Discover the steps to finishing a panorama using the clone stamp tool in Adobe Photoshop. The article provides detailed instructions on how to manipulate layers and pull pixels from different parts of the image to create a balanced and natural look.
Key Insights
- The article describes how to use the clone stamp tool to pull pixels from different parts of an image. This method is used to fill gaps, add vegetation, and create consistency throughout the picture.
- When using the clone stamp tool, it's important to select the correct layer and adjust the tool's size for optimal results. The example given adjusts the tool to 60 pixels to work on tree details.
- By continually pulling pixels from varying parts of the image, you can avoid creating a repetitive pattern. In this way, the clone stamp tool can transform the image to create a whole different look, even creating something out of nothing.
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In this video we'll be finishing up our panorama with the Clone Stamp Tool. With our file open, let's get started. The next area we're going to be working on is these trees over here.
Let's start by adjusting the size of our Clone Stamp Tool. Adjust it a little bit larger, up to about 60 pixels. And holding ALT, see that we can't click—that's because the layer isn't selected.
We'll select the layer and we'll hold ALT to select where we want to pull pixels from. With this type of image, it can be a little tricky because we don't have much to draw from. As we can see, we want to keep this green belt here a little bit, right between the trees and some more vegetation.
We'll simply pull from these as best we can. However, we will notice that it starts to look like it's repeating itself. Therefore, let's close up this green belt a little bit.
Hold ALT, and here it starts to close off up top, so we'll use this as our sample. I'm just going to take our time to start closing it off here, and we'll add trees in. And we'll continue adding trees.
And we can see that this starts to look natural—trees on the side. Finally, we'll want to add some of these lighter trees on the bottom. Just starting to come in towards the bottom here, so that we can keep consistency.
And we start to kind of create a similar feel to the rest of the image—something that feels a little more natural. Finally, let's work on some of these edges here, and just finish this up a little bit.
All right, this looks pretty good. We've filled in this corner and this whole bottom section pretty well. Let's hit CTRL+S on the keyboard to save, and let's begin working on the clouds.
We're going to simply do the same thing we did before. Because this is white, this is pretty easy to fill in. We'll keep pulling from parts of our image and dragging to fill it in. As we can see, we'll have a little bit of difficulty with this blue here.
In my opinion, it's usually best to make sure that we've filled in the image first, and then we can go back and tweak it as needed. For example, we don't want to repeat this right here, between the two blue spots. So I'll pull some pixels from here and give it a little variation.
That looks pretty good. Finally, we'll keep pulling from spots to fill in our image up here. And as you can see, it's a pretty easy process.
For this top section, we'll pull in a little blue. However, for our image, I think what we're going to do is just have a little pocket of blue, but have the white and some of the darker clouds close in around it, so we don't have to keep creating blue from the small sample that we have. Keep working with this and simply adding to our image.
And here we're starting to pull off the end of the blue. We've really transformed this image to create a whole different look and create something out of nothing. And here we'll fill in just the end of the image.
For this last part of the mountain right here, we can see that it got cut off a little bit. So let's actually sample from the top of this mountain over here using ALT. And we'll use ALT over here to give it more of an angle.
And see, we can actually just add to it here, just like this. And here we've created a little bit of a different face to the mountain. We'll blend this a little bit.
And that looks pretty good. Finally, let's zoom out to see our work. And we can see that we're missing this final section on the bottom.
Let's fix that up really quick. We'll use ALT, add to the screen. And we're going to choose right on the border here and line it up so that we can add to it.
And with a texture like this, it's easy to pick from multiple places in the texture—and in the dirt in this case—and simply keep adding. For this again, we'll click right on the border and line it up so that it matches. And here we have the ability to finish the final transparency in our image.
Finish this border here. Zoom out. And let's actually go to the Zoom Tool.
Click Fit Screen. And we can see our entire image. Nicely done.
We'll hit CTRL+S to save. And we've now finished our panorama.