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So far in many parts of the world cloning is illegal and that is exactly why we're gonna do it. So let's go ahead and talk about the cloning stamp tool which is this guy right here and you'll notice that we have two tools, we have the cloning stamp which is the one we're going to use and we also have some options to choose from. First of all we can choose our brush, we can choose a soft brush if you want to, a hard brush whatever brush you'd like. We can also choose a mode. We can choose an opacity, a flow, airbrush mode and this is pretty important right here the align mode. This will pretty much determine where the source is going to come from. So one time when you click with the align you'll be able to click and stay in one region and when you turn it off you'll be able to clone anywhere. I'm just very quickly show you that. I'm gonna click here and drag and I'll come over here and my mouse moves, you see that. If I turn this off and I click here and drag and I move over here its gonna stay in the star no matter where I go to draw. So that's what the difference is between aligned and not aligned. So I'm gonna just go ahead and undo that and revert this image here and then we'll talk about how to use this toll from the very beginning. Ok, this tool unlike a lot of the other tools requires you to do a little bit of input on your keyboard. For example, you have to tell Photoshop where the clone source is. So if you click with your mouse one time like this you're gonna get an error message. It's pretty much telling you that you have to option click to define a source point. So that means we have to put our mouse where we want to clone and option or alt click like this one time and then let go of the keyboard uh combination so you have to let go of the key on the keyboard, move your mouse somewhere like so, where you want to put the starfish or whatever you're trying to clone and then paint. The secret is you keep your eye not on where you're painting but where you're painting from. There is a cross here if you look on the bottom here that's following the starfish. So I'm looking at that and I'm not looking at the one I'm painting. So I can determine which part of the image I'm cloning and I'm taking my time and I'm slowly but surely painting the starfish up here. Now as I mentioned earlier because I have aligned on if I move my mouse over here and start to paint it's going to move the cursor wherever the uh painting area is. So it's gonna stay aligned with me. So I don't want to do that. I want to keep painting the starfish all over the place. So I'm going to turn aligned off, I'm going once again option click just to be sure now I can paint over here and I could put a starfish up here in the water and I can go over here and do the same thing. It's gonna stay on the starfish no matter where I go because I have aligned off. Now, once again I'm going to undo all that. I'm gonna revert this image and show you something else, something I highly recommend you do because whenever you're cloning on the same layer you're damaging the pixels on that layer. You can clone from one layer onto another one. So I'm gonna create a new layer and then I'm gonna go right here where it says sample and I'm gonna choose to use the current and below. So I can sample from this guy and I can work on here. So I'm gonna click, I'm gonna go to this layer here, I'm gonna control or alt click or rather option alt click go to this layer here and watch this I am painting on this new layer. This allows me the ability to be a little sloppier because I can always go back later with the layer mask or the eraser tool or whatever I'd like to so I can clean that up. Now I'm gonna hide this layer and show you that. See this, I actually painted this new image up here. So I can turn that off and on, I can fix it and I can do whatever I like to.
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop CS3 |
| Author: | Dwayne Ferguson |
| SKU: | 33782 |
| ISBN: | 1-933736-98-4 |
| Release Date: | 2007-08-02 |
| Duration: | 9 hrs / 161 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |