Gimp clone tool

You can see it will not be cloned, so you can clone the object on a new layer by using Sample Merged option. Now let us look at the Perspective Clone tool, so take this tool from the tool panel by clicking on it. And make click on the image, and you will get this type of perspective bounding box around your image.

By moving anchor points of this bonding box, set a plane for your perspective clone tool. I will set it like this. Now go to the Parameters section and click on the radio button of the Perspective Clone option of parameters of this tool.

And you will get a perspective plane selection like this. Now select the area in which you want to clone with this tool. And start cloning anywhere on your image where you want to clone this object. This will clone on your chosen perspective plane like this.

Other parameters of the Perspective Clone tool are the same as the Clone tool, so take a look at them and try them for better handling. I think it was a good talk about the Clone tool of GIMP software, and you gained a lot of important things about handling of parameters of this tool. Now you are free to use this tool in your professional work without any hesitation and can get lots of benefits from it. This is a guide to the GIMP clone tool.

You may also have a look at the following articles to learn more —. From the Gimp toolbar select the Clone Tool and change the settings as in the image below. Consider that you should change the parameters according to your needs: the Size has to be set proportionally to the resolution of your photograph, and you could also prefer a different Hardness setting.

Mode: it is the blending mode of the brush. It is a rather advanced thing, which in this case is absolutely useless. Simply leave it as Mode: Normal. Opacity: it has to be considered as a synonym of transparency, for this type of editing it is normally left to ,0 because we want to completely replace the background, we are not interested in seeing the crane in transparency.

It can be lowered for small interventions but it's pretty unlikely in this situation. The smaller the number, the more transparent the brush will be. Brush: we have chosen a brush with soft edges. This is because we want the cloning intervention to be the as "soft" as possible, the result must be invisible and with a clean edge the brushstrokes would be too visible.

If we choose a brush that is too soft, we would lose too much sharpness, so the Hardness brush is a good middle way. Size: is the size of the brush. You have to work with large scale in the first steps, then you have to reduce it for precision corrections.

It must be proportionate to the resolution of the image. Aspect Ratio, Angle and Spacing: these are parameters that allow you to change the brush stroke. On the other hand, you are able to draw patterned lines or curves.

For using clone tool in GIMP , first of all, you need to active it. There are three ways to activate the clone tool. Step 1. Open both source and target image with GIMP. Step 2. Put your mouse cursor it turns out to be a dotted circle in GIMP on the source area in the source image, hold the Ctrl key and click once to select the source section.

Once selected, the source area will be marked with a dotted circle. The choice you make here determines whether data will be copied from the pattern shown above, or from one of the images you have open. If you choose Image source , you must tell GIMP which layer to use as the source, by Ctrl -clicking on it, before you can paint with the tool. If it's unchecked, only the selected layer is cloned. For more information about non-destructive image editing with Sample merged see Sample Merge.

Clicking on the pattern symbol brings up the Patterns dialog, which you can use to select the pattern to paint with. This option is only relevant if you are cloning from a Pattern source. If this option is not checked default , Clone tool samples from the active layer.

If this option is checked, Clone tool samples from all layers. This allows you to work in a non-destructive fashion, without modifying original pixels: you create a new layer transparent above the image layer; this new layer being active, all cloned pixels will appear in this layer. The Alignment mode defines the relation between the brush position and the source position. In the following examples, we will use a source image where the sample to be cloned will be taken, and a destination image where the sample will be cloned it could be a layer in the source image.

Figure Original images for clone alignment. We will use the largest brush with the Pencil tool. The source is represented here with a ringed cross. An image with a solid background only.

We shall draw three cloning strokes successively. In this mode, each brushstroke is treated separately. For each stroke, the point where you first click is copied from the source origin; there is no relationship between one brush stroke and another.

In non-aligned mode, different brush strokes will usually clash if they intersect each other. Example below: At every new brush stroke, the source goes back to its first position. The same sample is always cloned.