User Guide

Cloning and Tracing 289
3 Enable the Brush Loading check box.
Choosing a 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 by using the Clone
Color button. Unlike the Clone Color option, the cloning methods preserve 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.
The Cloning method subcategories are briefly described here. For a more detailed
discussion of these methods, refer to “Methods and Subcategories” on page 211.
• 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.
To adjust a cloning method
1 Choose a brush from the Brush Selector bar.
2 Choose Window menu > Brush Creator.
3 On the Stroke Designer page of the Brush Creator, choose Random.
4 Modify the sliders and options to change the character of the brush variant:
• Move the Jitter slider to the right to determine the amount of randomness in
the brush stroke.
• Choose an expression from the Expression pop-up menu to vary the brush
stroke.
• Move the Direction slider to adjust the angle value of the direction control.