Looking for free paint program with clone feature

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I have a number of high school graduation black and white jpg photos
scanned from yearbooks that have handwritten autographs across the faces
that I want to remove. MSPaint does the job, but I have to guess at the
shade of gray, and since the photos have a wide range of grays, this is
tedious. It would be nice if I could just right-click on the area next
to the writing and have this color become the brush fill color.

Besides cloning the only other features I need are zooming, various
brush widths and being able to choose jpg quality when saving.

I've tried Paint25, but I'm not happy with it. Any other ideas?

Thanks,

Ray
 
I have a number of high school graduation black and white jpg photos
scanned from yearbooks that have handwritten autographs across the faces
that I want to remove. MSPaint does the job, but I have to guess at the
shade of gray, and since the photos have a wide range of grays, this is
tedious. It would be nice if I could just right-click on the area next
to the writing and have this color become the brush fill color.
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Have you tried using the Pick Color tool?
 
I have a number of high school graduation black and white jpg photos
scanned from yearbooks that have handwritten autographs across the faces
that I want to remove. MSPaint does the job, but I have to guess at the
shade of gray, and since the photos have a wide range of grays, this is
tedious. It would be nice if I could just right-click on the area next
to the writing and have this color become the brush fill color.

Besides cloning the only other features I need are zooming, various
brush widths and being able to choose jpg quality when saving.

I've tried Paint25, but I'm not happy with it. Any other ideas?
Click to expand...

All the major freeware candidates have the clone feature. Google the
*.freeware.* group for (in order of my personal preference):

Serif PhotoPlus6
PaintStar
PhotoFiltre
GimpShop
Paint.Net
 
Ray said:
I have a number of high school graduation black and white jpg photos
scanned from yearbooks that have handwritten autographs across the faces
that I want to remove. MSPaint does the job, but I have to guess at the
shade of gray, and since the photos have a wide range of grays, this is
tedious. It would be nice if I could just right-click on the area next
to the writing and have this color become the brush fill color.

Besides cloning the only other features I need are zooming, various
brush widths and being able to choose jpg quality when saving.

I've tried Paint25, but I'm not happy with it. Any other ideas?

Thanks,

Ray
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Thanks to all for the suggestions. Al's showed that I had the Pick Color
tool right within MSPaint. Does just what I want.

Ray
 
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