Clone stamp

[Joe Laude]

You have to be in the Layer window to actually paint on the image, so what you have to do is bring up the layer you want to clone FROM in the layer window by double-clicking it in your comp. Then option+click (I think it’s alt+click on Windows) the area you want to clone. Then go to the layer you want to paint TO, again by double-clicking it, and then just paint away.

You can also change all of this after the fact, by painting the stroke you want, and then changing the settings in the Paint effect on that layer. You can change the source location and layer, even the thickness of the stroke, among other things, after you’ve already painted it.

Also remember that every stroke is saved separately in the Paint effect, so it can get a little unmanageable after a while without judicious use of your strokes.