[filmscanners] Re: Cloning

["John Pendley" <jpendley@alltel.net>]

The short method does work, too.   My procedure was really laborious and
time-consuming; this is so fast!

JP

At 06:41 AM 03/08/2002 -0800, you wrote:


>John Pendley wrote:
>
> > Hi Mac,
> >
> > Thanks for the response.  I came on this method almost intuitively.  I
> > don't have docs, and a combination of the "help" feature in PS and a book I
> > bought on PS led me in the general direction I finally found.  I've read a
> > description of the method that works for you, and it doesn't work on PS
> > 5.0.  When I follow your steps, and get the point of alt-clicking on an
> > area near the flaw I want to correct, a message pops up that says, "Could
> > not use the pattern stamp because no pattern has been defined."  I've tried
> > this several times, following your directions, and I get the same error
> > every time.  The book I bought says something like this: ...after all, PS
> > can't copy from a pattern you haven't selected with Edit/Define
> > Pattern.  I'm guessing that you have a later version of PS that allows this
> > sequence of commands to work.
> >
>
>
>A ha... you have "defined" the problem.  You are using the wrong tool!
>I suppose to save space on the tool pallet, Photoshop has several tools
>hiding in many of the tool icons.  If they have more than one tool,
>there is a small arrow facing right in the right hand lower corner.
>
>The Pattern Stamp tool and the Rubber Stamp tool both occupy the same
>location on the toll pallet.  To switch from one to the other left click
>AND HOLD the left button down on the tool icon and shortly a little
>secondary tool set will open.  The the case of the pattern/rubber
>stamps, there are only two.  Move the mouse cursor to land on the
>non-ghosted one and let go of the mouse button.  You will now have
>switched to the opposite stamp.  To chick, just put the mouse cursor on
>the tool icon in the tool pallet and wait a moment for the tool to be
>identified via a little yellow box with a description in it-- it should
>now read "Rubber Stamp Tool (S)".  If it still says "Pattern Stamp Tool
>(S)", then once again click and hold with left mouse button and choose
>the other stamp.
>
>Once you have the Rubber Stamp Tool activated, you can use the procedure
>that has been discussed.  It is a lot quicker than the way you have been
>doing it.
>
>Art
>
>
> >
>
>
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