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Inpaint 1.0 was available as a giveaway on January 4, 2009!
Delete any unwanted object from your photo, such as extra power-line, people, text... The program will automatically inpaint the selected area to erase it. Inpaint reconstructs the selected image area from the pixel near the area boundary. Inpaint may be used to remove undesirable objects from still images.
If some unexpected object spoils an otherwise good photograph, Inpaint may be used to remove it. Simply select the object. No need for fiddly messing about with the clone tool!
It is alarmingly simple to use. Draw a selection around the object you wish to remove from the picture, and run smart remove selection. Inpaint will fill the selection area with intelligently generated texture drawn from the surrounding image data.
Microsoft Windows XP or higher; 2000 MHz processor; 256 MB RAM; No hardware acceleration is required
516 KB
$39.99
@ # 114 suzi
I am willing to help you out in anyway if you still need it
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Downloaded just fine but was unable to save changes. Really a neat piece of software. Just wish I knew how to use it and save the results. Can anyone help me with this.
SM
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Nice compact program. Thanks for this! No problem installing on Vista HP I will be using for icons and more
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It works great ! Esp if you take a lot of photographs and some of them will have some stuff you didn't want in the photos...now we can just erase them...
Most of the time the software works or gets you to a place from which you can pick up and finish off the correction.
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Installed and activated on Windows 7 pre-beta build 6801 x64 just fine. I've noticed that is works well with simple designs but struggles with more complex ones. Does use a fair amount of CPU when processing, but most of the time it goes quickly. Very nice if you plan on doing minor to moderate adjustments. 8/10
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Thanks for the help.
@Dave Knight, There is a file activate.exe. Dbl click it and it will do the activation stuff after connecting to GAOTD! But you have to hurry!
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Well, I just spent about three hours redownloading plugins and the latest Irfanview and there is no cloning or scratch removal tool in there, in fact there is very little detail work you can do even though it uses a lot of plugins. The metallic gold is awesome though.
SO I think I have tried this before, (the sample picture is the sameone I saw a couple of years ago) and it didn't do what I wanted, so I used Corel to clone, but I will try it again since that was a couple of years ago.
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Well, it didn't claim to work on a Vista system but thanks to the comments here I tried and it works :)
A while ago I had it on my old system so I'm happy to get this opportunity to install it on my 'new' Vista PC - thanks GOTD
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This is a nifty tool, though, cannot be used in complex environments/ backgrounds, its good enough to remove unwanted details in less complex backgrounds - for instance to remove a light switch/ cables on a wall, to make it look better/ neat.
Thank you gaotd, and the developers.
GOD Bless!
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#71--if #83's answer does not work, Google "change file association (plus your operating system, i.e. xp)", select one of the articles and follow the instructions so the .msi file is handled by MS Installation program. Even if you have an old copy, you may need to update it to 3.0
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Tried and tried to download this program and it dowloads with winfip and when i go to extarct it it is in a zip folder called zip.MSI. It will not extract to run the set up. Can't get it to work at all. Hope i can get this soon as time is running out.
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# 94-95 Barbara
do this and I am sure you wont have any problems after. First clean your cache,i.e cookies, temp file and temporary internet files, reboot your computer then try and run the Activate file again. IF you should still have an issue, then there is another solution. Disable your firewall and anti-virus just for a moment till you get the Activator to run then re-enable everything again and you should be fine from there. The least and last resort would be for you to know whats running in your process that shouldn't be, if you are familiar with what programs that you have running and what they are listed as in your process, then you will know what not to kill and what to kill. Some running programs can cause the Activator to respond improper as in the error you have gotten. Ctrl+Alt+Del is where you find whats running in the process.
A very useful tool also that I recommend which is Freeware and spyware free that will help you is Unlocker and has many uses for error messages which can be found here
http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/
Unlocker is an explorer extension that allows you with a simple right-click of the mouse on a file or folder to get rid of error message such as error deleting file or folder, cannot delete folder: it is used by another person or program.
Helps delete locked files with error messages like:
- Cannot delete file: Access is denied
- There has been a sharing violation.
- The source or destination file may be in use.
- The file is in use by another program or user.
- Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use.
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There is a bug that you can see as follows: make a selection; use SHIFT to change the cursor to resize on the source selection region; move the handles and release the mouse button. The cursor will stay as the resize cursor and (more annoyingly) the cursor is trapped inside the Inpaint window. If you don't realize this and move the cursor to where you expect it to land on another window and click the cursor, you will lose your selection and source regions.
I compared Inpaint to ImageMender to fill in a black hole in the sky (caused by lack of data from making a panorama). Both results were acceptable, but Inpaint was faster for filling in one region but I had to do multiple selections so overall it was slower.
