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Infinite Editable Cloning and Healing History
...a.k.a covering your butt
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It is possible to save an infinite history of editable healing brush or cloning modifications, without relying on the limited number of history states as determined by your Photoshop settings. How often have you come back to an image and wished you had done a better job of this in a few isolated areas? Your only option is to completely start over with the unedited file and laboriously redo all of the cloning and spotting. This could be considerable, especially when working with files from scanned film.
In this image we wish to eliminate all of the flower petals in the hair with the cloning tool or the healing brush. ( The cloning tool is exactly like the healing brush when the latter is set to the "replace" mode).
FIRST we create a new empty layer ( Layer/ New/ Layer) All of the cloning will take place by sampling from the lower (background) layer and cloning to the upper layer we just created. The indivdual clones will show up in the upper layer and are fully editable, forever, until the image is flattened. |
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Be sure to check the Aligned and Use all Layers options at the top of the screen. Unchecking the "aligned" box will cause the sample point to remain in one spot and not follow the curser around.
Select the upper layer before beginning to clone ( or healing brush ) to insure that the clone gets put in the upper layer. You can see the individual clones appear in the layers palette image box as they are made. To edit these later you can do anything that you could do to ANY image - this might include blur, erase, dodge, burn, lighten, hue/sat etc. |
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Here you seen the final effect of the cloning with the upper layer visibility turned ON.
This is a great technique when attempting more difficult tasks like removal of objects or power lines, scratches and anything that you're likely to botch and likely to use all of your available history states. |
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