

The texture which fills the selection is typically taken from the top of the image. This version of Resynthesizer is broken and nearly always produces bizarre results. As with Linux, the main Resynthesizer options are found under Filters ► Map ► Resynthesizer Installing Resynthesizer on Windows XP requires you to unzip the windows Resynthesizer package in to the plugins and scripts folders of your gimp installation. This option suffers from the same unreliability as the standard Resynthesizer option. No amount of changing the options and tweaks produced a reliable outcome.Ī second option that Resynthesizer provides is found under Filters ► Enhance ► Smart Remove Selection. Sometimes this was barely noticeable and at other times it was truly surreal. Resynthesizer copes with this test surprisingly well, but the results are only really completely acceptable with relatively small selections.Īnother test involved removing the spots off a cow – here Resynthesizer was a disappointment – with very small spots it produced excellent results, with larger areas it threw in textures from bizarre sources – replacing cow with grass. The video shows a very tough test for Resynthesizer – the boats interact with their background by casting shadows and reflections and by disturbing the water’s surface.

This is visible in the video where some of the larger boats are deleted.

Where there is a quite deep gradient the plugin produces reasonable results, but the larger the selection that needs to be deleted, the more likely you are to get what I would term a ‘patchwork quilt’ effect, rather than a smooth flowing texture. It produces extremely good results with small selections – even if there is a slight gradient from one end to the other in the selection. You can see the basic achievement of this plugin in the video above. On the other hand lowering the Sensitivity to Outliers option to the lowest value seemed the best choice. The tweaks menu proved useful – during testing, moving the Neighbourhood Size and Search Thoroughness options to the far right – (highest levels) produced best results. There is a menu which allows a range of options. Resynthesizer is found under the Filter menu – Filters ► Map ► Resynthesizer.

Installing Resynthesizer in Ubuntu is a piece of cake: the instruction required is:
