Photoshop CS4-clone stamp tool

Hello
I want to erase the watermark and x mark from a istock image for comping purposes. What is the easiest/fastest way to do this? Clone Stamp/patch tool? If stamp tool, how do you get the tool to delete the x line in a straight line. Mine always copys pixels next to it.
Thanks in advance.

I want to erase the watermark and x mark from a istock image for comping purposes. What is the easiest/fastest way to do this?
Ahem, you buy the stock photo/ artwork? Seriously - if it's just for a mock-up/ design template, than neither you nor your clients will/ should mind the watermarks and as per most such sites' regulations, it is required to be left in place and a mention of the original source to be provided in the copyright. Everything else is just an ill-conceived attempt to bypass their terms and regulations...
Mylenium

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Photoshop CS4 Clone Stamp Tool behavior

I installed CS4 on a Dual Pentium Xeon 2.4ghz Compaq W8000 system with 3GB of RD 800mhz RAM and Windows XP Pro w/SP3 and all updates. The video card is a ATI Radion AGP-3855 w/512 GDDR3 RAM with latest drivers.
When using the clone stamp tool, after making a sourse selection there is a "trail" that follows the cursor to the destination (similar to using a mouse trail so you can tell where the cursor is on a notebook computer)
When the cursor slows down at the stamp destination the "trail" catches up and covers the destination with the sourse "patch" not allowing precise targeting. It is so cumbersome to use as to make the clone stamp tool almost unusable. The density of the "patch" is not affected by opacity settings.
Is this a new behaviour for this tool in CS4? And if so can it be turned off? Do I have a problem unique to my system?
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Hi Anthony,
Good point and thanks for suggesting the clone source features. I can see that it has tremendous potential and will revisit it to see if it will benifit my work. My immediate problem was that overlay was on as a default and it was not obvious to me where to address it.
I have not used this forum before as I have a couple of gurus I lean on, but was really impressed by the immediate help I recieved here.
I am a wildlife-mammal-stock shooter and I have been using Quick Mask, with a feathered brush to make small to medium selections on a, sometimes, flipped version of the image I am working on, or from another one. Moving the selection to a separate transparent (background) layer and then bringing it into my image as a separate layer and aligning it by setting the opacity at 50% and then using rotation, opacity and layer masking to finish the work.I then use the clone stamp at a low (20-50%) opacity to do additional "painting" and to blend the QM object. This approach is cumbersome, but highly effective, however I may be able to use "your" clone source options for simpler or different tasks.
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Murray

Photoshop CS5 Clone Stamp Tool option-click just stopped working, why?

I've been using clone stamp tool option-click (healing brush option-click also) on Photoshop CS5 on my Mac 10.6.5 and it stopped working suddenly on Monday. Had just used it on Sunday. So, I've tried to isolate the problem.
1. Went to Apple store and my keyboard and mouse work fine on their inhouse systems running Photosochop CS5. Problem still exists on home system.
2. Adobe photoshop suggested I go back to Mac 10.6.3. I did and problem still exits.
3. Reset all presets in CS5. Problem still exists.
4. Spent several hours with Adobe Photoshop tech on phone -- he couldn't make it work remotely either using his keyboard. Reloaded Photoshop from scratch. Problem still exists.
Question:
Could this be a hardware problem? Graphic board problem?
Or is this a software problem aside from Mac OS and CS5?

Hi Joan
It sounds like you are not having fun at all : )
>I talked with a for fee Mac guru today who says I need to wipe slate clean and install operating system from scratch since I did not use time machine.
.....you ever notice how easy it is for a consultant to tell you what to do when they don't have to do it?
..... I wonder why the guru thought your system was gone if your new user account was working?
If your new user account is working.... why not use it? The system seems fine but something went screwy with the settings in your original account.
hopefully someone else will chime in here with more insight before you start from scratch.

New, improved problem with Photoshop CS3 Clone Stamp Tool

After selecting the clone area with the Alt + L Click, I then release both and press the L Click to get the brush. The + symbol moves along beside the brush. It does not stick at the area that I alt clicked. I have reset the tool, but that has no effect. I have tried the alt-click more than once. Tha pallet does show an offset and has a clone source chosen. It just doesn't stick at the location.
Any help is appreciated.

If I understand you correctly, you may have a system problem (e.g., with OpenGL) if the clone stamp overlay is not confined to the brush shape.
Normally, this is what you see (cloning from the right to the left with a round brush):
If it's not working this way for you, I suggest downloading and installing the latest display driver from the web site of the maker of your video card, and also experimenting with the OpenGL settings in your Edit - Preferences - Performance menu.
CS3 did not offer the clipped Clone Stamp overlay. That's an OpenGL-specific feature, and only Photoshop CS4 and above have the OpenGL support needed.
-Noel

Photoshop cs3 clone stamp tool - clipping option?

In CS4 there is an option to 'clip' the clone stamp so that it shows an overlay of your cloned area 'clipped to' the brush size. (If you uncheck the 'clipped' option it overlays the whole image and does not limit the overlay to your brush area)
Is this feature available in cs3? On a friends computer, we have found the 'show overlay' option which shows the whole image overlayed, but there is no obviouse one for the clipped option.
If it does exist, where is it?!
Thanks

If I understand you correctly, you may have a system problem (e.g., with OpenGL) if the clone stamp overlay is not confined to the brush shape.
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If it's not working this way for you, I suggest downloading and installing the latest display driver from the web site of the maker of your video card, and also experimenting with the OpenGL settings in your Edit - Preferences - Performance menu.
CS3 did not offer the clipped Clone Stamp overlay. That's an OpenGL-specific feature, and only Photoshop CS4 and above have the OpenGL support needed.
-Noel

Photoshop Elements 8. "Could not use Clone Stamp Tool because of a program error." Please help.

