Exemplar-based algorithms are a popular technique for image in painting. They mainly have two important phases: deciding the filling-in order and selecting good exemplars. Traditional exemplar-based algorithms are to search suitable patches from source regions to fill in the missing parts, but they have to face a problem: improper selection of exemplars. To improve the problem we introduction modified exemplar based using non local total variation model which include two main step patch priority and patch completion. Experimental results show the superiority of the proposed method compared to the competitive methods. The proposed method may be used for restoration of digital images of defective or damaged artifacts.