Rotating a Rectangular Marquee for Clone Stamping

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January 18, 2019
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I routinely use a rectangular marque so I can get a perfectly straight edge when using the clone stamp tool because the clone stamp will ONLY work within that rectangular marquee and not beyond the lines. Given this purpose, I am trying to use it but I have to "distort" the rectangle first as the edge on which I want a perfectly straight line is at an angle. I am finding that I cannot free transform/distort the rectangular marquee then select the clone stamp. Has anyone encountered this? Is there a different tool/method I should use to accomplish this? Thanks for your help!

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Correct answer Semaphoric

It sounds like what you want is Select > Transform Selection.

Bojan Živković11378569

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I cannot reproduce your problem in Photoshop 20.0.2 on Windows. Which Ps version you are using? Which method you are using to rotate/transform selection? I guess it is Transform Selection from Select menu.

FSchleyhahnAuthor

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Thank you for your reply. I also am using Photoshop 20.0.2. This is what I am doing; I open the image; create a new layer; using the Rectangular Marquee, I create a rectangle; I then select <Ctrl> <T>; I then select <Distort>; but when I do this, it is distorting the selection; all I want to do is adjust the rectangular marquee so that the top part of the rectangle lines up with the angle I want to use the clone stamp up next to.

Semaphoric

Correct answer

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It sounds like what you want is Select > Transform Selection.

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