Clone and heal tool

when I use the heal and clone tool I get a small image of a hand rather than a circle and the white marking doesn't seem to come out.
what does the hand mean?
john

The hand cursor means you are moving the source or the destination of an existing clone area. Pressing the letter H on the keyboard will hide and show the circles, and it you still don't see it after pressing H, it's possible the radius is too high.
Clicking "New" in the panel of the tool will start a new source and deselect the current one.
Clone and heal locations are marked with "pins" which can also be shown and hidden via the selection in the lower toolbar "Show Pins:" which can be set to "Always," "Never," or "Auto." The Auto setting shows the pins only when your cursor is over the image.

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