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My first attempt. Here's the before:

http://i.imgur.com/LHvih.jpg

Here's the after:

http://i.imgur.com/jSRoy.jpg

Not perfect, but not too bad either, given that it took 30 seconds to do it. I'm sure the size and shape of the selection changes the result, and then the filter has a "radius" parameter which by default is set to 100 and can be changed, and I guess it will change the result.

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I would like to say, though, that the original is a fantastic picture.

A camelduck, from one of Neal Asher's worlds ? Must be harmless, don't remember it being written up. (So, the runcible network is up ?)

Well, in the worst case, you just re-apply the filter on the part you're not satisfied with (for example, those white areas at the bottom).

Another technique is to normal-crop out the sky and the distant grass that is so blurry, "content-aware" crop out the duck, then paste back in the stuff you originally cropped out. The white bits at the bottom are sky. The blurry bits are where grass far in the background was stitched in.

It is a great starting point to make Trotsky-duck disappear on Stalin's orders. http://i.imgur.com/xK6Jl.jpg The wealth of free tools is just amazing these days.

Well, it's still quite obvious that something is missing there, as the central area of the picture is visibly less blurred than its surrounding. I guess you could fix that easily by just blurring it with ordinary gimp blur. (But great start indeed, comrade. :o))

Haha, I played with exactly that picture with resynth yesterday too. :)

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