Getting Around in GIMP - G'MIC Inpainting (Content Aware Fill)

One of the advantages of hanging around people smarter than me is that I get to see some really neat things as they are being developed. Lucky for me, +David Tschumperlé let’s me see interesting things that they are hacking on over at G'MIC.

Of course, if you’re reading me occasionally you’ll remember that last time I got a chance to work on something with G'MIC, we ended up making some fun film emulation presets. This time I’m not involved other than to play, and it’s really neat!

It is the latest work on the patch-based inpainting algorithm.

The rest of my GIMP tutorials can be found here:
Getting Around in GIMP
My previous look at using the Resynthesizer/Heal Selection plug-in:
Getting Around in GIMP - Heal Selection (Resynthesizer)

Getting Around in GIMP - Heal Selection (Resynthesizer)

Missing Tower! (from Eiffel Tower by Terrazzo on Flickr)

I've been reading through a ton of hyperbole about Adobes Photoshop "Content Aware Fill" for some reason lately ("magical", "incredible", "amazing" and others are fun to read).

I don't think I would be too far off in assuming that Adobes implementation is likely based off the wonderful work of Dr. Paul Harrison. Dr. Harrison's PhD thesis just happened to yield the code that gave GIMP users the Resynthesizer plugin, which has provided us a "Content Aware Fill" for quite a while now (since before 2005).

If you've ever spent any time with the Clone Tool or Heal Tool in GIMP, and haven't tried out Heal Selection with Resynthesizer, then you might find the results of this filter very helpful.