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To use the clone brush, first hold down the Option key and click somewhere on the image to identify the source area of the clone. In this example, we’ll sample from just below the first scar we want
to paint. After Option-clicking to sample the image, you can click to begin painting anywhere in the frame.
Setting an offset to sample for cloning (left), and dragging to draw a clone stroke (right)
If you don’t like the stroke you’ve created, you can undo with Command-Z and try again. We repeat the process with the other scar on the man’s forehead, possibly adding a few other small strokes to make sure there are no noticeable edges, and in a few seconds, we’ve taken care of the issue.
TIP: You can adjust the size of the brush right in the viewer, if necessary, by holding down the Command key and dragging the pointer left and right. You’ll see the brush outline change size as you do this.
TIP: You can adjust the size of the brush right in the viewer, if necessary, by holding down the Command key and dragging the pointer left and right. You’ll see the brush outline change size as you do this.
TIP: You can adjust the size of the brush right in the viewer, if necessary, by holding down the Command key and dragging the pointer left and right. You’ll see the brush outline change size as you do this.
Original image (left), and after painting out two scars on the man’s forehead with the Stroke tool set to Clone
Inverting the Steady Effect to Put the Motion Back In
At this point, scrubbing through the clip shows that the paint strokes we’ve made are indeed sticking to the man’s forehead as we need them to do. Now we just have to invert the transform that the Planar Tracker applied to restore the clip back to the way it was, except now with the painted fix attached in the process. This ends up being a two-part process, but the first part is the simplest.
Scrubbing through the steadied clip shows the paint fix is “sticking” to the man’s forehead
We select and copy the PlanarTracker node coming before the Merge node, and paste a copy of it after. This copy has all the analysis and tracking data of the original PlanarTracker node.
Pasting a second copy of the PlanarTracker node after the Paint node