GIMP Content Aware Scale Plugin Extends Photos Seamlessly

Learn how to extend or "stretch" photos seamlessly without damaging the main subject of the photo with this GIMP tutorial! This effect works the same way as Photoshop's Content Aware Scale feature, though it won't cost you any money! Check out this quick and easy photo manipulation technique using the free photo editor GIMP and free G'MIC Plugin.
0:00 - Intro
0:51 - What is Content Aware Scale?
1:05 - Practical Examples
1:59 - Reposition & Crop Image
3:41 - Resize Image & Crop to Content
4:19 - Calculate New Dimension
5:05 - Create Priority Mask
6:04 - Apply Filter
8:06 - Crop to Final Image Size
8:30 - Final Thoughts
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  • @DaviesMediaDesign
    @DaviesMediaDesign Жыл бұрын

    What do you think of Seamcarve and the G'MIC plugin? Let me know below 👇

  • @TRB0

    @TRB0

    Жыл бұрын

    I can't seem to get it to work, I've downloaded the newest version of GIMP and G'MIC and I get an error that GIMP is using an old plug in format or something.

  • @marilenagalindotabares4410
    @marilenagalindotabares44102 жыл бұрын

    Llevo muchos años trabajando con Gimp, pero con tus tutoriales he apredido muchas cosas. Descargaré el tutorial y la transcripción y lo haré. Gracias por compartir el tutorial y las imagenes, que son preciosas. Tengo la campanita activada en KZread para estar al tanto.

  • @zombiefireman
    @zombiefireman2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for another great tutorial! Definitely one I'll need to refer back to when performing this task.

  • @TheCocoaDaddy
    @TheCocoaDaddy2 жыл бұрын

    Awesome!!!! Thanks for posting this!!!!! I've done this in the past, but I haven't used G'Mic for it. This will be EXTREMELY useful the next time I need to do something like this again. :) Thanks!!!

  • @princemjmc
    @princemjmc2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the awesome tutorials, Michael!

  • @JudisJems
    @JudisJems2 жыл бұрын

    This is great, thank you so much! Look forward to trying it soon!!

  • @DaviesMediaDesign

    @DaviesMediaDesign

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for watching!

  • @maximmortal3170
    @maximmortal31702 жыл бұрын

    Super-Duper, Michael! Thank you.

  • @PB2N
    @PB2N2 жыл бұрын

    Merci beaucoup pour ce tuto. Je vais tester ça très vite. Pascal (France)

  • @alistairthomson8710
    @alistairthomson87102 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this. I've been hoping you'd look at the huge list of G'MIC filters. Keep it up!

  • @DaviesMediaDesign

    @DaviesMediaDesign

    Жыл бұрын

    There are too many! A treasure trove of effects.

  • @MaximilianoNoriega
    @MaximilianoNoriega2 жыл бұрын

    This tool is amazing, as well as many plugins. I don't have any of these so I always take painfully long paths. Like in this case, I would have just copy pasted as new layer the plant and then duplicate the bottom layer of the table and wall, and try to clone or softly erase edges. Anyways, this is a lot less painful.

  • @DaviesMediaDesign

    @DaviesMediaDesign

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah this makes things nice and simple IMHO

  • @paulbali9998
    @paulbali99982 жыл бұрын

    thanks!

  • @cosmo0080
    @cosmo00802 жыл бұрын

    well done

  • @mikewellwood1412
    @mikewellwood14122 жыл бұрын

    Hi Michael. May I ask a question which is not directly related to the tutorial, but I'm hopeful that comments to recent videos will get your attention more than comments to older ones: I'm always intrigued by the mouse you use, which seems bigger and differently-shaped than the ones I am used to. Is this a special one for photo-editing / graphic design, and if so, would you like to say something about it? You've also talked about customising tablets for GIMP: In your own work, do you use tablets more than mice, or is it entirely dependent on the type of image you are working with. Thanks in advance.

