Basic Settings: Brush
Below, you’ll find the default settings when the clone stamp is selected.
The clone stamp’s basic settings.
The first setting you’ll want to familiarize yourself with is for the brush.
Photoshop does not restrict cloning to a basic default brush. Instead, it
allows you to use any brush you want, allowing you to create an unlimited
number of effects. In the example above, and in most cases in fact, a small
to medium-sized round soft brush gives the best result.
A hard brush creates noticeable seams.
As you can see, a hard brush often creates visible edges along the path of
the clone. The transition is much smoother on the left side, where a soft
brush was used. Both sides suffer from noticeable replication, but this was