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Installed and activated fine under Windows 2000, but couldn't find gdiplus.dll when it was launched for the first time. I found gdiplus.dll in the .NET 1.1 framework directory, so I copiued it to the Inpaint folder and Inpaint worked after that. The one complaint I have is there does not appear to be a magic wand tool (at least when installed under W2K) and there is no way to abort "Inpainting" :( Functionally, it works "ok". Inpaint does not appear to be smart enough to understand the selected object is within a gradient (eg. in the center of an area from light green to dark green).
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This is a very good product and has many features that are not at first aparant. The box can be moved in any direction without moving the item you want to remove so that the fill is more correct
This program will work well in very complicated pictures with a little patience
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I can't find anywhere, is this program compatible with a Mac? It doesn't appear to be, I guess.
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VirusTotal scan reports a suspicious file by Panda scan on scanning this software. Is this a false positive?? Any suggestions??
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@2: "I removed the head of a teacher in the same picture and it just replaced the empty space with data from it’s left, which was another teachers head."
That is why you can choose whatever area surrounding the stuff you want (by continuously pressing the shift key) to replace the deleted area. If you don't choose, the program will use its default settings to replace the empty area by whatever is around it (the program cannot have brain to choose what you want to replace the empty area with).
Once you work with it 3-4 times, you will start loving the program. I replaced my wife (only because she insisted that she was not looking good in that picture, otherwise I'd NEVER do that ;)) in one of our pictures with whatever was around us- which was actually part sand, part road and part hill. So it took me a few minutes, but people are amazed when they compare the 2 photos: in 1, it is like I was always alone in the picture with scenic surroundings, and then you press the next button in Windows gallery and she suddenly pops up!!
And I'm not even good at anything computer apart from web, docs and excel stuff. Heck, I am trying to burn couple of my youtube videos to DVD for past few days using Windows media maker and Starburn, but can't even figure out what format to convert the videos from FLV to to burn them properly (wmv didn't work out good) :(
So this program is A-1 once you get used to it.
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Does anyone know how to get this program to activate? I have installed & uninstalled several times & I can not get the activation key because it keeps coming up "failed to connect please try again later" I tried downloading the setup first & then the activation & then I tried the activation & then the setup which either one will not work. Can someone give me a clue on how to fix this so I can use this software.
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ok, I just tried it again...went through the whole thing and I am still getting an Error: Activate.exe has encountered a problem..I reported it to Microsoft...i sure hope i can get this program before the time runs out...thanks
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It did download good and installed, but when I tried to activate it, I got an error: Activate.exe has encountered a problem..I deleted everything and tried over again and still the problem..I really want this program...what can I do? Thanks
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I guess I must have missed something, but it is requiring that I register before I can save anything I've tried. I did not see a name and a key when I downloaded this. Did I miss it? It is useless without a save function. Thanks in advance!
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Link to my "before and after" example of what can be done with inpaint. (This has been updated since it was first posted at the last Giveaway, the "after" picture now shown is after 2nd and final revision.)
http://www.angelfire.com/wi2/gsd/seeingisntalwaysbelieving.html
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Not being "advanced" in ANYTHING computer related, I just want to say that I've been using Inpaint for a few months now and have been very happy with the results. It's so easy to use :) It may be useful for the computer-literate folks too, but I wouldn't know.
Thank you once again, GAOTD!
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I downloaded this one the last time it was offered. Works great for certain images and it's definitely much faster the Image Mender. Worth the download imo. Thanks GAOTD. :)
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Thank you GAOTD and Teorex. This is one of my fav small utilities. Installed and activated smoothly on Win XP Pro SP3 Laptop and on a Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 Laptop. I do a lot of image manipulating of various sizes with multi-background colors and etc and many layers. This has always been a useful tool for me for what I do. I had gotten this the last time it was offered here as as I did with Image Mender.
From my own expireience Inpaint and Image Mender both work together good side by side as one will do what the other wont but in overall results everything in the end turns out pretty darn good. For me I have never had any issues with neither one for any tasks that I have come across.
Inpaint works fast but yet isnt as detailed as one would think. Image Mender works slow but has more detailing results because you can enlarge the image to as big as you need while working with it and you can work it Pixel by Pixel to get as defined as you could. If editing a large scale on the image with Image Mender, the best thing to do is zoom in till you see each and every Pixel for your chosen areas, work the pixels as if you was doing an outline which can take some time but patience is well worth it then you can move along much faster like you was coloring LOL.
