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Ice Hockey problem - shooting through scratched glass.
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Yesterday, 09:51 AM
I am a newbie, using GIMP 2.10.38

In this ice hockey photo, there is some haze in the middle mainly due to shooting through scratched glass. I wonder how should I fix it? I use dehaze ...
I may want to try some masking before dehazing?

Your advice is appreciated


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Yesterday, 04:20 PM
(Yesterday, 09:51 AM)5354photos Wrote: I am a newbie, using GIMP 2.10.38

In this ice hockey photo, there is some haze in the middle mainly due to shooting through scratched glass. I wonder how should I fix it? I use dehaze ...
I may want to try some masking before dehazing?

Your advice is appreciated

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Yesterday, 05:18 PM (This post was last modified: Yesterday, 05:28 PM by rich2005.)
(Yesterday, 09:51 AM)5354photos Wrote: I am a newbie, using GIMP 2.10.38

In this ice hockey photo, there is some haze in the middle mainly due to shooting through scratched glass. I wonder how should I fix it? I use dehaze ...
I may want to try some masking before dehazing?

Your advice is appreciated

You could try a gmic_gimp_qt filter fom http://www.gmic.eu  (There is a Windows installer for Gimp 2.10) Edit Oops - using linux - there are linux versions there as well.

then... maybe one of the sharpen filters.... there is a sharpen dehaze but it seems to introduce artifacts so I might go for the Sharpen(Whiten) filter.

Let it make a new layer and put the layer into a mode (try various) This one Vivid light.

   
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Yesterday, 07:44 PM
A lot of your "haze" is focus or motion blur, given the "Binggrae" in the back seems somewhat sharper.
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A sollution :
Make a copy from the original photo
Make a new transparent layer and draw a big grey line on it (use brush 2. Hardness 050) in the direction / area of the haze (I used grey HTML notation aaaaaa)
Make a quick mask from the players (Shift+Q) using the original copied layer, Shift+Q to convert in a selection
Set this layer not visible
Set the layer with the grey line active, invert the selection and press delete to erase the grey area around the players
Then, ' Select / None' and Gaussian Blur the result a little (value 2) and set the layer mode 'Burn'. Tune a little using the layer opacity.

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