Photo retouching using area of photo

[pbready]

Hi, I'm a very infrequent user of Xara (although I faithfully upgrade all the time!) and I'm having a very senior moment getting myself tied in knots trying to retouch a bitmap.

Basically, I want to be able to do two things - select a small irregular area of the photo and use it as a brush to paint over an area. To be more exact, I want to replace the soil area at the bottom of the Beatles Sgt Pepper album cover with the dark brown soil background bitmap and then pick up the flower pattern to replace 'Beatles' with different text. I thought this would be straightforward with Xara's bitmap and brush facilities, but I can't get started.

I feel I've done this before a long time back - admittedly, maybe not in Xara - but can't for the life of me figure out how to go about it.

Help!

[Soquili]

With Designer Pro 6 you can use the Clone Tool.

[handrawn]

Help!

"... I need somebody..."

not sure at all that a brush is the way to go here

Bill has suggested the clone tool I see

Might also try tracing shapes over the bitmap and filling them....

[Soquili]

Here is a very quick and 'dirty' use of the Cone Tool.

[Soquili]

A brush could be used for the text you want to create.

[pbready]

Thanks, everyone - I've not got Pro, but the clone tool is available. However, still in senior moment mode, I find I can only clone small areas, so did you use multiple small clones to do the soil? Could you post/PM the xar file please?

[Soquili]

I did use multiple small areas and multiple bitmap copies so the .xar would not show you how all steps were done.

The clone tool does not copy another clone but the original image below the clone. This required the use of bitmap copies to obtain more areas that were clonable (if that is a word ).

After making multiple small clones to remove one 'letter' I would create a bitmap copy and delete the previous bitmap.

[Soquili]

The attached .xar is only the beginning steps where the letter 'A' was removed using the Clone Tool.