Using the Clone Stamp
The Clone Stamp tool is perfect when you need to copy small pieces of a picture and paste them elsewhere. It samples from a chosen point in the image and duplicates the selection, exactly as if you had made a rubber stamp of it. Figure 21.9 shows the Clone Stamp tool and its Options bar. Choose a brush shape, blending mode, and opacity as you would with any other tool. When you select a reference point, the Clone Stamp creates a duplicate of the image anywhere you start painting, expanding the duplicated portion of the image as you go. Conceivably, you could reproduce the entire image if you had enough blank canvas.
Figure 21.9. The Clone Stamp tool's icon looks just like a rubber stamp.
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