| Magnum |
02-06-2003 08:46 PM |
Ah, the clone stamp. Don't enter a Photoshop contest without it. Commonly used for replacing text and whatnot. Here's how it works:
[img]http://web.syr.edu/~adkirsch/tut1.jpg[/img]
You want to replace the text with the background, but it's all in one picture. You can't use airbrushing or the paintbrush, because the solid color won't match.
[img]http://web.syr.edu/~adkirsch/tut2.jpg[/img]
So you use the clone stamp. Hold down Alt in the sample "blank" area, then repeatedly click (not click and drag, because that only smears it) over the area you want to replace. You will probably have to keep selecting new samples for it to look good, especially if the shading or something changes over the aread. You can either do this in the layer itself, or create a new transparent layer and enable "use all layers" in the clone stamp menu bar to put the cloning in the new layer.
[img]http://web.syr.edu/~adkirsch/tut3.jpg[/img]
When it's done, the text will be gone. You can tell where I did it if you look carefully, but putting new text over it, adjusting the brightness/contrast, etc. can make it look almost like the original.
You could use it to replace the blank areas with the proper skin tone.
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