Photoshop Elements 8. "Could not use Clone Stamp Tool because of a program error." Please help.

Try this:
Open your picture file
Access the clone stamp tool
Hold down the ALT key on the keyboard and left click on the area from which you wish to clone, then release the ALT key, and click to place the pixels at the destination
TIPS:
It is a good idea to open a blank layer at the top in the layers palette, and do the cloning on this layer. Be sure that "sample all layers" at the top is checked. You can change the layer opacity if necessary
Use the bracket keys next to the letter p on the keyboard to increase & decrease the size of the cursor
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Adobe photoshop elements 9 . i cannot get the circle to appear on clone stamp tool and spot healing

adobe photoshop elements 9 , i cannot get the circle to appear using clone stamp tool and the spot healing brush . i`ve tried restating my computer and unloading and loading the adobe disc . but still no good .

I had this same problem and was searching for answers. I also prefer using a circle instead of crosshairs. I hope you've figured it out by now, but, if you haven't, here is the answer (I am using Elements 9, but, it should work for other versions I think):
1. Open up Elements Editor, Click on Edit, Click on Preferences, Click on Display & Cursors.
2. Under Painting Cursors, select Full Size Brush Tip
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P.S. Sometimes if you have your Caps Lock key on, that removes the circle as well.

Hi, i am working on photoshop CC classroom in a book, and i find that i cannot use clone stamp tool, why ?

hi, i am working on photoshop CC classroom in a book, and i find that i cannot use clone stamp tool, why ?

Good day!
What kind of Layer is selected, is the Layer locked, …?
Could you please post a screenshot with the pertinent Panels (Layers, Channels, Options Bar, …) visible?
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In Photoshop 2014 how do you use the clone stamp tool and keep the image panel from moving

I don't quite know how to use the clone stamp tool in the Photoshop 2014 version. When I click on the clone stamp it creates a duplicate of the image and it moves around and I can not apply the clone stamp to the area I want to correct. How do you lock it down to keep it from moving?

Hi Smoothery4501,
The Photoshop clone stamp tool allows you to copy one area of an image and copy it onto another area.
Click on the clone stamp tool then press the alt key on the keyboard and click on the image to define a source point.
Please refer to below blog for further info
Clone Stamp Tool « Julieanne Kost's Blog
Thanks

Clone stamp tool is TINY in Photoshop CC

Just downloaded Photoshop CC and when I go to use my clone stamp tool, even at size 50px, it looks like a size 1px.
Anyone else facing this issue? I'm using a brand new Macbook Pro.

Any chance you've got the Precise Cursor showing?
What happens if you hit your Caps Lock key?
-Noel

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(Or, send me to a free tutorial on it.)
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Stuart Klein

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In Photoshop CS4- using patch tool-

I select an area I want to repair, click source, then drag to the area I want to use to make the repair and release. It looks great in the preview, before I release. As soon as I release it disappears.
For example, after using the automate tool to combine multiple images into a panarama with a transparent background there are a few blank areas. I select one of the blank areas with the patch tool, click source then drag to the area I want to use as the replacement and release. As soon as I release, it goes back to the transparent background. The transparent button is NOT selected.
This is a Windows Vista system, with NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT video, If I try to do updates to CS4 is sas it is using the latest driver. Which it lists as version 11.0.2.
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In other words the area has to be opaque (not transparent)
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Or use the healing brush tool and/or clone stamp tool and then patch the area with the patch tool.

Clone Stamp Tool does not work

This is a re-post of an old problem. Using PS CS4 Extended v. 11.0.2 in Win XP SP3.
The clone stamp tool does not alter my image. After selecting source region, cursor hovers over the target region and the preview looks like what one would expect. After clicking, however, the desired change does not occur.
Uninstalled PS and reinstalled. Clone stamp worked for a while, then quit working again.
Image seems to be OK, in that I can open it on my Laptop with CS3 on Win Vista, do my cloning, save and all works fine.
Any ideas appreciated. I may uninstall and reinstall again, but if I do, would like some ideas of what I should monitor as I go through my work process.

Jack wrote:
The second method worked. Many thanks.
To avoid this happening again, would appreciate any idea on what to look for in my Preferences.
Glad it fixed it.
When the preferences get corrupted it is not due to a wrong setting. One of the files has been damagrd. This is a known problem with computers not just Photoshop.
It can be caused by incorrect shut-downs, hard drive faults, or a dozen other reasons. Deleting the preferences just lets Photoshop generate a fresh set at factory default.
Make sure you check through to get your personal settings back and then save a copy.

Clone stamp tool on a 3D object (CS5)

I'm getting very odd color corruption, using the clone stamp tool on a 3D object. I'm using it for one of the main aspects of PS 3D, painting out UV seams on an object. And I'm getting a very odd artifact: an entirely brown texture is, when sampled with the stamp tool, producing bright cyan and purple pixels on the outside of my feathered stamp brush. I never saw this before, but then I didn't end up using 3D painting in CS4 as much as I ordinarily would have, as my workload changed a lot.
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I also suddenly have this problem. I am using an ATI Firepro V5800, and have had no problems with any of the painting tools when using 3D in photoshop. Now it is a real problem! For now the projection onto a new layer and merging down is helping a bit, but when i merge down the edges between the original and merged layer change...you can see a clear shift in the colour between the two.
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Photshop CS4 clone stamp error

I have Photshop CS4. When I try to use the clone stamp tool I receive an error message. How can I resolve this issue?

Hi Hillcoat,
I'd try resetting the photoshop preferences and see if that works:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/375776?tstart=0

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