Set sample sources for cloning and healing – Adobe Photoshop CS4 User Manual
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USING PHOTOSHOP CS4
Retouching and transforming
Last updated 1/10/2010
Altering an image with the Clone Stamp tool
1
Select the Clone Stamp tool
.
2
Choose a brush tip and set brush options for the blending mode, opacity, and flow in the options bar.
3
To specify how you want to align the sampled pixels and how to sample data from the layers in your document, set
any of the following in the options bar:
Aligned
Samples pixels continuously, without losing the current sampling point, even if you release the mouse button.
Deselect Aligned to continue to use the sampled pixels from the initial sampling point each time you stop and resume
painting.
Sample
Samples data from the layers you specify. To sample from the active layer and visible layers below it, choose
Current And Below. To sample only from the active layer, choose Current Layer. To sample from all visible layers,
choose All Layers. To sample from all visible layers except adjustment layers, choose All Layers and click the Ignore
Adjustment Layers icon to the right of the Sample pop-up menu.
4
Set the sampling point by positioning the pointer in any open image and Alt-clicking (Windows) or Option-
clicking (Mac
OS).
5
(Optional) In the Clone Source panel, click a clone source button
and set an additional sampling point.
You can set up to five different sampling sources. The Clone Source panel saves the sampled sources until you close
the document.
6
(Optional) To select the sampled source you want, click a clone source button in the Clone Source panel.
7
(Optional) Do any of the following in the Clone Source panel:
•
To scale or rotate the source that you’re cloning, enter a value for W (width), H (height), or the rotation in
degrees
. (Negative width and height values flip the source.)
•
To show an overlay of the source that you’re cloning, select Show Overlay and specify the overlay options.
Note: Overlay can be clipped to the brush size when the Clipped option is enabled.
8
Drag over the area of the image you want to correct.
More Help topics
Set sample sources for cloning and healing
Using the Clone Stamp or Healing Brush tool, you can sample sources in the current document or any open document
in Photoshop.