For clone and heal can the source point be fixed?
In an image I am trying to erase the text on a sign. There is only one small area of this sign with no text - so ideally I would clone only this section and brush it over the rest of the sign.
In C1 (12) I have tried the Clone tool but as I move my target point the source point also moves and thus I am unable to clone only the blank section over the text.
The only way I can think do this is to create many layers - with each layer erasing only small piece of the sign. If there is a limit to the number of clone layers then even this may not give me enough coverage to blank out the text on the sign.
Is there any way to "fix"or pin the source point of a clone layer and have it applied to all the target area in that layer?
Or is there some other method to achieve this in C1? Or should I be using some other application for this type of edit?
In C1 (12) I have tried the Clone tool but as I move my target point the source point also moves and thus I am unable to clone only the blank section over the text.
The only way I can think do this is to create many layers - with each layer erasing only small piece of the sign. If there is a limit to the number of clone layers then even this may not give me enough coverage to blank out the text on the sign.
Is there any way to "fix"or pin the source point of a clone layer and have it applied to all the target area in that layer?
Or is there some other method to achieve this in C1? Or should I be using some other application for this type of edit?
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If it is a large sign and there is no large area of the required background colour you can source from to eliminate the text then I think you may need to look to another application for that part of the edit.
Other than that under some very specific circumstances there may be options involving, say, selecting the colour of the text and and somehow eliminating it with a colour change but if dealing with blacks/grays and whites probably not.
If the sign is quite small you may be able to obliterate it completely wi the Healing spot tool or the clone spot but it sound like it might be tricky.
You have 16 total layers to work with. Not many if I am correctly imagining what you are dealing with. I think you probablyu need a pixel editor rather than a RAW converter for that part of the task.
HTH.
Grant
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