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it smaller or the Right Bracket key to make it larger). Now, press-and-hold the Option (PC: Alt) key and click right along the edge of the railing where it
still looks nice and straight, and then start painting (cloning) that part of the railing right over the missing parts. What makes this so easy is that preview
that appears inside your brush cursor. You can line the railing right up inside that preview before you start cloning—works like a charm. Also, take a look
at the crosshair cursor on the left here—that’s showing where it’s cloning from—and the circular brush tip cursor on the right is what’s being cloned in.
You’re literally painting the railing from the left over the gap in the railing on the right. That bottom railing is still a mess, and worse yet there’s no straight
area there to clone from. But, no worries—we’ve got an easy workaround for stuff like this.

Step Seven:
Since there’s no area to clone from on that bottom railing (see Step Six), we’ll just clone from the edge of the top railing, right down to where the bottom
railing should be (as shown here). Not only can we easily clone from one area to another like this, you can even clone from one document to another. So, if
you had another image where the railing was intact, you could open that image (and leave it open during this process), Option-click (PC: Alt-click) on its
railing, then switch to this document and clone in the railing from that document into this document. Crazy, right? I love the Clone Stamp tool.

Step Eight:
Let’s just finish things up by cloning that top railing to the bottom railing, until it reaches the edge of the image (like you see here). One more thing: If
you’re cloning in a line like this, and suddenly it starts looking funky or stops cloning, it’s quite possible (actually, it’s pretty likely) that your crosshair
cursor has reached the end of what it can clone, and it’s starting to double-over the area where you started cloning. It’s kind of an Inception thing—you
can’t clone over things that don’t exist yet. So stop cloning for a second, move farther back on the left on the railing, resample that area, and then start
cloning again. Here’s the final image with the building gone and our railings repaired. This is typical of the type of stuff we do with the Clone Stamp tool.