GIMP 2.10 Tutorial: Repair and Restore Old Photos with Severe Damage

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In this GIMP 2.10.6 tutorial, I show you how to repair or restore severely-damaged old photos that may be ripped, wrinkled, faded, blotched, or otherwise damaged in any way. I use a variety of techniques to fix this damaged photo, including using the Heal tool, Heal Selection Tool, and Paint tools - as well as using a Wacom Tablet to make a lot of these repairs.
This is a fairly tedious process, but the final product is truly stunning as it can completely restore photos that are decades old back to (or close to) their original quality.
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@nevalainen_visuals 4 года назад

I don't know how I ended up watching this but damn it was satisfying! Good job, mate!

@drutgat2 5 лет назад

Hi Michael. Thanks for this. It is really good to know about the Resynthesizer Plugin. I have been using the Heal and Clone tools primarily, so appreciate seeing your use of the Airbrush tool, as well. One thing that I have found useful in helping to make the appearance of two different but adjoining areas of texture gradually blend into each other is to use the Gaussian Blur filter. Of course that does not help with colour, so one has to get the colour right first.

@RameshPachamuthu 2 года назад

Awesome video. Thanks and it worked for me. Restored my grandparents photos. Appreciate your effort and good work.

@tomormiston6592 5 лет назад

I came across an old school photo the other day, and was shocked to see it quite badly damaged. Will use your video to help me restore it, cheers ;)

@DaviesMediaDesign 5 лет назад

Awesome - glad to hear this will be put to good use immediately!

@robert-janvanloon1227 4 года назад

happy to see a gimp 2.10 tutorial series, sadly layers and coloring bw pics not in the series

@CTRL_SMarcos 5 лет назад

Great work! Thank you so much for the video.

@creativewebmedia-uk 4 года назад

Michael Thanks for the tutorials one of the most difficult things to remove is a totally irregular edged grayed area from part of a photo do you have a tutorial for that?

@RC-Heli835 4 года назад

Wow! You worked a miracale on this one Davie.

@MisterVloop 5 лет назад

This is a hard job and you made it majestically! I have plans to start doing this as a second job and this tutorial of yours really helped me and got me excited already. Fantastic job, dude! - EDIT: I wrote it too early... 31:01 How dare you say you are not an artist, man? What you are doing is art!!! Digital art is also art!

@Mi-rinconcito Год назад

Did you start doing photo restoration as second job?

@MisterVloop Год назад

@@Mi-rinconcito Me? Not really. I started a completely different career. 🤣

@standardsupplies3332 Год назад

Fantastic job. I'm a subscriber now.

@marcosreis3654 3 года назад

Muito obrigado Michael... Este video me ajudou a retirar uma frase que estava em cima da imagem... Foi dificil instalar o Heal Selection no notebook, mas consegui....

@zach5018 5 лет назад

Subscribed! April fools, I'm already subscribed

@taab84 5 лет назад

a practice example, i like that kind of tutorials

@ng3but 5 лет назад

well done! i'll follow the step!

@stevesveryown 4 года назад

Retouching is long and tedious but so rewarding when finished.

@faffeypie1064 5 лет назад

I just start learning gimp but i use mac osx. the problem i have is how do i install Resynthesizer plugin and the Heal Selection tool? if you could make video on this or post me a link. thank you love your work.

@annoyed707 4 года назад

I have an old (WWII) greyscale photo of soldiers with some very faded names written on top. scanned it at 1200 dpi to PNG. Any suggestions for enhancing that?

@rraiz68 Год назад

Great tutorial. I can't find the Resynthesizer plug-in for GIMP on a Mac. I am using GIMP 2.10.34

@markilashonte5462 5 лет назад

You are like super talented

@DaviesMediaDesign 5 лет назад

Thank you!

@grampustechnews2074 4 года назад

Awesome Great work I appreciate

@saidlibrary5009 2 года назад

Hi. I'm missing the part how to download the plugin healing selection, any explanation ?

@LukaszBrodziak 5 лет назад

Superb. Another reason to ditch Photoshop for good 😊 by the way thanks to your tutorials I decided to start posting my own videos on GiMP editing but they are more focused on product photography.

@Franku40keks 2 года назад

I know this is an old comment but why do people ditch Photoshop? I prefer Gimp myself because it's free, but maybe this restoratioin might have been done quicker and better in PS or not?

@LukaszBrodziak 2 года назад

@@Franku40keks Personaly I ditched photoshop when they turned to subscription model. I evaluated that it’s not worth it for amateur uses.

@Franku40keks 2 года назад

@@LukaszBrodziak i see, I guess it filtered amateurs mostly. Professionals will stick with Adobe products I guess.

