Clone Layer Has Color Cast

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July 23, 2024
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In the attached screenshot, a student ofm ine has retouched on a layer using the Clone Stamp and the Spot Healing brush. He did so after using a Levels adjustment layer. I checked his settings, the Blend mode in the tool options bar at the top of the monitor is set to normal. Protect tones was off. I tried replicating his set up on my end and got the expected clone layer without the blue cast seen in the screenshot below.

Any ideas as to what is causing this color cast from the clone stamp?

Thank you.

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Earth Oliver

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your student messed up and cloned above the adjustment instead of below.

michael e sternAuthor

Known Participant

Thank for replying but you are incorrect. I've been retouching in this manner for decades, it is an efficient and proper procedure.

D Fosse

Community Expert

Check the sample options:

michael e sternAuthor

Known Participant

All Layers was properly selected. That isn't the issue unfortuately.

davescm

Community Expert

Your two screenshots are different. On one the levels adjustment is below the cloning layer and the other it is above.

'All layers' sampling frequently causes the issue you describe. If there is an adjustment layer above the layer being sampled and the layer being cloned onto (which there is in your second screenshot), then the sample is taken 'after' the adjustment. Then, when painting, it gets adjusted again - hence the change of colour.

Try setting the sampling to 'Current and Below'

Dave

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