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Re: [OM] CS5 Photoshop advice requested

Subject: Re: [OM] CS5 Photoshop advice requested
From: Paul Laughlin <pelaughlin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 17:58:58 -0800
My bad, Chuck. A bit of apples and oranges. I missed the CS5 at the beginning of the subject and have been mostly talking about CC and CC2014. CS5 works just like you say. The cursor for the clone stamp tool had some major changes in CC. I do remember a bit of an ado about the new look and handling of the clone stamp tool cursor when CC first came out. My apologies Chuck.
Paul in Portland OR

On 1/24/2015 5:53 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
Repeat your test.  Set the hardness at 100% and make a black circle
which will be exactly the diameter of the cursor.  Now set the hardness
at 25%.  Align the cursor edge with the edge of the black circle you
just created.  Now clone repeatedly 4 or 5 times in the same spot and
watch the "overspray" get larger and larger and merge into the black
spot.  The point is that one cannot precisely control where the paint
goes unless using 100% hardness.  But 100% hardness and "feathering" an
edge are not compatible.  I consider it distinctly not useful.  I also
don't see the use of layers as a very useful fix to the problem since
that only allows fixing what shouldn't have happened in the first place.
  One can also constrain the paint by cloning into a selection but
that's tedious for working on hundreds of small areas when a simple
real-time view of where the paint is going (inside the cursor circle) is
all you need.
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