Page 397 - Xara Designer Pro X17

The Photo Tools 397

• When setting the source point of a clone shape manually, if you drag over another the
photo you can copy regions of one photo onto another.
• Dragging on the 8 resize handles around the shape will enlarge or reduce the clone
shape size
• Dragging the feather slider control on the InfoBar, or the main feather control on the
top bar, will adjust the edge blend.
• You can delete a clone shape by selecting it and pressing the Delete key
• The clone copy will always be made from the image you see on the page, including all
previously applied clones and other edits already made to the image.
• Clicking on the background photo will de-select all clone shapes so allowing you to
draw a new clone shape if required.
• Clone shapes are normal vector editable shapes, and once selected you can switch
into any of the normal line or shape editing tool to make further adjustments of the
outline.
• A photo with clone edits, is stored as a new 'Photo Group' structure. This acts like a
normal photo for many purposes (you can resize it, rotate it, enhance it etc, and it will
act as a single photo object). But using 'select inside' (Ctrl+click) or using the Page &
Layer Gallery to view the group structure, you can select and edit the individual clone
objects within the Photo Group.

Photo Heal tool

Use the Photo Heal tool to instantly remove unwanted objects and artifacts from
your photos.
Select the tool and then choose a nib size from the InfoBar.

See the Shape Painter tool (on page 159) for a more detailed explanation of nib size.

Simply position the nib over the over the area you want to heal and then click. Select
larger areas by click-dragging over them and then releasing the mouse button to perform
the erase.