The team at Phlearn put together a pretty detailed video tutorial over mastering the cloning tool, and they’re not wrong when they emphasize on how important it really is. I’ve been Photoshopping since I was in the 8th grade, and just from reading that you can probably already imagine the atrocities that came out of my, uh… “graphic design” skills back in the day. One thing I never really made myself learn was the cloning tool. It just looked too complex, and I thought using blur on pretty much everything was the way to go. At the time, I was basically under the impression that the Blur tool was all I needed because it does the same thing the Clone tool would do.
Please don’t make the mistakes I’ve done.
If you’re like me, and never really got the hang of a tool like that, do yourself a favor and check this video out. The seventeen minutes that comprise this tutorial aren’t wasted by any means at all; covering four different sections, Phlearn’s Aaron Nace gives us a broken down, professional, and intricate look into the software, and in the end it’s downright easy to follow along with.
[Via Phlearn]
hey,
would you mind explaining the difference between healing brush (with replace option) VS the clone tool?
it seems they’re doing the same thing..
thank you very much, awesome guides
From the same lovely, informative folk at Phlearn: http://phlearn.com/why-are-the-clone-stamp-and-healing-brush-different
It’s brilliant work and there is good use of clone tools. Thanks for sharing.