Fingerprint on lens
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ElDiabloConCaca
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Clean the lens.
Seriously, what other option is there? Or are you looking for suggestions for cleaning the lens?
Seriously, what other option is there? Or are you looking for suggestions for cleaning the lens?
livefortoday649
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ElDiabloConCaca
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Photoshop, or some image editor.
Looks like you could get away with the clone brush, a little unsharp mask, and maybe some color correction.
I think advanced image editing techniques may be beyond the scope of this forum. I'm not really sure what you're asking -- are you asking what programs can help you retouch the image? Are you asking how, specifically, to perform image editing, or perhaps which tools in an image editor to use?
Looks like you could get away with the clone brush, a little unsharp mask, and maybe some color correction.
I think advanced image editing techniques may be beyond the scope of this forum. I'm not really sure what you're asking -- are you asking what programs can help you retouch the image? Are you asking how, specifically, to perform image editing, or perhaps which tools in an image editor to use?
livefortoday649
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Yes I am asking for an answer to both the following questions:
1.Are you asking how, specifically, to perform image editing, 2. or perhaps which tools in an image editor to use?
I have heard of dust and scratch filters but now sure Gimp has one, maybe you could advise?
1.Are you asking how, specifically, to perform image editing, 2. or perhaps which tools in an image editor to use?
I have heard of dust and scratch filters but now sure Gimp has one, maybe you could advise?
ElDiabloConCaca
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Gimp has one, I'm sure. As to the exact steps to take, that depends on your results and how "perfect" you want the picture (and, also, to a great degree, how "damaging" the fingerprint is to the actual picture -- i.e., how much "information" in the picture do you have to work with to reconstruct it).
I would work with an attack vector of something like this:
1) Use the "clone" brush to clone as much repetitive geography with other, good geography in the picture... like cloning water on top of the fingerprint area.
2) Use either the hue/saturation tool on a selection of the photograph where the fingerprint is, with the goal of trying to enhance the colors.
3) Use an unsharp mask to sharpen the fingerprinted area to closely match other areas of the photograph
4) Touch up any leftover anomalies, or edges of the selection areas where you applied filters, using various tools (dodge/burn, blue, feathered selection, etc.)
As to exactly how to do this in a step-by-step using various image retouching/editing applications, that's beyond my scope and beyond my abilities to put into words on a forum.
You can follow my step-by-step, using Google in tandem. For example, you can use Gimp's help pages to find where the unsharp mask tool is located, then use a super-simple Google search ("unsharp mask tutorial") to learn how to use the tool and what it does, like so:
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/unsharp-mask.htm
It is a beautiful picture, by the way.
I would work with an attack vector of something like this:
1) Use the "clone" brush to clone as much repetitive geography with other, good geography in the picture... like cloning water on top of the fingerprint area.
2) Use either the hue/saturation tool on a selection of the photograph where the fingerprint is, with the goal of trying to enhance the colors.
3) Use an unsharp mask to sharpen the fingerprinted area to closely match other areas of the photograph
4) Touch up any leftover anomalies, or edges of the selection areas where you applied filters, using various tools (dodge/burn, blue, feathered selection, etc.)
As to exactly how to do this in a step-by-step using various image retouching/editing applications, that's beyond my scope and beyond my abilities to put into words on a forum.
You can follow my step-by-step, using Google in tandem. For example, you can use Gimp's help pages to find where the unsharp mask tool is located, then use a super-simple Google search ("unsharp mask tutorial") to learn how to use the tool and what it does, like so:
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/unsharp-mask.htm
It is a beautiful picture, by the way.