Heal and clone
How to Heal and Clone in Photasium
A spot, a hair, or a repeated patch of texture can be covered with pixels from the photo. In Photasium that happens in the tab: the file never goes to a server.
Texture from the photo
Spot heal paints over a mark, then fills that stroke with texture from nearby pixels when you let go. The patch blends into the colour around it.
Clone stamp copies pixels from a place you choose. Option-click sets the source, then the stroke paints that texture. Brush paints the foreground colour from the colour wells.
A spot on a portrait
A phone shot can pick up a skin spot, a hair, or a sensor speck. Spot heal covers it with texture from the pixels around the mark.
Duplicate the layer first if you want the original pixels still underneath. Duplicate the layer keeps that copy in the stack.
A listing shot often has a crumb, a scuff, or a speck on the table. Switch to Clone stamp, Option-click a clean patch of the same surface, then paint over the speck.
A name or a number on a screenshot can be covered by cloning the pixels beside it. Option-click a matching stretch of the interface, then paint across the text.
Dust and a hair on a scan show up at print size. A small, hard Spot heal takes them off. Keep the stroke tight so the patch stays on the mark.
Healing and cloning in Photasium
Open a photo
Open the editor, then File → Open, or drop an image on the canvas. Select a raster layer.
Choose Heal
Click Heal in the toolbar, or press J. Spot heal and Clone stamp are in the options bar.
Set the stroke
Size (1 to 500), hardness, and opacity are in the options bar. Press [ or ] to change size while you work.
Spot heal
Drag over the mark. When you let go, the stroke is patched with nearby texture. A smaller size stays closer to the mark.
Clone stamp
Switch to Clone stamp. Option-click the pixels you want to copy. A marker shows the source. Drag to paint the copy, and the source stays the same distance from the brush. Option-click again to pick a new source. If you paint before setting one, Photasium asks you to Option-click first.
If a selection is active, the stroke stays inside it. Heal and clone need a raster layer. A text layer asks you to rasterize first. A locked layer will not accept the stroke. Undo restores the layer to how it looked before the stroke.
A patch on the layer
The patch sits on the raster layer, nothing was uploaded, and undo restores the previous stroke. If the texture looks wrong, undo and paint a smaller spot, or Option-click a source closer to the mark.
Download PNG, JPEG, or WebP if you need a file to send. Come back later and the document is still listed under the editor, until this browser’s storage is cleared. Heal and clone sit with the other photo editing tools: Brush a colour, Duplicate the layer a duplicate, export a listing.