New Clone mystery - a ghost streak
Posted: July 6th, 2019, 1:54 pm
I was cloning off a dark noisy part from an image using Lighten Only mode and Linked cursors.
At a certain moment, I think when I was releasing the mouse button, there appeared a lighter streak aiming to the upper left corner of the image : top left crop in attachment.
I cloned it off using alternately Darken Only and Lighten Only mode: top middle crop in the attachment.
When I finished and reopened the Clone dialog to add some more touches, I got a dark muddy patches where I was also cloning. What is interesting is that they are in the place where I was using Lighten Only and that they are not the last strokes I did before clicking OK: top right crop in the attachment.
Until I reopened the Clone dialog, the preview did not show any such patches. After that the patches remained permanent part of the image, always visible in the preview.
I repaired the cloning a few times without success. I also saved it into a workspace script and closed PWP without reopening the Clone dialog. After loading the script the muddy patches were there.
I also wonder where the muddy brown green color came from.
Tomorrow I will replace the Clone step to see what happens. I guess it all comes from the gost streak, even though it was cloned off and is no longer visible.
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Another thing is that during the clonig the cursor was leaving circle trails when the image was zoomed 1:1 : bottom left crop,
and even when zoomed to fit: bottom right crop.
This is quite upsetting as once you activate the cursor, the trails are left even when you move just the mouse over the image without cloning anything - with no mouse button pressed, just going to the dialog controls and back to the image.
Also, they stay there for some time thus creating a whole net of trails before they are removed by the cursor moving over them again creating new trails.
I realize that a faster PC would cope with it much better, still...
At a certain moment, I think when I was releasing the mouse button, there appeared a lighter streak aiming to the upper left corner of the image : top left crop in attachment.
I cloned it off using alternately Darken Only and Lighten Only mode: top middle crop in the attachment.
When I finished and reopened the Clone dialog to add some more touches, I got a dark muddy patches where I was also cloning. What is interesting is that they are in the place where I was using Lighten Only and that they are not the last strokes I did before clicking OK: top right crop in the attachment.
Until I reopened the Clone dialog, the preview did not show any such patches. After that the patches remained permanent part of the image, always visible in the preview.
I repaired the cloning a few times without success. I also saved it into a workspace script and closed PWP without reopening the Clone dialog. After loading the script the muddy patches were there.
I also wonder where the muddy brown green color came from.
Tomorrow I will replace the Clone step to see what happens. I guess it all comes from the gost streak, even though it was cloned off and is no longer visible.
------
Another thing is that during the clonig the cursor was leaving circle trails when the image was zoomed 1:1 : bottom left crop,
and even when zoomed to fit: bottom right crop.
This is quite upsetting as once you activate the cursor, the trails are left even when you move just the mouse over the image without cloning anything - with no mouse button pressed, just going to the dialog controls and back to the image.
Also, they stay there for some time thus creating a whole net of trails before they are removed by the cursor moving over them again creating new trails.
I realize that a faster PC would cope with it much better, still...