Technical data

Working with Paint and Text 53
In addition to the usual settings, the Clone tool has an Aligned option
on the Tool Properties tab. This affects what happens if you use more
than one brush stroke. There are two possibilities when you click to
begin a second stroke: either (upper view) the
crosshair resets itself at a fixed distance from
the brush tip—maintaining the same
separation between the cursors as on the first
stroke, or (lower view) the crosshair resets
itself to the original pickup point. In the first
case (called “aligned” because the two cursors
remain in alignment), subsequent brush
strokes extend the cloned region rather than producing multiple copies.
In the second you begin cloning the same pixels all over again from the
original pickup point.
q Again, experience is the best teacher. Repeat the cloning
procedures you tried a moment ago—but this time reverse the
Aligned setting. You’ll see the difference.
Creating Lines and Shapes
In addition to the various brush tools, the PhotoPlus Tools toolbar
includes the Line tool for drawing straight lines, and the Shape Tools
flyout featuring an assortment of tools for creating rectangles, ellipses,
polygons, and other shapes. Each shape is adjustable, so you can
experiment before committing to a particular figure—with innumerable
possibilities!
To draw a straight line, select the Line tool from the Tools toolbar
and drag the tool on the image.
Hold down the Shift key while dragging to constrain the line to 15º
angles.