The Heal & Clone tools in Bibble 5 allow you to remove small, distracting elements from your images quickly and easily. Cloning is the process of copying a part of an image in order to cover up a distracting or unwanted feature in the picture. Cloning takes image content from a source region, outlined in red, and copies it over the destination region, outlined in black. Healing is best used for small blemished in smooth, low detail areas, does not require a source region and is limited only to circular regions. Bibble 5 Lite is limited to 3 healing or cloning circles and 3 cloning polygons or curves. Bibble 5 Pro goes to 11 polygons or curves and 30 circles. Healing a Cloning in Bibble 5 uses the same region creation and selection tools as Selective Editing.
To use Heal regions:
| 1. | click the down arrow next to the 'Add Layer' button, and select 'Add Heal/Clone Layer', as shown below: |
Each version can only have one Heal / Clone layer.
| 2. | Next, select the Circle Region cursor, and select the area in the image you want to Heal or Clone. In the example below, a single Heal circle region was placed on the bird in the sky. |
Before Heal Region is added
After Heal Region is added
To use Cloning:
| 1. | Select the existing Heal / Clone layer, or create a new Heal / Clone layer as shown in step #1 above. |
| 2. | Select the Circle, Polygon, or Curve region cursor. |
| 3. | Select the portion of your image that you want to clone out. This is the destination area for the cloning. If you used the Circle Region tool, make sure the Mode is set to Clone. |
| 4. | Once you finish creating your destination region, a source region will automatically be created which will be outlined in red. Click and drag within the red source region to position it where you want to copy image content from. |
Switch between Heal and Clone
Circular regions can be either Heal or Clone regions. Clone regions work best when the destination area contains a texture or content that you want to preserve, while Heal regions can be quicker to use in areas with little detail, like in the sky example above. To switch between these tools, simply change the Mode dropdown to 'Heal' or 'Clone'.
Swap Source
On Cloning Regions, a button labeled 'Swap Source' will appear in the lower section of the Layer Manager. This button swaps the source region with the destination region. This is useful when you want to duplicate content in an image using cloning instead of using cloning to remove image content.