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How to remove an unwanted shadow - TonyAimer - 08-27-2023
Greetings forum
I want to remove the shadow of a street light from my image.
The background is soil/gravel.
How can I do this? The color picker for a brush picks only one component color.
I am not sure what the process is even called so it is impossible to search for help!
I want to pick up the soil texture and paint over the shadow.
Any help would be gratefully received.
Regards
tony
RE: How to remove an unwanted shadow - rich2005 - 08-27-2023
There are a few ways, it all depends on your image.
Built into Gimp is the clone tool - https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tool-clone.html
Use a fuzzy brush, ctrl-click to select a source, carefully paint over the shadow.
Sorry, I had trouble finding a photo with lamppost / shadow but 30 second example
https://i.imgur.com/nCN2vE3.mp4
Another way is create a selection next to the shadow copy / paste and move the pasted area over the shadow.
Using 3rd party plugins.
The usual is a set of plugins resynthesize / heal selection. For linux you might not have python support needed for the heal selection plugin. - Tell us what Gimp / linux you use.
There is also the gimp_gmic_qt plugin which has inpaint filters. Paint a mask using the pencil tool and apply the filter. 30 second example this https://i.imgur.com/Wbimfmi.mp4
If you do a search, many tutorials using all methods.
RE: How to remove an unwanted shadow - Ofnuts - 08-27-2023
(08-27-2023, 10:20 AM)TonyAimer Wrote: Greetings forum
I want to remove the shadow of a street light from my image.
The background is soil/gravel.
How can I do this? The color picker for a brush picks only one component color.
I am not sure what the process is even called so it is impossible to search for help!
I want to pick up the soil texture and paint over the shadow.
Any help would be gratefully received.
Regards
tony
Can you share the pic? At least a bit with shadowy and some non-shadowy gravel?
RE: How to remove an unwanted shadow - TonyAimer - 08-27-2023
Thanks
I have also discovered the 'heal' tool as well as 'clone'.
Now I can put the right term in my Youtube search!
I will not be uploading the picture as it is an old scanned photograph
taken some 30 years ago ( before digital ) of a canberra bomber that was sitting outside
Waterkloof airbase near Pretoria before it was plinthed.
It is now visible on street view ( google earth ) at 25.49.1552S and 28.12.4275E
I wanted to use the photograph as part of my outro on my new
Youtube channel about building a flying RC scale model. I have taken
Youtube's copyright issue very seriously so I am only using photos
I have taken myself.
Many thanks for the help
Tony.
RE: How to remove an unwanted shadow - zeuspaul - 08-27-2023
In addition to rich2005's suggestion "Another way is create a selection next to the shadow copy / paste and move the pasted area over the shadow" you can also first create the selection over the shadow, then move the selection (in move mode- ctrl alt drag) to an adjacent area then copy / undo / paste (ctrl C ctrl Z ctrl V) to paste the adjacent area over the shadow.