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without spending a fortune on a new monitor?

In some cases, not always, when I have cloned the BG to be evenly black or white, it all looks perfectly on screen, even at 100% or 150%. However, when printed, I can clearly see the clone smudges, where my brush hasn't evenly cloned the bg, if you know what I mean.

As a control, after cloning, I now duplicate the layer and set the blending mode to substract, and then indeed I can see the smudges.

Apart from this method (which is very time consuming), is there any way to actually see that there are clone smudges, without having the expense of a brand new monitor?
 
silly question
you are working at 100% i.e. not zoomed out?

I re-read and noticed that you can't see the smudges at 100%
i just wonder if you're at 100% when you're doing the cloning?
 
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mmcp42 said:
silly question
you are working at 100% i.e. not zoomed out?

I re-read and noticed that you can't see the smudges at 100%
i just wonder if you're at 100% when you're doing the cloning?
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For larger areas I work at xx% which gives me the best view of the overall area (usually between 30% and 50%), but for details I go to 100% or more.

But anyhow, even at 150% I wouldn't see the smudges on my screen. It's not a cheap one though, just not a top of the range screen.
 
No I think what mmcp's saying is that photoshops display doesn't always render the image correctly unless your at 100% (sharpening and noise reduction for a start) I don't know off hand if the clone tool is included in that "issue" but it might be worth trying.
 
Do you flatten the layers when you are finished processing the pic..
 
swanseamale47 said:
No I think what mmcp's saying is that photoshops display doesn't always render the image correctly unless your at 100% (sharpening and noise reduction for a start) I don't know off hand if the clone tool is included in that "issue" but it might be worth trying.
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:thumbs:

do you want to post a sample?
 
see what you mean, but only when I zoom in to about 300%

not that it helps much :(
 
Would it not be possible to mask and fill instead of cloning? if you can do that you will get an even surface.
 
I can see marks without any zooming at all on that image.

Check that you've got brightness and contrast set up properly on your monitor.

Also, don't be afraid to use something like a curves layer over the top to help you spot where these things are. If you put a curve layer over the top, then set it to "negative" you'll be able to see much easier where the splodges (technical term) are and then fix them on the underlying layer.

If you're on Elements then duplicate the layer and invert it too see them.

Quick fix for that image would be to burn them to black, or just sample the background and paint, really no need to be cloning.
 
wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:clap:
 
Nice one Jason, good you hear something not in a drawl accent too.
 
A useful trick is to just stand up and look down at the monitor from an acute angle, it usually shows up all sorts of PP nasties that you might have missed :thumbs:
 
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