Pattern Stamp and Clone Tool

You will need to download and unzip these images from dwphotographs.com to complete this project: They contain the following images:

1. Iron Gate
2. Bridge
3. Arbor Vitae
4. Pine Needles
5. legume
6. Girl

1. Open your Iron gate image.

2. Select your clone stamp tool from your toolbox. . Set it to a 20 pixel soft brush and 100 % opacity.

3. While holding your alt key down Click in the stone pillar to grab clone material.

4. Paint in the fill from the stone pillar to cover the black graffiti paint on the pillar. Check the + symbol as you paint to insure you are not going to put joints where you don't want them. Paint over the graffiti mark with your clone stamp.

5. Save your gate image.

6. Open your Bridge image. Use your rectangular marquee set to no feather to select the bottom parts of the steps.

8. Click Filter=>Pattern maker (alt shift ctrl X)

9. Set the pattern to the following:

• width = 70
• height = 70
• offset = none
• smoothness 1
• sample detail 5.

10. Click generate. Generate a few times until you get a tile you like. Click the icon at the bottom of the pattern maker to save the pattern.

11. Close the Bridge picture and switch back to the gate.

12. Select the pattern stamp tool.  Set the pattern stamp to a 29 hard brush with the new pattern you just made.

13. Paint the path in front of the gate with the pattern. Save your image.

14. Open the Arborvitae image. Use the rectangular marquee to select a square in the middle of the image.

15. Click Filter=> pattern maker.

16. Set the pattern maker for a 100 by 100 pixel image and click generate. Generate several times until you find an image that looks good. Save it as a pattern like you did in the bridge stairs.
17. Select the pattern stamp tool. . Set your brush to about 27 soft brush to paint just above the top tines of the gate in a single stroke. Switch your brush to a hard brush and paint in the areas to the left of the pillar and gate and to the right of the pillar where there are no red bricks
Reset the brush to a 19 hard and brush in the area to the left of the gate and pillar above the flowers. Brush down the right side of the column to the brick.

18. Use your zoom tool to zoom in on the gate.

19. Select your magic wand tool and set the option for tolerance of 40. Click in the white area between the gate rungs.

20. Select your pattern stamp tool again. Brush the arborvitae pattern into the white areas between the rungs.

21. Repeat the magic wand on the light green within the rungs and paint with the pattern stamp with arborvitae pattern.

22. Use the burn tool set to mid tones to darken the lower area of trees and the top of the brick below, to the left of the gate. Use the sponge tool set to saturate to lighten the upper branches of the arbor vitae.

23. Open the pine needles picture. Make a pattern of it using the pattern maker. Using a hard 19 brush to dab in a bush right where the trash can is.

24. Use the burn tool to darken the left of the bush and the wall and ground to the left of the bush. Use the sponge tool to highlight the bright areas of the top and right of the bush.

25. Open the legume flower and make another pattern out of it using pattern maker. Set the pattern maker to use image size by clicking the button for it.

26. Use the pattern stamp brush with a hard 19 to dab in bunches of flowers around the ground in front of the gate. Use the burn tool set to mid tones to shade the flowers and wall in the shadows and the sponge tool to brighten the flowers towards the bottom and right.

27. Open the Picture of the girl. Use the move tool  to drag a copy onto your canvas. Arrange the girl so she appears in the lower left of your image.

28. Use the magic wand to select the girls dress. Click on the quick mask button and use the black and white paint with a hard brush to select the girl in the image. Return to normal mode to see your selection. Click on the channels palette and save selection as channel.

29. Click on the alpha channel you just make. clean up the black and white image by painting over the gray pixels. Then drag the alpha1 channel to the load channel as selection button. Click back on the RGB channel and return to your layers palette.

30. Click on the layer1 where your girl is. Hit the mask button on the bottom of the layers palette to add a layer mask.

31. Zoom into the feet of the girl. Click on the mask on the girls layer. Use a soft brush set to black paint to paint on the mask of the girl near her foot to hide behind any flowers they are over.

32. Use the burn tool to give her a shadow towards the gate.