Retouching: Fine-Tuning Images - Photoshop Elements 13: The Missing Manual - page 490

▪ Aligned . This setting works exactly the way it does for the Healing Brush ( The Healing
Brush ) . Turn it on and Elements keeps sampling at a uniform distance from your cursor
as you clone; turn it off and it keeps putting down the same source material. Figure 9-6
shows an example of when you'd turn on Aligned. (If you drag the Clone Stamp instead
of clicking with it, Elements automatically turns on the Aligned checkbox.)
Figure 9-6. One way to get rid of the power line in this photo is to use the Clone Stamp's
Aligned option. The thick power line originally entered this photo at the upper left, above the
smaller lines you can still see in the background. By choosing a brush barely larger than the
thick power line and sampling just above the line, you can replace the entire thing in one long
sweep, despite the many changes in the background behind it. Here, the round cursor is at the
left end of what remains of the power line, and the sample point is the + right above the cursor.