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Optimizing Lasso Selections Many users (even professionals) prefer the Lasso Selection tool to the Path tool for uncomplicated s ...

It often happens that, during a zoom, you hit the edge of the work area while making a selection. Just keep the space bar presse ...

Restoring Selections Often, while in the middle of working on a tricky selection, you’ll accidentally deselect it by clicking on ...

The Ultimate Guide to Cloning in Photoshop Joshua Johnson Photoshop’s wide array of cloning tools is the cause of many of the ab ...

Use the “Option” key (“Alt”) to set the source. To c l o n e o u t t h e n a m e o n t h e t o m b s t o n e a b o v e , y o u w ...

Basic Settings: Brush Below, you’ll find the default settings when the clone stamp is selected. The clone stamp’s basic settings ...

intentional to exaggerate the cloned area. We’ll discuss how to avoid this later. As stated, while a soft round brush is recomme ...

Basic Settings: Sample Under the “Sample” menu are three options: Current Layer, Current & Below and All Layers. These optio ...

As you can see, with Current Layer selected, the clone stamp ignores pixel data contained in any other layer. Conversely, All La ...

You can choose to ignore adjustment layers when cloning. The Spot Healing Brush As you can see below, the Spot Healing Brush too ...

Type J to bring up the Spot Healing Brush. The Spot Healing Brush is by far the simplest cloning tool in Photoshop. With little ...

The Spot Healing Brush is perfect for repairing old photographs. As you can see above, the tool does a remarkable job of not lea ...

Use a brush slightly bigger than the target spot. The Healing Brush The Healing Brush tool, located under the Spot Healing Brush ...

The Healing Brush tool automatically blends the source with the destination. As you can see, using the Clone Stamp to clone the ...

The Healing Brush Tool makes it easy to clone visually complicated areas. The photograph above is a good example of a subject wi ...

The Patch Tool The final healing tool we’ll examine is the Patch tool, which can be found under the Healing Brush tool, as seen ...

Source Mode With the source mode selected, first select the area of the image you want to replace, and then drag that selection ...

straight clone without any blending (the final image will look much better). Release the selection to see the actual result. The ...

as before, dragging the selection this time gives us a preview of copying the ball to a new location. Patch tool destination mod ...

Result of “Destination” mode. The Ultimate Guide To Cloning In Photoshop (2) The Clone Source Palette The Clone Source palette ( ...