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I am switching over to Gimp from another edit program and could use a little help. I take photographs of rescue dogs to post onto adoption websites, mostly for Labs4rescue. The main thing I do is to remove the leashes from the photo and do a little cropping. I can't figure out how to do that on this program. I can not access the user manual it says that something crashed and to restart my computer. That didn't help. In the previous program I used, I would put the cursor on an area that I wanted to copy and then use the brush to cover over the leash. This worked great. Can anyone teach me how to do this on Gimp?
I thank you and all of the dogs looking for forever homes thank you. Huh
Use the Clone Tool
1. Select the Clone Tool
2. Select an appropriate brush, probably the circle hardness 0.75. Set the brush size
3. Ctrl-click to set the source area
4. Drag over the leash

For help, Shift-F1 produces a cursor with a question mark. Then click on the Clone Tool.

Once you get the more familiar with Gimp there is the Resynthesizer plug-in that can make the job easier. Ask again when you feel that you are ready to move to the next step.
In addition to Blighty's answer, the Clone tool is described here: https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tool-clone.html