Inpaint can be of a similar as well, but does not handle pixel by pixel the same way. Needless to say, Inpaint no matter what is and will always be a very good handy tool for folks like me who manipulate their images as much as I do.
The best thing you folks could do is keep Inpaint and Image Mender on hand, as they both will do you some justice and save you some grief providing that you have patience in your work. As with any product in life, everything has a pro and con, combining things can make things so much more creative. They both are Pay-for products so therefore if we are getting them in full version here for free, then what do we really have to complain about? I am sure that both of these items will be offered here again several more times.
For me, they both get a 10/10 but thats because they both DO exactly what I need them to be used for. Have a Good day everyone. Thanks again GAOTD and Teorex
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I am quite impressed. Does what it says. Pretty much no learning curve. Opened a pic and deleted a portion in about a minute.
Wouldn't install for me the first time it was offered. Glad to have a chance to get it this time.
I am a regular here and wonder why so many people complain about repeat offers. I am a prime example of one who appreciates it. Many times for one reason or another a person can't get a program to install or they can't come here on a particular day. When it is offered again it helps out many people.
I have said this many times before. What the hell are you going to do with a new program everyday. Are you really going to download 365 different utilities. I think not. Just think of repeats as a day off.
Have fun and be careful out there.
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Product installed successfully but will not activate. The activation window comes up with the message that it is checking key availability, but freezes on that and can't be closed except through Task Manager.
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the product, with the same results.
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re my own comment #84:
Never mind. I went back through the process (copy and replace) and the registration/activation worked just fine the second time around.
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Downloaded and installed on old desktop during the previous offer.
Have a new lappy, downloaded and installed just now, but am unable to register/activate.
Any tips?
PC, Vista Home Basic
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I'm not convinced that this "version" of Inpaint is different from the one offered on October 7, 2008 (which I downloaded, installed, and find very useful).
To #74: Where did you get 1.0.0.1 for the version of today's app? The version of the October application is 1.0.0.2, it was created/modified on May 21, 2008, and it's size is 568 kb.
#17 stated: "the older one was last modified on 05/21/2008 and this one was last modified on 12/20/2008." I wonder if the version number has been updated as well.
By the way, nowhere on Teorex' website can you find a version number; however, the release date is (was) 05-Nov-2007 . . .
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To #s 42, 56, 71: Re the .msi install file: msi files are installation files that require that you have a (free) Microsoft installer program loaded on your computer. You should be able to find the installer by Googling "Microsoft installer".
First install the MS installer, then double-click in Setup.msi. This should install InPaint. Don't forget to run Activate after your install.
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Am I correct in assuming this is the same version as that which was given away previously? When I tried to install it on my laptop, it detected a previous version and said it has to be uninstalled before the new version can be installed, but on the "about" page for the older one it indicates it too is 1.0 but I wanted to be sure that its not 1.0.something newer than before!
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It installed fine, but when I try to activate I get a 'fatal error-key is invalid message. I'm not that computer experienced. Can someone tell me why it does that, and what I can do about it? Thanks
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I am so glad to see this offered as a giveaway again, so I can put it on my current desktop (that has a nice big hard drive on it with plenty of space to add new Giveaways...at this point in time anyway! I love this program, being that I do a lot of work with photographs and frequently have to remove background clutter, etc, from pictures when preparing them for intended purposes. This is really an awesome program.
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I just installed this and wanted to erase the date and time (for printing purpose) that my camera placed on the photo. I put a rectangle around the date and time, clicked "run" and it very quickly and neatly wrote over the printing and colored it in to where it looks like the date was never there. Two thumbs up for this feature alone!
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Has anyone used these programs enough to compare this with "Image Mender", which was given away on here some time ago? I have a picture of my chicken house, with a powerline in front of it. With "Inpaint", it I was able to remove the powerline. It left a very faint remnant of where the line was, when it transitioned from one colour to another. My first use seemed to work really well, but I havent tested it with anything detailed. Gonna use both programs, and compare them.
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AMD AthlonX2 4000~XPSP3~2Gig RAM~1TB Seagate HDD Ok here's the verdict: Download fast and installation and registration easy...... NIFTY Little Proggy
Does exactly what it says it will, ie remove blemishes and small mistakes from digital photos. THIS IS NOT PSPro Paint Shop or Abdobe or in fact any of the big and expensive graphics programs out there NOR is it in competition with them...... but its an effective tool for removing zits from your girlfriend's face NOT, red-eye(Although if you had enough patience ...) And to the guy with the red wall behind the teachers faces etc, get over it already YOU have one of the big 3! Use that and stop winging about proggies like this less than 1MB big
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Addendum:
Like a NOOB I missed or glossed over the "shift key" usage in the help file. This does make the clone area more usable. Figured I should make note of that.
