Clone Engine

While this is an engine, it functions as more of a photo editing tool. As the name suggests, this tool allows you to clone an existing part of your canvas and apply it to a different part. The unique settings that will control the clone features are in the Painting Mode.

• Healing– Turns the cloning functionality into healing. When you create brush strokes from the source, it will do a better job at smoothing out what is currently there—similar to the healing brush in other applications.
• Correct the perspective – This checkbox becomes active once you use the Perspective Grid Tool, not the Assistant Tool.
• Source point move – Turning this off will turn your clone point into the brush tip. The source point will not move as you make your stroke.
• Clone From All Visible Layers – Uses all layer information to use as source point.

Press Ctrl + Click on the canvas to select a source point. This source point will be used to copy from. When you start painting on the canvas, the brush stroke will look at the source to get its brush information. As the instructions say on the tool, you can clone from a different layer by selecting the layer and pressing Ctrl + Alt + Click. Outside of photo retouching, I haven’t found much use for this.