Crosshairs for Cloning Tool

Question

When cloning from one image to another, is there supposed to be a circle

with cross-hairs inside of it on the image that you are cloning from

that follow the exact area you are cloning from? It would make it much

easier and I thought an older version had that feature.

Thank you.

Jeff Arola · Accepted Answer

I really appreciate your help, but the Alt/Opt key and clicking on the mouse is not causing crosshairs to appear on my second image. There must be a setting that is wrong or something wrong in the menu.

Thank you.

As far as i know, photoshop cs3 was the last version to have that feature without having to change any settings.

In photoshop cs4 and newer, one needs to disable Use Open GL Drawing or Use Graphics Processor in order to see the source Crosshair in the clone source document when cloning from one document to another.

So, first turn off Use Graphics Processor in Edit>Preferences>Performance, restart photoshop, then open your two documents

and you should now be able to see the trailing Crosshair in your source document.

Barb Binder · Answer

When cloning from one image to another, is there supposed to be a circle with cross-hairs inside of it on the image that you are cloning from that follow the exact area you are cloning from?

There are three cursors that are part of cloning:

The circle with cross hairs is only visible as you set the sampling point (starting point) by holding Alt/Opt and clicking on the image with the mouse.
Once you starting painting with the Clone Stamp tool you will see two cursors:
1. a circle where you are painting (unless Caps Lock is on) and
2. crosshairs over the object you are cloning.

~Barb

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