How to remove items from images that have complicated backgrounds

[rinaldop]

Hello again one and all,

I know the answer to this is incredibly simple and I used to know how to do it but I am embarrassed to say that I cannot remember the details. I know that there is a tool that when an area is erased the area is filled with an approximation of the area surrounding it. I want to remove the horizontal orange bullet point lines from the image below so that I can put them back in at different positions.

As  always, thanks!

     
   

[denzjos]

- select the orange lines/point with the 'Fuzzy Select Tool'
- Select/Grow (3 pixels)
- delete selection
- Select/None
- Filters/Enhance/Heal Tranparency
- correct with the 'Clone Tool' 

- select the orange lines/point with the 'Fuzzy Select Tool'
- Select/Grow (3 pixels)
- delete selection
- Filters/Enhance/Heal Selection
- correct with the 'Clone Tool

The image after healing, need some cloning :

   

[rich2005]

@rinaldop

Heal selection comes from an add-on plugin "resynthesizer" Where you get that from depends on your OS and Gimp version (is it still Gimp 2.10) So, what OS ???

An alternative is the gimp_gmic_qt plugin, which has the filter inpaint. http://www.gmic.eu

Some old examples https://patdavid.net/2012/08/getting-aro...selection/ https://patdavid.net/2014/02/getting-aro...ware-fill/

[rinaldop]

CLONE TOOL

Thank you!

[zeuspaul]

My approach would be copy and paste followed by cloning and healing.

Using rectangular select I would select using in this case rectangular select the area that needs fixing.  Then switching to the move tool I would move the selection using Ctrl-Alt to the area just above.  Then Ctrl C Z to copy and then return the selection to its original place then paste and then merge layers.  Followed by healing.