
Click the New Layer icon to make a new layer. The best practice is cloning in a new layer. By doing that, you are destroying the original pixel and that’s bad. Most people paint using The Clone Stamp Tool on the image layer itself. For example, using Multiply, you paste only pixels that are darker than the original pixel. You will find them in The Options Bar.īrush size and hardness can be changed using the same shortcut, to decrease and increase the brush size, Shift + to decrease and increase the Hardness.īlend mode works just like in The Brush Tool.
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It has brush size, hardness, blend mode, and so on. The Clone Stamp Tool has basic characteristics of a brush. The second is a plus sign which indicates the clone source. The first cursor is the standard round brush. While painting with The Clone Stamp Tool, two cursors appear. In the image below, the left dog is used as a clone source.Īfter the source is set, you can simply click and drag to paint its clone. Hold Alt and then click the area that you want to use as a clone source. Unlike regular Brush Tool where you just simply click and drag, With The Clone Stamp Tool, you need to first determine the clone source. You can find The Clone Stamp Tool in The Toolbox, that tall bar on the left hand side of your screen. You can simply view The Clone Stamp Tool as copying and pasting using a brush.

You don’t have to copy and paste images, you just paint it over using The Stamp Tool. That’s when The Clone Stamp Tool does its magic. To remove it, you can just cover it up using another image from its surroundings. Let’s say you have an unwanted object in an image, it could be a cable or some dirt. The basic idea of a Clone Stamp Tool is to copy (or clone) and paste images using brush.

In this tutorial, we will go through various features of Photoshop Clone Stamp Tool, and how to apply them in real-world scenarios.