  • @rafaelg.8098
    @rafaelg.8098 Жыл бұрын

    Hi, thank you very much for your tutorials! A few questions: does G'MIC expands the whole picture (except the painted green), in every direction? How does it affect the image quality? Is there lower resolution on evrything but the plant or just in the "extra" portion you created (to the right), or none at all? And finally, this wouldn't be better than interpolating the image, right? (if I just wanted to scale up an image, in every direction) I ask this for prints. Sometimes part of the subject of a print can get behind a frame, so if I scale the whole thing, I'm losing resolutions all over the image. But if G'MIC could create 1 or 2 inches around it, something that will mostly hide behind the frame, and that does not affect the resolution on the rest of the image, that would be just great. If you guys got what I mean and know another solution, I'm all ears.

  • @brandyberry14
    @brandyberry142 жыл бұрын

    so its kinda like liquid rescale? I'll try this and see which I prefer.

  • @brad1484
    @brad148410 ай бұрын

    Hi Michael, thanks for the tutorial. When I try, it doesn't seem to recognise the priority mask. I followed your instructions as per video. Any ideas what to check? EDIT: Like it shows the priority mask and I have the option selected in the seamcarve tool, but it just just stretches the entire background image instead of just the part not covered by the priority mask.

  • @neamorielle

    @neamorielle

    9 ай бұрын

    Same here! Tried it with multiple pictures and it won't work on any of them...

  • @ChristopherPhillipsDev

    @ChristopherPhillipsDev

    6 ай бұрын

    Hi - I ran into the same problem. To get around it, I simply did a series of seamcarve until I go to the size i wanted. Use a percent that is just under the amount that it starts to stretch.

  • @babubillions499
    @babubillions4992 жыл бұрын

    Thankyou for this tutorial! Really helpful. Could you please explain a little about the math you used there. I would like to know about it as to how it works.Thankyou.

  • @DaviesMediaDesign

    @DaviesMediaDesign

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for watching!

  • @qubitx64
    @qubitx642 жыл бұрын

    G'mic is a hidden gem/.

  • @ImmortalMomentsArt
    @ImmortalMomentsArt2 жыл бұрын

    I can't get the latest version of GIMP to run on my computer, only the last (2.9?). It should run flawlessly...I have 64GB Ram, plenty of harddrive space, 2 Xeon processors, and a Quadro RTX Graphics card. But it takes up to 5 minutes for it to even try to come up and then it will crash. Any ideas? The previous version, takes a while to come up (about as long as some of my other art programs), and works fine. Would appreciate any suggestions.

  • @andreasstolten9179
    @andreasstolten91792 жыл бұрын

    I did not catch it: how does the seamcarve-filer knows whethte to expand ths sample image on the right or left side?

  • @rafaelg.8098

    @rafaelg.8098

    Жыл бұрын

    My thoughts as well. Have you found out?

  • @andreasstolten9179

    @andreasstolten9179

    Жыл бұрын

    @@rafaelg.8098 Unfortunately not.

  • @wusty23jd

    @wusty23jd

    Жыл бұрын

    I'm wondering the same thing! My family picture needs to switch from being vertical to horizontal. I'm trying to preserve my family and then extend the background in each direction (i.e. left and right)

  • @The3DArtist
    @The3DArtist2 жыл бұрын

    Another great tutorial, Sadly G'Mic doesn't work on MacOS Big Sur or newer

  • @mandofrog
    @mandofrog6 ай бұрын

    Is there a significance to using green for the priority mask? Can it be any color that contrasts with the image?

  • @JOEZEP54
    @JOEZEP542 жыл бұрын

    Hi Mike, This is what I was looking for, but when I went to download Gimmick program I got all kind of alerts, vocal & flashing to call Microsoft. Please advise.

  • @DaviesMediaDesign

    @DaviesMediaDesign

    2 жыл бұрын

    Did you follow my tutorial on how to download and install G'MIC on Windows (link in description)? If you did, what version of GIMP are you using and what version of Windows?

  • @TheCocoaDaddy

    @TheCocoaDaddy

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like you somehow ended up at a "bogus" site, trying to trick you into calling a scam support site.

  • @JOEZEP54

    @JOEZEP54

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@DaviesMediaDesign Thank you for your quick reply. Yes, GIMP 2.10.30, I have windows 10

  • @JOEZEP54

    @JOEZEP54

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@TheCocoaDaddy I think you are correct. Thank you.

