I’m new to Krita and actually adjusting well as I’ve used Photoshop for over 20 plus years. I’m trying to use the clone tool and having trouble even after watching some youtube tuitorials and understanding how to use it. Having used the clone stamp for years in Photoshop I’m sure theres something I’m missing.
I’m assuming the circle with an X is the target cursor that I saw mentjoned. The other circle is shown rotating around the other one but no one explains how it moves. Mine is in its original installed position and I can’t figure out how to move it, rotate it.
I can do a clone where it is using ctrl left click but I cant move the rotating one.
How does it move/rotate? I’m sure when I find out I will be surprised and wonder why I couldn’t figure it out as I leern by using. This one has me baffled.
Being a brush at first confused me.
Photoshop it acts like a brush but Krita it feels different to me yet similar. Once I learn I will be able to use it regularly, its my favorite tool. Hope this explains my simple problem.
Charles
Hello @CVA-Illustra8s, and welcome to the forum!
Disable brush smoothing, or go at least to weighted or basic in your Tool Options Docker to remove the second circle around the source circle, that’s all. The Tool Options Docker is found on the tab below the color selector in the upper right corner of a fresh installed Krita.
I do not understand the other issue about moving it, are you unable to move the clone brush? If so, can you move other brushes?
Michelist
The clone works fine but the two circles that I use for selecting a spot to clone and the other to create the duplicate, the duplicate circle is stationary and YouTube videos I see it circling around the other circle. Mine I can’t figure out how to make it move. Hope that makes sense. I have an image of the spot I’m trying to clone. I just need you figure out how to upload it here LoL. I’m currently on my phone responding. I will try on my Mac later to upload the image. Charles
The maximum allowed size is 3MB and up to ~9 mega-pixels.
Also, if you talk about videos, then please post the links to them, I don’t sit beside you and only that you are telling me about a video won’t reveal its content to me, so I don’t know what you are talking about.
And now I have to sleep a few hours more.
Michelist
Sorry about mentioning a video and not realizing that doesn’t really help. My view of my project (attached image) shows the two circles one with the X in the center. The other empty. I want to clone the line uo tp the top edge above.
The video link is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSA9F-gvLp4
In the video the two circles look exactly like mine but they separate for choosing a location to duplicate/clone the charcacter in the video. She doesn’t say how she changed its location and the online manual for the tool doesn’t appear to explain how either.
When I try to clone, the two circles stay in place and the line I’m trying to clone ends up being off and up to the right. How do you control moving the circle? To choose a place for cloning in Photoshop you press ALT if memory serves and you select a point. Its not mentioned in any video on youtube I’ve seen on how to move the circles location. Another video referenced the circle with the X as a target cursor. Not sure if thats what its actually called.
Charles
You can change the option in brush setting like in this video https://youtu.be/FPpT5AwpXdA?si=LUSb02958Fs32wlz&t=200
To pick source image (circle with X), if you use Canvas input setting with input profile Krita Default it should be use Ctrl (its same with ordinary brush to pick/sample color). If you had set Canvas input setting to Photoshop preset, probably use Ctrl + Alt.
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This shows how valuable a good description is, because until now I thought you knew how to select and clone the area to be copied, and I didn’t understand your “how to rotate the Clone Tool cursor” and the circle that should rotate around it. I thought you were talking about the second ring around the target cursor, which comes from Brush Smoothing, as I show in my screenshot. In Krita, as @rahmanb already said, hold down the CTRL-key, which is probably equivalent to CMD on Macs, to capture the origin and then hold down the key to set the direction and distance.
In any case, I can only recommend Krita’s manual, accessible on PCs via F1, I don’t know what the equivalent key is on Macs.
The second circle I marked with the red arrows is what I thought you are talking about so far and wondered what should rotate there:
Michelist
Thanks I will try it. I wasn’t sure I was explaining what I needed to do correctly because it’s so different from Photoshop yet you get similar results and a simple task of how was driving me crazy. I kept seeing in the YouTube videos the one circle moving around the other one but I couldn’t get it to move myself and figured it was a key to help move it. In Photoshop it was the alt key to select where you then want to clone to. Once I know how to do something I’m fine but I spent a couple hours over the weekend and couldn’t get it to work. I’m usually good at figuring things out but this one beat me as I finally turned the computer off and went to bed. I’m glad to have someone to help me as long as I convey what it is I’m trying to do correctly. Charles
Looking at your graphic again makes me realize that the target is what I was having trouble with. How to move & locate it to place for doing a clone copy from your source in an area you want it to clone. No matter what I tried it stayed stationary. I feel like when I was learning Photoshop back in 2002, lost for awhile. LoL once I know how I’ll be unstoppable LoL thanks again.
Hold down CTRL, what will make the cursor an eye-dropper, and move the target circle with the cross-hair and the eye-dropper in it over your source you want to copy, now click and let go your LMB to grab (or mark) your source point and move your target circle with its cross-hair to your target point, the point to where you want to clone and now let go CTRL also, now you have defined source, direction and distance and can paint, and from the “let go”-moment your, initially the source selecting, cross-hair gets the target-point where it will paint what is in the now the source-region covering source circle. Is it really so hard?
Michelist
I was having trouble figuring this out too. Seems sometimes it worked, and others it didn’t. It turned out that it doesn’t work with a remapped Ctrl key. I remap my Ctrl key to the Del keypad key, and that works fine for selecting colors with drawing brushes, but not the clone key. Only the main keyboard Ctrl key works.