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This was a GAOTD before and I got it then. It's alright if you don't know much about digital editing. It does it's job if you use it right. Everyone who can use photoshop can do a better job. That being said, if you want it, it works great. But still photoshop>inpaint.
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I was pretty critical of InPaint when it was last offered in the guise of version 1.0.0.0 a couple of months ago. I'm still convinced that for the money, a free program like Photobie's clone tool will do a better overall job of fixing large unwanted artifacts in a photograph, the downside of this tool is that it takes practice to use effectively.
I will say this: TeoreX has made some significant improvements in Ver. 1.0.0.1. of this software. However much work remains to be done to make this a competitive graphics tool. For example, once an area has been delineated, a larger ... I guess you could call it a source box is drawn around your area. This needs to have controllable dimensional attributes. The corner markers appear when the program's source area is drawn, but they have no effect when attempting to resize or move the box to a better source. Once the source box is drawn, unless you redraw the area to be modified, you're stuck with that. In areas near contrasting color, or textures, the program will draw from, and include, colors and textures completely unrelated to what is desired.
In general, unless the area to be replaced is surrounded by a large (relatively speaking) area of the same color/texture it won't do the job properly, if at all... I If one draws quite small, partial "replace target boxes", totally surrounded by the same color/texture, it is much more effective.
I'll keep an eye out for the next version and give that a try as well , but I don't think it will become a regular tool for me until there is more control over the source box, and levels of magnification.. Who knows, it may become a standard in graphics work ...someday.
A suggestion ... take a look at AKVIS', or Two Pilot's similar tools.
Sorry, TeoreX, this version still doesn't quite make it..
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Ran on Vista Home Premium. Installed with no problem. Activated with no problem. I really like this program. Works pretty darn well. Has a little problem working in tight spaces, but that may jut be a learning curve. Overall I'd give it a thumbs up!
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Have just installed Inpaint, installation was simple and without problem on my XP (3)
The programme itself is so simple to get to grips with, a choice of either Rectangular or Lasso to capture the area you wish to change, then click Inpaint and Run, sit back and allow the programme to do it's thing.
Ive tried small edits, medium and in the process of doing a large quite hi rez image edit. Im typing this as it's working away to see what effect it has had on performance and ive had no problems running this programme and 2 lots of IE8 open.
it has just finished the big sized hi rez image edit and I must report it isnt too good, although as others have said, it doesnt really like big edits. Im sure if I had done it in smaller stages, the results wouldve been a lot better.
Im reasonably pleased with what I can achieve with this programme, although I did try to run before i could walk with the big edit..
Ease of use for a novice? Got to be 10 / 10.
Capability of the programme in the hands of a novice? (experts will probably use Gimp or similar) I'd say a good 7 / 10
Overall I do like this and will definately keep this programme
A thumbs up from me. If youre new to image editing, want to remove things from pictures, then definately give it a go. It's free for today and does what it says on the tin.
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hey guys, when I try to run setup.msi windows opens up notepad instead of the installer, how do I fix this?
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Nice little program that would be handy to have around to sue as something to use before you resort to revin' up the GIMP or Photoshop.
Does a great job of singling out specific objects in specific layers on Non-flattened images. So if you are looking for a quick edit this will be done with it before the big boys even get initialized.
Otherwise it is bit hit and miss but worth having around.
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Loaded on Vista with no problem, activated, restarted my pc, and started using the program. Easy to use. Thank you . . . B-)
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#61 - Thank you for the info - you were spot on. I tried your advice and it worked perfectly. Much appreciated.
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@Ashraf, #20 & Matt, #49:
Irfanview cannot remove objects by itself (though there are a lot of plugins though).
You do have the possibility to open a picture with an external editor (Irfanview focusses on viewing and displaying info and pictures etc. in whatever way and format).
The external editor could be inpaint (in theory, not tested). But still you would not edit the photo with Irfanview, but in the case above with inpaint.
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I have image mender from back when it was given away and like it. I wont switch either. So, my point is this, if you don't have image mender, I suggest you take this offer. Especially if it works anything like image mender.
Nope, image mender is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but does a pretty darn good job.
Thanks for the offer. Thumbs up on todays offer.
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#2, This program is powerful! You have to use it the right way, look at the comments from last time it was given away and you might get better results. I've tried a bunch of things and you can't tell the difference. Not flaming or anything, just thought I'd put out a suggestion.
Oh, and is this the same version as last time?
Anyway, Great program!
Keep it up, GAOTD,
GAOTD Lover
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