@cell22091979 5 лет назад

Amazing !!! ... Do you have a tutorial to improve quality of an image ... Like definition , more clear , etc ... Thanks in advance

@DaviesMediaDesign 5 лет назад

Thank you! I have a tutorial on the Top 5 Photo Enhancements to use when working in GIMP (not sure if it is what you are looking for specifically - if not let me know): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TiavEWDVQGE.html

@CheaterMega Год назад

Thx you, i worked 3 hours and finished the picture of my grand parents which was destroyed.

@ganapathykenjangada8653 5 лет назад

Lovely tutorial! Could you make a tutorial on how to retouch fashion models like the one's on magazine covers. Thanks!

@DaviesMediaDesign 5 лет назад

I'll look into this - thanks for the suggestion!

@twwtb 2 года назад

Which Wacom tablet do you use/recommend?

@jimmiesmith4208 5 лет назад

When correcting photo imperfection, I use the lasso tool, hit enter, enhance, but my version does not have heal selection as an option. Where do I fine heal selection? I'm using 2.10.6.

@TheWingnut58 4 года назад

That's part of the Resynthesizer Plugin.....a download link, as well as a link to instructional video on how to install it, are in the production notes above.

@jond1965 3 года назад

Great video and work. But I cant get the brushes to work at all. I set everything the way you said and nothing happens. very frustrating

@zeusde86 11 месяцев назад

@DaviesMediaDesign First of: great tutorial. I know, this is an older video, but i have a question to a similar process shown in this video, but has some distincitve differences, that (in my opinion) sometimes would drastically alter the workflow: For a photobook I made a few years ago, I edited some old family pictures. I worked directly of the negatives, but they have been stored away very poorly over the last 3-4 or so decades, so they decaded quite a lot. After scanning and color-correcting them, I started working on them, but some of them were severely damaged. Damage to Film expresses in a different way as damage to images on paper. Many negatives have been stuck together, and as a result a lot of the photosensitive emulsion (in the end that is what the image is made of) has cracks like paint that dried to fast or even flaked off. The problem then is, that the "texture" of the image then is something you don't want to keep, but rather get rid of entirely. I cannot figure out a good way to archieve this without a) retouching every single area of the image by hand or b) use softening-filters, until the texture disappears (which degrades the quality by an order of magnitude) Another great example of degradation of negatives is a color-shift. sometimes you cannot really distinguish between a wanted effect archieved by filters or degrading film causing a colorshift from a red to a green hue across the image. What might have looked fancy in the 80's is something that you really want to get rid of nowadyays (regardless if the colorshift is intended or not) How would you approach an issue like this/can you do a tutorial for a cases like this? (if needed, i could provide sample images for both described cases)

@zubair531 4 года назад

Hey davies image link is not working, plz fix it, i want to practice it.

@clarec5857 Год назад

Thanks!

@DaviesMediaDesign Год назад

Thanks for supporting the channel Clare!

@amartyab4u21 2 года назад

The link you provided for the photo you used in the video has expired. Could you pls share a new link?

@Chookah 3 года назад

At 15:50 you talk about using the heal tool - I can press CTRL and select a reference spot, but then when I hold the mouse button down and try to heal areas nothing seems to happen?

@DaviesMediaDesign 3 года назад

Make sure you have “sample merged” option checked in your tool options for the heal tool

@sher7450 5 лет назад

Hi, I'm a total beginner: just bought a great fast scanner primarily to scan old faded photos. I downloaded GIMP to my desktop computer. Do I have to download the Resynthesizer Plugin? I'm nervous about doing this.

@sher7450 5 лет назад

Do I remove the GIMP download first before adding the Resynthesizer Plugin?

@DaviesMediaDesign 5 лет назад

For this tutorial, you will need the resynthesizer plugin. You do not need to remove GIMP before adding the plugin.

@paulbali9998 2 года назад

skillz skillz skillz!

@ismaail 5 лет назад

Thanks for the tutorial, can u please do tutorial on how to do the opposite and make a photo look old & damaged like the one in this tutorial.

@DaviesMediaDesign 5 лет назад

Hey Ismaail - I will look into this and see if I can get a tutorial up on the subject. Thanks for the suggestion, and for watching!

@ismaail 5 лет назад

Thanks you, i'll be looking forward to it .

@sergiofernandez1863 3 года назад

I copied the file from github into the GIMP plug-in directory, when I run the filter I get an error saying "Calling error for procedure 'gimp-procedural-db-proc-info': Procedure 'plug-in-resynthesizer' not found", how can I fix this?

@Schattenmeister 3 года назад

I have the same error :/

@Kerveros1904 5 лет назад

it is like watching a plastic surgeon do his job to fix a smashed face from some kind of accident.

