Painting with a clone brush is similar to painting with any tool, except that clone brush variants take their color information from a clone source instead of from the Color palette.


Painting in the Clone

When you paint with a clone brush, it picks up color from the clone source while you control the size and direction of brush strokes.


A sample of painting with clone brush variants.


To paint with clone brushes

  • Create a clone of the document you wish to paint
  • With the clone selected, choose Main Window menu -> Select -> All 
  • Press on the keyboard to clear the entire canvas
  • Choose Main Window menu -> Select -> Deselect 
  • Choose a clone brush variant from the Brush selector
  • Paint in the image

If you don't set a clone source, clone brushes paint with imagery from the first opened image.


To set a clone source

  • Choose Main Window menu -> File -> Clone Source, and choose the image you want to reference


To change to a crosshair cursor

  • Choose Main Window menu -> Edit -> Preferences 
  • Choose in the Preferences dialog box Painting 
  • Enable the Indicate Clone Source with Crosshairs while Cloning option

The crosshairs indicate which area of the original image you are cloning as you paint.