Adobe Photoshop 7 Tutorials
Brush Tools / Clone Tool
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One of my all time favorite tools found in Adobe Photoshop is the clone tool. That's this tool right here; it's also known as the clone stamp tool. And you can see that when you select the clone tool, it has very similar options found in the options bar at the top of your computer. The two options I really want to talk about are the aligned option, and use all layers. If you have a multi-layered document and you want to select from all your layers not just the targeted layers, you need to make sure that use all layers is enabled. Well how does the clone tool work? Essentially, instead of painting with colors, you are allowed to paint with parts of your image. And with that in mind, it's a two-step process. First you have to sample an area, and to do that on the Macintosh hold down your option key or on the PC the Alt key, and then you get this little target cursor. And, what I'm going to do is I'm going to clone this cow somewhere else. I'm going to option click to establish my clone source area, and then begin painting right here. And there is another identical cow. I'm going to undo that, command + 'Z', and I'm going to create a new layer. And I'm going to paint that cow on my new layer so that I can flip it. And I'm going to make sure that use all layers is enabled so that I can clone from all layers, and in this case just the bottom layer here. I'll go ahead and option click to create a sample area and just start painting. And now that I have my cow on it's own layer, I could do something such as run free transform on that. Command + 'T' and flip my cow. Like the other tools, you can of course control the opacity and the flow of your cloning brush by going up to the opacity slider and dialing back a different value. Generally, I like to clone and put my clone material on another layer. And then when I'm happy with that layer I can drop it, or I could even change the opacity on my layers palette to effect how the clone material will look. I have opened up another image in my background here, my image of the palm trees. And another cool feature that you can do with the clone tool is you can clone from one image to another image. So I'm going to go ahead and option click on this cow to sample the cow, and go over to my palm tree picture - I really want to put that material on its own layer so that I can edit it at a later point. And well, I think you get the idea. We have an important option here called aligned. And if you enable aligned, your clone source will always be aligned wherever you paint. So I'm going to demonstrate that by going back to my cow image here, and show you what aligned will do. So I'll sample this little cow's nose here, and paint down here. And notice you can see the target cursor from where it's picking up the data. And if I go over here it's picking up from the same relationship or the same alignment. I'll go ahead and undo both of these marks. And this time I'll disable aligned, sample on the cow's nose again and paint back in the same spot. And now if I move somewhere else it will always pick up from the original spot, since I disabled aligned.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop 7 |
| Author: | Andrew J. Hathaway |
| SKU: | 33329 |
| ISBN: | 1889347272 |
| Release Date: | 2002-09-05 |
| Duration: | 11 hrs / 152 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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