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Lightroom Clone tool in Mac Ventura

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August 18, 2023
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I just wonder if someone could throw light on am issue I have with LR on my iMac 27 Ventura.

When I use the clone tool and select an area to clone out I see the selected circle and can adjust the size in the usual way but I do not see th ’source’ which is being used so therefore cannot alter the source. I frequently try the refresh etc but I have no control over the source

I also have access to LR onmy photo club laptop which is Windows 10 and on that pc I do see the source and can change as required.

Anyone throw any light on this

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Correct answer romeojohn

OK, Understood. Thanks for your feedback

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romeojohnAuthor

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Thganks for all the feedback.

Now happy I know whats going on, its that button on the buttom left.

But why would you not want to see the source?

No need to answer that, its a rhetorical question,

Thanks all

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

I'll answer it anyway. If you turn the overlay off, then the clone tool behaves like the clone tool in Photoshop, meaning you can clone multiple times over the same area. With the overlay on, you can't do this because you will select a previous clone region rather than create a new one. This option can be very important to remove the last remnants of what you are removing.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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romeojohnAuthorCorrect answer

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OK, Understood. Thanks for your feedback

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romeojohnAuthor

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Tried various options and none work very well at all.But fundamentall on myiMac 27 with Ventura I do not see the 'source' marker as per the screenshoy I have taken from the Adobe help pages>

Am I alone in this ,do other Mac users experience the same?

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

Can you post a screenshot of your own Mac while you use the clone tool? That may be more useful than a screenshot from Adobe. Make sure we can see the entire screen, do not cut off anything.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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romeojohnAuthor

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Difficult to do actualy so whilst making a selection with the clone tool I managed a screenshot attached. You can see the 'select' are but no source area.

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richardplondon

Community Expert

Maybe see if H key shortcut helps - IIRC this toggles on and off the thin white lines that display the clone boundary, as well as showing the source location (when relevant). Also IIRC - I am away from LrC at present - combining Ctrl / Cmd lets you define source manually as part of placing the clone, and sidestep the auto selection of a source. But as mentioned, content aware mode does not take from a specific source location, but analyses the surrounding image more generally,

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romeojohnAuthor

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H key does not toggle for me, Defo using the clone tool, Found that holding down the cmd key allows me to move the source but need a large selection tool to work. I will double check on the windows PC next week at my club.
Thanks for the feedback

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

Are you sure you have selected the Clone tool, and not the Content-aware Remove tool (which is selected by default)? The Remove tool does not copy a part of the image, but fills the selection with the best-suited content from other parts of the photo. That means there is no 'source' that you can move to another place. https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/whats-new/2023.html

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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romeojohnAuthor

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Absolutely. Both the hael and clone tool behave the same way but I do not see where the source is taken from, I found that holding cmd when making my selection I can drag around and find a suitable source, but I find that I need to make the tool very large for it to work reasonably well.

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