[Gimp-user] Heal selection Errors

[jitblass <forums gimpusers com>]

Hey all,

Total GIMP newbie here, and pretty inexperienced in photo editing. Trying to get
the "heal selection" feature to work, in effort to remove unwanted objects from
a few images.

I downloaded the "resynthesizer" plugin to my GIMP 2.8.22 install, in effort to
use the "heal selection" tool similarly to how "content aware" is used in
photoshop.

The problem is, when attempting this on my computer, it gives me an error
message everytime and aborts when using the picture I'm trying to modify,
however OTHER pictures it can execute just fine. My procedure is I use "free
form selection" to select around the unwanted object. Then I press
filters-enhance-heal selection. I tried this once using a screenshot of my
computer. Worked great. Tried it on another using a png of a pic I took on my
iphone. It worked great.

HOWEVER, the picture I'm trying to do this to was a TIFF. I realized it was
indexed colors, so I changed mode --> RGB. That still didn't help. I confirmed
lock pixels and lock channel alpha were both deselected. I'm at a loss here.

I've even tried converting the tiff to a bitmap24.... same results.  

Any help here? I'd prefer to keep this image in TIFF or some other uncompressed
image. It is a map that I will be blowing up to print on a large wall art, so
I'd like to keep the highest fidelity possible.

THANKS!

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