【Gimp教程】 Beginning Gimp - From Novice To Professional_部分7分析.pdfVIP

232 CHAPTER 6 ■ ERASING AND TOUCHING UP Figure 6-12. At first, GIMP won’t let you clone! Setting the Clone Source The key to the Clone tool is first selecting the region you want to clone by holding down the Control key while clicking. Once you’ve selected the region, you can duplicate it over and over by dragging, painting just as if you were using the Paintbrush tool. This is much more powerful than simply dragging whatever is nearby, like Smudge. You can even Control-click in one image, and then drag in another, cloning parts of the first image into the second. But there’s one other trick to using the Clone tool: it doesn’t restrict itself to the pattern that was inside the brush outline when you Control-clicked. If you keep dragging, it will con- tinue copying from the source image. This means the direction and length of your drag is very important. For instance, suppose that you Control-click to choose a source region in the bushes just to the right of the lead car. Then move down a bit and drag along a line from right to left (Figure 6-13). Getting the bush at the beginning of the dragged line was great, but you can see the drag got carried away. It went too far left in the original source region, grabbing the car, the center line, and a lot of road. CHAPTER 6 ■ ERASING AND TOUCHING UP 233 Figure 6-13. Selecting too much with the Clone tool For that reason, choose a large source region if you can (though it’s not always possible), and use fairly short strokes. Be careful not to drag too far. Also, if you’re trying to paint a specific object out of the picture, use direction to your advantage. For instance, if you clone from below the car, painting with do