If you want to use my font download it from the right side (tutorial details), install it in your OS and restart GIMP. Create a new file. I’ve used a small size, just for demonstration purpose, you can use any size you want. For information on selections and how they are used in GIMP see Selections; for information on features common to all. You can access the Selection Tool in different ways. A drag and drop allows to get a rectangular (or square) shape.
The Clone tool uses the current brush to copy from an image or pattern. It has many uses: one of the most important is to repair problem areas in digital photos, by “ painting over” them with pixel data from other areas. This technique takes a while to learn, but in the hands of a skilled user it is very powerful. Another important use is to draw patterned lines or curves: see for examples. If you want to clone from an image, instead of a pattern, you must tell GIMP which image you want to copy from. You do this by holding down the Ctrl key and clicking in the desired source image.
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Until you have set the source in this way, you will not be able to paint with the Clone tool: the tool cursor tells you this by showing. If you clone from a pattern, the pattern is tiled; that is, when the point you are copying from moves past one of the edges, it jumps to the opposite edge and continues, as though the pattern were repeated side-by-side, indefinitely. When you clone from an image this does not happen: if you go beyond the edges of the source, the Clone tool stops producing any changes. You can clone from any drawable (that is, any layer, layer mask, or channel) to any other drawable. You can even clone to or from the selection mask, by switching to QuickMask mode. If this means copying colors that the target does not support (for example, cloning from an RGB layer to an Indexed layer or a layer mask), then the colors will be converted to the closest possible approximations. Ctrl The Ctrl key is used to select the source, if you are cloning from an image: it has no effect if you are cloning from a pattern.
You can clone from any layer of any image, by clicking on the image display, with the Ctrl key held down, while the layer is active (as shown in the Layers dialog). If Alignment is set to None, Aligned, or Fixed in tool options, then the point you click on becomes the origin for cloning: the image data at that point will be used when you first begin painting with the Clone tool. In source-selection mode, the cursor changes to a reticle cross symbol.
Image If you choose Image source, you must tell GIMP which layer to use as the source, by Ctrl-clicking on it, before you can paint with the tool. If you check Sample merged it's what you “ see” (color made with all the layers of a multi-layer image) that's cloned. If it's unchecked, only the selected layer is cloned. For more information see the glossary entry. Pattern Clicking on the pattern symbol brings up the Patterns dialog, which you can use to select the pattern to paint with. This option is only relevant if you are cloning from a Pattern source.
Alignment The Alignment mode defines the relation between the brush position and the source position. In the following examples, we will use a source image where the sample to be cloned will be taken, and a destination image where the sample will be cloned (it could be a layer in the source image). Aligned In this mode, the first click you make when painting sets the offset between the source origin and the cloned result, and all subsequent brushstrokes use the same offset. Thus, you can use as many brushstrokes as you like, and they will all mesh smoothly with one another. If you want to change the offset, select a new source origin by clicking with the Ctrl key pressed. In the example below, at every new brush stroke, the source keeps the same offset it had with the previous brush stroke.
So, there is no cloning offset for the first brush stroke. Here, for the following strokes, the source ends up out of the source image canvas; hence the truncated aspect.
Registered The “ Registered” mode is different from the other alignment modes. When you copy from an image, a Ctrl-click will register a source layer. Then painting in a target layer will clone each corresponding pixel (pixel with the same offset) from the source layer. This is useful when you want to clone parts of an image from one layer to another layer within the same image.
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(But remember that you can also clone from one image to another image.) At every brush stroke, the source adopts the position of the mouse pointer in the destination layer. In the following example, the destination layer is smaller than the source layer; so, there is no truncated aspect. Cloning translucent black onto white produces gray. Cloning translucent black onto black produces black. Cloning translucent white onto white produces white. Cloning translucent white onto black produces gray.
Cloning can never increase transparency, but, unless “ keep transparency” is turned on for the layer, it can reduce it. Cloning an opaque area onto a translucent area produces an opaque result; cloning a translucent area onto another translucent area causes an increase in opacity. “ Filter” brushes There are a few non-obvious ways to use the Clone tool to obtain powerful effects. One thing you can do is to create “ Filter brushes”, that is, create the effect of applying a filter with a brush. To do this, duplicate the layer you want to work on, and apply the filter to the copy.
Then activate the Clone tool, setting Source to “ Image source” and Alignment to “ Registered”. Ctrl-click on the filtered layer to set it as the source, and paint on the original layer: you will then in effect be painting the filtered image data onto the original layer. History brush You can use a similar approach to imitate Photoshop's “ History brush”, which allows you to selectively undo or redo changes using a brush. To do this, start by duplicating the image; then, in the original, go back to the desired state in the image's history, either by undoing or by using the Undo History dialog. (This must be done in the original, not the copy, because duplicating an image does not duplicate the Undo history.) Now activate the Clone tool, setting Source to “ Image source” and Alignment to “ Registered”. Ctrl-click on a layer from one image, and paint on the corresponding layer from the other image.
Depending on how you do it, this gives you either an “ undo brush” or a “ redo brush”.