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Oct 18, 2004
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When using the clone tool to copy pixels from one area to another, all kinds of extra pixels appear. Is there any way to copy just the selected pixels without all the extras? thank you
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no_email
Oct 18, 2004
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 13:33:25 -0400, wrote:

When using the clone tool to copy pixels from one area to another, all kinds of extra pixels appear. Is there any way to copy just the selected pixels without all the extras? thank you

Perhaps you are doing something wrong… I cannot figure out what exactly… After using PS over many years and versions I have never seen that happen. Can you post more details or a URL to an example?
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tacitr
Oct 18, 2004
When using the clone tool to copy pixels from one area to another, all kinds of extra pixels appear.

What does that mean? It’s not at all clear what you’re asking.

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bagal
Oct 18, 2004
May I be of some assistance?

But first, you know when the hard drive has filled up, maybe several apps have decided to run or re-run themselves in the background? The way to tell is that the ‘pooter has hit a performance slow down.

With me so far?

Now imagine that a system slow down happens while using the clone tool.

Maybe (I am using well placed speculation) there is sufficient timelag for the source pixels to be a little bit phased especially if the distance between source and destination sites is not too large. Just maybe the source actually picks up what is in memory but not onscreen. This, if it ever happened, could give the user the forgiven impression that spurious elements are appearing.

Whan after all it is just a bit of phasing between source and destination data sites

But there again …

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When using the clone tool to copy pixels from one area to another, all kinds of extra pixels appear.

What does that mean? It’s not at all clear what you’re asking.
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Kingdom
Oct 18, 2004
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When using the clone tool to copy pixels from one area to another, all kinds of extra pixels appear. Is there any way to copy just the selected pixels without all the extras? thank you

Do you understand how the clone tool works? The circle is whats being replaced the cross is where ist being replaced from. have you untick the aligned button?

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noone
Oct 19, 2004
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When using the clone tool to copy pixels from one area to another, all kinds of extra pixels appear. Is there any way to copy just the selected pixels without all the extras? thank you

If I understand your problem, then:

The Selection you make is where the Clone Tool will clone TO, not from. The size of the selected Brush, will essentially define what is cloned from where the cross-hairs (when you Alt-click) pick up the pixels. To Clone FROM a restricted area, you might want to do your Selection of the desired "clone- from" portion of your image, Ctrl-C, then Ctrl-V to Copy & Paste into a new Layer. Select this Layer as your Clone source, and then Clone to your image Layer with, or without a Selection to restrict where you Clone TO. Make sure that "All Layers" is NOT checked in the Clone Tool Options.

Hope this is what you want and that it helps,
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