How to use the Photoshop Clone Stamp and Clone Stamp Rotation tools to create perfect copies of any object!

Clone Stamp and Clone Rotation

How to use the Photoshop Clone Stamp Tool, and Clone Stamp Rotation tools to create perfect copies of any object! The Photoshop clone stamp tool has been around longer than all of the other cloning and healing brushes. The patch tool, healing and spot healing brush all have their niches. However, I usually either end up using the Photoshop clone stamp tool or fixing areas that need to better blending with the Photoshop clone stamp tool and clone stamp rotation panel.

Make sure you practice and listen clearly during the video. The Photoshop clone Stamp tool does not work like most expect. You need to constantly re-target areas because the target area moves as you move. The clone stamp rotation panel is something I do not use very often, but it is invaluable when you need it. I usually have to watch my own videos to remember the quick keys for the clone stamp rotation panel because I use it so infrequently.

Photoshop for Photographers

“Photoshop for Photographers” was designed as a supplemental resource for my class, “Photoshop for Photographers.” The goal is to teach you how to use Adobe Photoshop step by step. I understand this path is not for everyone and there is no reason you have to follow this process. However, if you want to really learn the program, I would suggest learning everything on the video and then move on.

The Clone Source in the Photoshop Clone Stamp Tool does NOT stay in one location.

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Photoshop Requirements and Hard Drives

Working in Adobe Photoshop and with photography is more than just installing software and saving images to your computer. Computers these days are using solid State Drives SSD, which are fast, but do not have a large storage capacity. If you start downloading a bunch of photographs to your computer, it will not take long until you get a “Scratch Disk Full” error. This means your internal hard drive is full. Just to run a computer and Adobe Photoshop you need a sufficient amount of free space. Image previews are usually stored in a computer’s cache. This a temporary storage so it can quickly retrieve previews without recreating them every time you look at them. I cover this in the my Photoshop Preferences Tutorial. Personally, I store all caches on an external hard drive. At this moment I have 4 different hard drives hooked up to my computer. Two SSD’s and two enterprise optical drives, each performing a different task. All these drives are backed up via BackBlaze.

Another important aspect of running any of Adobe’s products are them requirements. Adobe lists the minimum requirements to run each of their programs, but you never want to be using the minimums, or the speed will drive you nuts. You need to realize that that your computer and every other application you run have requirements. So if you have Photoshop’s min of RAM 4GB, that will not allow any for your computer to run or a browser like Chrome. Below I will have two lists. One is some reasonable minimum requirements to run Adobe Software and what I am running. The second is a list of issues you will run into with insufficient hard drive space, and low minimum requirements. Just about every online student that I teach run into these issues. I hope this helps.

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I have a Facebook Group called, “Learn Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, and Bridge.” I created this group because I get a lot of questions on YouTube that are hard to answer unless I can see the issue. This will allow a place you can ask questions, and more importantly post images and videos.