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You can clone objects in After Effects in exactly the same way as you can in Photoshop. You use a tool up here called the clone stamp tool, but the difference is, of course, in After Effects you want to make sure that you are not in the comp layer as you see here. You have to double click on the comp itself down here and then it will open up in its own little space. Now what we can do is use the tools. Let me just show you something once again. I'll go back over here and when I turn the tools off and on, the tools don't show up. You don't see an icon indicating that you can paint, but if I go back to its own layer, then the icon turns into a brush. We can change the brush tip, we can change the opacity, we can change the mode, the diameter and all that kind of stuff. So let me go ahead and move this up a little tiny bit and show you. Of course we have our options when it comes to cloning as well. We can clone a line and we can turn this off and on. And this pretty much determines how the rubber stamp or the clone stamp will follow your brush. So I'm going to show you both versions. I'll turn it off for now and I will get our comp window back. So what I'm going to do is alt or option click to set my region for cloning. I'll start with this tree. So I'll alt option click and when I do that, you see the icon changes? What happens now is you have to click one time on the source; for example, on the bark. So I'll click and then I let go of that mouse combination, I let go of the alt or option key. Then I move my mouse over and look at the crosshair. The crosshair is in the bark and you have to keep your eye on the crosshair and that determines what you're painting. So if you put the crosshair out here, you notice I'm painting sky. But if I stay in the bark area, it will paint what the crosshair is over. So let me go ahead and go back to our options and I will turn a line back on and I will show you the difference here. As you noticed before when I had aligned off, once the crosshair went off the screen, we couldn't paint anymore. So I have it back on, I'm going to click it once again and now I can paint and I can keep my eye on that region and you'll notice that the crosshair stays aligned with your brush; hence aligned. I normally keep this mode on so I can keep my eye more accurately on where I'm painting. Now let's go ahead and get rid of some of the area over here. Once again, alt or option click to set your source and then move the brush to paint. The secret to using the clone stamp tool is to not, you know, keep one area as your source. You want to option click in different regions while you're painting. We'll do it there, we'll click over here and try to stay in the same shading area as the source. For example, if this is a dark blue, you want to click in the dark blue area and try to stay there. When it gets to the lighter blue area, you want to create a new source in someone. But it's a phenomenal tool that you can use to remove wires, remove people, remove buildings and even insert people and insert buildings and that kind of thing. It's a really good and powerful tool. It just takes a little getting used to but once again, this is your clone stamp tool located right up here, double click on your layer to make its own layer here and then you can paint with tools and change the diameter and the properties for the clone stamp tool.