Photoshop CS2 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies- P22:Barbara Obermeier is principal of Obermeier Design, a graphic design studio in Ventura, California. She’s the author of Photoshop Album For Dummies, coauthor of Adobe Master Class: Illustrator Illuminated, Photoshop 7 For Dummies, and Illustrator 10 For Dummies. She has contributed as coauthor, technical editor, or layout designer for numerous books. Barb also teaches computer graphics at Brooks Institute; the University of California, Santa Barbara; and Ventura College | 608 Cloning with the Clone Stamp Tool Figure 3-1 When using the Clone Stamp tool drag along the area where you want your clone to appear. When you successfully complete the cloning process you have two identical objects. Figure 3-2 shows my identical twin Siberian tigers. 12. Save the image and close it. Figure 3-2 My twin Siberian tigers are the products of cloning. Digital Bandaging with the Healing Brush Tool 609 Tips for excellent cloning results Here are a few useful tidbits regarding the Clone Stamp tool Use the Clone Stamp tool for fixing simple flaws To clean up a flaw that is pretty straight such as a stray hair or scratch Alt click Option click on the Mac with the tool to define the source. Then click at one end of the straight flaw and Shift click at the other end. The cloned source pixels then cover up the flaw. Vary the origin point for sampling often If you keep sampling from the same point without ever varying it the area you re cloning starts to look like ugly shag carpeting. Or at best starts to appear blotchy and over-retouched. Zoom out once in a while to check how your overall image is looking. You can avoid those funky telltale clone stamp repetitive patterns and blotches. Clone patterns To use the Pattern Stamp tool which shares the flyout menu with the Clone Stamp tool select a custom pattern from the Pattern picker drop-down palette on the Options bar. Drag with the Pattern Stamp tool and you see the pattern appear. Digital Bandaging with the Healing Brush Tool The Healing Brush and Patch tools are similar to the Clone Stamp tool. They let you clone pixels from one area and apply them to another area. But that s where the healing tools leave the Clone Stamp tool eating their dust. The problem with the Clone Stamp tool is that it doesn t take the tonality of the flawed area the shadows midtones and highlights into consideration. So if the pixels you are sampling from aren t shaded and lit exactly like the ones you re covering you have a .
