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Senior Computer Tutor
Don Edrington Home Profile |
IrfanView - Using the CloneToolAll of the major image-editing programs have a clone tool. Here I'll explain how to use the clone tool in IrfanView (the free image-editor I use for most of my basic editing). Regarding the images shown below, one day I spotted a couple of neighborhood youngsters playing with an umbrella – so I stopped and took their picture (Image No. 1). (The original snapshot had a lot of extraneous background, which I cropped to create Image No. 1 seen below.) The original picture of the umbrella kids was fine the way it was, but I decided to put the children closer together. Using IrfanView's clone tool, I set the image-copying area to a 40x40-pixel square area. Then I right-clicked the gray block wall above the girl, followed by left-clicking the corresponding brown fence area to her left. With the left-mouse-button still being pressed, I moved the cursor straight down to the bottom of the picture. This cloned a 40-pixel-wide swath from the top of the fence to the bottom of the picture. I set the the number of pixels to 40x40 because the gray block section just happened to be 40 pixels wide. However, I could have chosen, say, 20x20 pixels and then moved the cursor from side to side as I dragged it down to the picture's bottom. Then I released the left mouse button and moved the cursor to the left of the boy, where I right-clicked the top edge of the brown fence. Next, I left-clicked the corresponding height on the wall and doorway on the right side of the girl. Finally, I held the left mouse button down as I cloned the fence and wall to cover the doorway and the original image of the girl in front of the gray blocks. |
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