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Clone Effectively Photos get stuff in them that do not belong with your subject. This could be as simple as dust on your sensor, which would show up as dark blobs in the sky. Or you could have a nice scene with trash in it that you did not see when you took the photograph. Or perhaps there is
an extraneous hand in the photo that is distracting. You can get rid of all of these distractions by using the Cloning tool. Cloning simply copies a part of a photograph from one place over another to cover an offending problem.
Clone Effectively SET UP THE CLONE STAMP TOOL
1 Select the Clone Stamp tool ( ),
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just below the middle of the toolbox. It looks like a little stamp.
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2 Select a soft-edged brush to help your cloning blend; use the brushes with the fuzzy edges shown in the sample brush in the options toolbar just below the menus.
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3 From the toolbar at the top, select a brush size that is appropriate to the problem area you want to fix. You can see this because your cursor turns into a circle whose size represents the brush size. SET YOUR CLONE FROM POINT
4 Magnify the area that you need to clone, using the Zoom Magnifier tool ( ) at the top of the toolbox.
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5 Check the Aligned option in the toolbar, as this will align the clone from point with your actual cloning as you do the work.
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/ key and click once to set a point that the cloning tool can clone from. This is the point from which it copies pixels.
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