Cloning - From Sampled Location Centre To Where Painted? How?

[Mark B]

Dear Forum members, I'm atempting to create a cloner brush from which I can selected the sample point and paint from the sampled centre to a new location ( As one might do in Photoshop etc) but I'm having absolutely no luck.I've been attempting to use the features in Paint Source Offset > Tracking >Offset Start but it seems to be offsetting from the source image bounds (or some such voodoo) and not a specified sampled point.Any help in this matter would be greatly appeciated.Many thanks John - the solution you posted below was exactly what I was looking for.

[Synthetik]

Can you explain a little bit more what you want to do?

Do you just want to clone the source image into the canvas?  Or select a specific point in the source and then offset clone where ever you start paintin gin the canvas offset to the tracking point in the source?  Or?

So grab a simple clone paint preset to work with.  Like 'A Simple Clone' in Cloners collection.

Using it will do the normal source clone.

 

Now if you hold down the t key and click in the source at some location in the source, then you can derive different source positional clone options off of that.

Go to the Paint Source Offset control panel in the paint synthesizer Editor.

There is a Tracking parameter in there.

Normally it is set to Start Point.  The other options (Fixed, Fixed Start,Offset Start) in there let you do different kinds of source cloning based on the tracking position you setup int he source when you t clicking some location in the source.  Try them out and see what they do.

I'm kind of assuming Offset Start is the one you are looking for.

I'll try to expand this short explanation out later with a longer tutorial on this.

[Thor Johnson]

"So grab a simple clone paint preset to work with.  Like 'A Simple Clone' in Cloners collection.

Using it will do the normal source clone.

Now if you hold down the t key and click in the source at some location in the source, then you can derive different source positional clone options off of that."

Hi John, I was interested to learn that you could do that, so I tired it, but it didn't work for me.  I held down the t key and clicked in the source image area but it never offset the source position clone point.  It just straight cloned from the same position every time.

[Synthetik]

The t click in the source area just sets up the tracking point you want to work off of for the tracking cloning options.  You then have to select the appropriate Tracking option in the paint Source Offset control panel.  The preset i mentioned you grabbed has Tracking set to Start Point, which is the default normal non tracking offset cloning.  Try setting Tracking to Fixed, Fixed Start, and Offset Start and see how that changes the nature of the source cloning.  Those 3 i mentioned will work off of the tracking point in the source you selected in different ways.

[Thor Johnson]

Ah I see, thanks for the clarification

[Thor Johnson]

I get now that you totally explained it the first time, haha