{"id":41897,"date":"2026-06-22T05:50:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T09:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=41897"},"modified":"2026-06-22T02:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T06:51:12","slug":"tip-jar-25-using-the-clone-or-rubber-stamp-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2026\/06\/tip-jar-25-using-the-clone-or-rubber-stamp-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip Jar 25: Using the Clone or Rubber Stamp tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another entry in the GIMP tutorials, this one in patching grunge and unwanted doodads within your image. Generally a pretty straightforward process &#8211; until it isn&#8217;t, and this is intended to head off some of those stumbling blocks that can make things frustrating. Don&#8217;t get me wrong<strong>;<\/strong> you will still have a lot of trial-and-error, back-and-forth attempts, especially with the complicated repairs, but this may greatly reduce the learning curve.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1203351707?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"Tip Jar 25: Making repairs with the Clone or Rubber Stamp tool\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Something that I forgot to mention within<strong>:<\/strong> if you&#8217;re not sure about whether you have faint shadows from sampling the wrong portion of a gradient, squinting can actually help this show up better, don&#8217;t ask me why. Also, using the scroll bar to jiggle the image up and down or back and forth.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be the first to say this can get really tedious on badly-damaged images or scans, but I&#8217;ve also tried several different shortcuts and have never found one that worked. Don&#8217;t rush it &#8211; do a little at a time if it helps. But when you see a pristine master image after all your work, it&#8217;s worth it.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, all the mildew on <a href=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2023\/01\/visibly-different-part-53\/\" target=\"_blank\">this image<\/a> was taken out in exactly this manner, finding the little spots that were free of it to begin with, and expanding them gradually across the image. I have made 8&#215;10 prints from that restoration, and they look excellent.<\/p>\n<p><em>Good luck!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another entry in the GIMP tutorials, this one in patching grunge and unwanted doodads within your image. Generally a pretty straightforward process &#8211; until it isn&#8217;t, and this is intended to head off some of those stumbling blocks that can make things frustrating. Don&#8217;t get me wrong; you will still have a lot of trial-and-error, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,3809],"tags":[8740,762,3566,8743,8744,5174,6794,8191,8741,8742],"class_list":["post-41897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-reference","category-video","tag-clone-tool","tag-digital-photo-editing","tag-gimp","tag-gradients","tag-matching","tag-patterns","tag-photo-restoration","tag-repairs","tag-rubber-stamp-tool","tag-smudge-tool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41899,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41897\/revisions\/41899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}