Hello,

I am using GIMP 2.2.15 in Windows XP. My clone tool has stopped responding as I expect.

I open a .xcf image in GIMP. I choose a brush. I click the Paint Using Patterns or Image Regions button. I CTRL + left click the area of the image I want to clone. I move to the area I want to paint and hold the left mouse button to start painting. Until recently this worked fine. I saw the cross hairs moving over the area I was cloning from and the image under the mouse pointer was responding.

Now when I hold the left mouse button to start cloning the cross hairs appear under my mouse pointer instead of the area I selected for cloning. The image does not change.

The image that I'm working on has only one layer.

Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.

Don Selkirk

That solved the problem. Akkana your my hero.

On 6/29/07, Akkana Peck wrote:

Don Selkirk writes:

I am using GIMP 2.2.15 in Windows XP. My clone tool has stopped responding as I expect.

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Now when I hold the left mouse button to start cloning the cross hairs appear under my mouse pointer instead of the area I selected for cloning. The image does not change.

You may have changed the clone tool's Alignment option (in tool options) to Registered. Change it back to Non-aligned and see if your problem goes away.

(Registered is useful when cloning from a different image or layer, but if you're cloning from the same layer, it will seem to do nothing, just as you describe.)

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