Bug 132483

Summary: Add new tool to clone and remove dust spots or other unwanted objects from a photo
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: krienke
Component: Plugin-Editor-CloneAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: axel.krebs, caulier.gilles, Ernest, luigi_curzi, metzpinguin, mikmach, shaza.ismail.k, sven.burmeister
Priority: NOR    
Version: 2.4.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 5.8.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description krienke 2006-08-16 09:57:31 UTC
Version:           0.9.0-beta1 (using KDE KDE 3.5.4)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

I think it would be very helpful to have a clone tool like implemented in gimp which helps to *quickly* remove eg spots in a photo that come from dust on the cameras sensor or as well to remove unwanted objects in a photo.
I know for dust spot removal there is CIMG but this tool take quite a very long time (up to several minutes) to complete and with the help of a clone tool it would be a single klick in just a few seconds to remove such a dust spot.
Comment 1 Dennis Gnad 2006-08-20 16:12:48 UTC
Please do this...
The inpainting is really very slow, especially if you have more then one dust particle.

Or improve inpainting like this:
Be able to select different parts of the image and clean them in one inpainting run!
Please do that (and that should be done for other digikam plugins too, in my opinion -> multiple selections)

thanks in advance ;-)
Comment 2 caulier.gilles 2006-08-24 09:38:39 UTC
*** Bug 103332 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Lynda Metref 2007-06-02 11:10:12 UTC
Also inpainting can be modified to clean a given selection on many picture. 
In case for example of a dust in the camera sensor which result on the same dust to remove from all your holiday pics... Please 428 pictures to remove the same spots is really really long and fastidious... :o)
Comment 4 krienke 2008-04-04 09:07:44 UTC
I still vote strongly for cloning. Have you ever tried to remove eg 10 dust particles with inpainting? It seems to be an eternal job. Those 10 dust particles are removed in gimp using the clone tool in just a few seconds. However at the moment you have to start gimp in order to do the job which takes time.  Inpaiting has the real disadvantage that it needs too long to do its job, has to many options that may be adjusted.  And in many cases the result for spot removal is not as good as a manual cloning which is usually completely invisible even if you look at the photo in 100% zoom. 

Even cloning could be programmed to work for a series of photos by always cloning the part of the photo at delta_x, delta_y  position from the spot. And then again cloning would be even more fast compared to inpainting when it has to be applied to more than one photo.
Comment 5 Roel Arends 2008-04-25 13:04:31 UTC
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***
Comment 6 caulier.gilles 2010-04-08 12:07:07 UTC
*** Bug 233718 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 S. Burmeister 2010-04-08 12:12:38 UTC
Gimp has a very easy to use tool to remove spots, e.g. red spots on skin. It is called healer. You can try it out by clicking on the plaster icon in gimp. It works very well.
Comment 8 caulier.gilles 2013-12-31 14:25:04 UTC
*** Bug 329464 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 caulier.gilles 2014-04-07 05:31:08 UTC
*** Bug 333115 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 caulier.gilles 2017-09-03 15:43:58 UTC
Shaza,

NEWS file is not patched with bugzilla entries that you have closed for 5.8.0...

Gilles Caulier
Comment 11 Shaza 2017-09-03 21:22:07 UTC
(In reply to caulier.gilles from comment #10)
> Shaza,
> 
> NEWS file is not patched with bugzilla entries that you have closed for
> 5.8.0...
> 
> Gilles Caulier

Okay Mr. Gilles, I pushed the NEWS file change to master a few minutes ago, sorry I didn't know I should update it now.