Re: [OM] CS5 Photoshop advice requested

[Chuck Norcutt]

Moose and I see it but you don't.  What's different?  I may have to go 
back and check again (later).  Right now I don't know if I was testing 
with CC or CS6 but I've never known any version of PS clone tool to 
behave differently than what I described.  It goes way back to PS7 
because I can remember being upset over the way the clone tool worked 
after I converted from PW Pro.  In fact, I used to go back to PW Pro if 
I had extensive cloning work to do as in restoration work.  It took me a 
very long time to learn about setting 100% hardness to control the 
diameter of the brush.  But even that is not a complete fix.
Chuck Norcutt

On 1/22/2015 10:54 PM, Paul Laughlin wrote:
> That clone stamp tool brush seems to do crazy things.  In CC, when you
> reduce the hardness setting, the brush gets larger, although the size in
> pixels, as seen in the brush panel, seems to be  unchanged.  In CS5, the
> brush outline gets smaller as you reduce the hardness size and the size
> in pixels seems to stay the same.  I still don't see it going outside
> the outer circle as seen when stamping.
> Paul in Portland OR
>
> On 1/22/2015 5:06 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> > We must be using differen products or at least different settings.  I
> > don't have a Wacom tablet.  I simply use a mouse.  Unless the hardness
> > of the clone tool is at 100% the area cloned from and to exceeds the
> > diameter of the tool.  I just did it again to be sure I was correct.
> > When at 100% the tool makes a hard edged circle at exactly the tool
> > diameter.  But, at less than 100% it starts overflowing the brush
> > diameter.  It seems to be telling me that a soft brush is a mushy brush.
> >
> > I tested it by cloning the bridge of a ship to the clear blue sky area.
> >   I set the brush diameter to exactly the width of the bridge.  But
> > there were other non-sky (darker) areas outside the brush diameter. When
> > choosing the source for the clone I chose the bridge.  The cloned area
> > clearly exceeds the diameter of the brush as it leaves gray areas on the
> > blue sky beyond the brush diameter.
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