Adobe® Photoshop® CS2 Studio Techniques

Clone Aligned

The Clone Stamp tool operates in two different modes: Aligned and Non-aligned (it's just a simple check box in the options bar). In Aligned mode, when you apply the Clone Stamp tool, it doesn't matter if you let go of the mouse button and click again. Each time you let go and click again, the pieces that you're applying line up (Figure 16.40). It's as if you're putting together a puzzle: Once you have all of the pieces together, it looks like a complete image (Figure 16.41).

Figure 16.40. You can release the mouse button as many times as you want with the Aligned check box turned on because the pieces of the cloned image will line up like puzzle pieces.

Figure 16.41. Once you put all the pieces together, you'll end up with a ...