Why do users always think that developers try to hide or obfuscate a feature, as if it's some kind of a Magic &; Mystery Show, requiring a box of tricks, years of training, and inside information to work with ?

Okay okay, I know, sometimes developers actually do deliver difficult features or ruin it by slapping incomprehensible interfaces onto it, inadvertently... But most of the time most features are well-documented, just like the Clone Stamp tool.

Adobe Help: Retouch and repair photos

Take good notion of the extra options offered by the Clone Source panel, to reflect, rotate, or scale the cloned area.

And one personal tip: if you're cloning an area consisting of an edge between two objects or materials, simply clone that edge – not the two separate objects or materials. I often see users painstakingly cloning one side of an edge, and then the other side, while they just could lift a whole clone area of the edge (plus adjacent objects or materials) at once !


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