In this respect, Hardness can be considered the strength of the antialiasing used to soften edges.īecause of the relationship between Hardness and Antialiasing the Hardness setting is ignored if Antialiasing is disabled.Ī low Hardness value can be used to make stamped regions less obvious.Ī Blend Mode can also be applied, much like a layer blend only specific to the tool path. See Blend Modes for more information.
Reducing the Hardness setting has the effect of softening the edge of the stamp. You might be surprised to hear that you can copy and paste tracking.
In this video tutorial from Peachpit TV, we learn how to use the clone stamp tool to remove tracking points in After Effects. To break the link, set a new source point by holding down the Ctrl key and clicking at a different location.Ĭlone Stamp inherits the Brush Width, Hardness and Antialiasing settings from the Tool Bar. If you frequently work on compositing gigs or with green screens, then the Clone Stamp tool is an invaluable feature for cleaning up your backgrounds. This relationship will persist through tool changes and other editing operations. Once the relationship is set, the points remain locked together.Ĭlone source and destination are locked together once cloning starts. When the Aligned option is unchecked, the Clone Stamp Tool will always sample from the same Source point in the photo. The Align option controls the sampling behaviour of the Clone Stamp. The relationship between the source and destination is fixed once the actual cloning is started. m Using the Clone Stamp Tool If you are familiar with cloning in Photoshop, the Clone Stamp tool in After Effects works in a similar fashion: It. The Photoshop Clone Stamp Tool works by sampling one area (the source) and copying it to another (the target). Note that the source point moves in the same path as the tool when cloning starts. This results in the tool path being copied as a stripe rather than just the source point. Click and drag to copy from the source to the destination. Navigate to the destination location (where you want the pixels to be copied to). The source location will remain where it was set. Repeating Ctrl + Click sequence resets the source to the newly clicked location. Set the source point by holding down the Ctrl key and clicking on the source image.