How to Use the Cloning Tool in Photoshop CS3
Before the days of Adobe Photoshop, graphic artists and photographers had to manually cut, paste and retouch photographs with knives, glues, chemicals and paint. It was an arduous process and lacked the precision of modern photo imaging software. With Photoshop CS3, images can be composited or pieced together seamlessly. Imagery from portions of a photo can also be enlarged or repeated by a process called "cloning." The cloning tool in Photoshop CS3 is one of the most versatile tools in the tool box, and is easy to use once you get the hang of it.
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Instructions
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Click on the icon for Photoshop CS3 to launch the program.
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Open a digital file by selecting the "File" menu and clicking "Open." Locate your document's file name and click it to open.
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Locate "Window" from the menu bar, and pull down to "Layers." Click to open the layers palette. Click on the small drill-down button on the upper right side of the layers palette to create a new layer. Name the layer, or leave it at the default, which is "Layer 1."
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Locate "Window" from the menu bar, and pull down to "Tools" to open the tool box. Locate the cloning tool, which looks like a rubber stamp in the tool box, and click. Alternately, you can select the clone tool by clicking the "S" key.
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Note the additional cloning source palette, which is a feature new to CS3. Select the stamp tool. Place the stamp tool's icon on the new layer you created in Step 3. Click "Alt" at the same time you place the tool on the image to select the source for cloning.
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Move your cloning tool to the area you wish to add the image to, then paint with it to reproduce the image elsewhere on the layer.
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Save your image and quit Photoshop CS3.
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Tips & Warnings
The new cloning palette has up to five presets (sources) that you can work with on one image.
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- Photo Credit Raster illustration of star, made by me in Photoshope. image by Aleksandr Fomenkov from Fotolia.com
