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Originally Posted by chireau

Well, as much as possible!

Some situations will require smaller more repetitive stamping to get a good result, (depending on texture, etc). I guess we learn to dose this over time.

But that's how I learned it in school. The reason is because you need to use a smooth transition brush (0% hardness), or else you will see the brush strokes... but then each stamp makes some sort of blur around it as a transition... the more strokes the more blurry it get and you loose the original texture.

Also, for skintones, just try to use the healing tool instead! It works magic on the subject's face!

For larger sufaces, copy a portion of another area that you SEE will fill almost perfectly (patern and tint/color etc). Then fine tune with level, curves, brightness / contrast etc etc... And some more stamp tool to blend the edge perfectly!.

Thats why is was saying its all in the right sized brush and choosing the right sampling for the cloning process (using numerous and especially combined different selection methods!!! You can even select by color range, etc etc...).

Have fun PP'ing! (i'm loving it!).

thank you so much i will definately take what you said and apply it towards my next photoshop job