Using Brushes to Repair Images

The rest of this chapter looks at repairing images with GIMP's brushes. GIMP has a range of brushes that are very useful for touching up photos. The advantage of a brush is that you are only affecting the part of the image your brush is moving over. You can choose the shape and thickness of the brush. You can choose how much of a brush stroke is visible and what percentage of the stroke is transparent. You can decide to make the brush dynamic so that the pressure and speed of your strokes behaves like a real brush. For beginners, we show you how to start using the default settings for each brush. Only change the brush options if you are not happy with the result or if you feel like experimenting.