Add resynthesizer to GIMP

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With the "Resynthesizer" extension, you can easily touch up unwanted objects with GIMP - without being able to tell that it was there before. You can find out here how to insert the plug-in in GIMP and what you have to consider with 64-bit Windows versions.

More professional image processing with resynthesizer.
More professional image processing with resynthesizer. © Rosel Eckstein / Pixelio

What can the resynthesizer

  • With the “Resynthesizer” plug-in, you can remove unwanted objects or people from images in the GIMP graphics software. This extension is similar to the “Content Aware Fill” option that you may receive from Adobe Photoshop know.
  • If you remove an object or a person with this plugin, the place then becomes transparent or white, but is adapted to the surroundings. The image then looks as if the distant object or person never existed.
  • In addition, the plug-in allows you to create a texture from an image in which the edges (left / right and top / bottom) are coordinated with one another and they are aligned with others pictures can apply.

This is how pasting works in GIMP

  1. If you opened the GIMP, close it.
  2. Download the “Resynthesizer” plug-in as a ZIP file GIMP down.
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  3. Right click on the file and click on "Extract here". An EXE file and two SCM files are then extracted.
  4. Right-click on the EXE file ("resynth.exe") and then click on "Copy".
  5. Open your Windows Explorer or My Computer and go to the directory where you installed GIMP. By default, this is "C: \ Programs \Gimp x “(where x stands for your GIMP version).
  6. Open the “Plugins” folder.
  7. Right-click and press "Paste" or press the key combination CTRL + P ("P" stands for "Paste").
  8. Next, copy the two downloaded SCM files into the “Scripts” folder. This is either located directly under "C: \ Programs \ Gimp x".
  9. Now you can start GIMP and find the plugin in the “Filter” menu under “Map”.

You have to pay attention to this with 64-bit Windows versions

  1. With 64bit Windows versions there are problems with the plugin. You will need other plug-in files to fix this. To do this, download the complete plug-in as a zip file and unzip the file. You will then get two folders with several sub-folders and an EXE file and three SCM files.
  2. Copy the files into your GIMP folder ("C: \ Program Files \ Gimp x"). Follow the folder structure from the unzipped ZIP file, i.e. you have to put the EXE file in the folder "C: \ Program Files \ GIMP-2.0 \ lib \ gimp \ YOUR VERSION \ plug-ins" and the SCM files in the folder "C: \ Program Files \ GIMP-2.0 \ share \ gimp \ YOUR VERSION \ scripts “.
  3. Now you can start GIMP and find the plugin in the “Filter” menu under “Map”.

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