AP Clone Tool Freeze Source Selection

[Cecil]

Clone Tool works great in AP; however, I wish there was a way to freeze the source selection.  When you working on a large area with one particular color in pattern, it would be great to freeze your selection source and move freely your brush without worrying if source will move to adjacent color.  I do realize that it’s best to select a range when working on items that you may not want to repeat the same pattern.  Although post AP Desktop, this should apply to AP iPadOS.

[fde101]

At present you can only select the current layer or the current & below layers as a clone source.

What would help with this would be to enable selecting any one arbitrary layer as the clone source as well; this way we could simply duplicate the layer before starting, turn off the visibility of the copy, and set that as the clone source.

Corel Painter has some fairly strong cloning tools and allows you to select an entirely independent image file as the clone source, as well as being able to clone from a pattern or a paper texture.  They are for artistic cloning however and don't necessarily have the "healing" behavior that Affinity Photo does.

[carl123]

The clone tool allows you to clone from...

Current Layer
Current Layer & Below
Layers Beneath

It also allows cloning from a Global Source such as another independent document or file - be it a photographic image or just a pattern/texture in a file

As regards the OP's question it may be possible to select a small area of what he wants to clone and to create a new image brush from that then use the Paint Brush Tool on the image but I'm not 100% sure of what he is trying to achieve/recreate

[Cecil]

What I want to achie

On 4/4/2020 at 8:57 AM, carl123 said:

100% sure of what he is trying to achieve/recreate

If I’m painting a picture, just an example, of flowers spread across my canvas.  There are many different flowers and colors based on different flowers. As each flower was drawn free hand, the flower I want to select as the source for the specific colors (blended shades) is small and if you selected source point, it will move as The brush paints.  If I could freeze the source point, I could paint that specific color on many of the individual pedals of the flowers and reselect and freeze as needed.  So....with the CloneTool, create option to freeze the selected source point to specific selected spot, allowing the brush to freely paint anywhere on the canvas, without moving from the selected spot.