Crosshairs for Cloning Tool

[troys19977446]

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.

[Per Berntsen]

If you set the cursor options like in the screenshot below, does that achieve what you want?

Press Ctrl/Cmd + K to open preferences.

[Barb Binder]

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:

1. 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.
2. 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

[troys19977446]

Hello,

I have one more question: Where is the Opt key on a windows keyboard?

Thank you!

[Guest]

It's the ALT key

[troys19977446]

I tried the Alt key and it still won't put crosshairs on the second image I want to clone.It puts crosshairs on the image to mark the starting spot, but the crosshairs disappear on the second image once you begin to clone. I must be missing something simple.

Thank you!

[Guest]

Barb explained it in the post above

[troys19977446]

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.

[Jeff Arola · Accepted solution]

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]

I have one more question: Where is the Opt key on a windows keyboard?

Set the sampling point by positioning the pointer in any open image and Alt-clicking (Windows) or Option-clicking (Mac OS).

And I'm so sorry. I missed that you were cloning from one image to another. I believe you only see the crosshairs when you are working in a single file, at least as far back as CS6.

~Barb

[letterwoman]

How do you get the crosshairs where you are cloning from? I used to be able to both crosshairs, but now I can only see the crosshairs where I'm painting? Did they remove that feature from the latest version of Photoshop CC?