Question about the clone tool revised–see inside

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bubbles
Oct 18, 2004
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Set up PS this way:

brush size = 1
brush style = square
magnify 600
draw two squares about 2 inches each side by side
fill the left square with red
fill the right square with white
select the clone tool
place clone tool in top left corner of the red square
left click
place clone tool in top left corner of the white square
left click and drag tool toward the bottom right of the white square
you should see all kinds of pixels other than what was
selected. The pixels were manufactured.
Now my question: Is there any way to copy pixels from one area to another without all the extraneous pixels. The clone tool obviously won’t do it.
If you need more info just jell out. thanks

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noone
Oct 19, 2004
In article ,
says…
Set up PS this way:

brush size = 1
brush style = square
magnify 600
draw two squares about 2 inches each side by side
fill the left square with red
fill the right square with white
select the clone tool
place clone tool in top left corner of the red square
left click
place clone tool in top left corner of the white square
left click and drag tool toward the bottom right of the white square
you should see all kinds of pixels other than what was
selected. The pixels were manufactured.
Now my question: Is there any way to copy pixels from one area to another without all the extraneous pixels. The clone tool obviously won’t do it.
If you need more info just jell out. thanks

OK, I think I’ve got it now. Are the "extraneous pixels" light red? If so, you have Anti-aliasing turned on. Turn it off, and also use a Brush that has 100% Hardness, as you will get a soft edge otherwise, and these will be pixels of diminishing transparency compared to what you are using as your source.

Hunt
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bubbles
Oct 19, 2004
On 19 Oct 2004 00:55:24 GMT, (Hunt) wrote:

In article ,
says…
Set up PS this way:

brush size = 1
brush style = square
magnify 600
draw two squares about 2 inches each side by side
fill the left square with red
fill the right square with white
select the clone tool
place clone tool in top left corner of the red square
left click
place clone tool in top left corner of the white square
left click and drag tool toward the bottom right of the white square
you should see all kinds of pixels other than what was
selected. The pixels were manufactured.
Now my question: Is there any way to copy pixels from one area to another without all the extraneous pixels. The clone tool obviously won’t do it.
If you need more info just jell out. thanks

OK, I think I’ve got it now. Are the "extraneous pixels" light red? If so, you have Anti-aliasing turned on. Turn it off, and also use a Brush that has 100% Hardness, as you will get a soft edge otherwise, and these will be pixels of diminishing transparency compared to what you are using as your source.
Hunt

Thanks for your reply. I could not find the anti-aliasing to turn it off.
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nomail
Oct 19, 2004
wrote:

OK, I think I’ve got it now. Are the "extraneous pixels" light red? If so, you have Anti-aliasing turned on. Turn it off, and also use a Brush that has 100% Hardness, as you will get a soft edge otherwise, and these will be pixels of diminishing transparency compared to what you are using as your source.

Hunt

Thanks for your reply. I could not find the anti-aliasing to turn it off.

That’s because the clone tool does not have an anti-aliasing option.


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noone
Oct 19, 2004
In article ,
says…
On 19 Oct 2004 00:55:24 GMT, (Hunt) wrote:

In article ,
says…
Set up PS this way:

brush size = 1
brush style = square
magnify 600
draw two squares about 2 inches each side by side
fill the left square with red
fill the right square with white
select the clone tool
place clone tool in top left corner of the red square
left click
place clone tool in top left corner of the white square
left click and drag tool toward the bottom right of the white square
you should see all kinds of pixels other than what was
selected. The pixels were manufactured.
Now my question: Is there any way to copy pixels from one area to another without all the extraneous pixels. The clone tool obviously won’t do it.
If you need more info just jell out. thanks

OK, I think I’ve got it now. Are the "extraneous pixels" light red? If so,
you
have Anti-aliasing turned on. Turn it off, and also use a Brush that has
100%
Hardness, as you will get a soft edge otherwise, and these will be pixels of diminishing transparency compared to what you are using as your source.
Hunt

Thanks for your reply. I could not find the anti-aliasing to turn it off.

Of course you couldn’t. That was my mistake, and as I didn’t have PS open at the time, nor did I think it all through carefully, I mis-stated that. Knee- jerk reaction to a "feathered" edge = anti-aliasing. In this case, I was just wrong. Sorry about that. Thankfully, I babbled on and think I got the second part right.

Hunt
DD
David Dyer-Bennet
Oct 25, 2004
writes:

Set up PS this way:

brush size = 1

This is the source of your confusion. You’re moving the brush over *partial* pixels, so you’re getting partial copies, hence pixels that aren’t solid red or solid white.

brush style = square
magnify 600
draw two squares about 2 inches each side by side
fill the left square with red
fill the right square with white
select the clone tool
place clone tool in top left corner of the red square
left click

Should be alt-left click to set origin.

place clone tool in top left corner of the white square
left click and drag tool toward the bottom right of the white square
you should see all kinds of pixels other than what was
selected. The pixels were manufactured.
Now my question: Is there any way to copy pixels from one area to another without all the extraneous pixels. The clone tool obviously won’t do it.
If you need more info just jell out. thanks


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