PhotoPlus X2 User Guide - Serif

Painting and Drawing 89
When retouching, for example, you can remove an unwanted object from an image
by extending another area of the image over it. The tool works well either on large
areas, or zoomed-in to the pixel level.
To tell the Clone Tool exactly where to start picking up the image, you Shift-click
to define a pickup point (let's call it point A). Your next click defines a "putdown"
or painting point (say, at point B)—and begins the first brush stroke. During the
stroke, imagine you have one brush picking up the image from point A, while
another puts it down at point B. As long as the mouse button is down, the A-B
distance stays the same, and the two points move as if locked together. The A
point—marked by a crosshair cursor—follows the stroke of the B brush and the
region surrounding A is cloned.
The Context toolbar includes an Aligned option that affects what happens if you
use more than one brush stroke. There are two possibilities when you click to begin
a second stroke:
Aligned
Non-aligned
The pickup point resets itself at a new point "A," a fixed
distance from the brush tip—maintaining the same
separation between the cursors as on the first stroke.
OR
The pickup point resets itself to the original point "A."
In the first case (called "aligned" because the two cursors remain in A-B
alignment), subsequent brush strokes extend the cloned region rather than
producing multiple copies. In non-aligned mode, you begin cloning the same
pixels all over again from the original pickup point.
Up to now we’ve assumed that a single layer is being cloned. However, the Context
toolbar hosts a Use all layers option which, when checked, will clone all layers
(including Background, standard, Text and Shape layers together). When
unchecked, only the active (selected) layer is cloned.