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Plugins - sparky 1987 - 07-22-2025
Just installed Resynthesizer plugin and trying to understand how it works but the heal transparency does not seem to do whay I have seen in a tutorial.
To start with the eraser does not make a transparent slection on the picture instead it is black unless I add alpha channel
Then the heal transparence tool does fix but fixes black and leaves the spot I cleared and creats messages about something wrong and also leaves , see file
RE: Plugins - rich2005 - 07-22-2025
That looks like a Gimp 3.0.nn to me not Gimp 2.10, however
Heal Transparency will fill in a "hole" - a transparent area - with the surrounding pixels.
You get that error message when the border of the "hole" contains semi-transparent pixels. If you made the "hole" using the eraser tool then down near the bottom of the eraser tool options is a tick box for "hard edge" - enable that and start again.
The heal selection does what it says, make a selection (with a hard edge) and it copies surrounding pixels into the selection.
This a 60 second animation demo - first heal transparency with semi-transparency - then with "hard edge" - finally a simple heal selection. https://i.imgur.com/wPxMrex.mp4