bootchk
commented
9 years ago Use Filters>Enhance>Heal Selection. It is a separate plugin from Filters>Map>Resynthesize. It will do what you want. It should be part of the same package you downloaded, as well as several other plugins that also provide simplified user interfaces to the resynthesizer engine (such as "Heal Transparency").
These two plugins are both just user interfaces to the engine. Heal Selection has a simpler user interface (it doesn't show all the parameters to the engine.) Resynthesize shows you all the parameters, and you must understand more.
The main thing you must understand is that the API to the engine changed from version 0.16 to version 1.0. Formerly, the selection was the target (what is resynthesized) and the inverse of the selection was the context (the source of pixels.) After version 1.0, that changed: you must pass a separate layer for the context, and the selection in that layer is the source (or the entire layer if there is no selection.)
So if you try to use Resynthesize using old recipes (like you did, without cloning the target layer and making a new selection for the context), it uses the same layer and the same selection in that layer as both the target and the source. In other words, the artifact you are trying to remove is also the source of pixels, so the effect is NOT to remove the artifact, but just to rearrange it.
This has been discussed before and eventually the old recipes will fade into obscurity.
Macil
rsp
hamoid
It used to be that I could select part of an image, hit Filters->Map->Resynthesize, hit Ok, and then the selection would be cleanly removed from the image. That was on some older Ubuntu version with the gimp and gimp-resynthesizer packages installed a few years ago.
Now I have GIMP 2.8.10 installed from the Ubuntu repos. There is no gimp-resynthesizer package anymore, so I got it from here and compiled this myself. Resynthesizer shows up under the Filters->Map menu just as it did before, but now when I use it, it doesn't remove the selected item. It just kind of uselessly warps it instead, without using the surrounding imagery. Here's an example of what happens when I use it on someone's face. Before, after. This is definitely not how I remember it working. I remember it more like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvFLCRywh7g
What am I doing wrong? Is there a different menu option to use Resynthesizer to remove things from images? Was it renamed? Do I have some setting set backwards? Did I miss something in the documentation? (I'm making this an issue here because the docs seem a bit weak and I can't be the only one with this issue.)