Great trick with Cloning tool!

[kerriann85]

In all my travels around the Photoshop forums, tutorials and the like I have never run across this trick until I started my new job and was taught "head switches". Maybe everyone else knows and I'm the last to find out but I had to post this.....

Did you know with the clone tool you can sample from one document and then paste or clone into a new layer on another one? Just open two pictures, create a blank layer on the target picture. Sample (alt click) from the source picture, then click on your target picture's new layer and paint in as much as you want from the other picture. It works great for changing heads or closed eyes in people from a same pose in two different shots. You can even move and resize with the layer to make the new clone fit correctly. Clone in too much? Just erase what you don't want. You could even use this in your montage pix! Change opacity of your layer as needed.
Sure beats cutting and pasting in a lot of instances!

[GaryK]

Kerri

Thanks for the reminder. I did it once or twice in an online course I was taking but haven't used it since. Even for those it was just a add this to the picture sort of thing. I never thought of it for much else.

Gary.

[Mary]

Thanks Kerri - I have added that to my tips to remember list in Word.

[willpresley]

Wow that is so neat -- I played with it a little bit and it works like a representation of a dream if the picture you clone from is small enough to fit into the forehead of the target picture.

Thanks for sharing that technique. :lol:

[GaryK]

Will

Good idea... clone it into a talk bubble, and it will seem like thats what you are thinking of. :lol:

[Wendy]

Kerri,

I knew you could do that but never thought of using it for eyes ... what a great idea :)

Wendy