Just joined as I've been ripping what little hair I have left out trying to solve a problem that occurred after an update... again. I'm doing photography editing in GIMP and love the program, learning a bit more all the time. Been using it for about a year now and mostly use it for final editing on images or to go crazy artistic with them. Hoping to find some plugins that make cutting out telephone wires and people as easy as a couple of apps I've seen where you can just draw a rough line along or around the object and it eliminates it and heals the image automatically. My big thing has been using layer masks to desaturate backgrounds or layer blending for mixing the results of different HDR processes. If anyone wants to check out some of my work, my Flickr member name is Redorblack1.

But I've run into a bit of a problem

I had installed G'mic after great trouble a couple of GIMP updates ago into my Windows 8.1 computer as a plugin. Since GIMP updated to 2.8.10 and G'mic updated I have not been able to figure out how to get them working together again. None of the threads I've found seem to work. Trying to install the 64bit version of G'mic or a mix. The 'installers' give an error code about a missing dll. Other zip files where I manually attempt to install don't seem to work either at all.

So... and intro and a help request all at once. Help!

Thanks,
Scott (RedorBlack) McElhiney

Hi there - welcome to Gimp Chat. There are a number of ways to remove telephone wires and I have never used any of them myself. Resynthesizer plugin is one that I do remember or you can use the cloning tool. I'm sure you'll get a number of ideas thrown at you soon as there are many here who know more than I do about this sort of thing.

I think resyntheszer is the best bet too . There is one in GMIC also.
Welcome to gimp chat.

Welcome to the board.

redorblack: welcome to the board ! if i were you i'd try a little of this, and a little of that. resynthesiser plug-in or that g'mic filter (dang, forgot what it's called) and then the cloning tool.

haiii :3

Welcome!
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The day I joined I also joined several other gimp forums. This one by far is the best in my book. (I rarely even visit the others ...)

Ppl are very helpful and kind.

In just 1 month i've gone from a COMPLETE NOOB to a minor noob

That is to say i am learning so much, hands on and practically. Can't wait till i have some 'free' time to just play around more. There are awesome tutorials on here and more.

And TRUST me you'll be glad you joined.

So come on in and go for it!

I can't help with your G'Mic issues, but removing phone wires/lines for photos can also be done by using the "heal selection", under Filters>Heal Selection, and also the "clone tool".
I've used both methods for this same task.
I would select the areas of the wires and paste them into their own layer, and then use either or both methods to eliminate the wires.
Cloning for the original image to the pasted wire image, and using the heal selection on this same pasted wire layer.
If the selection is saved to a channel, then it can be brought back to try again if it doesn't workout the first time with the original pasted wire selection.

Welcome to GC!

Thanks Wallace,
I've used clone and heal tools... takes quite a bit of work in some images. I was at a photography 'class' where a photographer that uses just her smart phone was showing off an app that allowed you to just draw a line with your finger over what you wanted gone and it figured out what the object was, eliminated it and filled in the background to the point of even continuing the brick patterns on walls all as one move.

I suspect someone has put a similar script/filter/plugin for GIMP out there somewhere. It has been amazing to see the explosion of tools available.

In the meantime, I'm going to have to try your non destructive method. Thanks.

heal selection






Just as an example, I did this image using the "Clone Tool". It's not a very detailed photo. Nonetheless, in only a few minutes I was able to clone out what you see, or don't see in the bottom photo.

Nice job wallace,

Welcome to Gimp Chat, redorblack. I'm not far away in Vancouver, BC.

Well, once I figured out the forum layout I almost immediately found the answer to my G'mic install issue in the subforum for G'mic users/developers. Sweet....
So nice to have the hundreds of filter tools available in a nice layout once again. It is amazing how many people are creating cool tools. I've been using Gimp for maybe a year and the G'mic filter list alone has almost doubled in that time.
Scott

IMO it's the most essential set of Gimp filters there is.