[newbie problems] Clone Stamp not allowing to go past weird borders or How to get rid of the wall shadows?

Hi

It looks like you are cloining with teh source at a diagonal to your cloned output. Therefore as you move down - you are running down the image your source is hitting the bottom edge.

Can you post the original (without your cloning) . There are other ways to achieve what you want to do.

Dave

Go back to the original file ( because your selection has to be redone ).  Use either the magic wand or slection tool to create the selection on the right side of the image.  Once you have the selection > Save selection.  Here is what I would do.  Use the rectangle tool to select from the left edge to right below the girl's chin, just short of the neck.  Copy.  Then load the selection of the right section > Paste Into.  Flip the selection so the gradation is now going right to left instead of the original left to right.  Deselect the Copy > go to Edit - transform - scale.  Scale the copy o fit top to bottom.  You may end up with some artifacts.  On the copy do a Gaussian Blur.  To get a good match, apply the Gaussian Blur to the left side.  Add some noise to both the left and right sides to get them to match if necessary.  Always work on a copy of the original file just in case things go South.

This screenshot shows an example kind of the other way round (darkening left of the subject) because the right side was already damaged in your screenshot.

Please post a screenshot including all pertinent Panels (Layers, Options, Clone Source, …) and the original image (or a lords thereof).

And to be frank: The method as you described it seems bad.

An alternative would be the use of an Adjustment Layer (Curves for example) within a Group.

Applying a Layer Mask if the background to the Group should allow brushing in the Adjustment on that Layer’s Layer Mask without affecting the foreground.

Even this method is not ideal in my opinion but it should suffice for a start.