor - 11-28-2021
Browsing at random (on the fly?) I found the following question in another forum about Gimp: https://www.reddit.com/r/GIMP/comments/r3pn76/how_to_remove_red_patches_of_skin_in_gimp/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
Quote:"I want it exactly as you see in this 1 minute photoshop tutorial; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJLF4VuJHQA
However there is no dropper selector for hue/saturation adjustment with GIMP. How would I best go about it with GIMP??"
In the comments, Master Pat David promptly indicated the solution https://patdavid.net/2014/07/wavelet-decompose-again/#:~:text=very%2C%20very%20handy.-,Stain%20Removal,- what%20if%20the
But I decided to try using an approximation similar to the one used in the video, using a hue-saturation adjustment.
Here I detail my approach and the result obtained:
Initial Image
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![[Image: qFLhwLY.png]](https://i.imgur.com/qFLhwLY.png)
Selection of the area to be changed
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![[Image: EQwf5Fi.png]](https://i.imgur.com/EQwf5Fi.png)
Adjust in Colors - Hue-Saturation... and used layer mask
With the mask selected, I made the path to selection and applied a feather of 20. Then with a brush at 30% opacity I brushed on the mask until I got something satisfactory.
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![[Image: CAAsNIt.png]](https://i.imgur.com/CAAsNIt.png)
Result
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![[Image: QSkgnNf.png]](https://i.imgur.com/QSkgnNf.png)
The result obtained here serves only as a reference, since both the selection and the adjustments were made just for the sake of experimentation.