Clone video or animation content – Adobe Photoshop CS4 User Manual
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Video and animation
Last updated 1/10/2010
Cloning content in video and animation frames (Photoshop Extended)
In Photoshop Extended, you can use the Clone Stamp and Healing Brush tools to retouch or duplicate objects in video
or animation frames. Use the Clone Stamp to sample content from one part of a frame (the source) and paint it over
another part of the same or different frame (the target). You can also use a separate document as the sampling source,
instead of a frame. The Healing Brush includes options for blending the sampled content with the target frame.
Note: You can also clone content with the Spot Healing Brush and the Patch tools. However, the Clone Stamp and the
Healing Brush tools let you store up to five samples in the Clone Source panel, and set overlay, scaling, and frame offset
options.
After you sample content from a frame and paint with it, and then move to another frame, the source frame changes
relative to the frame you initially sampled from. You can lock in the source frame you first sampled, or enter a frame
offset value to change the source to a different frame, relative to the frame you first sampled.
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Retouch with the Clone Stamp tool
Retouch with the Healing Brush tool
Set sample sources for cloning and healing
Clone video or animation content
1
Select the Clone Stamp tool
or Healing Brush tool
, and then set the tool options you want.
2
Do one of the following:
•
Select a video layer in the Layers panel or Animation panel, and then move the current-time indicator to the frame
you want to sample.
•
Open the image you want to sample.
3
Position the pointer in an open image or frame, and Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac
OS) to set the
sampling point.
4
To set additional sampling points, click each clone source button
in the Clone Source panel.
5
Select the target video layer and move the current-time indicator to the frame you want to paint.
If you want to paint on a separate layer, you can add a blank video layer. Make sure you choose the appropriate
Sample option to clone content onto the blank video layer.
6
If you have set multiple sampling points, select the source you want to use in the Clone Source panel.
7
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) or H (height), or the rotation in
degrees
.
•
To show an overlay of the source that you’re cloning, select Show Overlay and specify the overlay options. (The
Clipped option restricts the overlay to the brush size. Deselect this option to overlay the entire source image.)
To move the source overlay to an offset position, Shift + Alt-drag (Windows) or Shift + Option-drag (Mac OS). To
temporarily show overlays, deselect Show Overlay, and press Shift + Alt (Windows) or Shift + Option (Mac OS).