{"id":11339,"date":"2006-12-31T11:14:17","date_gmt":"2006-12-31T11:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/12\/cloning-healing-improvements-in-cs3.html"},"modified":"2006-12-31T11:14:17","modified_gmt":"2006-12-31T11:14:17","slug":"cloning_healing_improvements_in_cs3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/31\/cloning_healing_improvements_in_cs3\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloning &amp; healing improvements in CS3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over on PhotoshopNews.com, Martin Evening provides a <a href=\"http:\/\/photoshopnews.com\/2006\/12\/28\/working-with-the-clone-source-palette-in-cs3\/\">nice overview<\/a> of the Photoshop CS3 beta&#8217;s new Clone Source palette.&#160; In a nutshell, you can now clone and heal more precisely by using a translucent overlay of your source pixels&#8211;either temporarily (hold down Opt\/Alt+Shift after setting your source) or persistently (via the &quot;Show Overlay&quot; option on the palette).&#160; Building on what Martin wrote, here are some useful keyboard shortcuts: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Opt\/Alt + Shift temporarily shows the clone overlay, plus it lets you drag it around and &#8216;tack&#8217; it down at the desired location. <\/li>\n<li> Opt\/Alt + Shift + the arrow keys nudges the overlay up, down and side to side.<\/li>\n<li> Opt\/Alt + Shift + [ or ] rotate the source<\/li>\n<li> Opt\/Alt + Shift + &lt; or &gt; scale the source<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Also, to adjust rotation, position, or scale, you can also  use &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativepro.com\/img\/story\/010604_fg7.jpg\">scrubby sliders<\/a>&quot;:  hover over the label on each field (H, W, etc.), then drag left or right. &#160; As with all scrubby sliders, holding Opt\/Alt while dragging will make the values change 10X slower, and holding Shift  will make them change 10X faster.<\/p>\n<p>On a related note, retouchers will be happy to learn that it&#8217;s now possible to have cloning\/healing ignore adjustment layers.&#160; Let&#8217;s say in CS2 you had an image on the background layer, then added a layer above it to do some cloning (so as not to affect the original pixels), and above that you put a Hue\/Saturation layer.&#160; If you used the clone tool set to sample all layers &amp; didn&#8217;t turn off the Hue\/Sat layer, the results would be screwy, as Hue\/Sat would be double-applied.&#160; Now via a couple of new options (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/files\/images\/cloning_options.gif\">screenshot<\/a>), you can elect to make cloning\/healing ignore adjustment layers, and\/or ignore all layers above the current one.&#160; It&#8217;s a really tweaky little change, but it&#8217;s one that&#8217;s been requested for ages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on PhotoshopNews.com, Martin Evening provides a nice overview of the Photoshop CS3 beta&#8217;s new Clone Source palette.&#160; In a nutshell, you can now clone and heal more precisely by using a translucent overlay of your source pixels&#8211;either temporarily (hold down Opt\/Alt+Shift after setting your source) or persistently (via the &quot;Show Overlay&quot; option on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}