How To Use Clone Stamp Tool In Photoshop For Mac

What you’ll learn in this Photoshop Elements Tutorial: • Using the Clone Stamp tool • Cloning an area with the Clone Stamp tool This tutorial provides you with a foundation for working with the clone stamp tool in Adobe Photoshop Elements. It is the eighth lesson in the Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 Digital Classroom book. Photoshop Elements Tutorial: Using the Clone Stamp tool in Photoshop Elements The healing tools are very good when you need the soft retouching effect that they provide. The main difference between the Healing Brush and Clone Stamp tools is that when cloning with the Healing Brush, the tool attempts to match the tonality of the underlying area with what you are cloning, so you may see the cloned area’s tonality adjust.

The Clone Stamp clones exact information. In other words, what you see is what you get.

Sometimes you need a little more precision, like when removing the girl’s tooth from her lip. In this exercise, you will use the Clone Stamp tool to replace the girl’s tooth with the surrounding lip. 1 Select the Clone Stamp tool ( ) from the Toolbox.

Purpose: how to use the clone stamp tool. The Clone Stamp Tool and the Healing Brush Tool are used for retouching. These tools take a sample of a portion of your image (the “source”) and “clone” or retouch that sample on another portion of your image (the “destination”). Jennifer demonstrates how to use one of the most fun tools in Photoshop - the Clone Stamp tool. How To Manipulate Images With The Photoshop Clone Stamp Tool. Or Option (Mac) key.

Look at the settings in the Options bar at the top to make sure the Mode is set to Normal and the Opacity is at 100 percent. 2 From the Show selected brush presets drop-down menu in the upper-left corner of the Options bar, choose the brush named Soft Round 9 pixels. The brush names appear when you hold your curser over a brush option.

You can also soften or harden the edges of your brush by repeatedly pressing Shift+[ (left bracket) or Shift+] (right bracket). Choose a soft, small brush. 3 Position the cursor over a portion of the lip that is relatively close to the tooth. You are going to clone this section of lip, so you want the color to be approximately the same. Hold down the Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) key and click to set this as your clone source.

Alt/Option+click to set a clone source close to the area you will retouch. 4 Start clicking and releasing over the area of the tooth. If the clone source does not match, immediately press Ctrl+Z (Windows) or Command+Z (Mac OS) to undo the retouch, and Alt+click (Windows) or Command+click (Mac OS) on a source that will work better.

With the Clone Stamp tool, you can get the best results from choosing a clone source, then dabbing on the area you want to retouch, then clicking to define a source (again), perhaps closer to the next area you plan to retouch. A good Clone Stamp user is frequently clicking away. Keep in mind that you can reduce the opacity of the Clone Stamp tool using the Opacity text field in the Options bar. 5 Press Ctrl+S, or choose File > Save, to save this file. Keep it open for the next part of this lesson. Cloning an area with the Clone Stamp tool In the last exercise, you retouched using the Clone Stamp tool. In this next part of the lesson, you will replace a tooth that is missing with another, existing tooth.

You will also find out how to clone from one layer to another. 1 Press Ctrl+0 (Windows) or Command+0 (Mac OS) to fit the image into the window. 2 Select the Zoom tool ( ), and click and drag over the mouth of the girl who, in the image, appears to the right of the mother. You are now zoomed in and can see that she is missing a tooth on the right side of her mouth. Click and drag to zoom into the mouth. 3 Select the Clone Stamp tool ( ), keep the brush size at 9 px, and make sure you are back to 100 percent opacity in the Options bar, if you changed that in the last part of this lesson. Click the checkbox next to Sample All Layers in the Options bar.