The Officially Unofficial Reference Guide
CloneStamp
is PixInsight's implementation of this well-known image editing tool.
It is an interactive dynamic tool, just like DBE
or DynamicCrop,
for example. This means that you can create process icons and scripts
with CloneStamp instances, exactly as you can do for any other
processes, and apply them to any number of images without
restrictions.
You open the CloneStamp interface and click on an image to start a
new session. That image will be the "clone stamp target",
to which all clone stamp actions will write pixels. Then you
Ctrl+click on any point of an open image (including the target image
of course) to define a first "source point", click on the
target image to define a first "target point", and start
dragging with the mouse to perform cloning actions. You can start a
new action by clicking again and dragging, and define a new
source/target point pair with Ctrl+click / click at any moment.
The
Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y keys can be used while the target image is active
to undo/redo clone stamp actions. If you cancel the process (red
cross icon on the interface's control bar), the initial state of the
image is restored. If you apply the process (green check mark icon),
all clone stamp actions (except those that have been undone) are
applied, just as any other process.
Radius: Radius of the clone stamp brush.
Softness: Modify to define softer or coarser brush edges.
Opacity: Define the opacity of the cloning action.
Copy brush: Copy current action brush parameters.
Show bounds: Draws a box around the current cloned area.
Navigation controls: The CloneStamp interface includes a local history that can be used to undo/redo/delete performed actions. This allows you to revisit any cloning action done during the cloning session, by clicking on the blue arrows (From left to right: First, previous, next and last cloning actions).