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The Clone Stamp tool works best in small areas because you can start to tell something is
wrong with the area you??™re cloning to if you paint over too large a region.
Keep in mind that the Clone Stamp tool has two different modes, each controlled by the
Aligned check box in the toolbar. In one mode, when you pick up the brush and paint elsewhere,
the source stays where you put it: this is called Nonaligned mode. If you pick up the brush and
start painting elsewhere, and the source moves the same relative distance from where you first
started, this is the Aligned mode.
You can see what I mean if you try cloning someone??™s face and then painting it somewhere
else in the photo. If you clone it using Aligned mode, you can paint the entire face without any
glitches even if you paint a few strokes, lift and move the mouse, then click and paint again.
Try that in Nonaligned mode, though, and you??™ll restart the face from the clone source point
wherever you click, making it impossible to paint a face unless you do it in a single set of strokes
without lifting your finger off the mouse button.
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Some pictures work better with one mode or the other.
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