{"id":34,"date":"2016-10-21T10:15:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T15:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/articles.mattinglydesign.net\/?p=34"},"modified":"2021-08-04T23:24:51","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T04:24:51","slug":"easy-photoshop-image-alignment-for-cloning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattingly.design\/articles\/easy-photoshop-image-alignment-for-cloning\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Photoshop Image Alignment For Cloning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who is familiar with Photoshop knows that there are typically&nbsp;several ways to accomplish a task, with varying results. This is a description of one method for visually aligning two nearly identical images, with the intent of cloning out&nbsp;objects from one (or both) to merge them.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;ve found this particularly useful for:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two images that do not&nbsp;have&nbsp;a common width or height (rendering your alignment tools ineffective).<\/li>\n<li>Situations where&nbsp;cloning tools produce poor results, such as&nbsp;&nbsp;highly detailed or patterned areas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Steps involved:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Combine the two images into one document, in RGB mode. <em>This technique will not work in a CMYK color space<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>It typically helps to view the document&nbsp;in quarter percentages (25%, 50%, 100%, etc.).<\/li>\n<li>The bottom image must have 100% opacity.<\/li>\n<li>For the top image, select <code>Image &gt; Adjustments &gt; Invert<\/code> in the menu, and 50% opacity in the Layers palette. Move the image into place, and nudge as needed with the arrow keys.<\/li>\n<li>Invert the image&nbsp;again.<\/li>\n<li>Create a mask to hide the layer&nbsp;portions&nbsp;that you want to remove.<\/li>\n<li>Revert to 100% opacity.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CxYekIyikYU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>That&#8217;s it!&nbsp;Happy hunting, Photoshoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An easy method for removing objects from two similar photos, without using cloning tools or content-aware fills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[10,11,9],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Easy Photoshop Image Alignment For Cloning - 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