@samueljames5167 5 лет назад

My resynth plugin is not working, keeps getting an error message.

@physicswallahlakshyabatchh2486 3 года назад

make sure that the feather edges option of the free select tool is not selected...it worked for me by the way, I'm only 1 year late to solve your problem...is that ok??

@lisac2884 5 лет назад

omg.. this is amazing!

@DaviesMediaDesign 5 лет назад

Thanks!

@michellepaige8264 4 года назад

I do not see heal selection in filters and enhance

@prakkari 4 дня назад

I think it’s better to scale the photo down after repair. It’s much easier to do detailed repairs with higher resolution. Just my 10 cents. I always scan photos in 1200 dpi and downscale after repairs.

@CProton69 4 года назад

I realise this app is free but it's extremely frustrating to use and a learning curve. Why do all the icons have several tiny attachments rather than just the single tool itself? I know people will complain that I'm complaining about a free program but why do you need a crosshair on the tool along with an icon of the tool? Can all of this be turned off so you have just one icon or crosshair or brush while moving the mouse it seems a bit crowded.

@nevermorefarm 3 года назад

I don't get why you are using the paint tool to do the repairs around the tear across her mouth when the clone tool at a reduced opacity would give your far more precise color and texture samplings with which to reconstruct the damaged areas and save steps...unless altering from the original image is a goal. Your tutorial guided me to the resynthesizer plug in about which I had no idea; thank you so much for teaching me about that; it was hugely informative. Your videos are spoken at a good pace and are easy to follow.

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@Dawgbyte04 5 лет назад

I don’t have heal selection option in enhance on Mac os

@DaviesMediaDesign 5 лет назад

Did you download the plugin?

@robertf3735 2 года назад

New to gimp, I see this is an old video, isn't cloning a better way to resolve most of these issues? I realize it takes a lot of work to repair something like this but which is better?

@DaviesMediaDesign 2 года назад

The method I outline in the video is best based on my research. I use multiple tools in the video because no one tool can get the job done on its own.

@randysmith9715 2 года назад

I fixed a photo of my uncles WW2 ship. There was a hole the size of a quarter in it!!

@vic6142 5 лет назад

there is no heal selection in my Gimp 2.10.8 . just downloaded it is says latest version.

@DaviesMediaDesign 5 лет назад

The Heal Selection feature is part of the Resynthesizer plugin, which I mentioned in the video is an external download. The link to the download is in the description of the video.

@anthonyriddick-bey7115 3 года назад

where is the link

@igorgiuseppe1862 5 лет назад

could you simulate it with Fresco In Borja?

@DaviesMediaDesign 5 лет назад

I didn't know this was a thing until you just mentioned it - this is hilarious. I don't know if I can outdo the original restoration though lol.

@igorgiuseppe1862 5 лет назад

what i mean by simulate is: you will not be working on the physical object, but an photo of the object before the poor resotration was done

@fn8382 3 года назад

i have a photo ., can you do it for me . i need it in 2 days max from now

@kenaustin7925 3 года назад

Hi. I'm using the latest version of GIMP 2.10.22 on Windows 10 Home. I've followed the instructions on the tutorial five times, deleting the plug-ins and reloading etc, but get this same message when using the Heal Selection "An error occurred running python_fu_heal_selection. error: procedure not found" Any help fixing this problem would be very much appreciated.

@kenaustin7925 3 года назад

Added the two .exe files to the plug-ins folder and now working.

@TB86375 2 года назад

@@kenaustin7925 im having the same problem, what do you mean by add the two exe files?

@yelenakosheleva8947 Год назад

@@TB86375 in Synthesizer files, go to folder Win64. In this folder there are 2 .exe files. Copy and save both of them directly into the Plug-ins folder. Do not save Win 64 as a folder. This seems to be the solution. I did this and it worked for me.

@reymicroc 10 месяцев назад

it´s impossible to just copy the python script to the plugin folder to make it work. They need to be in exe format.

@chivo_gaming 4 года назад

Meanwhile I'm tryna give my digital pics the damaged look....

@thomasengdahl6719 4 года назад

plugin is in windows only (

@DH-ix1zd 4 года назад

In linux you install gimp-plugin-registry which is available from package managers (e.g. synaptic in ubuntu)

@leticiaramirez827 3 года назад

Her left eye should be lighter green because the light hitting on it

@fishbarbeque8540 2 года назад

Ngl, you look like your grandmother!

@brushbros 5 месяцев назад

AI programs such as Fotor make this far easier. Then make adjustments in Photoshop etc.

@dorasmith7875 Год назад

NOT what I want, I want first to get rid of the yellowing! Honestly. How could you not get rid of that. And I don't want to guess what teh colors were, thank you very much