Re: [Gimp-user] Remove shine

["Liam R. E. Quin" <liam holoweb net>]

On Sat, 2016-08-20 at 11:11 +0000, David Holland wrote:
> Thank you both for your answersIf you copy this URL can you see it? 
> Yahoo mail is a bit tricky
> "www.flickr.com/photos/14586608@N08/29025064471/in/dateposted-
> public/"

Yes.

> I have thought about using flash off camera but I am worried about
> knocking it in small places.

Off-camera flash, or steady lights (you can get LED lights fairly
cheaply on ebay or aliexpress but I have not tried them), or put
something over the flash to direct the light upwards.

Since you still have good detail there; you could check in darktable
(assuming you're on Linux) or rawtherapee and see if any of the detail
can be recovered, but I doubt it.

An LED macro ring light is another possibility. But best is if the
light comes from the side, so it doesn't bounce off and hit the camera
lens. See if you can go without flash at all.



>       From: Steve Kinney <admin pilobilus net>
>  To: gimp-user-list gnome org 
>  Sent: Saturday, 20 August 2016, 8:30
>  Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Remove shine
>    
>
>
> On 08/20/2016 03:07 AM, David Holland wrote:
> > I take photos of wildlife and with beetles I have a lot of
> > reflection, is there an easy to remove this?
> > IMG_8352beetle
>
> Hey David,
>
> The photo didn't make it through to the list, alas - posting the URL
> rather than a formatted link should bring it through.
>
> Just as a guess it sounds like you will need to "paint over" the
> unwanted reflestions in the images, replacing them with realistic
> textures and contours that fit into the surrounding image smoothly.
>
> Depending on the situation, resynthesizer tools like Heal Selection
> might be exactly what you want:  That particular filter samples the
> image around the selection, and uses the color, texture etc. of those
> pixels to smoothly fill the selection.  The Heal tool - a clone tool
> that does a similar trick to blend the cloned-in pixels with the
> existing ones - sometimes also comes in handy for removing smaller
> "visual clutter" from an image.
>
> These tools are available in the gimp-plugin-registry package on .deb
> family (and I would bet .rpm) repositories.  I'm not sure if it's in
> the
> Windows binary distribution or has to be downloaded separately.
>
> You might get different and/or better advice when we have seen your
> example image.
>
> :o)
>
> Steve
>
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