Turning Brushes into Cloners

Artweaver offers two ways to use other brushes as Cloners:

  • The Clone Color button
  • The Clone Method

Using Clone Color

You can turn almost any brush into a cloner with the Clone Color button. The Clone Color button causes a brush to pick up color from the source image while staying true to its own stroke nature.

To use Clone Color

  • Choose Main Window menu -> Window -> Show Color to display the Color palette
  • Click the Clone Color button Clone color on the Color palette

Note If you change brushes while cloning images, you must click the Clone Color button Clone color again.

Choosing a Clone Method

You can turn almost any brush into a clone variant by setting its method to Clone on the Brush palette and choosing the Clone method category appropriate to the intended media style.

Because the clone methods use a full set of pixels from the original document for each brush, you get a truer copy of the original than you might by using the Clone Color option. Unlike the Clone Color option, the clone methods preserve the original image texture in the clone.

To choose a clone method

  • Choose Main Window menu -> Window -> Show Brush to display the Brush palette
  • Click the tab General on the Brush palette
  • Choose from the Method box Clone
  • Choose from the Category box a category appropriate to the intended media style