Clone stamp question

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badstamp
Feb 26, 2006
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Sometimes after applying the Clone Stamp, the destination looks lighter than the source sample. The Mode is Normal, and Opacity and Flow are both 100%. Why, and is there a way to make the destination the same as the source? Thanks.
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Derek Fountain
Feb 27, 2006
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Sometimes after applying the Clone Stamp, the destination looks lighter than the source sample. The Mode is Normal, and Opacity and Flow are both 100%. Why, and is there a way to make the destination the same as the source? Thanks.

Do you have an adjustment layer – maybe curves or levels – active? If so, turn it off while cloning.
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badstamp
Feb 27, 2006
Only one background layer, and no other layers.

Derek Fountain wrote:
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Sometimes after applying the Clone Stamp, the destination looks lighter than the source sample. The Mode is Normal, and Opacity and Flow are both 100%. Why, and is there a way to make the destination the same as the source? Thanks.

Do you have an adjustment layer – maybe curves or levels – active? If so, turn it off while cloning.
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Andrew Morton
Feb 27, 2006
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Sometimes after applying the Clone Stamp, the destination looks lighter than the source sample. The Mode is Normal, and Opacity and Flow are both 100%. Why, and is there a way to make the destination the same as the source? Thanks.

Derek Fountain wrote:
Do you have an adjustment layer – maybe curves or levels – active? If so, turn it off while cloning.

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Only one background layer, and no other layers.

You say it /looks/ lighter – that could be an optical illusion – have you measured it?

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nomail
Feb 27, 2006
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Sometimes after applying the Clone Stamp, the destination looks lighter than the source sample. The Mode is Normal, and Opacity and Flow are both 100%. Why, and is there a way to make the destination the same as the source? Thanks.

There are many examples showing that our eyes are notoriously poor in comparing the brightness of two colors. Look at this example: http://www.colormanagement.nl/site/index.php?id=17,13,0,0,1, 0 The site is in Dutch, but the demo speaks for itself.

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Johan W. Elzenga johan<<at>>johanfoto.nl Editor / Photographer http://www.johanfoto.nl
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Bob Williams
Mar 6, 2006
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Sometimes after applying the Clone Stamp, the destination looks lighter than the source sample. The Mode is Normal, and Opacity and Flow are both 100%. Why, and is there a way to make the destination the same as the source? Thanks.

You should choose a Source as close to the Destination as possible., In some expanses, the color appears pretty uniform over a wide area. This leads us to believe we can sample anywhere in the "apparently" uniform area and be OK. However, when the two shades are placed immediately adjacent to each other, the difference is obvious. Bob Williams

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