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Remove content with the Clone Stamp tool

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Remove content with the Clone Stamp tool

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- [Instructor] The Clone Stamp tool is like a paintbrush that paints with content. Like the Spot Healing Brush tool that we covered earlier in this chapter, the Clone Stamp tool can sample good content from one place in an image and use it to hide unwanted content elsewhere in an image. But unlike the Spot Healing Brush tool, the Clone Stamp doesn't try to blend its results with the surrounding area. Another way the Clone Stamp is different than the Spot Healing Brush is that the Clone Stamp tool doesn't choose where to sample the good pixels from in the image. Choosing the sample point is up to you, the user. Let's take the Clone Stamp tool out for a test drive and see what it can do. Select the Clone Stamp tool in the toolbar here, and then go over to the Layers panel. You can use this tool directly on your original photo, but it's always a good idea to work non-destructively. So let's make a new layer for cloning, similar to the new layer that we made when we created patches with…

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