User Guide

Cloning and Tracing198
Using Clone Color
You can turn almost any brush into a
Cloner with the Clone Color option.
Clone Color causes a brush to pick up
color from the source image, while
staying true to its own stroke nature.
The Clone Color option is useful for
creating mosaics and tessellations
based on source imagery.
To use Clone Color
1 Choose Window menu > Show
Colors to display the Colors
palette.
If the Colors palette is not
expanded, click the palette arrow.
2 Click the Clone Color button .
Note
•
Be sure you reselect Clone Color if you
change brushes while cloning imagery.
Brush Loading
For greater color accuracy while
cloning, use brush loading. This
causes the brush to pick up individual
colors in different regions of the brush
dab.
Without Brush Loading, the Clone
Color option uses a single, averaged
color from the source for each brush
dab. This results in an approximation
of the original. You can use the Clone
Color option without Brush Loading
to create an artistic impression of the
source.
To enable the Brush Loading
option:
1 On the Stroke Designer page of
the Brush Creator, choose Well.
2 Enable the Brush Loading option.
Cloning Method
You can turn almost any brush into a
Cloner variant by setting its method to
Cloning in the Brush Creator, and
choosing the cloning method
subcategory appropriate to the
intended media style.
Because the cloning methods use a
full set of pixels from the original
document for each brush dab, you get
a truer copy of the original than you
might using the Clone Color option.
Unlike using Clone Color, using the
cloning methods preserves the
original image texture in the clone.
Cloning methods are good to use
when you want to precisely re-create
portions of a source image.
Here’s a brief description of the
cloning method subcategories. For a
more in-depth discussion of these
methods, refer to “Methods and
Subcategories” on page 152.
•Hard Cover Cloning — Results in
partially anti-aliased brush strokes
that hide underlying strokes.
• Soft Cover Cloning — Produces
anti-aliased brush strokes that
cover layered ones.
• Grainy Hard Cover Cloning —
Works like Hard Cover Cloning,
but brush strokes also interact with
paper grain.
• Grainy Soft Cover Cloning —
Works like Soft Cover Cloning, but
brush strokes also interact with
paper grain.
• Drip Cloning — Pushes color
around as if it were wet, cloning
the original with distortions based
on your stroke.