User guide

Painting and Drawing 141
Cloning a region
The Clone Tool is like two magic
brushes locked together. While you trace
or "pick up" an original drawing with one
brush, the other draws ("puts down") an
exact duplicate somewhere else—even in
another image.
When retouching, for example, you can
remove an unwanted object from an
image by extending another area of the
image over it (note the pickup area is
positioned over the sea rather than the
original boat).
The tool acts on the active Background or standard layer, and can even clone all
layers (including Text layers or Shape layers).
To clone a region:
1. From the Tools toolbar's Clone Tools flyout, select the Clone
Tool.
2. Change properties, if necessary, on the Context toolbar. For example:
Reducing the tool's Opacity setting results in a "ghosted" copy of the
original pixels.