From the course: Photoshop Layers: Working with Multiple Photos (2018)

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Cleaning up with cloning

Cleaning up with cloning

- Sometimes after you've worked with the image, you might notice that the analysis mode, or stack mode, still has a few things left over. This could be particularly true if you didn't shoot enough photos, or if somebody was really slow-moving or standing still in the scene. So let me show you a little bit about cloning. To get great results, make a new empty layer, and call it Clone. Then choose the Clone Stamp Tool from the toolbar. And make sure the option of Sample All Layers is set. It's here in the dropdown menu. Now I'll press Command + Plus or Control + Plus to zoom in. And I'm looking for anything that's distracting. Now, I don't see really too many things ghosted. But I do see a few things that are in the scene that I want to remove, such as this here. Holding down the Option key, I can click to set my source point, and then come over and clone that out. You'll see that the results went to its own layer, which makes it easier to control or catch a mistake if you make one. As…

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