Re: [Gimp-user] Resynthezier: can't make it work

[Jim <jimssoftware gmail com>]

Response is bottom posted:

On 11/15/2012 01:24 PM, Dexter Filmore wrote:
> I can't indeed. Pointers appreciated.
>
> Am Thursday 15 November 2012 19:40:15 schrieb Jim:
> > I actually spent an enormous amount of time figuring out steps to get it
> > to work.  I haven't been using gimp much the past couple of years and
> > don't remember offhand how to do it, but it isn't intuitive at all.  I
> > did post the solution to the gimp add-on download site.
> >
> > Email me if you can't find it and I'll try to help.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > On 11/15/2012 12:14 PM, Dexter Filmore wrote:
> > > Suse 12.2, gimp 2.8-git branch installed in ~/gimp, compiled resynth-git
> > > prefixed there, too.
> > > Can call "heal selection" and Resynthesize, but the do nothing.
> > >
> > > Example: I have a white square with one corner missing, the corner shows
> > > alpha. Now I select all the alpha, then call filter-map-resynth, tell it
> > > to look 50pixel further, run it, it calculates for a minute, munches cpu
> > > and all, and then...
> > > Nothing.
> > > The layer is correct, it has an alpha channel, alpha is not locked.
> > > Tried both heal and resynth.
> > >
> > >     ?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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After all the replies, I'm a bit confused about the exact problem you 
are having.  If it is the problem I and others have had that the plugin 
just plain doesn't work per instructions, you can probably find the 
answer at:

http://registry.gimp.org/node/24243

I wrote a part of that page on how I got it to work with these notes:

BEGIN PASTE

I think I found the combination that I found before I lost all my notes 
when my system / hard drives crashed.

1. Select a RECTANGULAR area you want to take the sample from. This is 
NOT the texture source sample and my notes do not cover textures.

2. "edit->copy"

3. "edit->paste as->new image"

4. Switch to the new image.

5. Go to the layers window

6. Remove the alpha layer - The critical piece

7. Go back to the image you are editing. Select a target area you want 
to fill with the sample from step 1.

8. Now "filters->map->resynthesize" should allow you to select the newly 
created source image.

This works on SuSE Linux 11.1 with resynthesize v. 0.16-1.2

END PASTE

If you are having a compile / crash problem, then the answer lies elsewhere.

Good luck,

Jim