  • @dnoodspodu1159
    @dnoodspodu1159 Жыл бұрын

    05:05 is the real start Durak

  • @hannataylor8923
    @hannataylor8923 Жыл бұрын

    I painted the layer with the green but when I pull up the tool it says priority mask top layer is missing and I can't figure out why :(

  • @Athezir

    @Athezir

    Жыл бұрын

    Hey, I had this problem a few minutes ago. Check the part where it says "Input/Output" in the "G'MIC" window, for the Seamcarve settings, and where it says "Input layers" change it to "all". And for "Output" I changed it to "new image", like in the video. This worked for me.

  • @QuotePilgrim
    @QuotePilgrim2 жыл бұрын

    I know this is kind of an old video but I gotta say you did the math in a very roundabout, awkward manner. All you needed to do is divide 1920 by 1309.

  • @DaviesMediaDesign

    @DaviesMediaDesign

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, well, I suck at math 🤣

  • @wesleycolvin7158
    @wesleycolvin71582 жыл бұрын

    For whatever reason, my internet won't access the main website to download GMIC.

  • @DaviesMediaDesign

    @DaviesMediaDesign

    2 жыл бұрын

    GMIC.eu?

  • @wesleycolvin7158

    @wesleycolvin7158

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@DaviesMediaDesign Yeah, this problem has come for me on several other websites, so I probably not the website itself. For whatever reason, my internet doesn't get along with random websites (like this one). Any suggestion regarding where I can (hopefully) download the program?

  • @chloe4587
    @chloe45872 жыл бұрын

    sadly this does not work for me.

  • @danrazART
    @danrazART2 жыл бұрын

    So basically, rocket science! 😂

  • @tareqalbeesh9788
    @tareqalbeesh97888 ай бұрын

    that's why photoshop is worth paying for, i literally can do this in 2 seconds on PS.

  • @joshmcdzz6925
    @joshmcdzz69252 жыл бұрын

    Gmic don't work on MAC and does not come with gimp 2.10.30. i wonder why gimp took out the GMic plugin, plus, Krita has this seemlessly integrated. PS seems to bribe Gimp to remain primitive ( cuz there was a time GImp had a lot of tools that gave PS a good run for its money unfortunately they took them out - resynthesizer, gmic, healing, fx-foundry and even the CONTENT AWARE TOOL PS just imitated and made a good selling point out of. That was a gimp initiation on older versions they took out in recent version.

  • @bluebirdsigma
    @bluebirdsigma2 жыл бұрын

    Can I make distorted memes with this?

  • @SpringHybridOfficial
    @SpringHybridOfficial2 жыл бұрын

    im using content aware scale for only one thing funnies

  • @billdillon8139
    @billdillon81392 жыл бұрын

    Horrible audio but good to know technique.

  • @jeffreyuthale6193
    @jeffreyuthale61932 жыл бұрын

    Do u know all of your videos are helpful , even videos that are 10 years old

  • @DaviesMediaDesign

    @DaviesMediaDesign

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @penguin605
    @penguin6052 жыл бұрын

    please subtitles.....🍠🍠🍠🍠🍠🍠

  • @DaviesMediaDesign

    @DaviesMediaDesign

    2 жыл бұрын

    Just added them

  • @ahome3406
    @ahome34064 ай бұрын

    This is a very bad tutorial. You spent most of the time talking about cropping and dimensions, and didn't get to the point until almost the end. And when you did you require a third-party plugin. You should have said this tutorial requires the plugin at first. And the worst is we have to watch a separate video to install the plugin!

  • @notabolished1331
    @notabolished133110 ай бұрын

    Painfully difficult to use Gimp!!!😤😤😤 No wonder it's so unpopular!!

  • @stabokbose

    @stabokbose

    8 ай бұрын

    I have shifted from Photoshop to GIMP, Before I had a fair amount of Photoshop experience so it was hard for me to switch but now I'm confident enough and got rid from Adobe.

  • @notabolished1331

    @notabolished1331

    8 ай бұрын

    @@stabokbose Good for you