Which tool copies a selected area and pastes it over another area to cover blemishes?

Which tool copies a selected area and pastes it over another area to cover blemishes?

• A. Masking
• B. Cropping
• C. PSD
• D. Clone Stamp Tool

Answer: (D)

Copying pixels from a source area and painting them onto a target area to cover blemishes is what the Clone Stamp Tool does. You sample pixels from somewhere clean by Alt/Option-clicking, then brush over the blemish to stamp those pixels onto it. You can tweak the brush size, hardness, and opacity, and you can choose whether the sample stays fixed or moves with the brush. This gives a precise, pixel-for-pixel copy of the surrounding texture, ideal for seamless coverage. By comparison, masking hides parts of a layer, cropping trims the image, and PSD is just a file format for saving images with layers, not a retouching action.

Copying pixels from a source area and painting them onto a target area to cover blemishes is what the Clone Stamp Tool does. You sample pixels from somewhere clean by Alt/Option-clicking, then brush over the blemish to stamp those pixels onto it. You can tweak the brush size, hardness, and opacity, and you can choose whether the sample stays fixed or moves with the brush. This gives a precise, pixel-for-pixel copy of the surrounding texture, ideal for seamless coverage. By comparison, masking hides parts of a layer, cropping trims the image, and PSD is just a file format for saving images with layers, not a retouching action.